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The Past and The Curious: A History Podcast for Kids and Families

The Past and The Curious History Podcast for Kids

Kids & Family

4.5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Episode 73: Ralph Baer fled Nazi Germany and settled in America where he eventually created the first home video game console, known as the Magnavox Odyssey. Not long after Ralph's creation, Jerry Lawson, a Black computer engineer, built on that idea and lead the team that created the first video game cartridge. Both men have very interesting lives, and are a huge part of gaming history. Things they did changed your life!

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0:00.0	Well, hello everybody, happy whatever it is when you're listening to this to you.
0:08.3	My name is Mix Sullivan and this is the Past and the Curious.
0:11.7	Maybe it's December when you're listening to this.
0:13.5	Maybe it's November.
0:14.5	Maybe it's January.
0:15.8	Maybe it's...
0:17.3	2028.
0:18.3	I don't know.
0:19.3	Hello in the future.
0:20.3	Anyway, I get a lot of emails and a lot of people suggest many different things to consider
0:26.5	for an episode.
0:27.7	But I have to say, the number one thing that I have gotten requests for has been video
0:33.0	game history.
0:34.4	And I like video games like I had an Nintendo and NES when I was a kid.
0:38.6	I've had a few other game consoles through the years, but it's not how I spend my time.
0:43.2	It's never really been my thing.
0:45.6	I think it's cool, but it's never really been my thing.
0:48.2	But luckily there are some really awesome stories, particularly of the people behind the
0:53.7	devices that you use and enjoy.
0:56.0	Actually, the first story is a man named Ralph Baer.
0:58.9	He escaped Nazi Germany and became a pioneer in video games.
1:03.6	And just a few years later, a black engineer named Jerry Lawson took some of those ideas
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