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Tengen: Atari Games vs. Nintendo

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Norman Caruso recounts the legal and technical battle between Atari subsidiary Tengen and Nintendo over the NES lockout chip.

In the late 80's, Tengen (a subsidiary of Atari Games) decided to challenge Nintendo over their strict policies on 3rd party licensing. How? By suing them and releasing unlicensed video games. Learn the history behind it all. CHAPTERS - Introduction - Part 1: Origin of Heaven - Part 2: The Rabbit - Part 3: The Tiger - Part 4: Impact ▶️ Subscribe | youtube.com/gaminghistorian?sub_confirmation=1 Follow Gaming Historian: 🐦 Twitter | twitter.com/gaminghistorian 💻 Facebook | facebook.com/gaminghistorian 🕹️ Twitch | twitch.tv/gaminghistorian 📷 Instagram | instagram.com/gaminghistorian For a list of sources, visit thegaminghistorian.com

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What people say. Highly recommended for its detailed coverage of the technical and legal aspects of the Atari-Nintendo lawsuit.

AceJohnny2on Hacker News • Recommends

On “A Tale of the Mirror World, Part 6: Total War”

Another take about Atari's subsidiary Tengen and the Atari-Nintendo lawsuit is this wonderful 30minute video by Norman Caruso, the Gaming Historian: link to this video Highly recommended to learn about the technical and legal details of the lawsuit that shaped gaming industry landscape to this day. Edit: And come to think of it, some of the details and wording in Maher's 2017 article seem pulled straight from Caruso's 2015 video. :\
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…he Challenger Disaster is that you don't want more information, you want better information. Google's mission statement remains to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." How are they doing on that these days? How's the Play Store compared to the Apple App Store or Microsoft's Windows Store? 1 link 2 link to this video…
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franknineon Hacker News • Mentions

On “The games Nintendo didn't want you to play: Tengen”

There's another episode from Gaming Historian specifically for Tengen: link to this video It talks about how Atari abuses the copyright system to gain access to Nintendo’s protection system source code.
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yosefjaved1on Hacker News • Mentions

On “The games Nintendo didn't want you to play: Tengen”

Atari actually got the code illegally from the copyright office. Here's a video discussing that portion - link to this video
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