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
3.20 SPI to SSI
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Tim
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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Is the Canadian PM good in a fight? What are the best places to summon demons in Armenia? How to overthrow the US Government in 2020? Jim Dunnigan could tell you all of that, but not how to run his own company.
A Power Politics opening
Russian Civil War, the musical
The Plot to Assassinate (or at least harass) Hitler
Minuteman, a vision of America in 2020
Godsfire, the space gaming of old
The unfunny Starship Troopers
Not so Terrible Swift Sword
A $25,000 Firefight
Outreach, the art of falling apart
We don't know why, but have Invasion America
The Russian Campaign in one evening
The War at Sea never ends
Your Field Marshal is stuck
The Leesburg Conference
After the Holocaust, a post-nuclear capitalism game
Canadian "Civil War"
A Mightly Fortress, inspiringly bad
Air War or a crash course on crashing
Run too fast to be hit in StarSoldier
War in Europe was big
How to sell Starwars
Back to Imperium
Enter Series 120
Enter Microgames
War of the Ring, the full thing in one box
The birth of Squad Leader
Tanktics, microcomputer wargame #1-ish
More first micro wargames
Stomp!
Smoker's Wild!
Illiad!
Class Struggle!
Sticks & Stones!
Tartars & Martyrs! …hey, we know this guy
A Wizard goes on a Fantasy Trip
Remembering Source of the Nile
The decades of hunting the Bismarck
The Art of Siege never changes
Please send troop deployment info for The Next War
Objective Moscow and the budgeting of game design
War in the Ice came two decades too soon
Computers are (slowly) coming
The marketable John Carter Warlord of Mars
It's not Star Wars, it's Freedom in the Galaxy
You're not supposed to play The Campaign for North Africa
Dazed and confused in Cityfight
Command, the horse wrestling game
Saving the Earth in Invasion of the Air-Eaters
Demons in a capsule
From The Creature that ate Sheboygan…
…to Crush, Crumble and Chomp…
…to Rampage
DeathMaze and Greg's knowledge of herbs
Vector 3, in 3D!
StarGate, some assembly required
Titan Strike is jammed
Dare you enter my Magic Realm
The Divine Right to Mists of Groping
Strategic Simulations Incorporated, or one stolen battleship
Games Workshop needs games
Warlock, the trick is being white
Sweet Apocalypse
The Artifact, The Dingus
Ace of the Aces, the game of games
A flashback to Sea Duel, the handheld
A flashback to Titan
SPI Sports. Yes.
The evil Palestinians of Timetripper
Barbarian Kings may croak
DragonQuest and Arena of Death
The Ares Magazine begins
Grampa hunting on Pea Ridge
Is it over?
The jank and legacy of Empires of the Middle Ages
The man leaves
Wrap-up: The era of beginnings
Wrap-up: how not to write rules