It's practically common knowledge now that Tavistock was a big part of the music industry, engineering stars like the Beatles.

What I'm personally wondering is if Tavistock or a similar organization influenced the games industry. Like for example ID software basically spearheaded the PC games industry by itself. I'd like to think the story of a few computer and artistic geniuses delivering something new that no one thought possible multiple times in quick succession was true. But the story sounds a bit too convenient at times. Like the hardware and software sides were communicating from the start.

Also looking back Atari & other early games were big on promoting the obsession with outer space. The excuse is the graphics were bad so space was naturally something easy to present. I dunno though, early graphics are all about inspiring the imagination - you could say anything was happening.

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