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The Tetris Wars: How Nintendo Stole Tetris From Atari & Made Millions!
#tetris
The Western capitalists and the Eastern communists, a stark divide most evident on the European continent where the continent was divided by the Iron Curtain, but unbeknownst to the West an invasion was on its way from the core of the enemy deep within the Soviet Union. This creation would bring the massively wealthy British Tycoon Robert Maxwell to face off against a small-time video game trader based in Japan by the name of Henk Rogers.
Atari and Nintendo, faced off in a legal battle over a dispute that involved millions of dollars, the outcome of which hinged on the outcome of the battle between the Billionaire Tycoon Robert Maxwell and the small-time video game trader Henk Rogers. This is the story of Tetris. With the most notable competition being the space race that occurred in the 50s and 60s continuing on from the space race the focus in the West and the East still remains on rapid scientific progression, the race for scientific supremacy spawned research labs like Bell labs and Darpa in the US which were largely responsible for technologies such as radar and the internet, while within the Soviets Union, several research labs were created which explored scientific advancement which resulted in the invention of satellites and many other brilliant innovations.
Alexey Pajitnov, Alexy’s favorite childhood game Pentominoes, had created a new game which he called Tetris from the Greek word for 4.
The first version of Tetris didn’t have color or sound effects. What also helped the game spread like wildfire was the communist system within the USSR. In the soviet union there was no notion of intellectual property rights all individual ideas were owned by the state, so with the soviet union and soviet bloc countries the game was being shared freely without the fear of copyright infringement, it had protections put on it to prevent piracy, this lack of restrictions on sharing software helped the game proliferated to millions of players spread across the Soviet Union.
There was a booming industry of middlemen who traveled to soviet satellite states and soviet union countries licensing technology from the East and then going on to sell it to the West for a handsome profit, among these middlemen was a lawyer by the name Robert Stein, He had built a successful business called Andromeda software which licensed Hungarian software products to sell which sell Great Britain for a sizable profit, so under the assumption that had the licensing right to Tetris Stein wasted no time shopping his license around to big-time British game producers, one of which was Mirrorsoft the software arm of Maxwell corporation, In 1986 the Maxwell corporation was a giant entertainment empire, it owned newspapers, magazines, and football clubs among other business ventures. If Maxwell bought into Tetris.
Just weeks after officially securing the rights to Tetris, it became a best seller and sold more than 100,000 copies within its first year of release in America alone. This presented a massive opportunity for Tetris to expand into other device segments. Home video games played through gaming consoles that plugged directly into a TV and were played using game
controllers were rising in popularity.
Apart from entering other device segments Tetris still had one more market to conquer, a market so big that for most of the early 80s, its economy was predicted to surpass the United States and become the biggest economy in the world, that market was Japan. The industry giant Nintendo was gearing up to launch a handheld game-playing device and wanted to sell Tetris as part of the package, but they needed someone to discreetly get them the rights to Tetris without alerting their competitors. The handheld device Nintendo was working on was called the Gameboy.
Mirrorsoft had secretly sent Kevin Maxwell the son of Robert Maxwell to negotiate a deal for the handheld rights. Had he not done that Mirrorsoft could have legally maintained the right to the license for the video game console Tetris which they had sold to Atari, Atari had over 100s of thousands of copies of Tetris already selling on shelves but they were about to receive a rude awakening. headed to Seattle the American headquarters of Nintendo to enlist their help of Nintendo in securing the rights to the console Tetris. With Nintendo behind him, he could easily match the industry power of Mirrorsoft. Nintendo at the time had the best-selling video game console in the world. The Nintendo Entertainment System. Atari and Nintendo were arch rivals and Nintendo now had a chance to snatch console Tetris right from underneath the nose of its biggest competitor. Nintendo offered full support to help Henk Rogers secure the rights for the console Tetris.
Meanwhile, in Britain, the entertainment tycoon Robert Maxwell, tetris.
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The ePayment Wars: How PayPal Crushed eBay then got bought by them!
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The Browser Wars: How Microsoft Crushed Netscape Then Got DESTROYED by Google
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NASA loses radio contact with the Magellan spacecraft as the probe descends into the thick atmosphere of Venus. Something the US Vice-President Al Gore labeled the information superhighway is beginning to gain mainstream attention. Marc Andreessen along with a few friends found one of the world’s first web browsers called Netscape. During this period Microsoft was the largest software company i...
The Database Wars: How Oracle crushed iBM & took over MySQL
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Our story begins in 1970 with the biggest computer company of the time IBM with an employee of IBM by the name Edgar F. Codd, a research paper titled "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks" it laid the groundwork for the development of RDBMS. IBM simply did nothing with his research, and IBM refused to implement the relational model to preserve revenue coming from its existing ...
The Presentation Software Wars: How Microsoft PowerPoint Beat Lotus & Harvard Graphics
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While spreadsheets and word processors were well on their way to revolutionizing homes and businesses everywhere, a third software category was about to fundamentally reshape the operations of corporate America. Our story begins with an MIT Business professor who came up with a software product called Execuvision. The Two software products called Harvard Graphics and Lotus Freelance Software wo...
The Word Processor Wars: How Microsoft Word Crushed WordPerfect
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Our story begins in 1975 with Michael Shrayer and a program he called the Electric Pencil, officially released in December 1976 for Altair microcomputers. Through his company, he advertised his software in computer magazines such as BYTE and sold the program via mail order. Electric Pencil's market dominance started to decline in the early 80s mainly due to Shrayer’s lack of updates to the soft...
