Advancing to the Next Level: The Science of Video Games (Part 2)

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🗓️ 28 March 2013

⏱️ 37 minutes

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There’s more to games than meets the eye in Part 2 of The Science of Video Games, from evolution and economics to artificial intelligence and simulating entire galaxies. With Sims creator Will Wright and author Jeffrey Ryan.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	Star Talk begins right now.
0:21.9	Welcome to Star Talk Radio, I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and I'm an astrophysicist
0:26.5	at the American Museum of Natural History here in New York City.
0:31.0	And there I also serve as director of the Hayden Planetarium.
0:34.8	Where I went to as a kid, it had a big impact on me, actually.
0:37.8	I'll air it.
0:38.8	Really?
0:39.8	Yes.
0:40.8	The peanut gallery here is Eugene Merman, and Eugene, welcome back to Star Talk Radio.
0:45.7	And I've got with us our special guest, Jeffrey Ryan, author of Super Mario Brothers.
0:51.2	How Nintendo conquered America.
0:52.5	How Nintendo conquered America?
0:53.5	I keep letting you get away with this, but really how popular is Nintendo?
0:56.5	Now.
0:57.5	They're one of the top three companies.
0:59.0	Aha.
1:00.0	Is that what you'd say about Germany in World War II, is it's copy?
1:04.4	I went to top three European nations, you know, conquering, like the third one.
1:09.2	They settled in World War II.
1:10.8	Let me ask, which region of the world does most of Nintendo's revenue come from?
1:15.8	It comes from here from the US.
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