Know Your Roots: TED-Ed Presents the History of Video Games

How well do you know your video gaming history? If you need a reminder of how far games have come since the first missile defense simulator came to a radar screen in 1948, look no further as TED-Ed turns its lens on the history of gaming, offering an animated insight on gaming from its primitive origins to the golden age of arcade cabinets. If this doesn’t make you a little nostalgic for a game of Asteroids, I don’t know what will.

(via TED-Ed)

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