The Missing Link: Preserving RCA’s Intermediary Step Between Arcade Video Games and Home Consoles When you think of video game pioneers, you most likely first think of companies like Atari, Taito, Midway, or Namco; or people such as Nolan Bushnell, Shigeru Miyamoto, or Space Invaders’ Tomohiro Nishikado. Your mind probably does not go to engineer Joe Weisbecker or his employer, the American consumer electronics behemoth RCA. And yet, through […] https://www.atariarchive.org/blog/frediii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=frediii #rss #feeds #linksharing #qwibbit

Video Pinball (Arcade Pinball) – April 1981 While to audiences today the word arcade may conjure up images of video game cabinets and redemption games, the concept of a gaming parlor goes back decades before Computer Space was ever a gleam in Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney’s eyes. Before video games, you had electromechanical machines like Sega’s Periscope or Williams’ United Century […] https://www.atariarchive.org/blog/video-pinball-arcade-pinball-april-1981/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=video-pinball-arcade-pinball-april-1981