House caught fire! Not really, but man what a doozy it's been trying to put this together!

Somehow remaining topical with the cancellation of 2023 E3, we discover the origin story of the video game industry coming together in a landmark moment to face an onslaught of regulations. With Doug Lowenstein, Michael D. Gallagher, and Stanley Pierre-Louis taking the reins, we see a tale of legal battles, electronic techno music, and terrific industry positions dot the timeline as we observe almost 30 decadent years of a marvel and often confusing organization. This is the Arcade Report!

Sources:

• Entertainment Software Association's homepage, theesa.com
• Legal Case Documents; discovered by ChatGPT, corroborated by Wired, Gamespot, IGN, and Polygon; original articles on the Wayback Machine on Supremecourt.gov/opinions
• ESA & SOPA/PIPA stances, Digitalspy.com
• Historical Youtube Videos, AlphaOmegaSin & Colin Moriarty via Last Stand Media
• Other fringe articles, Gamespot, IGN, Wired, Engadget, Gamepro, Giant Bomb, Polygon, Destructoid, Gameindustry.biz, Gamasutra

Produced by Tyler Vittitow (@TwoTimesTyler)

Intro and Outro music is "Nightshade" by AdhesiveWombat

Music used in this episode are by several musical artists via Pixabay using their license of Creative Commons 4.0. All rights reserved to the artists and Pixabay.

The Arcade Report is a Final Plank Media (@FinalPlank) production that produces several quality podcasts focused on entertainment. Check us out at https://www.finalplank.com/!

I talk about the mental (and musical) energy I put into this episode, run through the games that were troublemakers to my life, and explain my odd fascination with the core memory tied to Frank Sinatra's My Way!