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Denied credit and royalties for cartridges that sold in the millions, four Atari programmers formed a company to publish for the same console without permission. The lawsuit that followed legitimized independent publishing.
The independent publisher was created here, and with it the question of who controls a platform's software. The founders also forced a slow change in how the industry treated the people who made games, moving from anonymous engineering labor toward named creative work with a claim on the value produced.