Friend AI: The AI Necklace Trying To Be Your New Best Friend
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Are you feeling lonely? Forget calling someone or meeting new people-just spend $99 on the "Friend" AI pendant! This device, designed to substitute human interaction, is a prime example of Silicon Valley's obsession with cashing in on AI hype. Today, we're diving into the disturbing rise of AI companions, examining the Friend pendant, and exploring its dangerous implications for our society. Av...
Douglas Engelbart: The Genius Robbed By Steve Jobs & Bill Gates
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Discover the untold story of Douglas Engelbart, the visionary who invented the computer mouse, hypertext, and video conferencing decades before the internet. This mind-blowing documentary reveals how his groundbreaking work was stolen and transformed into the tech giants we know today. Learn why Engelbart, the true pioneer, remains largely unknown while others reaped the rewards. Get ready to h...
How Telegram's Creator Pavel Durov Defied Putin & Got Away With it
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This is a video about how Pavel Durov created Russia's most popular social network VKontakte, and how it became a bastion for freedom of speech in an otherwise authoritarian country. How this led him to clash with the most powerful man in Russia and how he ultimately had to relinquish control of his site because of pressure from the Kremlin.
How 90s Tech Companies Created Internet Addiction
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Picture a battleground where two corporate behemoths-AOL, the reigning giant, and AT&T, the telecom titan-locked horns in a struggle for supremacy. So the year is 1996 and the way most people access the “internet” is through web portals like Yahoo, AOL, and MSN. One of the most popular at the time was AOL's service offering 20 hours of free monthly usage and then an additional $3 charge for eac...
Divided They Fell: The Insane Story of WordStar's Downfall
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When WordStar was released in 1978, it quickly became the world’s most popular word processor by 1983 Micropro, its creator had become the biggest Software Company in the world. Seymour Rubinstein was an employee of early microcomputer company IMSAI, where he negotiated software contracts with Digital Research and Microsoft. After leaving IMSAI, Version 3.3 of WordStar for both IBM and CP/M com...
The Chaos Of OpenAI: Why Sam Altman Was Fired & Rehired in 4 days!
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#openai #samaltman #chatgpt OpenAI was initially founded in 2015 by some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful and influential men. The founding team included Sam Altman the ex-head of the most successful startup incubator in history y-combinator, Elon Musk the world’s richest man, CEO of Tesla and founder of SpaceX, Reid Hoffman the Billionaire founder of LinkedIn and Peter Thiel one of the most p...
The Betrayal of Paul Allen: The Inside Story of Microsoft's Founders
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Discover the epic feud between Bill Gates and Paul Allen that broke their billion-dollar friendship. Learn about the untold story of one of the biggest rivalries in tech history. Explore the billion-dollar feud between Bill Gates and Paul Allen that ultimately broke their friendship. Find out more about the history between these two tech giants in this captivating video.Discover the billion-dol...
The Most Controversial Apple Ad Ever
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#appleipadpro #apple #appleads At Super Bowl 1984 Apple premiered the greatest ad of all time. An ad that redefined what an ad was, back in the 80s when most ads were trying to sell you stuff using models and flashy imagery. This ad used none of that, in fact you wouldn’t know what it was even advertising by just looking at it. It was an ad for a Computer except at no point in the ad is a compu...
ELIZA: Unveiling the Origins of AI Conversations
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ELIZA is a natural language processing program that can engage in conversation like ChatGPT. However, ELIZA was impressive in that it was created in the 1960s over half a decade before ChatGPT. ELIZA was such a sophisticated program that it was considered one of the earliest attempts at passing the Turing test. This was 15 years before the personal computer became familiar to the general public...
VPL: Before The Apple Vision Pro(The 1st VR Company Ever)
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VPL: Before The Apple Vision Pro(The 1st VR Company Ever)
The Untold Apple Saga Of The Rise, Fall, and Firing Of Steve Jobs
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Xerox's Missed Opportunity: The Rise and Fall of the Xerox Star
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Xerox's Missed Opportunity: The Rise and Fall of the Xerox Star
Excite Almost Bought Google: The Rise & Fall of a Dot-Com Giant
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Black Monday: How Computerized Trading Lost Wall Street $1 Trillion
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Black Monday: How Computerized Trading Lost Wall Street $1 Trillion
Elon Musk’s First Startup Was A Successful Disaster(Zip2)
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Elon Musk’s First Startup Was A Successful Disaster(Zip2)
The Untold Story of Gary Kildall: The Man Who Could Have Ruled PCs
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The Untold Story of Gary Kildall: The Man Who Could Have Ruled PCs
Tech Empire: The Ruthless Rise of Young Bill Gates
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Spreadsheet Wars: How Excel Beat VisiCalc & Lotus 1-2-3!
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Spreadsheet Wars: How Excel Beat VisiCalc & Lotus 1-2-3!
The Tandy/RadioShack Story: Pioneers of the PC Revolution
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The Tandy/RadioShack Story: Pioneers of the PC Revolution
Atari vs. Apple vs. Commodore: The Battle for the 80s PC Market
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Atari vs. Apple vs. Commodore: The Battle for the 80s PC Market
Psion: The Rise & Fall of a Visionary Pocket Computer
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Psion: The Rise & Fall of a Visionary Pocket Computer
The Rise & Fall of Commodore: From PC Dominance to Bankruptcy
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The Rise & Fall of Commodore: From PC Dominance to Bankruptcy
How The Qwerty Keyboard Won
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How The Qwerty Keyboard Won
The Ridiculously Lucky Story of Steve Ballmer
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The Ridiculously Lucky Story of Steve Ballmer

