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Geekstorians: When Giants Fall | Atari, Sega, Blockbuster and How Empires Collapse
Season 2 of Geekstorians continues with a story about collapse.
In ‘When Giants Fall’, Dave looks at three companies that once seemed unstoppable — Atari, Sega, and Blockbuster — and how each of them, in very different ways, lost their grip on the future.
From Atari’s collapse after the video game crash of the early 1980s, to Sega’s spectacular inability to get out of its own way during the console wars, to Blockbuster staring straight at the future and somehow deciding it probably wasn’t important, this is an episode about what happens when success turns into inertia.
It is also a story…
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