Game Changers: Inside the Video Game Wars

The untold story of the personal battles that gave rise to the $100 billion video game industry and a 50-year-long, multi-generation epic featuring corporate coups, industrial espionage, secret burial grounds and the promise of unimaginable riches being just one cartridge away. The only constant through the saga is this: When you think you've won, you're actually at your most vulnerable.

Cast

Nolan Bushnell

as Himself

Howard Lincoln

as Himself

Tom Kalinske

as Himself

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