Computer Space Is a Game That's Based on Computer Space

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Nolan Rax is a big go player and he takes the term Atari from the game of go. They build a game called computer space that's based on space for. This is the first commercialized programmed video arcade game in history. It's not really a profitable enterprise yet, because it costs too much to make these machines. Consumers in America aren't really ready for space games.

You may think you know the Nintendo story: a plumber named Mario, a princess named Zelda… and didn’t they buy the Seattle Mariners at some point? We thought we knew it too. And then we started researching and were blown away.

The lovable Disney-like Nintendo that we know today is a 130 year-old a playing card company (i.e. gambling), forged in the shadowy world of the Yakuza and shaped by a four-generation cycle of bitter family betrayal. And its unlikely transformation into a global multi-billion dollar media monopoly was led by an iron-fisted patriarch who — amazingly — never played a video game in his life! Get ready for one of our favorite stories Acquired has ever told — we couldn’t make this one up if we tried!

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