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Computer Game Evolution

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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1. Opening (00:00:00)

2. The laundry business (00:00:57)

3. The new tunes (00:04:02)

4. Alternative uses (00:06:15)

5. Elmwood Park (00:11:25)

6. Jukeboxes to video games (00:15:25)

7. Video gamblers (00:19:07)

8. Let's go legal and play pachinko (00:21:22)

9. Patent or copyright (00:26:18)

10. The farce of software patents (00:32:00)

11. Lucky games, unlucky developers (00:39:40)

12. IBM goes micro-ish (00:42:36)

13. 5150 (00:45:56)

14. The CP/M heist (00:49:56)

15. Enter stage, followed by jackals (00:53:22)

16. Apple vs Ace (00:55:32)

17. Exibit A: The Easter Egg (00:59:30)

18. The rise of closed source (01:03:15)

19. The BIOS trap (01:04:18)

20. Compaq builds a wall (01:07:05)

21. It gets better/worse (01:12:11)

22. Sega's worst Trip (01:14:22)

23. Not winning any Accolades (01:17:10)

24. Wrap-up (01:19:44)