gaming

After having a conversation with Mr_ Bondoc, I decided to start a new TL with him. And yes, this is a collaborative effort so anyone who wants to join in and share your ideas, you can with, (of course) our permission. So here's the POD: POD: June 7, 1954: Alan Turing refuses to commit suicide...

So, what if Gulf & Western sold Sega to Japanese investors.

Prologue - A Death in the Family Hiroshi Yamauchi sat down on the twelfth evening of December 1993 as he usually did, next to his wife Michiko, sharing some piping hot tea. Unfortunately, the sixty five year old Yamauchi would never get to enjoy his cup of tea. As his wife poured his tea, she...

Heres an Alternate History Scenario i Created out of the 8 Years of Research for an Anime im Making in the Future (its inspired by series like fringe but more utopian and the first run of futurama hope you like it) 1920s Walt Disney in the 1920s Agrees with Charles Mints to Work for Universal...

Shigeru Miyamoto is without a doubt the most well-known and most popular video game creator of all-time, creating games like Super Mario, Legend of Zelda, and Star Fox. All of which were published under Nintendo. Now this begs the question: What if Miyamoto did not work for Nintendo, but worked...

(Wooh, finally got this ready enough to post! Sorry it took so long. This is my timeline about "WI Sega & Sony partnered up", based on what we know about their chance to partner with Sony. Me and Nivek have been working on this for a time behind the scenes, and we estimated the POD but of course...

Lets say the SMT series gets extremely popular and starts to gain controversy from news outlets and fundamentalists. what do you think they will say about it and what would happen to the series? here is why it would gain controversy 1. the christian god is evil in it 2. lucifer is portrayed...

in OTL, Nintendo tried to acquire the rights to the Harry Potter series from J.K Rowling but the deal failed as Rowling decided to sell the rights to Warner Bros. But as the title suggests, what if J.K Rowling decided to give the rights to Nintendo instead of Warner Bros

Atari is, no doubt, an institution in the gaming world. There have been many ups and downs, but they stay at the top of their game. Looking for some older games, though, I found out that there have been some ideas that could have ruined it completely. Atari must have been ridiculously lucky to...

One (1991) 8:59 6.1.91 Tokyo, Japan The day had finally arrived. After months of waiting and developing, it was finally time. It was time to reveal a project almost finished, it was time, to reveal Project Mark 5.5, the SEGA-CD. Lights came on for the booths, Hayao Nakamaya and Tom Kalinske...

Through old patents someone found an old unreleased peripheral for the N64. Supposedly it had infra-red remote controllers, it could also use an internet service that sounds pretty much like Randnet (allowing you to connect to the internet, and download games that would be stored on an internal...

What if the SEGA-CD failed to catch the support of third-parties like it did OTL? Would SEGA actually release Project Mars as a last resort? Would we still see the SNES-CD (Philips CD-ROM add-on unit for the SNES)? What would happen to SEGA-CD's classics like Sonic 4, Ratchet and Bolt...

Well, I'm rebooting my gaming TL again. (To see an older version look here: Of Bits and Bytes ) I'm going to be starting out a little differently. I'm writing this differently, and including some new stuff. So, again for the third time, here we go! (Sorry about redoing this TL so many times. :/)...

Assuming that the Nintendo Entertainment System is never exported to North America, how would the gaming industry in North America evolve?

What would it take to override the corporate interests, fan outcry, and in some countries free speech guarantees and, in the words of some, "ban this sick filth?" Not a scenario I'd like to see happen OTL, mind you.

Okay, so first thread. I have tried writing alternate histories before but never got very far admittedly, have looked around this forum for a while too. Anyway, As a Sega kid growing up and doing some research on it, I have stumbled upon the perfect piece of history to use as a timeline. We all...

Mensch ärgere Dich nicht is a famous German (and by extension, Continental European) cross and circle tabletop game, somewhat similar to the British Ludo, or the original Indian Pachisi, etc. It was created in 1907/1908 by Josef Friedrich Schmidt of the now-legendary German tabletop publisher...