Table of Contents| Foreword 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 |