They Create Worlds

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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

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!

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