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
3.19 Historians Gone Wild
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Tim
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Season 3
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Episode 19
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In the dark days before everyone had a microprocessor, some people just didn't care. They simulated current events, politics, and fantasy epics with paper.
Opening into James Dunnigan
What is space?
These tables bring results
Apply chrome
The 3-1 ratio
Strategic, tactical, operational
Go play with yourself…
…or play by mail?
Before SPI
Origins of World War I
Chicago, Chicago!
PanzerBlitz
The Redmond Simonsen school of board games
So, PanzerBlitz
Through the ages in Strategy I
Grunt: trauma gamified
Vote Lincoln in The New President
An Outdoor Survival haunting
Year of the Rat in the year of the Rat
Blocked by Quebec 1759
Time to Drang Nach Osten
Foxbat & Phantom & imagination
Sniper! the birth of a legend
We Escape from Colditz
Never a quiet day on the Sinai
Scrimmage, football as war
It's the D&D year
Rise and Decline of the Third Reich
A scale is not for 1776
Kingmaker, a British party game
StarForce. SPI, in SPACE!
A Wolfpack for loners
The tech of Stellar Conquest
A sneaky SSN
Crimea at a mile per hex
Some things start with White Bear & Red Moon
Games Workshop exists
The eye-searing Sorcerer
Search & Destroy the grognard
Battle for Germany is silly fun
A torrent of Quads
Women in wargaming
Wargame jounalism
Wrap-up