3.20 SPI to SSI

Computer Game Evolution

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.

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1. A Power Politics opening (00:00:00)

2. Russian Civil War, the musical (00:01:03)

3. The Plot to Assassinate (or at least harass) Hitler (00:07:19)

4. Minuteman, a vision of America in 2020 (00:10:16)

5. Godsfire, the space gaming of old (00:12:52)

6. The unfunny Starship Troopers (00:14:11)

7. Not so Terrible Swift Sword (00:15:30)

8. A $25,000 Firefight (00:16:38)

9. Outreach, the art of falling apart (00:17:10)

10. We don't know why, but have Invasion America (00:19:19)

11. The Russian Campaign in one evening (00:20:13)

12. The War at Sea never ends (00:21:11)

13. Your Field Marshal is stuck (00:21:55)

14. The Leesburg Conference (00:22:52)

15. After the Holocaust, a post-nuclear capitalism game (00:24:36)

16. Canadian "Civil War" (00:28:45)

17. A Mightly Fortress, inspiringly bad (00:35:14)

18. Air War or a crash course on crashing (00:40:40)

19. Run too fast to be hit in StarSoldier (00:43:58)

20. War in Europe was big (00:45:14)

21. How to sell Starwars (00:46:42)

22. Back to Imperium (00:47:45)

23. Enter Series 120 (00:48:28)

24. Enter Microgames (00:48:44)

25. War of the Ring, the full thing in one box (00:49:03)

26. The birth of Squad Leader (00:54:38)

27. Tanktics, microcomputer wargame #1-ish (00:58:19)

28. More first micro wargames (01:00:44)

29. Stomp! (01:02:22)

30. Smoker's Wild! (01:02:54)

31. Illiad! (01:03:21)

32. Class Struggle! (01:03:44)

33. Sticks & Stones! (01:05:12)

34. Tartars & Martyrs! …hey, we know this guy (01:05:34)

35. A Wizard goes on a Fantasy Trip (01:07:04)

36. Remembering Source of the Nile (01:09:04)

37. The decades of hunting the Bismarck (01:09:38)

38. The Art of Siege never changes (01:10:58)

39. Please send troop deployment info for The Next War (01:11:39)

40. Objective Moscow and the budgeting of game design (01:13:36)

41. War in the Ice came two decades too soon (01:15:32)

42. Computers are (slowly) coming (01:17:28)

43. The marketable John Carter Warlord of Mars (01:18:14)

44. It's not Star Wars, it's Freedom in the Galaxy (01:19:17)

45. You're not supposed to play The Campaign for North Africa (01:23:29)

46. Dazed and confused in Cityfight (01:27:32)

47. Command, the horse wrestling game (01:29:21)

48. Saving the Earth in Invasion of the Air-Eaters (01:32:58)

49. Demons in a capsule (01:34:45)

50. From The Creature that ate Sheboygan… (01:36:09)

51. …to Crush, Crumble and Chomp… (01:36:25)

52. …to Rampage (01:37:23)

53. DeathMaze and Greg's knowledge of herbs (01:38:31)

54. Vector 3, in 3D! (01:39:53)

55. StarGate, some assembly required (01:40:41)

56. Titan Strike is jammed (01:41:55)

57. Dare you enter my Magic Realm (01:43:30)

58. The Divine Right to Mists of Groping (01:44:53)

59. Strategic Simulations Incorporated, or one stolen battleship (01:46:33)

60. Games Workshop needs games (01:50:23)

61. Warlock, the trick is being white (01:51:30)

62. Sweet Apocalypse (01:52:48)

63. The Artifact, The Dingus (01:56:17)

64. Ace of the Aces, the game of games (01:56:37)

65. A flashback to Sea Duel, the handheld (01:59:57)

66. A flashback to Titan (02:00:18)

67. SPI Sports. Yes. (02:01:02)

68. The evil Palestinians of Timetripper (02:02:10)

69. Barbarian Kings may croak (02:03:12)

70. DragonQuest and Arena of Death (02:03:37)

71. The Ares Magazine begins (02:04:37)

72. Grampa hunting on Pea Ridge (02:05:19)

73. Is it over? (02:06:27)

74. The jank and legacy of Empires of the Middle Ages (02:07:28)

75. The man leaves (02:18:44)

76. Wrap-up: The era of beginnings (02:21:47)

77. Wrap-up: how not to write rules (02:25:20)