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 Feb 01, 2020

Storytime with a Book

Saturday Feb 01, 2020

TCW Podcast Episode 107 - Storytime with a Book

We read from chapter 18 of "They Create Worlds: The People and Companies that Shaped the Video Game Industry Vol. 1," which discusses the impact of Breakout on Japan. There are some tangents, other story times, and we bring a lot of things discussed over the years into a more complete perspective. We also learn about the mysteries of magnets.

Steve Wozniak's Blue Box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHZnvN_JCas

Breakout & Super Breakout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5xo-IzERu0

TCW 029 - 50 Years of Namco: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/50-years-of-namco/

TCW 005 - The Untold History of Sega: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/the-untold-history-of-sega/

TCW 033 - The Saga of Sega: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/the-saga-of-sega/

Sega The Fonz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osmPZZkCVKM

Degaussing a CRT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEEaZ1GGl9I

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