. >> the day that he was supposed to show up, i had heard about this thing from magnavox. competition and i was scared. so i went up to burlington game .and so i went up, and they had two or three magnavox odysseys. i looked at it and it was fuzzy. it did not have sound. did not have score. but i looked around. the people were having fun with it. >> odyssey -- it is new from magnavox. >> i had to tell al what i wanted him to do. and i thought a good training program would be the ping-pong game. and so to put a little bit of spice into it, i said i had a deal with general electric, which was totally bupkis. >> you lied to me, nolan. >> i lied to you. >> he kept saying, it has to have a score. i didn't know it was a throw away. i put the speed up. worked on it. >> we found ourselves playing it fter work for hours. >> we were playing it and everything, and it was really good. and nolan said, no, we want a driving game. al and i said, no, this game is much too much fun. >> we decided we were going to test it. so we got ted dabney to build a box over the weekend. contact paper

>> over here we have the first home video game, which is called the magnavox odyssey, and over here wee one of the first arcade video games, which was called "computer space." >> this original version of "pong" might not be as interactive as, say, wii is today, but it was groundbreaking for its time. of course, we saved the favorite exhibit for last. and what's the number-one exhibit teens shouldn't miss when they visit the museum? >> well, it comes in a few parts. so, if we come over here, we can take a look at these images by a photographer named eadweard muybridge, and he was somebody who took individual still pictures but saw if you move them, you ended up seeing a moving image, and this was the beginning of people thinking about how to take these still pictures and eventually turning them into movies. so, one great example over here is a flipbook. so, if you want to take a seat... >> yeah. >> so, you have these pictures here, and if you see, do they move? >> no. >> but if i move through them really quickly, you see... >> that's so cool! >> ...a little moving image. yeah. so, if yo