How Licensed Games Died And Came Back And Died Again And Came Back Again

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🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week we're talking about licensed games. That's right, we're looking at your Star Wars, James Bond, and all those Disney games. First, Nathan regales us with the story of one particularly bad licensed game that led to the video game crash of '83. Then, Fahey leads us through the history of licensed video games from the beginning to the present day. And finally, Ash walks us through which licensed games are in the headlines these days.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody, and welcome to Kotaku Split Screen, the show that tackles video games one extremely specific topic at a time.
0:15.4	I am one of your hosts, Kotaku Senior Reporter Nathan Grayson and I am as ever joined by
0:20.8	Ashley Parrish.
0:22.7	Hi everybody.
0:24.1	And wait for it.
0:26.1	It could be anyone.
0:27.9	But it's Michael Fahey.
0:31.2	The Michael variant.
0:32.9	We're getting the Michael skin today.
0:34.3	I'm sorry, everybody.
0:36.1	I'm sorry.
0:37.9	The Michael skin is like kind of the more formal one. He'm sorry, everybody. Yeah. I'm sorry. The Michael skin is
0:38.9	like kind of the more
0:39.6	formal one.
0:40.4	He's in like a fun
0:41.0	little suit.
0:42.1	Yeah.
0:42.5	It's not even a
0:43.1	fun suit.
0:43.7	It's just a basic
0:44.5	gray plaid suit.
0:46.3	I don't even know
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