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Welcome to the Gaming History Club, a podcast dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse history of video games with a peculiarly passionate gamer couple, JP & Gaby. Join us as we delve into the fascinating stories behind the evolution and cultural impact of video games, from the early days of arcade classics to the modern era of triple A titles. New episodes will be released every second Wednesday. For more information or to get in touch, please visit us at www.GamingHistory.Club
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1977 is the first time that a normal person might afford a pre-assembled computer that comes with a monitor and keyboard. Find out how, and why! Source: Video Game Console Library - Atari John Carmack tried to steal Apple 2 Computers The Computer trinity We welcome you to get in touch with us! Visit us on: GamingHistory.Club Facebook Instagram Theme tune created by Tom Docherty
Everyone calls the Tamagotchi the first virtual pet. It wasn't. It wasn't the most advanced, either — and the one that beat it to market by twelve days had actual neural networks. So how did a plastic egg with three buttons and twenty pixels flatten all of them, sell over 100 million units, and make Shigeru Miyamoto think Mario 64 had lost? Ahead of its 30th anniversary this November, we find out what the Tamagotchi was actually first at. Please like, subscribe, and we look forward to seeing you when new episodes are released every second Wednesday. Sources: Official Tamagotchi Website History IG Nobel Prize Winners Museum of Play - Tamagotchi We welcome you to get in touch with us! Visit us on: GamingHistory.Club Facebook Instagram Theme tune created by Tom Docherty
This episode we take a partial traditional approach, covering the history of Pokémon and the minds behind the biggest media franchise of all time. But Pokémon's too huge a topic to stay tidy, so we also go on a side quest into the weirder stuff — like a million strangers controlling one Game Boy on Twitch, and Pokémon GO's surprising ties to military surveillance. Sources: History of Pokemon - Bulbapedia A Brief History of Pokemon Being Left Out of Games - Video Game Story Time Speedrun World Records Pokemon Red/Blue The Complete History of Twitch Plays Pokemon - Schwam Games 70 YEARS OLD GRANDPA USES 45 PHONES TO PLAY POKEMON GO - POKÉMON GO We welcome you to get in touch with us! Visit us on: GamingHistory.Club Facebook Instagram Theme tune created by Tom Docherty
SEGA made awesome consoles, and they were the only manufacturer that gave Nintendo any competition at all. In this episode we discuss SEGA's consoles, the Game Gear, and their departure from console manufacturing. Please like, subscribe, and we look forward to seeing you when new episodes are released every second Wednesday. Sources: Interview with Hideki Sato We welcome you to get in touch with us! Visit us on: GamingHistory.Club Facebook Instagram Theme tune created by Tom Docherty
SEGA went from distributing slot machines to military bases, to becoming a household name in gaming and creating one of the most iconic characters of all time. How did this happen? Well, listen and find out! Please like, subscribe, and we look forward to seeing you when new episodes are released every second Wednesday. Sources: Sega Retro The Four Americans that built SEGA - Kotaku The Next Generation issue Dec 1996 - Interview with David Rosen We welcome you to get in touch with us! Visit us on: GamingHistory.Club Facebook Instagram Theme tune created by Tom Docherty
Playing in a shared word online with thousands of other people is wondrous. You'll be surprised to find out that somehow people having been playing MMORPGs before the internet, and before computer graphics! Please like, subscribe, and we look forward to seeing you when new episodes are released every second Wednesday. Sources: We welcome you to get in touch with us! Visit us on: GamingHistory.Club Facebook Instagram Theme tune created by Tom Docherty
The biggest horror franchise in the world began with a movie tie-in game for the Famicom that really should have been released in the western world, but didn't. Please like, subscribe, and we look forward to seeing you when new episodes are released every second Wednesday. Sources: 1UP Interview with Shinji Mikami Kotaku - The NES Game that inspired Resident Evil Gameinformer - Place of Residing Evil We welcome you to get in touch with us! Visit us on: GamingHistory.Club Facebook Instagram Theme tune created by Tom Docherty
