Are You an Egghead? 5–3 in the final round. Match One: David Rainford v. Barry Simmons: Barry came from behind after the head-to-head rounds to book his place in the final. Dave had won 3 to Barry's 2 but one slip up in the final round from David and with Barry going first saw him win 5–3. Match Two: Mark Kerr v. Shaun Wallace: Shaun eventually prevailed over Mark in the longest game of the competition before the final. Trailing 3–2 to Mark from the head-to-heads, the match went all the way to sudden death before Shaun finally won 8–7 to move into the
Egghead Software scandal. Although Egghead had more PC software sales experience than most any other retailer, having been in business with outlets across the nation since PCs became popular in the mid-1980s, and having pioneered Internet software and hardware sales, they were nevertheless out-resourced and surpassed by the publicly traded giant Amazon.com. Sales were insufficient to sustain the business in the face of such a multinational giant, their stock plummeted, and the company went into bankruptcy. In 2001, Amazon purchased Egghead for $6.1 million. Egghead.com now redirects to Amazon's software pages. Egghead Software Egghead Software was a computer software retail company. It