Chris Plante deliver this interesting article that asks "What could have been?" In this piece he identifies the 10 biggest gaming decisions that have created the gaming industry we know and love today.

If our favorite plumber had never made it stateside, would video games, as we know them, still exist? What world would we inhabit if SEGA had stuck with the Dreamcast? Or what if Microsoft had never acquired Bungie?

Over the past three decades, companies like Nintendo, Microsoft, SEGA and Sony have shaped the industry with their game changing decisions. For example, who knew focusing time and money on a chili-dog mucnching hedgehog could make a company millions, or that giving consumers what they want, earlier than they wanted could be a crippling mistake.

Let's take a look back at the choices that brought us from A to B, from the development of Tennis for Two in the Brookhaven National Laboratory to the programming of an NES emulator for your iPhone in a neighbor's garage.

These are the decisions that made video game history.

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