Computer Game Evolution
A journey through many years (and occasionally centuries) to find out who is responsible for modern computer and video games. May contain balls, Napoleon Bonaparte, robots, organized crime, and the US Air Force.
Computer Game Evolution
2.7 Offers They Couldn't Refuse
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Tim
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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One day the mob wants your quarters, the next day IBM lobbies your business into dust. It's a wonder anything got done in the industry at all.
Opening
The laundry business
The new tunes
Alternative uses
Elmwood Park
Jukeboxes to video games
Video gamblers
Let's go legal and play pachinko
Patent or copyright
The farce of software patents
Lucky games, unlucky developers
IBM goes micro-ish
5150
The CP/M heist
Enter stage, followed by jackals
Apple vs Ace
Exibit A: The Easter Egg
The rise of closed source
The BIOS trap
Compaq builds a wall
It gets better/worse
Sega's worst Trip
Not winning any Accolades
Wrap-up