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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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Saturday May 15, 2021
Dave Nutting Associates
Saturday May 15, 2021
Saturday May 15, 2021
TCW Podcast Episode 138 - Dave Nutting Associates
This is our second half looking at Dave Nutting and specifically Dave Nutting Associates. We see how they are able change the industry by showing the viability of solid state Pinball. Despite the setback of not being able to license the technology to Bally/Midway they pressed on with developing video games. Specifically Gun Fight which had realistic, for the time, human analogs that could fire guns at each other. As they continued to show how well they were to Bally/Midway they ended up being bought out. Unfortunately by the time of the crash Dave Nutting Associates ended up being a small player in a crowded industry and was shut down in 1984.
TCW 59 - Williams' Crazy Story Part 1: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/williams-crazy-story-pt-1/
TCW 60 - Williams' Crazy Story Part 2 : http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/williams-crazy-story-pt-2/
Bally Pinball Flicker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-xCz-CCegg
How a Pinball Machine Works In Slow Motion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmg5WOvPKpU
How an older Pinball Machine Works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Q63AVnjEM
TCW 051 - Sons of Pong: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/sons-of-pong/
Mirco Spirit of 76: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy-Y1gPlLJM
Mirco Spirit of 76 Images: https://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2294
Gun Fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYa0G6KGayk
The Amazing Maze: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjBtgqnuuw8
Tornado Baseball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BXYMr26Me0
Tornado Baseball Cabinet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26LLVZre_9k
280 ZZZAP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmyVEJzgvZ0
Sea Wolf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJBu5fGKKpE
Undersea Raiders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcq4_eaxiUw
Boot Hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVsaiSeo0Ls
Sea Wolf II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH0CrQOyrSA
Gorf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uML-l2xuqew
Gorf Cabinet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agxHqo6Qqyg
Star Trek The Motion Picture Cloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFnoM37IQec
Wizard of Wor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D780JHlQxxs
Adventures of Robby Roto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE4_GbsmkmY
Baby Pac Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP1mOfBl1UU
Professor Pac Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ctq-4U4YUA
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/
Sunday Jan 15, 2017
The Nutting Associates
Sunday Jan 15, 2017
Sunday Jan 15, 2017
TCW Podcast Episode 034 -The Nutting Associates
We go into the murky history of Nutting Associates. This company's founding, and a large part of its history is still unclear due to the lack of proper documentation along with contradictory evidence and testimony. We look at how Nutting is more than just Computer Space, and by association Nolan Bushnell. Though Nutting Associates did not survive past the 70's it still had some influence in the arcade industry and paved the way for advancements that came later on.
IQ Computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh2j3W6me-U
Computer Space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqMicrUywSY
Computer Space Ball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U33oajPSzyc
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
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/