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Video Game History Hour

Episode 151: Games Preservation at MIT Museum

Video Game History Hour · March 3, 2026

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00:09:19 - 00:09:28

But he was calling them computer games because it was the 1970s. And the guy who created them with was Joseph Weisbacher, who also was trying to convince

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... And as I was going through this archive of stuff, I ran across these just amazing what the creator called computer games, obviously not computer games like we think of them now. But he was calling them computer games because it was the 1970s. And the guy who created them with was Joseph Weisbacher, who also was trying to convince He thought, no, no, no, computers are going to be great for us. We can do these these things called mini computers. ...

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