SpudNutimus
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A thread for all alternate history brainstorming relating to the history of consoles, video gaming, and related technologies since I feel like a lot of people probably have pent-up ideas for this sort of thing.
I'll start with a blursed idea for a timeline I had today: Texas Instruments, best known in real life for their semiconductors and calculators, decide to use their previous experience and existing manufacturing capabilities in the consumer electronics sector to try and break into the newly empty video game console market following the great video game crash of 1983 and the collapse of Atari, serving as a lone all-American competitor amidst the rise of the Japanese Nintendo and Sega corporations in the American console market.
I'll start with a blursed idea for a timeline I had today: Texas Instruments, best known in real life for their semiconductors and calculators, decide to use their previous experience and existing manufacturing capabilities in the consumer electronics sector to try and break into the newly empty video game console market following the great video game crash of 1983 and the collapse of Atari, serving as a lone all-American competitor amidst the rise of the Japanese Nintendo and Sega corporations in the American console market.