Table of ContentsForeword by Peter Molyne | vii |
Acknowledgements | viii |
Timeline | xi |
Chapter 1: The World Before Pong | 1 |
Chapter 2: Forgotten Fathers | 15 |
Chapter 3: Father of the Industry | 27 |
Chapter 4: And Then There Was Pong | 37 |
Chapter 5: The King and Court | 49 |
Chapter 6: The Jackals | 59 |
Chapter 7: "Could You Repreat That Two More Times?" | 79 |
Chapter 8: Strange Bedfellows | 93 |
Chapter 9: The Return of Bushnell | 115 |
Chapter 10: The Golden Age (Part 1: 1979-1980) | 123 |
Chapter 11: The Golden Age (Part 2: 1981-1983) | 151 |
Chapter 12: The Battle for the Home | 179 |
Chapter 13: A Case of Two Gorillas | 199 |
Chapter 14: The Fall | 219 |
Chapter 15: The Aftermath | 241 |
Chapter 16: Album Covers | 259 |
Chapter 17: We Tried to Keep from Laughing | 277 |
Chapter 18: The Seeds of Competition | 295 |
Chapter 19: The Birth of Sega | 331 |
Chapter 20: The New Empire | 345 |
Chapter 21: The Legal Game | 367 |
Chapter 22: The Year of Hardware | 397 |
Chapter 23: Run for the Money | 421 |
Chapter 24: The War | 439 |
Chapter 25: Moral Kombat | 461 |
Chapter 26: The "Next" Generation (Part 1) | 481 |
Chapter 27: The "Next" Generation (Part 2) | 499 |
Chapter 28: The Mainstream and All Its Perils | 527 |
Chapter 29: And the Cycle Continues | 557 |
Chapter 30: Three Horses and a Pony | 573 |
Source Notes | 592 |
Index | 597 |