1998: Apple announces a paid emulator

2019: Apple keeps revoking emulators on my phone

It's trippy as hell seeing Steve Jobs on stage officially supporting an emulator

This is why almost all emulators today are free and open-source.

Bleem: Although we've been battling copyright lawsuits for years, looks like they finally got us.
Also Bleem: let's add Sonic next to a picture of our gravestone!

1998 Sony: *sues company for an emulator and loses*
2018 Sony: *uses emulator for the PlayStation classic*

Steve Jobs proudly introducing an emulator at a conference is mindblowing

The moral of the story: It doesn't matter if you win or lose legally, just that you're big enough and rich enough to force your opponent out of business anyway.

When doing research for my own video about VGS, I learned that some Connectix employees ended up working for Sony after the acquisition of the product (which ended up working well for them, as Connectix went out of business shortly afterward -- while it had won the legal battle, litigation costs devastated the company). While Sony immediately killed VGS, it kept the source code, and the employees ended up putting it to use in newer PlayStation consoles for PS1 backward compatibility.

Damn that bleem! Logo is so 90s lol. I want a tshirt

11:35 "What did bleem stand for? That remains a mystery". If you flip the name "bleem" vertically, you get "p166w", or Pentium 166 Windows, which, as you explain at 11:52, were the minimum requirements for the emulator to run. I remember a friend telling me this at the time, though I've never heard it verified since.

Always wondered about the full stories behind these two! I remember reading about them in magazines in the late '90s, and I downloaded both of them back then too, but it was always a mystery to me where they went. I researched a little bit into Bleem a few years back when I did an Oddware episode on it, but had no idea what really happened to Connectix. In short, AWESOME video man.

WOW. That clip of Steve Jobs showcasing a PlayStation emulator at a Mac event was crazy. Could you image if some soft wear company released a product that emulated Apple software? The litigation would be swift.

You should check out Sega's Genesis collection for the Dreamcast,  they were so cool about it,  they even hid a TXT file on the disc teaching people how to put their own ROMs on the disc.

Turns out Bleem saved the Playstation Classic. Thank you guys from the past.

I would honestly LOVE to see you do a video on SNK. Whether it be their 3 lesser-known consoles, 2 handhelds, or their overall rise, fall, and slow progressive rebirth.

Emulation was a poor kid's best friend back in the day, if it wasn't for zsnes I'd never know the joy that is chrono trigger.

I once owned all 3 Bleemcast discs for the Dreamcast. I didn't notice much of a difference while playing Metal Gear Solid on the DC, but the Bleemcast version of Gran Turismo 2 was like a whole new game.

Been using emulators for years now, had no idea they were once a product sold in stores

I will always look fondly back on those early emulation days in the mid 90s.  Finding roms on websites using dial up internet felt like a treasure hunt.  It something very few gamers remember.

MAME ZSNES/SNES9X EPSXE/PCSX PPSSPP DESMUME VISUALBOYADVANCE-M PROJECT64 and a few others...

I cant thank enough the people behind these emulators.

Now that i know about them, i should also be thankful to Bleem and Connectix