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Genre: Gaming
Date of upload: May 29, 2015 ^^
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
Well done Norman. As you know, I worked at both Nintendo and Atari Games during many of the years this epic battle took place. Listening to your recount of the events had me feel like it happened yesterday.
I’m glad that you presented Hide not only as a Nintendo “villain”, but as someone brave enough to challenge the stranglehold that Nintendo had on the console industry. What he did took major cajones. At the time, I personally questioned the judgment of taking on Nintendo. I knew what Howard Lincoln was capable of.
Events like this have shaped the industry into what it is today. The history of this great industry has to be documented accurately. It’s not just fun and games. As you know, several popular books are littered with inaccuracies and omissions over events and people. You’re right about Tetris being a story for another time. I look forward to that one.
And last but not least, I am equally impressed (like other viewers) in the production quality of this video. Once I started watching, I got a cup of coffee and buckled in through its entirety. I’ve gone back to look at certain pictures, read the newspaper clippings, hanging on your every word. Your voice over's, tone and timing has the precision of Ken Burns. But delivered with your own style.
Excellent work Norman.
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I always heard a story that Rare managed to beat the lockout chip fair and square but rather than produce unliscenced games, they instead used their findings to just create an NES dev kit and then submitted the games to Nintendo for approval. Nintendo gave them freedom to produce as many games as they wanted to, either because they were impressed or because they feared Rare would share their secrets with the world.
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There is another extremely important lawsuit in the video game industry that I think would make a great video: Capcom vs. Data East, over Data East's "Fighter's History" game. It is quickly being forgotten, so it may be hard to dig up info on it. But it essentially provided the precedent that video games include scenes a faire, which lead to the video game industry being able to almost copy other games exactly, provided they changed protectable names.
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I like how Atari's plan to loosen Nintendo's stranglehold of the industry at the time, was for their own benefit, but in actuality really ended up benefiting SEGA much more and allowed the Mega Drive/Genesis to gain a massive stake in the industry. I'm sure Sony benefited from this as well later on, but really, that whole deal with the PlayStation ever becoming a thing was of Nintendo's own doing, shooting themselves in the foot, in a mad scramble to come up with something to compete with the SEGA Mega CD. Both situations were shit for Nintendo, but at least (us) the consumers won.
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@GamingHistorian
8 years ago
This is, personally, my favorite video I have ever done. It took about a month to make, but it was worth it. Hope you enjoy!
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