Player Two Start PDF Collection
I've finally sat down and assembled the entire Player Two Start trilogy in PDF format, which can be accessed via these links. It's in 10 parts total, and adds up to between 25-30 MB, and around 6,000 pages or so. Let me know if anything's not working.

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Player Two Start: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5...=sharing&resourcekey=0-TED8E2iCdo3PQbAbpQSohA

Massively Multiplayer (Part 1): https://drive.google.com/file/d/14JeD-Pyz9wEyeG4z4eQ-VNXHQ8Jq6d_s/view?usp=sharing

Massively Multiplayer (Part 2): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-kLc49-mShABomHkV4t765GF79lGd_35/view?usp=sharing

Massively Multiplayer (Part 3): https://drive.google.com/file/d/16e5GkNDHW29dHLMPlZrucCLwwCqTMFk-/view?usp=sharing

Massively Multiplayer (Part 4): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LzF7Cn04mRHeDMuLE3GH6kVqaGnTgq8p/view?usp=sharing

Massively Multiplayer (Part 5): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wQSwOmfYl25OQDjoMWBCGUEwVVK9p6ab/view?usp=sharing

Battle Royale (Part 1): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m2RgnuqfpLOvNA-g3J-k66KQNDUlcnNF/view?usp=sharing

Battle Royale (Part 2): https://drive.google.com/file/d/14EDOMB7bn5er7ZypC_CpHqeCynn2AWX-/view?usp=sharing

Battle Royale (Part 3): https://drive.google.com/file/d/12n8O3HJBUHFpZPtoO2CMcBV83srU1QPx/view?usp=sharing

Battle Royale (Part 4): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lNyYwte2dnxzYYrIKQVXasnZ7qjPkEy6/view?usp=sharing

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Enjoy the complete timeline and thanks again to everyone for all the love and support, I appreciate all the new readers and likes to this day and hopefully the timeline provides entertainment for years to come!
 
I do wanna do a TL where video games are a big part of it, at least when it comes to animated adaptations.....
As said before you can,just start to research about the OTL scenario and ask yourself how could have gone differently with the handicap/focus of trying to give OTL personalities justice. And everything else snowball for there
 
As said before you can,just start to research about the OTL scenario and ask yourself how could have gone differently with the handicap/focus of trying to give OTL personalities justice. And everything else snowball for there
Well, the PoD of my TL idea is when Hasbro decided to go to Nintendo to create a series of animated shows after their own toons(G.I. Joe, Transformers) ran out of fizz, except, I also want to involve Marvel in it with a high chance of most of it airing on Fox Kids leading to Hasbro buying half of Fox Family Worldwide along with Disney and/or Fox, leading to the earlier creation of The Hub.

I'll invite you to the conversation when I make it @Nivek
You're welcome. Also, can I collaborate with you on a TL sometime in the future?
Great!
 
Enjoy the complete timeline and thanks again to everyone for all the love and support, I appreciate all the new readers and likes to this day and hopefully the timeline provides entertainment for years to come!
Thank you and Nivek for sharing this amazing TL, getting me into AH in the first place!
The OG P2S was one of the first TLs I started following on this forum when I discovered it.
 
Well, the PoD of my TL idea is when Hasbro decided to go to Nintendo to create a series of animated shows after their own toons(G.I. Joe, Transformers) ran out of fizz, except, I also want to involve Marvel in it with a high chance of most of it airing on Fox Kids leading to Hasbro buying half of Fox Family Worldwide along with Disney and/or Fox, leading to the earlier creation of The Hub.
Buying Saban Half too? that's how Disney got it OTL, regardless if Hasbro could leverage their IP earlier that would be interesting, as 80's and 90's toys market was cutthroat as hell(there is where Kalinske come from anyway), would be different
Thank you and Nivek for sharing this amazing TL, getting me into AH in the first place!
The OG P2S was one of the first TLs I started following on this forum when I discovered it.
That was a pleasure, i love those stories, of people come here and found this saga as their hook here
 
Wanders in having learned of this series's existence only recently else-'Net, starts at the top of the TV Tropes recap page in a 'passing glance' to avoid drowning in the hundreds of posts made already and spots the following:

  • Pulseman is developed for the SNES-CD instead and published by Sony, along with Western releases. (OTL Pulseman only made a North American release via the Sega Channel before made available via the Virtual Console.) It would be the basis of a relationship between Sony and the game's developer, Game Freak.

