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CNBC examines the history of the video game industry from the first tennis game developed for an oscilloscope to the Atari and video arcade game boom of the early 1980s. It looks at the history of electronic game all the way up to the current Nintendo, Playstation, and Xbox game systems.

Nolan Bushnell

Bill Griffeth

Ralph H. Baer

Howard Lincoln

Michael Katz

Tom Kalinske

Kaz Hirai

Al Alcorn

Alan Miller