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Computer Game Evolution

2.7 Offers They Couldn't Refuse

July 15, 2022 Tim Season 2 Episode 7
Computer Game Evolution
2.7 Offers They Couldn't Refuse
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Chapters
0:00
Opening
0:57
The laundry business
4:02
The new tunes
6:15
Alternative uses
11:25
Elmwood Park
15:25
Jukeboxes to video games
19:07
Video gamblers
21:22
Let's go legal and play pachinko
26:18
Patent or copyright
32:00
The farce of software patents
39:40
Lucky games, unlucky developers
42:36
IBM goes micro-ish
45:56
5150
49:56
The CP/M heist
53:22
Enter stage, followed by jackals
55:32
Apple vs Ace
59:30
Exibit A: The Easter Egg
1:03:15
The rise of closed source
1:04:18
The BIOS trap
1:07:05
Compaq builds a wall
1:12:11
It gets better/worse
1:14:22
Sega's worst Trip
1:17:10
Not winning any Accolades
1:19:44
Wrap-up
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Computer Game Evolution
2.7 Offers They Couldn't Refuse
Jul 15, 2022 Season 2 Episode 7
Tim

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.

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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.

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0:00
Opening
0:57
The laundry business
4:02
The new tunes
6:15
Alternative uses
11:25
Elmwood Park
15:25
Jukeboxes to video games
19:07
Video gamblers
21:22
Let's go legal and play pachinko
26:18
Patent or copyright
32:00
The farce of software patents
39:40
Lucky games, unlucky developers
42:36
IBM goes micro-ish
45:56
5150
49:56
The CP/M heist
53:22
Enter stage, followed by jackals
55:32
Apple vs Ace
59:30
Exibit A: The Easter Egg
1:03:15
The rise of closed source
1:04:18
The BIOS trap
1:07:05
Compaq builds a wall
1:12:11
It gets better/worse
1:14:22
Sega's worst Trip
1:17:10
Not winning any Accolades
1:19:44
Wrap-up