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  • @GelatoGecko
    @GelatoGecko 7 годин тому

    23 minutes of talking and you couldnt make your own thumbnail? lmao don't quit your day job just yet

  • @lanceobe6801
    @lanceobe6801 День тому

    The PC clones in particular and the video game Wolfenstein was the nail in the coffin for commodore.

  • @foradome5204
    @foradome5204 День тому

    A communist commercial success pretty wild

  • @victorgw
    @victorgw День тому

    Cool vid

  • @laughingvampire7555
    @laughingvampire7555 3 дні тому

    any operating system is a wise option because no one is going to try to run ALL software in the same machine, this is why even people who just use windows have a machine for work/college and a gaming pc and they don't mix both because they want the gaming pc to be as fast as possible crunching as much FSP as possible and that is the opposite of portable. People who edit video will even use multiple computers to just leave them rendering while they do work on other computers. so all you have to know is choose what software are you going to use, what is going to be your workflow and then pick the best operating system for that use case, and the same person will probably end up using the 3 operating system in different computers for different use cases of their workflow. Is just like with video games, you pick the console or pc based on what games you are trying to play.

  • @pchou061377
    @pchou061377 3 дні тому

    @0:56 spent playing WoW for countless hours during summer vacations in 1989-90!!!

  • @dennisd7292
    @dennisd7292 5 днів тому

    how do I use Excel using Lotus 123 commands? Can it be done? thanks!

  • @AnimeKTV888
    @AnimeKTV888 5 днів тому

    the LG Prada (LG KE850) was not widely sold in the United States..

  • @blank8327
    @blank8327 12 днів тому

    Great content as always!

  • @AnnatarTheMaia
    @AnnatarTheMaia 13 днів тому

    Irving Gould is the reason why C= failed, that is clear. This is a cautionary tale to all new startup founders but also to investors and boards of directors on what not to do: any company which drove out its founder(s) failed. Historia est magistra vitae.

  • @Cenot4ph
    @Cenot4ph 14 днів тому

    It was not a documentary, it was a tv show.

