<p>1983: Nintendo's US division is failing. Their last-ditch effort - a strange glove controller called the Power Glove - is their final shipment before bankruptcy. But when a warehouse fire destroys 90% of the shipment, a junior executive makes an unauthorized decision that accidentally creates the NES we know today. We examine how this near-disaster birthed modern gaming culture, and what gaming would look like if Sega had won the console wars</p>

1983: Nintendo's US division is failing. Their last-ditch effort - a strange glove controller called the Power Glove - is their final shipment before bankruptcy. But when a warehouse fire destroys 90% of the shipment, a junior executive makes an unauthorized decision that accidentally creates the NES we know today. We examine how this near-disaster birthed modern gaming culture, and what gaming would look like if Sega had won the console wars

The Day Nintendo Almost Died

<p>In 1955, Polish scientist Hilary Koprowski developed the first polio vaccine - three years before Salk. But when a key lab assistant disappeared with the culture samples, the breakthrough vanished from history. Through never-before-translated journals and a recent DNA discovery, we reconstruct this medical Cold War mystery and project how 700,000 lives might have been saved if this vaccine had reached market first.</p>

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In 1955, Polish scientist Hilary Koprowski developed the first polio vaccine - three years before Salk. But when a key lab assistant disappeared with the culture samples, the breakthrough vanished from history. Through never-before-translated journals and a recent DNA discovery, we reconstruct this medical Cold War mystery and project how 700,000 lives might have been saved if this vaccine had reached market first.

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