They Create Worlds

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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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Monday Oct 01, 2018

Gunning For Light

Monday Oct 01, 2018

TCW Podcast Episode 075 - Gunning for Light

We look at how shooting peripherals entered the gaming scene. We start with their introduction in arcades, and move all the way up to today. We see the technology change, and how different applications were applied to get interesting effects. With the height of light guns in the 80's and 90's, and their decline in the 2000's, light guns are only seen in the few remaining arcade and fun centers still in operation. In the home they really say their popularity in the 8-bit and to a lesser extent the 16-bit era.

ABT Target Skill Model F: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm1qSL4g4eg

Shoot the Bear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41HA_L5sGGo

Coon Hunt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmTDlmULZt0

Keeney Anti-Aircraft Machine Gun Restore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odqi1iXnh84

Keeney Air Raider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=senG1HmruAo

Whoopi Goldberg on racial/ethnic stereotypes in old cartoons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCT1clqci3I

Dale model Gun Cabinet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C1DN24sfCY

Magnavox Odyssey Light Gun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At6H6SIfWTc

Sega Balloon gun Cabinet Picture: http://www.pinrepair.com/arcade/ballgun.htm

Qwak Pictures: https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9216

Very brief shot of Qwak in Dawn of the Dead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UVzepqkmts

How Light Pens and NES Zapper Worked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu-Hoj4EIjU