  • @DeeMarevic
    @DeeMarevic 22 дні тому

    The Gate-ing of the MATRIX supported by the Vatican. 👭🧒 🧑‍💻 ⛪👹🖕

  • @hirnfaser7245
    @hirnfaser7245 22 дні тому

    why not mention xerox alto/star and their bravo/bravoX? word was basically a bravoX port

    • @Tech_History_Channel
      @Tech_History_Channel 3 години тому

      Unfortunately, I couldn't fit them in the video because they were never widely commercialized:(

  • @foradome5204
    @foradome5204 25 днів тому

    This was a very fascinating story

  • @Ashley-wp2rn
    @Ashley-wp2rn 25 днів тому

    Nicd vid!

  • @victorgw
    @victorgw 25 днів тому

    So this is where Elon Musk started his obsession with x

  • @blank8327
    @blank8327 25 днів тому

    Great content as always!

  • @Zhekahome1
    @Zhekahome1 29 днів тому

    Кто тоже смотрит этот видос как дз по английскому?

  • @Danilyn_Livao
    @Danilyn_Livao Місяць тому

    The analysis is spot on, and I love how you brought so much context to these major shifts in tech history. So well done! 🔥

  • @Jennifer-d6p3r
    @Jennifer-d6p3r Місяць тому

    Other people made Elon Musk rich Elon Musk is an idiot. Elon Musk is the person in front of the camera.

  • @Jennifer-d6p3r
    @Jennifer-d6p3r Місяць тому

    Zip2 Sucks should just paid 2 dollars

  • @夕阳-n1h
    @夕阳-n1h Місяць тому

    amazing quality!

  • @cheaplife2320
    @cheaplife2320 Місяць тому

    because it cost $250.000,- back in the day and VPL wasn’t the first that honour goes to Ivan Sutherland and Bob sproull who made the sword of Damocles in 1968 Nealy 2 Decades prior to VPL did

  • @blank8327
    @blank8327 Місяць тому

    Amazing and informative video!

  • @blank8327
    @blank8327 Місяць тому

    Love your content!

  • @blank8327
    @blank8327 Місяць тому

    Looks like I got a new favourite channel! Thank you!

  • @marcuswilliams3455
    @marcuswilliams3455 Місяць тому

    Thank you, well written article. Nice to mention IBM's DB2. True, DB2 may not dominate the relational database market, as a developer for decades on the IBM mainframe, that's the primary database one uses. Though, it seems Oracle is often alternative DB for many of the shops that I worked at. Yet, I'm surprised, not much was mentioned about MS SQL Server. However, I'm curious has there been much on bench mark tests of the volume handle by the various vendors of Databases.

    • @Tech_History_Channel
      @Tech_History_Channel Місяць тому

      Glad you enjoyed, I am not quite sure if there have been benchmark tests of that nature, but it would interest to know!

  • @IgorPomaranskiy
    @IgorPomaranskiy Місяць тому

    Background music is ubearable.

  • @lorensims4846
    @lorensims4846 Місяць тому

    QWERTY won because it WORKS! When Sholes sold his invention to Remington to manufacture Remington swapped the positions of the R key and the ; key to the somewhat more logical arrangement we now have. Sholes popularized his invention with a photograph of his daughter standing next to it to suggest that it was very easy to use. Remington followed suit by using a picture of a woman using the typewriter in their advertising to not only show its ease of use but to also suggest it belonged in the parlor instead of the machine shop. Pretty soon Remington opened schools to teach young women to use the machines and that's how, early on, typing along with its twin art of shorthand became known as women's work and it offered many women employment in business offices for the first time. It was an early step toward women becoming more financially and socially independent.

    • @Tech_History_Channel
      @Tech_History_Channel Місяць тому

      This was quite a fascinating read I had no idea of the pivotal role that women played in the history of the qwerty keyboard, thanks for sharing :)

  • @guessundheit6494
    @guessundheit6494 Місяць тому

    Predictably, microsh@rt's war on Opera is completely ignored. While IE could be deliberately cr@$hed with specific lines of javascript, the same was not true of Nutscrape or Opera. What MS ~could~ do was code its websites (i.e. hotmail, and others) with HTML that intentionally targeted browsers, causing them to render the page improperly. Opera had the ability to change its User Agent String, letting it pretend it was a different browser. Once you did that, the websites worked fine. It wasn't the browser that was the problem, but users were ignorant of that fact. It wiped out Opera's market share (4% and growing) despite having a better browser. Opera sued and won, but the damage was done. This is the same anti-competitive tactic that MS used against Digital Research whose OS ~~~WAS~~~ capable of running Lose3.1, but MS intentionally wrote code to send an "error message", lying and pretending that DR-DOS was the "problem" when in reality, it was MS intentionally breaking the user's system. Users were ignorant and believed DR-DOS was at fault, not MS. Just like Opera, Digital Research's market share tanked. DR sued and won, but never recovered.

