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Love of the worlds created by video game designers and personalities drives Alex Smith & Jeffrey Daum (history, law, CS degrees) to provide a scholarly yet light-hearted discussion of how arcade, home console, and PC games merged into a Video Game Industry. Emphasis is on the combination of business and creative elements needed for financial success. Interviews of Atari, EA, Activision, & other execs with detailed source evaluations produce the insights you hear in these 140+ hours!
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Tuesday Mar 15, 2016
Nintendo: Playing with Power
Tuesday Mar 15, 2016
Tuesday Mar 15, 2016
TCW Podcast Episode 014 - Nintendo: Playing With Power
We discuss the state of the industry after the crash before Nintendo came onto the scene, and the difficulties in relating with the modern viewpoint to the situation at the time. We cover how Nintendo entered the US market and set up policies that would be ridiculous today, but were necessary for the industry to recover and grow. We cover how as Nintendo grew they were eventually sued for anti-trust, and price fixing, but were exonerated. Still this led to them easing up on their control in the early 90's.
Advanced Video System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEA2ePG8m-4
A few unlicensed games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfpsj8023qE
Pacman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdT0lrm4b2s
New episodes on the 1st and 15th of every month!
TCW Email: tcwpodcast@gmail.com
Twitter: @tcwpodcast
Alex's Blog: http://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com
Intro Music: Josh Woodward - Airplane Mode - Music - "Airplane Mode" by Josh Woodward. Free download:http://joshwoodward.com/song/AirplaneMode
Outro Music: RolemMusic - Bacterial Love - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic/Pop_Singles_Compilation_2014/01_rolemusic_-_bacterial_love
Copyright: Attribution: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Tuesday Mar 01, 2016
History of Acclaim - "The Fall"
Tuesday Mar 01, 2016
Tuesday Mar 01, 2016
TCW Podcast Episode 013 - History of Acclaim - "The Fall"
We would like to dedicate this episode to Fergus McGovern, co-founder of Probe Software, who died February 27, 2016 at the age of 50.
We go over the changes that led to the fall of Acclaim. How some other publishers were able to survive, and why. We also discuss how it is a unique situation that led to the growth of Acclaim in the late 80s early 90s . We can also see parallels between Acclaim and more recently THQ.
Castlevania 3 US vs Japan Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v9339JUK3U
Turok: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74hOR5f4MS0
Mario 64 :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6r5oF73gNI
Crash Bandicoot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaLgYPn_Fqs
Tomb Raider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ6mWoErc0E
Silent Hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8-3zq8GUcc
New episodes on the 1st and 15th of every month!
TCW Email: tcwpodcast@gmail.com
Twitter: @tcwpodcast
Alex's Blog: http://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com
Intro Music: Josh Woodward - Airplane Mode - Music - "Airplane Mode" by Josh Woodward. Free download:http://joshwoodward.com/song/AirplaneMode
Outro Music: RolemMusic - Bacterial Love - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic/Pop_Singles_Compilation_2014/01_rolemusic_-_bacterial_love
Copyright: Attribution: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/