The History of Videogame Lawsuits

AsiNisiMasa writes "1UP is running an interesting piece detailing the history of lawsuits in the gaming industry. It reveals a bit about Nintendo's old strong-arm tactics, the origin of the third party developer, Electronic Art's employee abuse, and of course plenty of violent games being 'linked' to violent behavior. Jack Thompson gets an entire page to himself." From the article: "To show their appreciation, Atari took Activision to court, claiming that the company didn't have the right to develop Atari games. Atari lost, and more companies decided to follow in Activision's footsteps, creating the concept of third-party developers. It was a defining moment for video games."

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Infogrames

[AsmCoder8088]

Atari is also the French Infogrames company. I remember buying one of their games... Monopoly, I think.

It was not too terribly great, as the animations were lousy and the computer AI would gang up on you.

basiCreations Software

Viddi Games

[milktoastman]

Viddi Piddi Po Piddi...Actually, I do have something to say ontopic, I'm just seeing first if I get modded down by some idiot with mod points who won't even take the time to read my post before striking me down with all his hate.

Anyway, it's funny that this article was posted just now because I was reading a video game strategy guide book published in 1983...you know, cuz I gotta increase my top pacman scores (seriously, it was a fun bit of nostalgia I picked up at a garage sale). The point is, do you know how weird it was to read about this "up and coming" little toy and game company called Nintendo? That was back in their innocent days. And they talked about the hero character in Donkey Kong like he was some no name plumber. That was well before Nintendo sued and murdered and fucked their way to the top like some psychotic whore.