  • @Amor-j3n
    @Amor-j3n Місяць тому

    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @TriPham-j3b
    @TriPham-j3b Місяць тому

    Additive data on time line then we can reduce 4 gbytes 4 k movies down to less than 6 records each of 6 fields of 6× 64 bits each field less than 216 bytes plus 2 frame the first frame and last frame of text , video , or presentation , or even sound

  • @athosgomesfonseca
    @athosgomesfonseca Місяць тому

    Raphinha já é o quinto maior brasileiro da história do Barcelona depois de Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Romário e Rivaldo. #BRRRRRasil #BaRRRRRcelona 💙❤️

  • @toddfraser3353
    @toddfraser3353 Місяць тому

    I think there are a few important points missing. During the growth of Firefox, IE was suffering from some serious security flaws where Internet malware was spreading like crazy. It you had a Windows system during that time Firefox was the only way to keep your PC safe. Chrome wasn't as ground up as you explained it. Much like Apple Safari that came out around that same time, it was based on WebKit which was used a bit earlier for a Linux Desktop Manager called KDE.

  • @orlovskyconsulting
    @orlovskyconsulting Місяць тому

    There exist a lot of companies which believe that Oracle is a "god".

  • @vancegosselin
    @vancegosselin Місяць тому

    Still is. Always will be.

  • @vancegosselin
    @vancegosselin Місяць тому

    wysiwyg 😂

  • @rohithpokala
    @rohithpokala Місяць тому

    Sad to see this spectacular content is having less views and less subscribers. Hope you will not give up and continue to provide these valuable historical insights. One day definetly your channel will blow up.

    • @Tech_History_Channel
      @Tech_History_Channel Місяць тому

      I truly appreciate your encouragement and I am glad you enjoyed the video :)

  • @cnymo
    @cnymo Місяць тому

    The sleepy music and the monotone voice are funny 🙂

    • @blank8327
      @blank8327 Місяць тому

      I prefer it. One I don't think he is monotone, it's relaxing. Two this is much more preferable to the loud, over the top, over exaggerated videos of the same genre. Exactly why I subbed.

    • @Tech_History_Channel
      @Tech_History_Channel Місяць тому

      Thanks for the sub!

  • @makombost8140
    @makombost8140 Місяць тому

    I know a southern African when I hear one😂 Good stuff mate

  • @magnahelix
    @magnahelix Місяць тому

    Internet Explorer's last version was 11, not 8. Also, you completely forgot about Legacy Edge, which was the original MS Edge.

    • @Tech_History_Channel
      @Tech_History_Channel Місяць тому

      Apologies for the error and the overlooking of legacy edge :(

  • @tiktokjohnnysaint2234
    @tiktokjohnnysaint2234 Місяць тому

    nice video

  • @foradome5204
    @foradome5204 Місяць тому

    the best use of edge is to download Chrome

  • @davinp
    @davinp Місяць тому

    Microsoft Internet Explorer didn't come with the original Windows 95

    • @Tech_History_Channel
      @Tech_History_Channel Місяць тому

      Yep, I said in the video it came in a separate expansion pack

  • @gasmonkey1234
    @gasmonkey1234 Місяць тому

    I'm back to firefox. Chrome had become increasingly a piece of spy ware and does not support ad blockers as well.

  • @hal263
    @hal263 Місяць тому

    Netscape pretty much had its day up until about 1996-1997. From there IE was superior in so many ways, including compatibility, speed and stability. By the time the late 1990's rolled around, Netscape was "meh". Arguably, Netscape Navigator 3.04 Gold was the last decent/competitive version. From there, if you didn't use IE, you were an amateur. Those were the days...

  • @victorgw
    @victorgw Місяць тому

    The Irony of Google using Microsoft’s bundling strategy with Android to kill IE is funny😂

  • @LethalBubbles
    @LethalBubbles Місяць тому

    historical revisionist is just gonna disclude firefox

  • @sadiulhakim7814
    @sadiulhakim7814 Місяць тому

    11:31 Ah that is Java.

  • @ianbrewster8934
    @ianbrewster8934 Місяць тому

    Love your videos