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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 Nov 01, 2022
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
TCW Podcast Episode 173 - The Computer Price Wars Part 2
In part two of our look at the computer price wars, we dive deep into the major players. Commodore with the VIC-20 and Texas Instruments with the TI99/4A were the major players. Other players included Apple, the TRS-80 Color, and even the US version of the ZX Spectrum. As fears mounted that Japanese PC makers would eventually price out the US computer makers, efforts were made to drive the prices of home computers lower and lower. The opening shots of the price war included using celebrity endorsements for the major players. Discover the history of how Commodore and Texas Instruments took down a whole industry!
SRAM and DRAM More in Depth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rNEtAz3wJQ
What is DRAM?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waU7U_7-mpk
TCW 131 - Clive of ZX: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/sir-clive-of-zx/
8-Bit Guy - The VIC 20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg04GyhS3ss
TRS-80 Color: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUa1s9uFKHs
Commodore VIC-20 William Shatner Commercials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JAU9Ntpoms
TI 99/4a: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0puBoKpvEjY
Bill Cosby Texas Instruments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV0t4QIINLI
New episodes are on the 1st and 15th of every month!
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Twitter: @tcwpodcast
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Alex's Video Game History Blog: http://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com
Alex's book, published Dec 2019, is available at CRC Press and major online 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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