376.9K
Downloads
223
Episodes
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!
Episodes
Monday May 01, 2017
Beating Them All Up
Monday May 01, 2017
Monday May 01, 2017
TCW Podcast Episode 41 - Beating Them All Up
We delve into beat 'em ups, and fighters. We cover why they did not take hold until computer technology progressed far enough to allow for human analogs to be animated well. We go into the beat 'em up craze, and then the transition to fighting games that occurred with the release of Street Fighter II. We touch on the fall of fighting games from the mainstream with Tekken and Soul Calibur. The scene is still out there, and has a dedicated following. However fighters are not the system sellers they once were.
Warrior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX4NspoYD8o
Jungle Hunt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPATWODXlh4
Apple II Karateka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKqk9kosCs4
Spartan X: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jncBelS_Nhk
Karate Champ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwV3xqS9_aQ
Renegade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1fl38u9I9k
Double Dragon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfZz-1e-dUQ
Yie Ar Kung Fu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXOL8tZQX20
Street Fighter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8al2U4xSFNQ
Final Fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyAHGHo22Og
Fatal Fury: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG17S8yRz6A
Street Fighter II World Warrior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI284D4y1q4
An Oral History of Street Fighter II: http://www.polygon.com/a/street-fighter-2-oral-history
NARC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3jonU-XrK4
Mortal Kombat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F82XAvCuVc
Virtual Fighter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-9TUlCcib0
Tekken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GmSF_PqL84
Soul Edge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgb64WBw_Ww
Soul Calibur Arcade VS Dreamcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Rdg6A-KJs
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/
Comments (0)
To leave or reply to comments, please download free Podbean or
No Comments
To leave or reply to comments,
please download free Podbean App.