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
3.5 Computer Lib/Dream Machines
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Tim
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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Selling micros was tough when everyone wanted to invent their own.
From revolution to mass market
Primal chaos
TRS-80 and its ecosystem
High seas trading
Apple's number two
Commodore + 6502
A modern PET
Japan loves micros
The Bri'ish way
The gaming micro by Atari
Dodging the FCC
VICs and SIDs and legends
BBC's Acorns
How low can Sinclair go?
Another crash!
Alan Michael Sugar vs. hippies
NEC, a leader by accident
Sharp and red
Welcome Fujitsu
Hanzi from America
Saved by an Easter egg
When MSX ruled the world
Wrap-up