Tengen: Atari Games vs. Nintendo | Gaming Historian

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In the late 80's, Tengen (a subsidiary of Atari Games) decided to challenge Nintendo over their strict policies on 3rd party licensing. How? By suing them and releasing unlicensed video games. Learn the history behind it all.

Part 1 (Origin of Heaven) - 0:57
Part 2 (The Rabbit) - 7:49
Part 3 (The Tiger) - 12:42
Part 4 (Impact) - 18:44

A big thanks to the talented Chase & Sarah for lending their voices. You can check out their channels below!
Chase - http://www.youtube.com/chasefaceshow
Sarah - http://www.youtube.com/pushinguproses

Music by Audionautix.com & Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

End music is from the Arcade / NES Tengen version of Tetris, by Brad Fuller.

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