Airdate: Game Changers: Inside the Video Game Wars

Documentary Game Changers: Inside the Video Game Wars premieres next week on History.

This looks at early successes, failures, rivalries and lawsuits between gaming giants such as Atari, Nintendo, Sega and Sony.

This is a 2 hour special produced by Oscar winner Daniel Jung which screened in the US in June.

This is the untold story of the personal battles that gave rise to the $100 billion video game industry. Brought to life by Oscar-winning director Daniel Junge, this is a tale of brilliant innovations, colossal failures, and ego-driven rivalries akin to Jobs v. Gates. It is a 50-year-long, multi-generation epic featuring corporate coups, industrial espionage, secret burial grounds and the promise of unimaginable riches being just one cartridge away. The only constant through the saga is this: When you think you’ve won, you’re actually at your most vulnerable.

Friday October 4 at 7.30pm on History.