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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 15, 2021
Uncle Clive's Radionics
Friday Jan 15, 2021
Friday Jan 15, 2021
TCW Podcast Episode 130 - Uncle Clive's Radionics
We look at Sir Clive Sinclair in his early years dealing with creation of electronics for hobbyists. Sir Clive held a passion for miniaturization and doing so at a low cost. This started with audio equipment, amplifiers, high fidelity stereo, and FM radios. This continued into calculators, and digital watches. Sir Clive wanted to look into miniature TVs, and procured funding through the NEB. In an act of prescience he founded a second company that eventually became Sinclair Research to serve as a life boat if things went bad with the NEB. Sinclair Research, then known as the Science of Cambridge, produced the first domestic computer in the United Kingdom the MK 14! Sir Clive eventually left Sinclair Radionics after the disasterous launch of the Black Watch. A watch that when shocked had the potential to overload, and explode.
What is High Fidelity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0LWnpzdrW4
Sinclair Black Watch Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXSNDPeSC1c
Cambridge MK14 Computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_vhWxu-spA
Sinclair Mini TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqqFY8MUWLo
Goldeneye on a Sinclair TV80: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auWKrlmZ3t0
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/
Friday Jan 01, 2021
The Crash That Almost Was
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/