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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
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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…