Big winner of the health crisis and its confinements, the video game industry has exploded in the last two years*. This industry began to take off in the 1970s in North America, then in Western Europe. But there is an unknown part of this story: the one that took place behind the Iron Curtain, in Eastern Europe, and in particular in the GDR, formerly East Germany. Meet these video game pioneers…
*In 2021, the turnover of the video game industry worldwide amounted to 300 billion euros, more than the revenues generated by cinema and music combined.
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