Console Wars Sega Vs Nintendo - and the Battle that Defined a Generation.
Title:
Console Wars Sega Vs Nintendo - and the Battle that Defined a Generation.
Author:
Harris, Blake J.
ISBN:
9781782395287
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Publication Information:
New York : Atlantic Books Ltd, 2014.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (881 pages)
Contents:
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Contents; Forward; Author's Note; Prologue; Part One Genesis; 1. The Opportunity; 2. R & D; 3. The Story of Tom Kalinske; 4. Rude Awakening; 5. The History of Noa; 6. The Name of the Game; 7. Postcards From Arkansas; 8. The Birth of an Icon; 9. Tripped Up; 10. Extremely Dangerous; 11. Lightning in a Bottle; 12. The Revolution will be Pixelated; Part Two Sonic Vs. Mario; 13. The Winds of Change; 14. Segaville; 15. The Physicist is Displeased; 16. Rope-a-Dope; 17. Showdown; 18. The Underdog Days of Summer; 19. The Enemy of My Enemy.
20. Worth Waiting For21. The Heart and the Brain; Part Three The Next Level; 22. Target Practice; 23. Sequels, Skirmishes, and Baseball in Seattle; 24. Fyrirgefning Syndanna; 25. Back 2 Work; 26. Origin Stories; 27. Something Beyond Videogames; 28. Boca; 29. After the Blackout, But Before the Surge; 30. Just Do It; 31. Too Hot, Too Cold, and Just Right; 32. The Kutaragi Dream Machine; 33. A Quick Lap Around Victory Lane; 34. Cops and Robbers; 35. Shoshinkai; 36. Prometheus Revisited; 37. The Sega-Sony-Nintendo Love Triangle; 38. Something Wicked this Way Comes; 39. And Away We Go!
Part Four Civil War40. How the Grinch Stole Christmas; 41. Fugu; 42. Barbarians at the Gate; 43. Magic Carpet Ride; 44. Crazy Like a Fox; 45. Unacceptable; 46. Blood, Sweat, and Tiers; 47. The Man Who Came From Pepsi; 48. March of the Lemmings; 49. Switching Sides; 50. The Tipping Point; 51. The Last and Best of the Peter Pans; Part Five The Tortoise and the Hare; 52. Next Gen; 53. Man's Best Friend; 54. Night Trapped; 55. It's Just Windy ... not a Metaphor; 56. Combat Pay; 57. Life on Mars; 58. Roses are Red; 59. Blast From the Past; 60. Kings of the Jungle; 61. And Then There Were Three.
62. Fork in the Road63. Killer Instinct; 64. Game Over; Epilogue; Acknowledgements.
Abstract:
In 1990 Nintendo had a virtual monopoly on the video game industry. Sega, on the other hand, was a faltering arcade company with big aspirations and even bigger personalities. But that would all change with the arrival of Tom Kalinske, a man who knew nothing about video games and everything about fighting uphill battles. His unconventional tactics, combined with the blood, sweat and bold ideas of his renegade employees, transformed Sega and eventually led to a ruthless David-and-Goliath showdown with rival Nintendo. The battle was vicious, relentless and highly profitable,
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