Nolan Bushnell, cofounder of Atari.
Nolan Bushnell, cofounder of Atari.
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History’s Game Changers: Inside the Video Game Wars — A romp through gaming’s early days

Game Changers: Inside the Video Game Wars is a documentary airing soon on the History Channel (now known as History) that captures the great moments of the dawn of the video game industry.

Like the book Console Wars (but unrelated to it), Game Changers tells the story of the personal battles that gave rise to the multibillion-dollar video game industry.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.