8 years before PONG, Mabel Addis was writing and designing games. As the first video game writer, and first female game designer, she helped invent the strategy and edutainment genres with The Sumerian Game. This episode tells the story of a gaming history hero often overlooked. Please like, subscribe, and we look forward to seeing you when new episodes are released every second Wednesday. Sources: NY Times Article Game Developers Conference Awards 2023 A Critical Hit! - The Most Important Video Game You've Never Heard Of We welcome you to get in touch with us! Visit us on: GamingHistory.Club Facebook Instagram Theme tune created by Tom Docherty
Video game magazines were more important than you might think! Before the internet was around they were the gatekeepers to all things video game related. Find out how magazines and gaming journalism got started. Please like, subscribe, and we look forward to seeing you when new episodes are released every second Wednesday. Sources: Play Meter #1 December 1974 VIDEO - Arcade Alley 1979 Electronic Games #1 Winter 1981 Interview with Bill Kunkel Interview with Arnie Katz We welcome you to get in touch with us! Visit us on: GamingHistory.Club Facebook Instagram Theme tune created by Tom Docherty
It's time for our annual recap of just exactly what happened in 2025. Spoiler alert: still no GTA VI. Joining us as usual is our special guest Brad and we discuss some of the most noteworthy things that happened in gaming. Please like, subscribe, and we look forward to seeing you when new episodes are released every second Wednesday. We welcome you to get in touch with us! Visit us on: GamingHistory.Club Facebook Instagram Theme tune created by Tom Docherty
Achievements changed why and how we play games. But before Xbox arrived with Gamerscore, players were already being rewarded! just in very different ways. Please like, subscribe, and we look forward to seeing you when new episodes are released every second Wednesday. Sources: Activision Iron-on patches Gamerscore Patent We welcome you to get in touch with us! Visit us on: GamingHistory.Club Facebook Instagram Theme tune created by Tom Docherty
Welcome to Gamergate: a scandal that mixed ethics, harassment, conspiracy theories, and online shouting in equal measure. Please like, subscribe, and we look forward to seeing you when new episodes are released every second Wednesday. Sources: Britannica – Gamergate Campaign Wired – Inside Gamergate Chat Logs NPR / Rep. Katherine Clark – How Gamergate Became a Template for Malicious Action Online Factually – Gamergate Controversy Explained Data & Society – Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online Digital Studies Journal – Doxxing as an Online Tactic LawPop – From Unknown Subculture to Political Mainstream arXiv – Tactical Reframing of Online Disinformation Campaigns Against the Istanbul Convention Washington Post – Disinformation campaign targeting Roy Moore’s Senate bid may have violated law Northeastern University – How Gaming Culture Played a Role in Jan 6 and QAnon Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) – Total remigration: Anti-migrant narratives targeting the UK Kotaku – Alyssa Mercante, Sweet Baby Inc. Doesn’t Do What Some Gamers Think It Does IGN – Developers Speak Out Against Harassment of Sweet Baby Inc. GameDeveloper.com – Sweet Baby Inc. Harassment Campaign Echoes Gamergate Data & Society – Weaponised Participation: From Gamergate to the Alt-Right We welcome you to get in touch with us! Visit us on: GamingHistory.Club Facebook Instagram Theme tune created by Tom Docherty
Text adventures and interactive fiction might look primitive today, yet they changed gaming forever. Through imagination and clever code, these games laid the groundwork for everything from RPG dialogue trees to open-world exploration. Join us as we celebrate the witty, weird, and world-shaping legacy of interactive fiction. Please like, subscribe, and we look forward to seeing you when new episodes are released every second Wednesday. Sources: Consider the Consequences! ELIZA Colossal Cave Adventure Get Lamp: The Text Adventure Documentary We welcome you to get in touch with us! Visit us on: GamingHistory.Club Facebook Instagram Theme tune created by Tom Docherty
