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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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Saturday Feb 15, 2020
Adventuring with LucasArts Part 1
Saturday Feb 15, 2020
Saturday Feb 15, 2020
TCW Podcast Episode 108- Adventuring with LucasArts Part 1
We look at LucasFilm games, AKA LucasArts. Not the company as a whole, but their influence on adventure games. Not only were they instrumental in advancing adventure games, they were able to affect the industry as a whole. We look briefly at the formation of the company, and get into some of their early projects. A young contractor, Ron Gilbert, joined the team by helping to convert some early games to the Commodore 64. Gilbert was later the driving force in creating an adventure game that was not full of deaths, saves, and no-win states.
Commodore 64 Ballblazer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPk6sAHFGXg
Atari XL/XE Rescue on Fractalus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kNxy6UIX_k
Labyrinth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Aje3ceClA
Grumpy Gamer: https://grumpygamer.com/teenage_lobot
Ways to die in King's Quest I Remake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Oo9IJGXGA
King's Quest III Redux: http://www.agdinteractive.com/games/kq3/download/download.html
Maniac Mansion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7oUArcVis0
Ron Gilbert - Maniac Mansion Postmortem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNpjGvJwyL8
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPEocH6Am6w
Indiana Joes and the Last Crusade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ivNLD75rAU
Classic Games Postmortem: LucasFilm Games' Loom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1aVDael-KM
Loom Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps1N2GS378g
Why Adventure Games Suck: https://grumpygamer.com/why_adventure_games_suck
The Secret of Monkey Island: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpIUxjGfkXg
A special congratulations to our giveaway winners!
Bob Perrin
Maks Beugelsdijk
@DRPGBook
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 order through CRC Press and other retailers: 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/
Saturday Feb 01, 2020
Storytime with a Book
Saturday Feb 01, 2020
Saturday Feb 01, 2020
TCW Podcast Episode 107 - Storytime with a Book
We read from chapter 18 of "They Create Worlds: The People and Companies that Shaped the Video Game Industry Vol. 1," which discusses the impact of Breakout on Japan. There are some tangents, other story times, and we bring a lot of things discussed over the years into a more complete perspective. We also learn about the mysteries of magnets.
Steve Wozniak's Blue Box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHZnvN_JCas
Breakout & Super Breakout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5xo-IzERu0
TCW 029 - 50 Years of Namco: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/50-years-of-namco/
TCW 005 - The Untold History of Sega: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/the-untold-history-of-sega/
TCW 033 - The Saga of Sega: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/the-saga-of-sega/
Sega The Fonz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osmPZZkCVKM
Degaussing a CRT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEEaZ1GGl9I
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 order through CRC Press and other retailers: 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/