There is also a book called Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children http://www.amazon.com/Game-Over-Nintendo-American-Industry/d... I believe there is a newer edition out.

I have stumbled upon this on slashdot ' it is a rather interesting article, Upon further linkage I've found this other submission http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=580391 - it carries even more interesting stuff. However, I am still trying to find the book "Game Over" I've had... seems like I've lost it somewhere, which makes me extremely sad. That book, my friends, is full of suspense, nostalgia, business know-how etc.

edit: the book I'm talking about is this: http://www.amazon.com/Game-Over-Nintendo-American-Industry/d...

anyone itnerested in this story should read "Game Over" - http://www.amazon.com/Game-Over-Nintendo-American-Industry/d...

I got it as a gift with some magazine years ago (and lost it in the mean time) - but basically it tells the story about nintendo from the startup to the N64 era - quite many pages are related to tetris and negotiations with the Soviet Union.