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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Saturday Jan 01, 2022

Nintendo Playing With Cards

Saturday Jan 01, 2022

TCW Podcast Episode 153 - Nintendo Playing With Cards

We start off our look at the complete history of Nintendo. The company started as a side project of a cement company trying to get cement into Kyoto. From the humble start of being in a small house with six employees, Nintendo started to grow into an unrivaled producer of cards not just in Japan, but in the Japanese empire. We end with Hiroshi Yamauchi being the first male ere to the Yamauchi line.

Hanafuda Cards and KoiKoi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WxYDIsXHOQ

Hyakunin Isshu: https://www.jlit.net/premodern/hyakunin-isshu/index.html

Hyakunin Isshu Karuta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx2UqSxAPfk

Nintemdo Playing Card Pictures: http://www.kyotoursjapan.com/blog/2018/5/2/nintendo-kyoto-origins

Napoleon Back Cards: https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Hanafuda

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