TCW
Podcast Episode 003 - What makes an industry? 

 

We talk
about the three existing  industries;
arcades, home console, and PC games, and how they merged together to form the
"Video Game Industry". How this almost happened in the 80's but was
stopped by the video game crash.  We also
discuss at what point is an industry made, and what has to happen for it to
become one.

 

Atari Game Ad: Vanguard: <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsH4uuRT2w8'>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsH4uuRT2w8</a>

Zaxxon
Commercial  by Sega: <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0bxTjxqwxg'>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0bxTjxqwxg</a>

 

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TCW
Email: tcwpodcast@gmail.com 

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Alex's Blog: <a href='http://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com/'>http://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com</a>

 

Intro Music: Josh Woodward - Airplane Mode -
 Music - "Airplane Mode" by Josh Woodward. Free download:<a href='http://joshwoodward.com/song/AirplaneMode'>http://joshwoodward.com/song/AirplaneMode</a> 

 

Outro Music: RolemMusic - Bacterial Love - <a href='http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic/Pop_Singles_Compilation_2014/01_rolemusic_-_bacterial_love'>http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic/Pop_Singles_Compilation_2014/01_rolemusic_-_bacterial_love</a> 

 

Copyright: Attribution: <a href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/'>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a>

A Tale of Cycles

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. 