Walter Forbes turned a phone-in shopping club into CUC International, spent $1.7B on software companies, then merged with HFS to form Cendant. How was this company always just barely beating estimates?
🎙️ TCW258: www.theycreateworlds.com/episodes/TCW...
#VideoGameHistory #CorporateScandal #Cendant
From sports sims to Elder Scrolls Arena: how Bethesda's Julian LeFay and Vijay Lakshman built the gladiator-to-RPG pivot, then LeFay's massive Daggerfall vision met Ted Peterson's intricate design and gray moral plots. youtu.be/vK5oo4mU-Xc
#ElderScrolls #Daggerfall #Bethesda #Arena
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Bob Jacob wanted to put Hollywood into a game box and nearly pulled it off. Defender of the Crown, Wings, Rocket Ranger, and a football game that quietly inspired EA Sports, all from a studio that lasted five years. youtu.be/EN43CmoJpyc #Cinemaware #DefenderOfTheCrown #RetroGaming #GamingHistory
How does a Canadian liquor company end up owning Universal Studios and help create Activision Blizzard? Seagram, Vivendi, bad timing, and deceptive accounting. The full story is Messier than you think.
🎙️ youtu.be/PzHARV7hO7w
#VideoGameHistory #Vivendi #ActivisionBlizzard
CUC International kept just beating estimates until Henry Silverman saw the books and uncovered fraud built on phantom subscriptions and merger money games. That scandal helped push its software division into Vivendi's orbit.
TCW259: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1k5...
#AccountingFraud #Vivendi
Nine cartridges, a Sears rebrand, and clever sprite tricks that pushed a new console to its limits. The Atari VCS launch titles were modest, but their fingerprints are everywhere. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcws...
#AtariVCS #Atari2600 #RetroGaming #VideoGameHistory
Jeffrey has to rush to get an episode done today! Learn about the nine launch titles of Atari! Also learn about how the podcast is made! #Atari #VideoGameHistory
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With the original creators gone and development stalled, a new Bethesda team inherited the Elder Scrolls. Todd Howard's Morrowind ditched procedural generation for a handcrafted world so rich it saved the studio from collapse. youtu.be/_9L1FIa4MoU
#Morrowind #ElderScrolls #Bethesda
They Create Worlds is a video game history podcast exploring the people, technology, and forces that shaped the games we love and the industry behind them.
Historian Alex Smith (author and host of They Create Worlds) joins us for the latest Video Game History Hour podcast to challenge the prevailing “Genesis does what Nintendon’t” narrative in the early '90s: https://gamehistory.org/episode-154-sega-in-the-90s-an-economic-post-mortem/