Eyebrow starts twitching slightly. …I can't be the only one who's at least mildly 'triggered'/put off by the thought.

More seriously, this being a thing gave me a few AU ideas myself:
  1. Philips has the same amount of technical expertise and extant research and development as Sony by the time Nintendo starts looking to make the SNES's disc system add-on. Nintendo contracts both Philips and Sony to produce prototypes of an SNES CD add-on. The prototype that Philips presents ends up being comparable to or better than Sony's SNES-CD/'Nintendo Playstation.' Philips wins the bid for the finalized contract. (A 'Player One and a Half Start' — or, to be a bit more tongue-in-cheek, a 'Player One and a Half Select' —, if you will.)
  2. Sega never exited the game console market. (Independently of this series, also idly wondered about in an idle comment by YouTuber Spawn Wave in this video where he does a disassembly of the Sega Dreamcast's controller.)
  3. Technology hit one or more growth spurts that we didn't see in our timeline at one or more points in history, leading to the first full-dive VR MMORPG seeing release on its host console on…you guessed it: November 6th, 2022.
Even beginning to sketch any of those out's beyond me, though, unfortunately.

(Somebody has to at least have thought about doing the second one, though; I'd be surprised if they hadn't.)

(Edit: Fixed an overlooked accidental typo.)
 
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Eyebrow starts twitching slightly. …I can't be the only one who's at least mildly 'triggered'/put off by the thought.
That was to give Gamefreak a bigger focus(hilarious/harsher in hindsight as OTL game freak abuse their independence to stagnate at times with their games, modern pokemon being the most glaring example) in the timeline that just they make pokemon. and a little having another common point with Nintendo and Sony(after the most turbulent phase of their relationship was passing forward, that were the renegotiations and the Nova/Ultra development)
Philips has the same amount of technical expertise and extant research and development as Sony by the time Nintendo starts looking to make the SNES's disc system add-on. Nintendo contracts both Philips and Sony to produce prototypes of an SNES CD add-on. The prototype that Philips presents ends up being comparable to or better than Sony's SNES-CD/'Nintendo Playstation.' Philips wins the bid for the finalized contract. (A 'Player One and a Half Start' — or, to be a bit more tongue-in-cheek, a 'Player One and a Half Select' —, if you will.)
Very Funny pun(another would be tagging out, as Phillips is taggin out with Nintendo ITTL)

Even beginning to sketch any of those out's beyond me, though, unfortunately. y
Sega OTL exit comes from OTL post-Genesis failure but at the end of the day, the final burst of the Japanese bubble, Japan's new millennium recession hitting hard the amusement industry and that being one of OTL sega lifeline, OTL SEGA mismanagement and rivalries...Isao Okawa's death was the final trigger, as he singles handily keep SEGA alive since 1998 with debt forgiving measures and personal grants to the company, once he died, his heirs and CSK lost any interest in SEGA and that left the gradual exit of videogame consoles and to be sold off CSK Holdings. A little more healthy SEGA and some extra life of years of Okawa would have changed a lot of things
 
Philips has the same amount of technical expertise and extant research and development as Sony by the time Nintendo starts looking to make the SNES's disc system add-on. Nintendo contracts both Philips and Sony to produce prototypes of an SNES CD add-on. The prototype that Philips presents ends up being comparable to or better than Sony's SNES-CD/'Nintendo Playstation.' Philips wins the bid for the finalized contract. (A 'Player One and a Half Start' — or, to be a bit more tongue-in-cheek, a 'Player One and a Half Select' —, if you will.)
I wonder if Sony will still get into the console business or not.
 
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