Historian Kevin Impellizeri usually shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends. However, this month Phil Thomas takes the lead and teaches Kevin, Elford Stephens, and Andy Hunter about the (as of this recording) ongoing global computer chip shortage and why it has been so hard to get a next-gen game system (or a car or ballistic missiles or anything else you might need).

Topics discussed include:  A brief history of video game related chip shortages, the most important company you've never heard of,  how we are possibly a war/global pandemic/ecological disaster away from a digital dark age, and whether you'd be willing to jump on a box for a cell phone.

To learn more, check out: Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (New York: Scribner, 2022)
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Chip-War/Chris-Miller/9781982172008
Also, for more on Magnavox and the Odyssey,  check out the Video Game History Hour episode "Magnavox: The Great Voice": https://gamehistory.org/ep-94-magnavox-the-great-voice/.

Theme Music: Occam's Sikhwee by Sikh Knowledge (Free Music Archive: https://bit.ly/33G4sLO), used under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US (https://bit.ly/33JXogQ) 

More info, including show notes and sources at http://scandalousgamespodcast.wordpress.com.