Famicom Dojo Podcast: Bleak Games of the Cold War
by Sean "TheOrange" Corse, filed in Famicom Dojo Podcast, Podcasts on Jun.24, 2011
Did the Cold War make early video games unintentionally bleak? Or was the “kobiyashi maru” style of gaming in the 1970s and ’80s more a function of limited memory space and the need for arcade machines to get kids to keep pumping in the quarters?
Direct Link: Famicom Dojo Podcast 06: Bleak Games of the Cold War
Also in this episode: Rebel in Japan “Poop is Funny”, and the premiere of the first audio version of Famicom Denshimail!
Complete show notes at FamicomDojo.TV:
http://famicomdojo.tv/podcast/6
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