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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Tuesday Mar 01, 2016

History of Acclaim - "The Fall"

Tuesday Mar 01, 2016

TCW Podcast Episode 013 - History of Acclaim - "The Fall"

We would like to dedicate this episode to Fergus McGovern, co-founder of Probe Software, who died February 27, 2016 at the age of 50.

We go over the changes that led to the fall of Acclaim. How some other publishers were able to survive, and why. We also discuss how it is a unique situation that led to the growth of Acclaim in the late 80s early 90s . We can also see parallels between Acclaim and more recently THQ.

Castlevania 3 US vs Japan Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v9339JUK3U

Turok: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74hOR5f4MS0

Mario 64 :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6r5oF73gNI

Crash Bandicoot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaLgYPn_Fqs

Tomb Raider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ6mWoErc0E

Silent Hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8-3zq8GUcc

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