This Week in Video Game History
TheRobustOneI'm just a guy combining his life-long love of video games with his love of history! Join me as we go down memory lane and talk about some of the greatest moments in Video Game history that happened during the week!
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 19 | Founded | 5 months ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | LeisureVideo Games | |||
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This week on This Week in Video Game History, we cover June 8th through June 14th — a single week that gave us two of the most acclaimed games ever made and the strangest lucky streak on Nintendo's entire calendar.
We run the timeline day by day: To... more
This week on This Week in Video Game History, we're covering June 1st through June 7th — a week that runs from 1984 Moscow to 2023 and hits some of the most fascinating stories in gaming along the way.
On the timeline: Super Mario Bros. 2 on the Fam... more
0:00 -- Cold Open
1:40 -- Intro
2:34 -- Smash Ping Pong - May 30, 1987
3:54 -- Zero Wing - May 31, 1992
5:04 -- Tokimeki Memorial - May 27, 1994
6:20 -- The Lion King (NES) - May 25, 1995
7:48 -- Worms Armageddon - May 31, 1999
9:14 -- Mario Kart 8 -... more
0:00 - Cold Open
1:54 - Intro
2:50 - May 22, 1980 -- Pac-Man
4:40 - May 1980 -- Golden Axe
6:31 - May 22, 2000 -- Perfect Dark
8:34 - May 18, 2010 -- Red Dead Redemption
10:27 - May 18, 2015 -- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
12:38 - Deep Dive 1 -- P... more
May 11th through May 17th gave us the first E3, the birth of Guilty Gear, a Japan-only Fire Emblem that never officially left the country, Skate 3's unlikely second life on YouTube, and the story of Team Bondi — the studio that built L.A. Noire's rev... more
Every first-person shooter you've ever played started with one shareware floppy uploaded to a BBS in May 1992. This week we're covering Wolfenstein 3D, Super Mario Bros. Deluxe, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, EVE Online, Red Dead Revolver, Plants vs. Z... more
In this episode, we take a deep dive into the 2011 PlayStation Network outage, pay tribute to the Noble 14, and look at how Nintendo purchased a Legendary RPG maker for the cost of a house.
Timeline this week:
- Mario Kart Wii
- Grand Theft Auto I... more
This week we are covering April 13th through April 19th — a week that gave us one of gaming's greatest cult classics that almost nobody bought, a DC Comics fighting franchise that redefined superhero games, the most beloved puzzle sequel of its gener... more
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