For all you videogame lovers, I recommend you check out the following documentary

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 0474263178

It's about 45 mins long - a fascinating look into the birth of the videogame industry right up the nes-era.

What surprised me was just how instrumental Atari were in the starting steps of the industry, and just how bad the crash of 83 was - and how it ruined that slice of the pie for north America for some years.

Out of interest, anyone own an Atari 2600? was it an exciting machine back in the day? Discuss!

I'm a little surprised that so little mention is made of Apple, actually. They sprang from the fruitful loins of Atari too, and when the crash happened, there was a natural sideways move to home computing with people creating games in their homes.