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 Nov 01, 2021

Gottlieb Part 1

Monday Nov 01, 2021

TCW Podcast Episode 149 - Gottlieb Part 1

We look at the company Gottlieb which was a major coin-op company founding during the roaring twenties, and rising to prominence in the great depression, and post war era. The company is most well known for pinball, and the many contributions to making it more than a gabling device. We follow the rise of the company up until the 1950s. Though not quite at the video game era yet, the background of the company does help dictate and shape how Gottlieb made its mark in video game history.

Punch Board Price is Right: https://youtu.be/pyiMiLGfAQ0?t=210

Gottlieb Grip Tester: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZjhdXMx8U

Majestic Moving Target: http://www.pinrepair.com/arcade/majest.htm

Bingo Pamphlets: https://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=294

Google Gottlieb Bingo Images: https://images.app.goo.gl/Ki2DG8oKJCqPHYU1A

Baffle Ball Pinball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1jETFi-f_c

Five Star Final: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMHzjaoXe7A

Humpty Dumpty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNs78X_7tlU

Just 21: https://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1344
Knockout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI42ODA6eHE

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