Ep. 11: SimRefinery Simulated by a Refined Phil Salvador
Today’s episode features the bizarre origins of SimRefinery as well as other Sim titles which never came to be. Phil Salvador joins the Video Game History Hour to discuss a branch of Maxis, Business S...
23 Dec 202057min
Ep. 10: Nintendo’s Gunpei Yokoi’s History with Matt Alt
Much the way we all set our status to not show when we’re in a game, the Game and Watch was originally created to allow Japanese sallarymen to play games at work while their boss was none the wiser. T...
16 Dec 20201h 19min
Ep. 9: Midway Games, as seen by Josh Tsui
In his documentary, Insert Coin, Josh Tsui explored the good, the bad, and the ugly of Midway Games' Studio from varying management styles and their resulting culture to the magic formula for sequel g...
9 Dec 20201h 6min
Ep. 8: Sid Meier’s Episode of the Video Game History Hour!
In this turn-based interview, Sid Meier takes us from zero to 255 and brings the show nuclear! Well, at least that’s the rumor. Sid opens up his lifelong dev notes to discuss how he got started in gam...
2 Dec 202058min
Ep. 7: Donkey Kong came to the Atari 2600 thanks to Garry Kitchen
Garry Kitchen joins the podcast to discuss his lifelong career in gaming and how spending his summer of 1982 porting Nintendo’s Donkey Kong over to the Atari 2600 was tedious, but worth it. He’d also ...
25 Nov 20201h 6min
Ep. 6 Pete Armour and the SCUMM of Monkey Island
Spoiler Alert: It’s a monkey wrench! You find a banana to put on the metronome to hypnotize the monkey to put in your pocket to take to the waterfall to use on the valve as a “monkey wrench.” *puff, p...
18 Nov 20201h 12min
Ep. 5 Ben Hanson travels the roguelike Oregon Trail
Though it’s the reason he was hired as a video producer at Game Informer, Ben Hanson back-burnered his documentary, Trailheads: The Oregon Trail's Origins Documentary, for 11 years on a game that took...
11 Nov 20201h 2min
Ep. 1 Norman Caruso and The Story of Mario Paint
The Video Game History Hour kicks off its inaugural episode with Mr. Gaming Historian himself, Norman Caruso, who recently published a nearly 45-minute long YouTube documentary about the 1992 Super Ni...
2 Nov 20201h 3min
