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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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Friday Dec 15, 2017
Friday Dec 15, 2017
TCW Podcast Episode 056 - Revisions and Updates
We go over our past episodes and provide updates, if we have any, on each one. There are a lot of little tidbits, and expansion on a variety of topics. Some of the big ones are Namco, the Nutting Associates, and James Morgan. Happy Holidays everyone!
Episode 1 "All I can do is ask why?": 0:02:54
Episode 2 "You talked to whom?": 0:07:07
Episode 3 "What makes and Industry?": 0:12:49
Episode 4 "A Tale of Cycles": 0:13:54
Episode 5 "The Untold History of Sega": 0:20:03
Episode 6 "The Early History of Electronic Arts": 0:22:55
Episode 7 "History of the Arcade": 0:31:22
Episode 8 "Birth of the Japanese Game Center": 0:31:45
Episode 9 & 10 " History of Mediagenic Parts I &II": 0:32:11
Episode 11 "The Genesis of JRPGs": 0:39:25
Episode 12 & 13 "History of Acclaim": 0:40:45
Episode 14 "Nintendo Playing with Power!": 0:42:40
Episode 15 "The Story of Chuck E Cheese": 0:43:24
Episode 16 "Early Computer Game Platforms: The Trinity, and The Disciples": 0:45:03
Episode 17 & 18 "The British 8-Bit Computer Market Hardware & Software": 0:45:20
Episode 19, 20, & 21 "The Great Video Game Crash": 0:46:00
Episode 22 "The Galaxy Game": 0:51:40
Episode 23 "The Complete Tetris Story": 0:52:12
Episode 24 "The Project and Others in the Field": 0:52:45
The Digital Antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/
Sega-16: http://www.sega-16.com/
Episode 25 "Mattel Electronics?": 0:56:01
Episode 26 & 27 "The Magnavox Odyssey & Patent Lawsuits": 0:58:05
Episode 28 "Picking up the Pieces: The US Arcade Industry After the Crash": 0:58:25
Episode 29 "50 Years of Namco": 0:58:40
Episode 30 "Doom!": 1:09:17
Episode 31 "An Epic Game": 1:09:47
Episode 32 "History of the Atari Brand": 1:09:59
Episode 33 "The Saga of Sega": 1:12:02
Episode 34 The Nutting Associates": 1:12:11
Episode 35 "EA - The Teenage Years": 1:27:38
Episode 36 "Raiding Eidos": 1:30:25
Episode 37 "Nintendo and Gunpei Yokoi": 1:30:33
Episode 38: "Origin Story": 1:30:40
Atari James Morgan Update: 1:31:15
New episodes on the 1st and 15th of every month!
TCW Email: feedback@theycreateworlds.com
Twitter: @tcwpodcast
Alex's Video Game History Blog: http://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com
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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