Post by leunas on Jul 26, 2007 14:27:45 GMT -5
Originally aired: 2006.11.15
"It started in 1958 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York where a nuclear scientist with too much time on his hands created a crude system he called Tennis for Two and it grew into a business with annual revenues of $10 billion. On Wednesday, November 15th, as Sony and Nintendo prepare to unveil their newest game consoles, CNBC takes a look at the fascinating history of video games and goes behind the scenes of the industry's most successful companies in "Game On! The Unauthorized History of Video Games".
"Game On!" features exclusive interviews with some of the biggest names in the history of the video game business, takes viewers inside the computer labs and inside the boardrooms of the world's most powerful companies to examine how the latest and most popular video games are created. "Game On!" shows the cutting edge technology and remarkable talent that goes into developing the graphics and sound effects that transport players into fantastic worlds of fantasy. The program also includes riveting stories about the corporate power struggles that won (and lost) billions and how a single blunder helped destroy Atari's $2 billion-a-year-empire."
games.ign.com/articles/744/744878p1.html
"It started in 1958 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York where a nuclear scientist with too much time on his hands created a crude system he called Tennis for Two and it grew into a business with annual revenues of $10 billion. On Wednesday, November 15th, as Sony and Nintendo prepare to unveil their newest game consoles, CNBC takes a look at the fascinating history of video games and goes behind the scenes of the industry's most successful companies in "Game On! The Unauthorized History of Video Games".
"Game On!" features exclusive interviews with some of the biggest names in the history of the video game business, takes viewers inside the computer labs and inside the boardrooms of the world's most powerful companies to examine how the latest and most popular video games are created. "Game On!" shows the cutting edge technology and remarkable talent that goes into developing the graphics and sound effects that transport players into fantastic worlds of fantasy. The program also includes riveting stories about the corporate power struggles that won (and lost) billions and how a single blunder helped destroy Atari's $2 billion-a-year-empire."
games.ign.com/articles/744/744878p1.html