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Console Castles (Ep. 6)

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What I Know So Much About This Lockout Chip

Atari Namco was an Atari joint venture that owned the rights to some of the older Atari arcade games. They'd reconstituted in it basically as a third party publisher making software for the Nintendo console. In 88, they succeeded in reverse engineering the Nintendo lockout chip handshake. The reason I know so much about this lockout chip is because my introduction to the video game business was literally this lockout chip.

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