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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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Friday Oct 15, 2021
Friday Oct 15, 2021
TCW Podcast Episode 148 - The Mysteries of Imagic
We look at the company Imagic. This company only lasted a few short years during the lead up to, and through the crash. The company is notable for innovative packaging, and creating games that pushed the graphical fidelity of the Atari VCS to new levels! They were also one of the first companies to use graphics on a computer to then be translated to code on a console. A feat famously used by Rare in the creation of Donkey Kong Country. Unfortunately through a lot of bad luck Imagic was unable to go public due to the Time Warner earnings report two days prior. This lead to the company's downfall.
Sprint 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuPEoLkVwtI
Touch Me Arcade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGY-wXvjWa0
Atlantis High-Res Scan: https://archive.org/details/AtlantisAtari2600HiResScans
Cosmic Ark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKYRsvy4pHg
Demon Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deEgbiAHaGs
Atlantis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1bZGlW6708
Atlantis Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVcxOA9iMOw
Cosmic Ark Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-gXCpJfx5M
Demon Attack Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TlLS54t6JY
Star Voyager Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YQiCdHfc2I
New episodes on the 1st and 15th of every month!
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Alex's Video Game History Blog: http://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com
Alex's book is available for preorder and should be released through CRC Press in December 2019: 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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