This was an epic project: a three-part video series on the First Video Game War. Pretty much everyone has heard of or player games on an Atari 2600, but most people don't know that it had to defeat two rivals to become a huge success, and that these rival companies had the technological jump on Atari. It's a great story with some interesting twists and turns. I created some original music for these, much of it in a pseudo-70s analog keyboard style. I hope more people check these out, because I have a number of topics for future Tech Wars videos.

In my previous video introducing the concept of algorithms, I showed two intuitive, but relatively slow, ways to put things in order. Computers spend so much time putting things in order that a lot of effort has been spend figuring out the most efficient ways to do so. One of the most popular is known as mergesort, and is explained in this video...check it out: