They Create Worlds

A podcast by Alex Smith, and Jeffrey Daum

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222 Episodes

  1. Laser Craze

    Published: 5/15/2017
  2. Beating Them All Up

    Published: 5/1/2017
  3. Sierra On-Line

    Published: 4/15/2017
  4. On-Line Systems

    Published: 4/1/2017
  5. Origin Story

    Published: 3/15/2017
  6. Nintendo and Gunpei Yokoi

    Published: 3/1/2017
  7. Raiding Eidos

    Published: 2/15/2017
  8. EA The Teenage Years

    Published: 2/1/2017
  9. The Nutting Associates

    Published: 1/15/2017
  10. The Saga of Sega

    Published: 1/1/2017
  11. The History of the Atari Brand

    Published: 12/15/2016
  12. An Epic Game

    Published: 12/1/2016
  13. DOOM!

    Published: 11/15/2016
  14. 50 Years of Namco

    Published: 11/1/2016
  15. Picking up the Pieces: The US Arcade Industry After the Crash

    Published: 10/15/2016
  16. The Magnavox Patent Lawsuits

    Published: 10/1/2016
  17. The Magnavox Odyssey

    Published: 9/15/2016
  18. Mattel Electronics?

    Published: 9/1/2016
  19. The Project and Others in the Field

    Published: 8/15/2016
  20. The Complete Tetris Story

    Published: 8/1/2016

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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 122+ hours!