Computer Game Evolution
A journey through many years (and occasionally centuries) to find out who is responsible for modern computer and video games. May contain balls, Napoleon Bonaparte, robots, organized crime, and the US Air Force.
Computer Game Evolution
3.16 Running in Circles
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Tim
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Season 3
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Episode 16
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Why are arcade joysticks so tiny? Who let Peter Molyneux into the industry? Both answers are somehow related to a game where robots call the player "chicken."
Opening
Chase, the beginning
Sheriff is in town
Tank Battalion blasts bricks
We go Berzerk
Exidy's Targ-et practice
Watch out for the ambulance, Armored Car!
Reload under Crossfire
Are we fighting the Wizard of Wor or not?
Remembering Bosconian
Greeting Vanguard
Tutankham, still great
Frenzy, beyond Berzerk
Robotron 2084
The Synapse Software Hour: Shamus
A Rescue from Stern
Lost Tomb raider
Rats of the Maze
From rats to Snipes
Sinistar: hot mining action
The Synapse Software Hour: Zeppelin
The Synapse Software Hour: Shamus Case 2
The Synapse Software Hour: Necromancer
The Synapse Software Hour: Synassembler???
A Dandy Thesis of Terror
More of almost the same: Time Pilot 84, Grobda, Draconian
Gauntlet… not that one.
Gauntlet, that one
Battle City infrastructure
Gauntlet 2, now with dragons
You have the Alien Syndrome
A Druid without trees
Druid's Enlightenment
Demon Stalkers from down under
Atari's Vindicators
Gauntlet, now on NES
The Dark Chambers of Dandy
Let's watch Smash TV
The Catacomb of id
Wrap-up