You Just Had to Be There
2026 • Movie
Game On! The Unauthorized History of Video Games
Documentary
CNBC examines the history of the video game industry from the first tennis game developed for an oscilloscope to the Atari and video arcade game boom of the early 1980s. It looks at the history of electronic game all the way up to the current Nintendo, Playstation, and Xbox game systems.
Directed by Bob Waldman
CAST
The people behind the story
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Nolan BushnellHimself - Video Game Engineer—
Bill GriffethHimself - Narrator
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Howard LincolnHimself - Former Chairman, Nintendo of America
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Tom KalinskeHimself - Former President, Sega America—
Kaz HiraiHimself - President, Sony Computer Entertainment of America—
Al AlcornHimself - Pong InventorMore like this
