The Life & Times of Video Games

A podcast by Richard Moss

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64 Episodes

  1. 17 - Super Mario Kart

    Published: 7/1/2019
  2. 16 - Sega Rally Championship

    Published: 6/7/2019
  3. Soundbite: Henk Rogers on randomness and dilemmas in Tetris

    Published: 6/5/2019
  4. 15 - The Boss Button

    Published: 5/16/2019
  5. 14 - Lode Runner

    Published: 4/30/2019
  6. Soundbite: Scott Kim shares a few secrets of puzzle design

    Published: 2/11/2019
  7. Bonus: Game devs on the impact of the original Mac

    Published: 2/1/2019
  8. Episode 13 - Girl Games, Inc.

    Published: 11/23/2018
  9. Episode 12 - Microsoft Games

    Published: 10/31/2018
  10. Soundbite: Spotting "the magic" (Jon Kimmich, ex-Microsoft Games)

    Published: 8/31/2018
  11. Episode 11 - Bomberman

    Published: 7/19/2018
  12. Episode 10 - Dogz

    Published: 6/13/2018
  13. Episode 9 - Midwinter

    Published: 3/27/2018
  14. Episode 8 - The Tomb Raider grid (part 2)

    Published: 2/18/2018
  15. Episode 7 - The Tomb Raider Grid (part 1)

    Published: 12/22/2017
  16. Episode 6 - ROM Hack

    Published: 11/11/2017
  17. [Soundbite] Mark Ferrari on gatekeepers and a cancelled X-Men game

    Published: 11/3/2017
  18. Episode 5 - FIFA 3DO

    Published: 10/23/2017
  19. Episode 4 - Bug Salad

    Published: 10/14/2017
  20. Episode 3 - Colour Cycling

    Published: 9/30/2017

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An award-nominated documentary and narrative audio series about video games and the video game industry — as they were in the past, and how they came to be the way they are today. History doesn't just vanish into the distance behind us; it casts a very long shadow that affects everything that comes after it, and so with The Life and Times of Video Games journalist and historian Richard Moss draws those through lines to tell fascinating stories about the past that link right back to the present.