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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 Jan 01, 2021
Friday Jan 01, 2021
TCW Podcast Episode 129 - The Crash That Almost Was
We look at the crash that almost was. Most people do not realize that in the mid nineties we came very close to another video game market crash. A difficult transition was at hand as companies tried to figure out how and if they embrace the third dimension in video games. Coupled with a declining arcade market. New hardware costing twice as much, if not more than current systems many companies were on the edge. The market forces between Japan and the US with currency exchanges ate into profit margins. It lead to the deaths or decline of a few prominent companies. Most notably SEGA, and Acclaim. However because not just one major company was baring this the industry survived and continues to move forward to the present day!
Castlevania: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOTUVXrAOE8
Super Castlevania IV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd7P7niYimk
Super C: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-z8xXA_v8k
Contra III The Alien Wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxJ5XbYWMpA
Super Mario Brothers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6JjK04Pas0
Super Mario Brothers 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2LTcQwmOV4
Street Fighter II Turbo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otPC3_bL-4Y
Super Street Fighter II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezoa6sVVP7U
Final Fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKDNUKa68NI
Final Fight 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHk5JJ56v2Q
Castlevania X: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGQcMr2JGE0
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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