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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Thursday Jun 15, 2017

Founding, Syzygy to Atari

Thursday Jun 15, 2017

TCW Podcast Episode 044 - Founding, Syzygy to Atari

Part one of our four-part dive into Syzygy/Atari! We cover the personal histories of the founders, and how the company would not really be a company without the efforts of Nolan Bushnell. We go into the controversy of where he learned of Spacewar. Then off to the debut hit for Atari of PONG. We cover the rocky road Atari had after its initial launch, and how it nearly could have just been a flash in the pan like many companies that came after.

The Mandela Effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMXnCCFS2-Q

Full Nolan Interview in '73: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp0BBnBdsVo

Computer Space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhdu2Jh9cuc

Space Race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDtdKxZ9vWk

Pong Doubles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09qHnr1DMwA

Gotcha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoDZoZqsHF8

Gran Trak 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R014taK2pZM

New episodes on the 1st and 15th of every month!

TCW Email: tcwpodcast@gmail.com

Twitter: @tcwpodcast

Alex's Blog: http://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com

Intro Music: Josh Woodward - Airplane Mode - Music - "Airplane Mode" by Josh Woodward. Free download:http://joshwoodward.com/song/AirplaneMode