The Psn Plaintiff

By Erik C. Estavillo

All information of the author in this autobiographical book is true. Google the name Erik Estavillo for more detailed information on this famous author.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 28, 2018
• ISBN: 9781984556172

Erik C. Estavillo

All information about the author is true within this auto-biographical book. For more information, just google, Erik Estavillo.

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Copyright © 2018 by Erik C. Estavillo.

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Rev. date: 09/27/2018

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CONTENTS

Chapter 1 Life Before Litigation

Chapter 2 Estavilo v Sony Computer Entertainment America

Chapter 3 Estavillo v Microsoft, Nintendo of America

Chapter 4 Estavillo v Activision Blizzard

Chapter 5 Life After Court

Chapter 6 Dedication and Poems

Chapter 1

Life Before Litigation

The year was 1980. Many historic events happened that year. Atari released Space Invaders and dominated the market for video game consoles only to crash three years later. The Intellivision system was released in North America as the main competitor of Atari. Arcade games such as Pac-Man were among the most popular of the time. The video game market was in its prime.

On March 24, 1980, I, Erik Estavillo, was born in San Jose, California. At first, I came into this world just like everybody else; a clean slate with my whole life ahead of me. While my entrance into this world and the early development of the video game market may seem irrelevant to each other, years later they would end up going hand-in-hand. I am the man who is famously known for suing Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, and Activision Blizzard, and this is my story.

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Everybody reflects on their childhood at some time or another during their lives; childhood is thought to be the basis for every persons’ life. Some peoples’ childhoods are happy and are filled with memories of family gatherings, playing with friends and siblings and cousins, and going on family trips, even gathered around the television playing video games with their family and friends. For others, sometimes childhood is a bit more dark and solemn and is not remembered as a happy time.

I remember my childhood as being more on the sad side for as far as I can remember. I lived a relatively normal life until my parents got divorced when I was around the age of seven. Of course, that was back when divorce was not as common as it is today. My brother and I both wanted to go and live with our father, but only my brother initially got to go; I had to stay with my mother. She was a good mother. By the time I reached age ten, I got my wish: to live with my father and brother.

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