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So, your challenge here is to have Nintendo and Sega swap successes. Ideally, Nintendo would leave the console market in the sixth generation and become a third-party developer, with the Mario franchise going downhill, leading to game journalists like IGN viewing Mario in a overly negative light...

With a POD no earlier than 1988, your challenge here is to screw over both Nintendo and Sega, to the point where they leave the console market in the sixth generation of game consoles and become third-party developers.

Original thread: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-ahc-ultra-competitive-videogame-console-wars.435365/ While the subject of video game consoles has come up a number of times, what if the video game console wars became even more ultra competitive and over-saturated compared to...

For this alternate history challenge, create a history where a European-descended nation in OTL's American South wasn't dependent on slavery for its economy. There could still be small amounts of slavery within the country, but not to the extent of OTL's American South, where slave labor was the...

So, your challenge here is to have Disney (the House of Mouse) and Warner Bros. (the House of Wabbit) merge together at a plausible date to form one big mass media and entertainment conglomerate.

So, your challenge here is to have DreamWorks Pictures be founded at a plausible date earlier than 1994.

So, your challenge here is to have Microsoft enter the console market at a plausible date earlier than 2001.

Reposted version of this.: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ahc-screw-over-sega-before-the-saturn.433480/ The only rules I have for this is that Sega has to had released the Genesis before your POD and Sonic has to be released as well. (And if you want, Nintendo can buy them out...

Title pinched from a NYTimes article about the movement back in the day. It was a movement in the 1960/70's where people (mostly middle classed counter culture youths) moved from the cities/urban areas to small holdings to practice homesteading and self sufficiency. Unsurprisingly most people...

So, your challenge here is to have a different console war. Instead of Nintendo vs. Sony vs. Microsoft, it could be any other war like Nintendo vs. Sega vs. NEC or Nintendo-Sony vs. Sega vs. 3DO or whatever.

So, your challenge here is to have Sega stay in the console market to this day without ASBs.

In 1946 Republicans made great gains taking the house and senate under Truman. So how could fortunes reverse for the democrats where they actually gain a significant amount of seats adding to their super-majority in 1946

Simply put, have the British TV network Channel 4 first come onto the air at a plausible date earlier than 1982. Ideally, after the launch of ITV in 1955.

The Republic of Salé was a short-lived corsair republic, consisting of the cities of Salé, Rabat, and a region called the Casbah. It was independent of Morocco between the years 1624-1668. With a POD of 1630, keep this pirate utopia independent.

Surprisingly, considering the enormous impact it left, the Qin dynasty only lasted fifteen years. Your challenge is to have it last significantly longer.

Sonic the Hedgehog is a franchise created and owned by Sega that follows a blue hedgehog named Sonic fighting the evil Dr. Eggman, a mad scientist. The first Sonic game was released in 1991 for the Sega Mega Drive (known in America as the Sega Genesis) and became a success, leading to a...

How could the wild west conditions of the American frontier still exist into the 21st century? I could imagine European countries enacting restrictions on emigration to America during the 19th century while racist immigration acts like the Chinese Exclusion Act restrain none European...

As it says on the tin. What must happen for Churchill to adopt communism? What experiences?

By the 1910s-1920s have France have the biggest colonial empire of all time, with the British in a close, strong, and still pretty influential second place, instead of the other way around. OTL for comparison;

While Nelson Mandela and Robert Mugabe were quite similar in some ways, their reputations couldn't be any more different. Mandela is often thought of in messianic terms, while Mugabe is considered a quintessential "fallen hero". Your challenge is to have it be the other way around.