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 Jun 01, 2016

The Great Video Game Crash Part 1

Wednesday Jun 01, 2016

TCW Podcast Episode 019 - The Great Video Game Crash Part 1

We go over the lead up to the crash, and the unique situation that caused it. We touch on who to blame for the crash. Is it all Atari's fault? What about retailers, and distributers? There is also the fly by night operations that could have been the straw that broke the camel's back. We cover this and more in part one!

New York Times article on the start of the crash Dec 19, 1982: http://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/19/business/the-game-turns-serious-at-atari.html?pagewanted=all

Star Voyager: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZwRD3zqR1E

Pac Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCPpgt0s70U

Lost Luggage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg-1GYOtvUw

ET: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bn192kSsMw

Skeet Shoot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UWJFOUBxTo

Space Invaders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=437Ld_rKM2s

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

TCW Email: tcwpodcast@gmail.com

Twitter: @tcwpodcast

Alex's Blog: http://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com

Intro Music: Josh Woodward - Airplane Mode - Music - "Airplane Mode" by Josh Woodward. Free download:http://joshwoodward.com/song/AirplaneMode