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When Shigeru Miyamoto designed Donkey Kong in 1981, Nintendo of America had 2,000 unsold Radar Scope cabinets sitting in a warehouse — Miyamoto’s team shipped only the new circuit boards and bezels from Japan, and a six-person crew including Minoru Arakawa and his wife Yoko gutted the cabinets by hand in Redmond, Washington to save Nintendo from bankruptcy in its first US year

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 30, 2026

Margaret Hamilton coined the term ‘software engineering’ in the mid-1960s while leading the team that wrote the Apollo Guidance Computer code — when the lunar module’s processor overloaded three minutes before Armstrong landed in 1969, her priority-scheduling system shed the lower-priority tasks and kept the descent program running

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 29, 2026

When Nintendo released the Game Boy in April 1989 with a monochrome screen against the color Sega Game Gear and Atari Lynx, designer Gunpei Yokoi argued the lower-resolution display would give players 30 hours of battery life on four AAs versus six hours for competitors — the Game Boy went on to outsell both rivals combined by roughly eight to one

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 24, 2026

Jeff Bezos drove from Fort Worth, Texas to Seattle in a 1988 Chevy Blazer in July 1994, writing the Amazon business plan on a laptop in the passenger seat while his wife MacKenzie drove — he picked Seattle because Washington’s small population meant he could avoid charging sales tax to 99 percent of US customers

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 22, 2026
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Before Google indexed the web, Larry Page and Sergey Brin tried to sell their PageRank algorithm to Excite in 1999 for $1 million, then dropped the price to $750,000 — Excite CEO George Bell turned them down because the search results were too good and users would leave the site too quickly

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 18, 2026
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When BlackBerry controlled nearly half of the US smartphone market, its leaders saw the iPhone’s flaws clearly — and still missed the shift that would erase its lead

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 16, 2026
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In 1998, Pixar nearly lost Toy Story 2 after a delete command erased months of work — and a maternity-leave backup became the only thing that saved it

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 15, 2026
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The Bootleg Fire that burned across Oregon in 2021 grew so large and intense that it began generating its own weather, including towering fire clouds capable of producing lightning miles ahead of the main front

Tweak Your Biz Editorial Team June 6, 2026