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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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Sunday Oct 15, 2023
Sunday Oct 15, 2023
TCW Podcast Episode 196 - The Sumerian Game
The Sumerian Game is one of the first uses of video games to help enhance education. Developed using some funds from the National Defense Education Act, the Sumerian game used education techniques where facts and data could be presented not by a teacher, but by a computer. The game itself is notable because it was designed by Mabel Addis, one of the first women to design a video game. Though the game has been lost to time its influence is felt to this day. The first part was the inspiration for Hamurabi, influencing Civilization, and other game designers that followed. We beg to report on this fascinating bit of video game history!
I'm Learnding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKg2ZzPKl2M
NDEA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ChXTy_C3xs
Formal Logic Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_MUDF1d1sU
Formal Logic: https://www.youtube.com/@FormalLogic
Oh No my Brain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoQxH-il7E
Mabel Addis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel_Addis
Hamurabi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R606drkQ_i8
101 BASIC Computer Games: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/_Books/101_BASIC_Computer_Games_Mar75.pdf
KAISER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sviiX23UMss
New episodes are on the 1st and 15th of every month!
TCW Email: feedback@theycreateworlds.com
Twitter: @tcwpodcast
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theycreateworlds
Alex's Video Game History Blog: http://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com
Alex's book, published Dec 2019, is available at CRC Press and at 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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