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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 Oct 15, 2019
The 100 Most Influential Games Part 3
Tuesday Oct 15, 2019
Tuesday Oct 15, 2019
TCW Podcast Episode 100 - The 100 Most Influential Games Part 3
And at long last, TCW Episode 100! To celebrate our 100th episode, we finish our countdown of the 100 most influential video games of all time. This time, we look at only 20 games, but these are the games we have deemed the absolutely most essential for shaping the video game industry as it exists today. We present these final twenty games in chronological order by original release date. Now that we have made all our picks, what do you think? Let us know on Twitter!
Games:
Spacewar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EWQYAfuMYw
Pong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut6Rh-rmGAo
Colossal Cave Adventure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhFrWH0na0A
Space Invaders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uSzmzZP1s8
MUD (Core MUD): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-yhk0chxyk
Donkey Kong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp2aMs38ERY
Super Mario Bros.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87ViRBWz4-E
Elite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJvdZWhNLiM
Dragon Quest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5dalWuTitE
Tetris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNbo1AGqKrI
SimCity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A54blk-ojA4
John Madden Football: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EbPghLpK6c
Civilization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE3t_WuoSwE
Ultima Underworld: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee4PUcpGSn8
Alone in the Dark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lWaQe8LPW0
Doom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFnOLFd_ByQ
Quake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbCHIYXBts0
Super Mario 64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SVLIRthpNc
Ocarina of Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF9CxAulk04
Grand Theft Auto 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zoLurwbCHM
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 book is available for preorder and should be released through CRC Press in December 2019: http://bit.ly/TCWBOOK1
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 Oct 01, 2019
The 100 Most Influential Games Part 2
Tuesday Oct 01, 2019
Tuesday Oct 01, 2019
TCW Podcast Episode 099 - The 100 Most Influential Games Part 2
And now, forty more games drawn from our list of the 100 most influential games of all time! Presented in no particular order, this list of hits and obscurities provides an overview of video game history through some of the most important milestone titles. This batch of forty games tend to be of more recent vintage, with RPGs, MMOs, Real-Time strategy, and shooters dominating the list.
Games
Rescue Raiders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8_XsRYTO-0
Herzog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU2FDnKzt5I
Dune 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOscXf0Fpmk
StarCraft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j3X3EuCf98
Seven Cities of Gold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57qE1arvo3U
Dynasty Warriors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2SARDWdZIM
Fire Emblem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp2NqY3M6fI
DikuMUD: https://dikumud.com/
Neverwinter Nights:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwFv_LerIAg
World of Warcraft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vlVQYjkCDM
Maple Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_0hm9Xj5dQ
Tower of Druaga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCCGIP4SifE
Wizardry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYLn_ij5G10
Ultima: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrQFzWO4pYo
Ultima IV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHfAE5tXHv4
Rogue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riN2FDtPCnw
Baldur's Gate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WYOH5PmoaE
Dungeon Master: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGLkPY22pkg
Parappa the Rapper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbYdRZ8FiuA
Dance Dance Revolution:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jywza4So-eU
Shariki: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8XKS7tLB8w
Pokemon Red & Blue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHHSQxn_IOY
Minecraft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oghqTROa7o
Half-Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoV9o6b91Sc
Battlefield 1942: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gc2AJQLvcQ
Halo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX9ZyK5L3-A
Medal of Honor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6ivwknQN54
ARMA 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97wFTd2lW34
PUBG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sctOYN2pMs4
Resident Evil 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFuHLUuuzLI
Kill Switch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1zW5X0CwTs
Gran Turismo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqlFs3s2JNM
Virtua Fighter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl895zXjfyQ
Ridge Racer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D5VHJAE5io
Tomb Raider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BltNSs9Vzdg
Resident Evil:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moW4wLlZnHk
Shenmue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8RpDgxAyKI
ICO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPP41ZKtA0c
Myst: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D30r0iRH73Q
System Shock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xap7JLlROSQ
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 book is available for preorder and should be released through CRC Press in December 2019: http://bit.ly/TCWBOOK1
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/