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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 Apr 15, 2023
Saturday Apr 15, 2023
TCW Podcast Episode 184 - A Very Naughty Dog Pt 1
Before "The Last of Us" what eventually became Naughty Dog was founded by two teens Andy Gavin, and Jason Rubin. They were drawn into the uncharted waters of computers by making their first published game Ski Crazed. From there they put on the rings of power to become the youngest game developers for EA releasing a game to outdo Ultima on the Sega Genesis. But EA pulled a thieving move and denied them a reprint of the ambitious game. The dream of them being game developers would have died there had it not been for a new warrior in the console market to challenge them to make a game for the 3DO. With that glorious victory, they went to Hollywood and found that they could get universal recognition by getting Sony to use a Bandicoot to crash onto the world stage.
Internet Archive Byte Magazine: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine?tab=collection
How to use a Drawing Tablet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb8FtNJOGS4
Ski Crazed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVuE_NegOdg
Ski Crazed Box Art and Manual: https://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/documentation/applications/misc/Ski%20Crazed%20manual.pdf
Dream Zone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCX5pMzyX8A
Keef the Thief: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pinzMVl4Tx0
Rings of Power Genesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fjTHAd2wYs
(Explicit) 1994 Wolf - Werewolf Transformation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzH9gsafQpo
Way of the Warrior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q_xRzWTI4E
7th Guest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45Z-Q5KVTyI&pp=ygUJN3RoIGd1ZXN0
Crash Bandicoot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK-h4M4Aetg
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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