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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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Thursday Apr 15, 2021
Thursday Apr 15, 2021
TCW Podcast Episode 136 - Ocean Software
We look at the company Ocean Software. The company was founded by David Ward and Jon Woods as Spectrum Games, and was later renamed to Ocean Software. The company specialized in a mail order business harnessing the best of the bedroom coder scene in Brittan to produce ports of popular arcade titles. In fact the initial offering of the company were clones of Donkey Kong, Pac Man, Frogger, and Missile Command. The company continued to grow as Ocean Software expanding into licensed games including popular properties such as Platoon, Robocop, and Jurassic Park. However the company was unable to compete with larger companies on the global stage. This lead to their purchase by Infrogrames during that company's rapid expansion. However after a few years of semi-autonomy Ocean Software ceased to be in the late 90's.
TCW 017 - The British 8-Bit Computer Market: Hardware: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/the-british-8-bit-computer-market-hardware/
TCW 018 - The British 8-Bit Computer Market: Software: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/the-british-8-bit-computer-market-software/
TCW 064 - The Rise and Fall of Infogrames Part 1: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/rise-and-fall-of-infogrames-part-1/
TCW 065 - The Rise and Fall of Infogrames Part 2: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/the-rise-and-fall-of-infogrames-part-2/
ZX Spectrum Road Frog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhJhyfaxlZk
ZX Spectrum Monster Muncher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dflb09D-Y80
TCW 103 - Elite Systems: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/elite-systems/
Arcade Hunchback: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o5nh-URiJA
ZXS pectrum Hunchback: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANDJ_wOArCU
Krusty Burger Olympic Sweepstakes Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5siZ3Z2j77Q
Krust Burger Olympic Sweepstakes Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZJ-_mS-_XQ
Arcade Konomi Track and Field: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozcE8qzTdHo
Daley Thompson's Decathlon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKbLbkvwACA
Commercial Breaks (Imagine and Ocean Software): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt9BsZCifgU
ZX Spectrum - Renegade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka-j7q2aTIk
ZX Spectrum Target Renegade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79oCOlTITg0
ZX Spectrum Platoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsZzTsvQU28
C64 Platoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBz8GsKIu-E
Amiga Platoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvkd2NGEWbk
ZX Spectrum Robocop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD8SyQ_rQKQ
Amiga - Batman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM2SCzt73s0
TCW 073 - Adventuring in the Arcade: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/adventuring-in-the-arcade/
SNES Adam's Family: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SxxqeSYhjU
Amiga Jurassic Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Axn02dmaMo
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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