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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 Nov 01, 2020
Sunday Nov 01, 2020
TCW Podcast Episode 125 - The Visions of Coleco Part 2
In our second part look at Coleco we dive into the electronics and transition into programable consoles. We see how they influenced the post crash consoles of Nintendo and Sega. With the release of Colecovision we saw one of the most advanced consoles of the pre crash era. The system was able to do faithful recreations of many popular arcade games. This is most exemplified with the release Donkey Kong. Coleco tried to transition into computers with the release of ADAM. However this turned into a disaster for the company and marked the turning point into a rapid decline. They were able to stay afloat for a little while with the release of Cabbage Patch Kids, however Coleco was unable to recover from the downward spiral.
TCW 025 - Mattel Electronics?: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/mattel-electronics/
Coleco Quarterback Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93u6POODKQY
Coleco Head to Head Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmLX1ylQhMs
Mini Tabletop Arcade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuo0njOI-qE
Colecovision Retrospective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhOyuI4MwS8
Colecovision Turbo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbxX3DK3pSU
Colecovision Zaxxon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGIAKKsNylU
Colecovision Donkey Kong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI9WwdVb-_A
ADAM Computer Comercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-dmEFOT3FY
Coleco Adam Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAYCqMchb88
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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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