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93: Pong - Gaming History (But Not Boring!)

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Starburns Audio

Leisure, Video Games, Comedy

4.8889 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

It's time for a new kind of episode. Keith and Jesse are diving deep into the history of Pong - a game that many people consider to be the beginning of home consoles. Is the game exciting? Nah, not really. But the story of the game's creation genuinely is!

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0:00.0

Hey guys, it's Keith, and this is Jesse.

0:01.0

This is a new player has joined.

0:02.0

A podcast about the video games people love and why they love them.

0:14.0

And today we...

0:16.0

We're smacking a ball around and that's it.

0:18.0

But we're also learning.

0:19.0

We are learning a lot.

0:20.0

We're learning today guys.

0:22.0

Guys, you probably saw that today we're talking about Pong and you probably thought to yourself

0:27.2

Skip.

0:28.2

I'm not listening to this one.

0:29.2

I like him but not that much.

0:30.7

I don't like them Pong much.

0:32.4

But we are doing a deep dive, a more history look at Pong. We are going

0:38.0

into how Pong happened, the craziness behind it, and it is pretty fucking crazy. There's some

0:44.2

subterfuge there is some spy shit going on. Can we just say it now because I say the

0:47.9

whole episode? It's a pretty good name. Compared to the other names that you and I said today?

0:54.6

Yeah.

0:55.8

Good name for that game.

0:57.6

Yeah.

0:58.6

You'll hear a lot of different competing names.

1:00.4

You'll hear a lot about how this game was formed and why it's

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