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The BrainFood Show

The Fascinating Origin of Pong and Atari + Interview with the Creators of Quest for Glory and the Upcoming Hero-U (The BrainFood Show Episode 4)

The BrainFood Show

Cloud10

Documentary, Society & Culture, Education, History

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2018

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

In episode 4 of The BrainFood Show podcast, we discuss the fascinating origin of Atari and the game that more or less gave birth to an industry- Pong. Next up, we talk with award winning computer game designers Lori and Corey Cole, most notably creators of one of the greatest game series in history, the groundbreaking Quest for Glory (which [...]

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0:00.0

All right, welcome to episode 4, 4 of the brain food podcast.

0:05.0

Yep, that's it.

0:06.0

I mean, it's complicated because I'm always editing the one previously and then we're also

0:10.0

planning the one next down the street and it's kind of where actually are we in the present

0:14.0

day but live in the present Simon here we are episode four bit of a retro gaming episode

0:18.2

today on all fronts it seems we've got our first interview with the Coals more on that in a bit we're starting

0:25.7

with episode feedback and in between all of that we have our facts section today

0:30.3

where we're talking basically a lot about Pong and kind of where Pong came from, how Pong came from, how Pong came to be, and it's for a very simple

0:38.0

game, it's got a really interesting story, so I think that'll be a lot of fun.

0:42.0

Should we dive right into episode feedback from last time?

0:45.6

Oh, should we do a promo for next week's episode?

0:48.3

I believe we'll be doing, uh, uh, interview with Weasy Waiter?

0:51.6

We will, Craig from wizy water uh...

0:53.8

i don't know if you can say Craig from wizy water because wizy water is kind of his

0:57.6

persona isn't it be like saying you know Simon from Simon whistler

1:00.8

which is definitely weird.

1:02.8

But Craig, a weasy waiter, however you want to call him, we are interviewing him as we record

1:07.1

this I believe on the Monday after next, but as you guys hear that, that'll be next week.

1:11.6

So there you go. we're doing this right

1:13.5

before your flight out to vidcon I was kind of scheduling yes and then I was

1:16.6

thinking this must line up with so I could do it until like 1140 but then I

1:20.8

really need to leave for the airports.

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