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Watch Play Value online: Episode 22 College Dreams - The Story of General Computer

In 1981, A couple of MIT students named Doug Macrae and Kevin Curran started a small company called General Computer. These guys loved video games, played video games, bought a few arcade games, and even had their own coin-op route on campus. But the two kids were just engineering students and didn’t have the factory resources to make big arcade games from scratch. So instead they just made these enhancement boards that would connect to the circuit boards of existing arcade games and modify them into new and improved versions. So began the start of their amazing video game career.

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