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SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.



https://www.buzzsprout.com/1561337/

Computer Game Evolution is yet another video game history podcast, and I've got a whole season of it up.

It takes the season ten hours to end on the first commercial video game, though, because before that I have to look at
  • Chess
  • Risk
  • Tour de France
  • Monopoly
  • Hobby empire building
  • Mechanical arcades
  • "Literature"
  • Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker

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SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.



CGE is back with the first month Season 2, and the actual start of the game industry

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1561337/9866123

Listen to find out which one of the these things Atari didn't do:
  • Attach rubber tits to an arcade cabinet.
  • Try to cheat its first client out of two games they'd paid for.
  • Introduce microprocessors into games.
  • Open a family restaurant.
  • Over-engineer a pen&paper game to the point of going near-bankrupt.
  • Establish a fake competitor to control the market.
  • Benefit from US Air Force fatalities.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

...and speaking of self-promoting



https://www.buzzsprout.com/1561337/10060622

Lots of firsts this second episode of the second season:

First black engineers in the industry
First games packed in with a video card
First pro-gamers (girls, obviously)
First games developed at NASA
First people scammed by Bill Gates

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.



https://www.buzzsprout.com/1561337/

Another game podcast starting another year with another tale of the 1983 crash.

Or you could listen to the last year's season covering
the first space 4X games,
the first times people paid cash for virtual items farmed by other players,
the first torture mini-game,
the first video game about frogs,
the first wind-up Pong,
and other poo poo that happened before 1981.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.



https://www.buzzsprout.com/1561337/

The latest episodes, 3.2 and 3.3, deal with that brief moment Electronic Arts looked like a good idea, the crash of the original Activision, and Nintendo getting lucky with Donkey Kong after a massive gently caress-up totally not caused by rampant nepotism.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.



https://www.buzzsprout.com/1561337/

Just finished a three-episode overview of the gaming hardware of the '80s, when everything was broken and half-arsed in its own special way.

Except for the X68000.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.



https://www.buzzsprout.com/1561337/

A survey of pre-(and a few post-)Super Mario Bros. platform games awaits in episodes 3.9 and 3.10: from Sega's mechanical horse jumping to the cockroaches of Tokyo university to rebranded Goku picking a fight with Mario.

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SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.



https://www.buzzsprout.com/1561337/

I may have podcasted again, and this time episodes 3.13, 3.14 and 3.15 are about trying to figure out how out of all the companies making action-adventure games in the '80s Nintendo got so much cred for creativity and innovation.

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