Here's a a double feature about game console history: two YouTube videos that were released in the past few days. While the videos are unconnected, both are great quality little documentaries and I think when watched together offer an interesting contrast between the two worlds that existed at the time.

The Untold History of the Nintendo Entertainment System (45 min) by The Video Game History Foundation documents how the NES was launched in the US 40 years ago. While I was familiar with the main story, many of the details were totally new to me, including the prototypes and the initial ideas of what the NES might have been, and could well have been had the market and initial test audiences reacted differently.

The Hunt for the Lost Communist Console (18 min) by fern looks at the BSS-01, a video game console manufactured in East Germany in 1979. It was the only game console released in the country and I think somewhat similar to the Soviet console Turnir, as both used the same AY-3-8500 chipset imported from the West and offered a collection of Pong clones.

Full Weekend Race Schedule

Main event - Saturday June 21st:
CEST/GMT+2

• 14:00 Gridwalk
• 15:40 Formation Lap
• 16:00 Race Start

Track Information: 25.378 km combined circuit located in Nürburg, Germany

Track Map

Race Website

Official Entry List

Track Weather

Spotters Guide

Streaming/Radio

ADAC RAVENOL 24h Nürburgring (YouTube) - Official ADAC race streams and many on-board streams available.

Nürburgring (YouTube) - More official race streams/24h Classic race stream.

GTWorld (YouTube)

AutoAddiction (YouTube)

Radio LeMans (English)

Radio Nürburgring (German)

Live Timing

Azure Websites - Live Timing

wige SOLUTIONS - Live Timing

Will try to update info/links as the race goes on.