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In the early 80’s, Quaker Oats entered the video game industry by purchasing the company US Games. It’s weird to think that Quaker Oats, who makes breakfast cereal and oatmeal, had anything to do with video games. What exactly made them do this, and why didn’t it work out?


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Chapters:

0:00 Introduction
0:48 Third Party Publishers
1:59 Birth of US Games
2:36 Space Jockey
3:25 Why Quaker Bought US Games
4:14 Parker Bros
4:41 Eggomania
5:31 Gopher
6:05 Entombed
6:41 Squeeze Box
7:31 Towering Inferno
8:06 Name This Game
8:49 Contest
9:21 Video Game Crash
10:04 US Games vs Parker Bros
10:42 Conclusion
11:30 Outtro


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