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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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Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
TCW Podcast Episode 141 - The Console Market of the 70's and 80's Part 2
In our second part we look at the emergence of the programable consoles. We see how many companies kept falling into the same trap of FCC regulations, heat issues, and chip shortages. By the time most of these issues were sorted out, with the notable exception of the Apple II being classified as an "industrial computer", the industry was in the midst of a console transition led by the ColecoVision. However the video game crash caused it all to be reset, and many promising paths of development were never really explored. Stay tuned to the end for info on Alex's guest appearances, the topic of our live stream recording this year, and getting stickers!
TCW 076 - A Fairchild Story: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/a-fairchild-story/
Media Regulation Crash Course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6LKl4RKIew
History of Radio and the FCC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob_db-kxEQw
Vintage 1963 FCC Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzPIOfpKkRM
How Radio Works 1937: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEDzmbsvBPw
The Vacuum Tube Radio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UKCUMghTrc&t=32s
Applying the inverse square law to EM waves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1yy-zhVM0Y
How to understand the inverse square law in lighting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO-J42VM448
Cats and Dogs living together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA1SxZoFmOU
Sport Utility Robot: https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Sport-Utility_Robot
Atari Archive - RCA, FRED, and the Studio II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o35y6W9hI-o
Bally Home Computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QCkUk8ZA6w
TCW 90 - Lion and Bally Manufacturing: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/lion-and-bally-manufacturing/
TCW 091 - Bally: The Road to Fitness: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/bally-the-road-to-fitness/
George Plimpton Commercials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPUMfUvRAOE
Atari VCS Space Invaders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opru6qPsPa4
The Visions of Coleco Part 1: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/the-visions-of-coleco-part-1/
The Visions of Coleco Part 2: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/the-visions-of-coleco-part-2/
Video Game History Hour: https://gamehistory.org/ep-31-spacewar-dual-to-the-death/
Super Mega Crash Bros. Turbo: https://pencilandpaperproductions.podbean.com/e/super-mega-crash-bros-turbo-171-creating-worlds-with-alex-smith/
New episodes 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 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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