Video Game Fever

KFDM-TV1980s

Texas Archive of the Moving Image

Texas Archive of the Moving Image
Austin, United States

This 1981 segment for KFDM-TV's "PM Magazine" considers the growing popularity of video games. Host Frank Kerr highlights advances in home technology, including game consoles and computers like the Apple II and TSR-80. One store owner envisions the "unlimited future" of the computer, describing a once hypothetical and now realized scenario of how we might interact with technology.

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  • Title: Video Game Fever
  • Creator: KFDM-TV
  • Date Created: 1980s
  • Location Created: Parkdale Mall, Beaumont, Texas
  • Physical Dimensions: 3/4" U-matic-S
  • Type: Television
  • Rights: Texas Archive of the Moving Image, Tyrrell Historical Library
  • Medium: Videotape
Texas Archive of the Moving Image

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