I kinda want to write a timeline for a videogame related alternate history situation. I have two ideas for situations, so I’ll just share the first one I have now: the American side of Sega Technical Institute became independent and got to keep the rights to the games they developed (even though that would be pretty much never happen in that situation) and the Japanese side of Sega wouldn’t be legally be permitted to use anything from sonics 2 and 3 due to the American side helping to develop those games, so they’ll try to make sonic games without them but that would be awkward so some other of their series would probably overtake it in popularity. Don’t know what the American side would be up to afterwards but that’s where this timeline can potentially get wacky depending on how I take it.
Again, I see how this is a very unrealistic situation but I think it would be fun. Might share my other idea later.