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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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Monday Oct 15, 2018
A Fairchild Story
Monday Oct 15, 2018
Monday Oct 15, 2018
TCW Podcast Episode 076 - A Fairchild Story
We cover the history of the Fairchild company and their console the Fairchild Channel F. It is a fascinating journey of how a company was thrust into a role where they could get in on the ground floor of the new video game industry. Although through bad experiences in other industries, an epic struggle to ger FCC approval, and observations on the turmoil of the video game industry, Fairchild was defeated. Fairchild's exit from the scene was not so much the initial hurdles they faced, but their lack of will to produce, and market in quantities that would let them gain the market share they needed.
How Integrated Circuits are made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35jWSQXku74
Fairchild on Integrated Circuits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z47Gv2cdFtA
Fairchild Channel F Hockey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a45lmvaA3KI
Fairchild Channel F Blackjack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf5RoJVGh3k
Fairchild Channel F Spitfire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95guwJJGx8I
Fairchild Channel F Controller Demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egfNz3XtL90
Overview of the Fairchild Channel F: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIRhnu7sfCY
How ROM Cartridges Worked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLEMsw1SjDY&t
New episodes on the 1st and 15th of every month!
TCW Email: feedback@theycreateworlds.com
Twitter: @tcwpodcast
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theycreateworlds
Alex's Video Game History Blog: http://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com
Alex's forthcoming book will be released through CRC Press!
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/
Monday Oct 01, 2018
Gunning For Light
Monday Oct 01, 2018
Monday Oct 01, 2018
TCW Podcast Episode 075 - Gunning for Light
We look at how shooting peripherals entered the gaming scene. We start with their introduction in arcades, and move all the way up to today. We see the technology change, and how different applications were applied to get interesting effects. With the height of light guns in the 80's and 90's, and their decline in the 2000's, light guns are only seen in the few remaining arcade and fun centers still in operation. In the home they really say their popularity in the 8-bit and to a lesser extent the 16-bit era.
ABT Target Skill Model F: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm1qSL4g4eg
Shoot the Bear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41HA_L5sGGo
Coon Hunt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmTDlmULZt0
Keeney Anti-Aircraft Machine Gun Restore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odqi1iXnh84
Keeney Air Raider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=senG1HmruAo
Whoopi Goldberg on racial/ethnic stereotypes in old cartoons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCT1clqci3I
Dale model Gun Cabinet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C1DN24sfCY
Magnavox Odyssey Light Gun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At6H6SIfWTc
Sega Balloon gun Cabinet Picture: http://www.pinrepair.com/arcade/ballgun.htm
Qwak Pictures: https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9216
Very brief shot of Qwak in Dawn of the Dead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UVzepqkmts
How Light Pens and NES Zapper Worked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu-Hoj4EIjU
Crossbow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtsuSH9jylw
EXPLICIT WARNING! Chiller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_19-YbEuSpU
Operation Wolf Arcade cabinet tour and gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQqaw_Vf9wk
Operation Wolf Generic Gun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5YZWjSBJts
Lethal Enforcers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BAkgAMVcUo
Virtua Cop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcTiaBrJWTs
Terminator 2 Judgement Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qja3t17C4vw
Silent Scope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3TGQSV54ww&t=58s
Area 51: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biJ9kUid84A
House of the Dead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIVa53_NLLI
Time Crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT0GjW3oiQM
New episodes on the 1st and 15th of every month!
TCW Email: feedback@theycreateworlds.com
Twitter: @tcwpodcast
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theycreateworlds
Alex's Video Game History Blog: http://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com
Alex's forthcoming book will be released through CRC Press!
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/