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January 18, 2021 08:45 pm GMT
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2021/01/18/why-so-many-early-video-game-companies-had-names-starting-with-a.html
Why so many early video-game companies had names starting with A
A lot of the big companies of the 80s video-game boom all had names beginning with A — like Atari, Activision, Accolade, and Acclaim. Why?
Over at Debugger on Medium, Garry Kitchen — a designer who joined Activision in 1982 — explains one hypothesis: All the companies were trying to get on the first page of the huge, paper company-directory of CES. — Read the rest
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2021/01/18/why-so-many-early-video-game-companies-had-names-starting-with-a.html
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