Why did Football Manager get banned in China? Why did Pokémon cause a moral panic? And why does a “game” called Ethnic Cleansing even exist? Please like, subscribe, and we look forward to seeing you when new episodes are released every second Wednesday. Sources: Pokemon Ethnic Cleansing Football Manager 2005 Tropico 5 Liyla and The Shadows of War We welcome you to get in touch with us! Visit us on: GamingHistory.Club Facebook Instagram Theme tune created by Tom Docherty
This episode contains a 10-second extract of the song 'Lavender Town' created by Junichi Masuda for the Pokemon Red & Green GameBoy games and is sole property of Nintendo, which is in no way affiliated with Gaming History Club. In this haunting Game Lore special we investigate one of gaming’s darkest legends. Did the chilling theme of this small town in Pokémon Red and Green really drive children to madness? Or was it just an internet-born myth that spiralled out of control? Along the way, we also revisit a very real incident known as “Pokémon Shock” when an episode of Electric Soldier Porygon sent hundreds of Japanese viewers into seizures. Please like, subscribe, and we look forward to seeing you when new episodes are released every second Wednesday. Sources: Everything you need to know about Pokemon's creepy Lavender Town Syndrome myth - Retroware Sounds only kids can hear Dennō Senshi Porygon Wikipedia We welcome you to get in touch with us! Visit us on: GamingHistory.Club Facebook Instagram Theme tune created by Tom Docherty
Warning: This episode deals with death and drug references Video Game Addiction, or as the WHO calls it: Gaming Disorder, is a complex issue that has led to tragic deaths. We take a look at what causes video game addiction, the mechanics hacking our brain to dopamine addiction and who is to blame. Please like, subscribe, and we look forward to seeing you when new episodes are released every second Wednesday. Sources: Video Game Addiction: Past, Present and Future - Current Psychiatric Review Theory of Flow - Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi WHO - Gaming Disorder We welcome you to get in touch with us! Visit us on: GamingHistory.Club Facebook Instagram Theme tune created by Tom Docherty If you're concerned for yourself or a loved one about possible video game addiction and related problems, talk to your healthcare provider or a mental health professional.
What began as a strange little experiment in the late ’90s quickly became one of survival horror’s great pioneers. Team Silent — a ragtag group of outcasts — rewrote the rules with fog-choked streets, monsters born from trauma, and a mood that still lingers decades later. And with Silent Hill F releasing just a day after this episode drops, the question hangs in the fog: can Silent Hill still deliver the mystery and terror that once defined the genre? Please like, subscribe, and we look forward to seeing you when new episodes are released every second Wednesday. Sources: Team Silent We welcome you to get in touch with us! Visit us on: GamingHistory.Club Facebook Instagram Theme tune created by Tom Docherty
We explore how propaganda, ideology, and assumptions sneak their way into games. Sometimes loudly, and sometimes in ways you’d never expect. Please like, subscribe, and we look forward to seeing you when new episodes are released every second Wednesday. Sources: Can Video Games be used for Propaganda? Mindkaleidoscope Top 10 Games that deal with political issues We welcome you to get in touch with us! Visit us on: GamingHistory.Club Facebook Instagram Theme tune created by Tom Docherty
In the world of bootleg games, anything goes. Mario can spin-dash like Sonic, Ryu can throw hadoukens at Gundams, and copyright lawyers everywhere cry themselves to sleep. These strange and broken creations twisted gaming’s icons into something both illegal and unforgettable. Please like, subscribe, and we look forward to seeing you when new episodes are released every second Wednesday. Sources: Bootleg Games Fandom AVGN - Crazy Bus AVGN - Hong Kong 97 We welcome you to get in touch with us! Visit us on: GamingHistory.Club Facebook Instagram Theme tune created by Tom Docherty
For some bootleg consoles are nothing but a con, but they broke barriers and spread gaming worldwide. Please like, subscribe, and we look forward to seeing you when new episodes are released every second Wednesday. Sources: Bootleg Games Fandom We welcome you to get in touch with us! Visit us on: GamingHistory.Club Facebook Instagram Theme tune created by Tom Docherty
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