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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 Jan 15, 2019
An Unlikely Pairing of Siliwood
Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
TCW Podcast Episode 082 - An Unlikely Pairing of Siliwood
We take a look at the circumstances and leadup to what become known as the Siliwood Era. We discuss how changing technology and an increased focus by certain video game companies on emulating blockbuster movies attracted the attention of the major media companies and set the stage for an unlikely alliance of Hollywood and Silicon Valley. This pairing led to the interactive movie fad and also led to changes in retail that would alter the course of the video game industry forever.
TCW 042 Laser Craze: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/laser-craze/
Night Trap 25th Anniversary PC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBaW40NUCTU
Sewer Shark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTdLjUn6y-0
Atmosfear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRMphkKF3M0
Defender of the Crown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvW6okgy4wA
Errol Flynn Robin Hood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpqR6Ca-LL8
Defender of the Crown Opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwTJn-rVYuE
It came from the Desert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8LaMMSEs5Q
THEM Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4URRp39XOo
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/
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