TCW
Podcast Episode 020 -The Great Video Game Crash Part 2
We
discuss the fates of all the major home video game producers. As they tried,
and generally failed, to transition to computers as the future game systems.
This turned out to be the wrong way to go. With the distraction of computers no
company made a transitional console for home users. Coleco got close to surviving the crash, but
called it quits in 1985. We go over how computers are too complicated for the
general public to use. You require ease of use and working out of the box for
gaming to work well on the PC. We go over the numbers of the crash during
82-85, and how the market went from 2.8 billion to 100 million In value in just
three years.
World of Xeen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VgBR8-BCos
Mattel Aquarius
Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlZn8ejso-4
Coleco Adam Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U39muxNdJs
Colecovision Donkey
Kong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyNv1Ok0p5g
Kids and Apple II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF7EpEnglgk
Coleco Adam
Comercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZz5WywJ-es
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Alex's 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/
