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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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Friday Apr 01, 2022
TCW Podcast Episode 159 - International Adventure
In this episode, we look at the computer game company 'Adventure International' which is one of the first companies to put out adventure games on early home computers. Founded by Scott Adams, no not THAT Scott Adams, and his ex-wife Alexis. The company had a short lifespan of less than a decade. We look at the life of Adams, and how his love of puzzles and games turned into a small business that unfortunately ended in the mid-1980s
Mike Mayfield Star Trek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLKw4AU4KHU
TCW 016 - Early Computer Game Platforms: The Trinity, and The Disciples: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/early-computer-game-platforms-the-trinity-and-the-disciples/
Sphere 1 Computer: https://history-computer.com/sphere-1-computer/
Colossal Cave Adventure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhFrWH0na0A
Adventureland (C64): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXalpUaECVw
3D-TicTac-Toe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1qPNY03ZuY
Byte Magazine Adventure Articles: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1980-12/page/n193/mode/2up?q=scott+
Pirate Adventure (C64): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Ajx_oX0fs
Mission Impossible (Apple II): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVQCFrg7SrE
The Count (Apple II): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfLakQQaC6U
The Incredible Hulk (Apple II): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbaJHyq4kuo
Spiderman (Apple II): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AYkI_8-R2c
The Human Torch and The Thing (Apple II): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9tRs84sXpI
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/
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