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The games we love reveal something true about who we are, and about the world that made them. They Create Worlds is a podcast about the people, technology, and forces that built the video game industry.
Through video game history, the show looks at how culture, business, and technology shaped what we play, tracing the choices and circumstances that led to the games so many people around the world enjoy.
Each episode digs into where games came from, who made them, and why they were made the way they were. Business decisions, technological shifts, and creative choices all shaped what ended up on screen, and the show covers all of it together, not just one piece in isolation.
Hosted by Alex Smith and Jeffrey Daum, They Create Worlds grew out of long conversations about the strange corners of the industry and the patterns that only show up when you look across companies, platforms, and decades. That conversational feel remains, built on careful research, clear structure and editing that makes even the deepest topics easy to listen to.
History turns out to be less settled than it looks. New documents surface, memories conflict, and the clean stories about why things happened the way they did rarely survive contact with the evidence. The show digs into all of that, following the creative and business forces that pushed and pulled on each other, and uncovering the human stories that lie beneath the games so many people around the world enjoy.
New episodes are released twice a month.
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Monday Oct 01, 2018
Monday Oct 01, 2018
TCW Podcast Episode 075 - Gunning for Light
We look at how shooting peripherals entered the gaming scene. We start with their introduction in arcades, and move all the way up to today. We see the technology change, and how different applications were applied to get interesting effects. With the height of light guns in the 80's and 90's, and their decline in the 2000's, light guns are only seen in the few remaining arcade and fun centers still in operation. In the home they really say their popularity in the 8-bit and to a lesser extent the 16-bit era.
ABT Target Skill Model F: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm1qSL4g4eg
Shoot the Bear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41HA_L5sGGo
Coon Hunt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmTDlmULZt0
Keeney Anti-Aircraft Machine Gun Restore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odqi1iXnh84
Keeney Air Raider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=senG1HmruAo
Whoopi Goldberg on racial/ethnic stereotypes in old cartoons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCT1clqci3I
Dale model Gun Cabinet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C1DN24sfCY
Magnavox Odyssey Light Gun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At6H6SIfWTc
Sega Balloon gun Cabinet Picture: http://www.pinrepair.com/arcade/ballgun.htm
Qwak Pictures: https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9216
Very brief shot of Qwak in Dawn of the Dead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UVzepqkmts
How Light Pens and NES Zapper Worked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu-Hoj4EIjU
Crossbow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtsuSH9jylw
EXPLICIT WARNING! Chiller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_19-YbEuSpU
Operation Wolf Arcade cabinet tour and gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQqaw_Vf9wk
Operation Wolf Generic Gun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5YZWjSBJts
Lethal Enforcers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BAkgAMVcUo
Virtua Cop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcTiaBrJWTs
Terminator 2 Judgement Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qja3t17C4vw
Silent Scope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3TGQSV54ww&t=58s
Area 51: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biJ9kUid84A
House of the Dead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIVa53_NLLI
Time Crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT0GjW3oiQM
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 forthcoming book will be released through CRC Press!
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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