Generation Games
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Can video games change lives? And, if so, how? 50 years after the arrival of Pong, gamer and writer Keza MacDonald considers what gaming has done for us. Using the rich BBC Archives, she explores how video games grew from a niche pursuit to a cultural phenomenon which stokes the imagination of, and offers agency to, those who fall for its charms. Games now influence who we are, what we think and how we act. Keza speaks to collectors, competitive gamers, psychologists, games designers and, mostly importantly, gamers young and old to find out what impact games have had on us. We hear about the deep relationships that millions cherish with Pac-Man, Space Invaders and Donkey Kong, and illustrate the entanglement of life and gaming that is increasingly impossible to sever.
Presenter: Keza MacDonald Producer: Gary Milne
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello, this is Seriously from BBC Radio 4, and I'm Vanessa. This is |
| 0:45.0 | the world's best audio. |
| 0:48.0 | This podcast finds the world's best audio documentaries and puts them all in one place. |
| 0:51.0 | Next up, something captivating, enlightening and seriously good. |
| 0:57.0 | Can we get the sound? Yeah, it's got a sound on. Yeah. There you go. |
| 1:03.0 | I think my eyes are already because I'm not blinking. |
| 1:07.0 | No. Oh! |
| 1:13.0 | I do think this is just genius game design |
| 1:17.0 | but you can do with two little... |
| 1:19.0 | Ah! |
| 1:20.0 | Two pebbles on the dot. |
| 1:21.0 | It's perfect. |
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