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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 Jan 01, 2023
The Intellivision Part 1
Sunday Jan 01, 2023
Sunday Jan 01, 2023
TCW Podcast Episode 177 - The Intellivision Part 1
In part one of our look at the Intellivision we look at the rocky road that made the system almost not come to market. The system had issues with both settling on chipsets to use as well as production problems. Not only was the system delayed multiple times, but the price kept going up. The Intellivision was marketed as an a gateway into computing in the home. It had a keyboard that was delayed for price reasons that was supposed to ship with the console itself. Software for the console was initially four titles. Though other games came out after launch more towards the late 1980's. The console was met with a luke-warm reception, and it looked like it would be doomed to failure. In part 2 we will see how the Intellivision eventually became a beloved classic console only to be taken out by the great video game crash.
Star Fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwELyhziVmc
Math Fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6abEkPjF5S0
Backgammon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yep6Hw_ASk
Black Jack and Poker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hohwmmlwtLQ
Armor Battle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co3Wuc4JGDA
Football: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkFnN49ayo8
Basketball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9VpZ-1fmMo
Baseball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU9EQqQIDD0
Hockey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aErbUNzmsU
Soccer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7TCqhw9_yc
Tennis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o9ZIRhAjLA
Skiing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G746FCsE_ko
Roulette: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-wg3gutags
Horse Racing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXKFQEq675o
Word Fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q4kJdGK-v8
Sea Battle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpurLrUYuqo
Space Battle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ8T5bojWgE
TCW 025 - Mattel Electronics?: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/mattel-electronics/
New episodes are on the 1st and 15th of every month!
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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 on-line 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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