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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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Sunday Jan 15, 2023
Sunday Jan 15, 2023
TCW Podcast Episode 178 - The Intellivision Part 2
In part two we look at how Mattel starts aggressively marketing the Intellivision by directly attacking Atari in its advertisements. New leadership by Josh Denham helped to foster this and to rework the production of the Intellivision to make it for cheaper. This lower cost model was released as the Intellivision II. Still some in the company were still wanting to do a computer, but it proved to be too complicated and expensive to bring to market. They settled on releasing a lesser computer attachment that allowed for some peripherals. Ultimately through a combination of their own problems, and the looming home console crash Mattel nearly went out of business, and spun off Intellivision where it continued to limp along in the shadows all the way to the early 90's.
1983 Pepsi Challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghMYzo0rgrw
1981 Pepsi Challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FhxujFUJlQ
Grey Poupon Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvDazrJuSdA
Most Interesting Man in the World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guMrgRKKENI
Intellivision VS Atari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCgG7Y-XqEw
George Plimpton For Intellivision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYLly625cXE
PBA Bowling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-X8MFOGuRo
TCW 027 - The Magnavox Patent Lawsuit: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/the-magnavox-patent-lawsuits-friday-september-16-2016-1003-am/
Triple Action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li_LM6t6smo
Blockcade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v-0CwiabZA
Snafu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCmEcc4c1tk
Space Armada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEL0Ufhnb4w
Astrosmash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osSe8nzu1m0
Atari VS Other Companies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqTxWZerumo
Space Games Commercial Intellivision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O17bGSd9SU
Intellivision Master Component and Keyboard Component: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdveJuwHuGM
ECS and Music Keyboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5NMV-nEh6Q
New episodes are 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, published Dec 2019, is available at CRC Press and at major on-line retailers: 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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