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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Wednesday Feb 15, 2017

Raiding Eidos

Wednesday Feb 15, 2017

TCW Podcast Episode 036 - Raiding Eidos

We go over the rise and fall of Eidos. A company that rose high on the huge success of Tomb Raider, and due to a number of factors ended up being in such dire straits they were ultimately purchased by SquareEnix.

C64 Rick Dangerous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwBIDlcMU5Y

Sega CD/Mega CD Thunderhawk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPS6ObO7ZdM

Tomb Raider Sega Saturn VS PlayStation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6ZzjgJuo54

Lucozade Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR2CueIrqoc

Seat Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfslfqn7AwI

Lara Croft U2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvInYhF9CfE

Tomb Raider 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xBFjw7Si_s

Tomb Raider 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR727qXuk8g

Tomb Raider 4 Ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA5D8pMVvxk

Tomb Raider Chronicles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FdBd-FZlu0

Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxtaPEQdIYE

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