Overview
- Norman Caruso announced in a farewell video that he will stop making Gaming Historian episodes after more than 15 years due to burnout.
- He spent weeks scanning U.S. National Archives files on the 1982 Universal v. Nintendo Donkey Kong case and uploaded them to the Internet Archive.
- The public cache includes courtroom transcripts, game design documents, and sketches attributed to Shigeru Miyamoto, which he also shared with the Video Game History Foundation.
- He will keep his YouTube library online and will focus his work on An Old Timey Podcast with his wife, Kristin.
- The lawsuit challenged Donkey Kong as a take on King Kong, and coverage notes Nintendo ultimately won the case, a key episode in early video game law.