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I'm just a guy combining his life-long love of video games with his love of history! Join me as we go down memory lane and talk about some of the greatest moments in Video Game history that happened during the week!
dougcoleman-us hosts This Week in Video Game History, a leisure show with 22 episodes published.
Video game history, one week at a time. Episode 24 covers June 29–July 5 — the week the original iPhone launched in 2007 unable to play a single game, and the story of how mobile went on to become the biggest force in ga
Five legendary games. One date. June 23rd is the strangest, most loaded square on the entire gaming calendar — and this week we walk through all of it. From the birth of Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Genesis to Super Ma
This Week in Video Game History covers June 15th through June 21st — five releases and three deep-dive stories tied together by one idea: the day a game comes out is almost never the day that decides what it becomes.On t
This week on This Week in Video Game History , we cover June 8th through June 14th — a single week that gave us two of the most acclaimed games ever made and the strangest lucky streak on Nintendo's entire calendar. We r
This week on This Week in Video Game History, we're covering June 1st through June 7th — a week that runs from 1984 Moscow to 2023 and hits some of the most fascinating stories in gaming along the way. On the timeline: S
0:00 -- Cold Open 1:40 -- Intro 2:34 -- Smash Ping Pong - May 30, 1987 3:54 -- Zero Wing - May 31, 1992 5:04 -- Tokimeki Memorial - May 27, 1994 6:20 -- The Lion King (NES) - May 25, 1995 7:48 -- Worms Armageddon - May 3
0:00 - Cold Open 1:54 - Intro 2:50 - May 22, 1980 -- Pac-Man 4:40 - May 1980 -- Golden Axe 6:31 - May 22, 2000 -- Perfect Dark 8:34 - May 18, 2010 -- Red Dead Redemption 10:27 - May 18, 2015 -- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 1
May 11th through May 17th gave us the first E3, the birth of Guilty Gear, a Japan-only Fire Emblem that never officially left the country, Skate 3's unlikely second life on YouTube, and the story of Team Bondi — the stud
Every first-person shooter you've ever played started with one shareware floppy uploaded to a BBS in May 1992. This week we're covering Wolfenstein 3D, Super Mario Bros. Deluxe, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, EVE Online, R
In this episode, we take a deep dive into the 2011 PlayStation Network outage, pay tribute to the Noble 14, and look at how Nintendo purchased a Legendary RPG maker for the cost of a house. Timeline this week: - Mario Ka
This week we are covering April 13th through April 19th — a week that gave us one of gaming's greatest cult classics that almost nobody bought, a DC Comics fighting franchise that redefined superhero games, the most belo
This week in Video Game History looks at April 6 - 12. Some great games came out this week, and some amazing events that have shaped the gaming world happened this week!
0:00 - Teaser 0:43 - Intro 1:43 - Timeline Intro 2:44 - Monster Hunter: Freedom Unite 3:25 - Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes 4:15 - Kirby's Adventure 4:56 - Black & White 5:55 - Bioshock: Infinite 6:47 - Diablo III: Reaper
In this Episode: - Pac-Man - Punch-Out!!! - EverQuest - The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Animal Crossing: New Horizions - The Founding of Konami - The Sims Dethrones Myst Video Credits Atari 2600 Longplay Pac-Man: @world
0:00 - Teaser 0:50 - Intro 1:27 - Timeline 1:42 - Ms. Pac-Man 2:13 - Super Mario RPG 2:51 - Titanfall 3:31 - God of War II 4:25 - Ori and the Blind Forest 5:13 - Starcraft 2 6:03 - Feature: Chrono Trigger 8:02 - Outro Vi
This Week in Video Game History March 2 - 8 In this episode: 0:00 - Flash back to PS2/Switch launches 1:11 - Intro 2:30 - Timeline Start 2:49 - Ninja Gaiden 3:40 - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 4:19 - Donkey Ko
This Week in Video Game History February February 23 - March 1In this episode:- Pokemon Day (February 27, 1996)- Brief History of Sports games--- Ralph Baer Demos Brown Box (February 24, 1968)--- Intellivision Major Leag
This Week in Video Game History February 16 - 22 In this episode: - Nintendo Releases the Famicom Disk System - The Legend of Zelda - The Legend of Zelda II - Starfox (SNES) - PlayStation Vita launches in the US - Horizi
This Week in Video Game History February 2 - February 8In this episode:- Release Timeline - Dragon Warrior III (February 10, 1988) - X-Men Arcade (February 12, 1992) - Super Mario 3 (February 12, 1990) - Metroid: Zero Mi
This Week in Video Game History February 2 - February 8 In this episode: - Quick Hits: - Paper Mario (Feb 5, 2001) - Valheim (Feb 2, 2021) - Helldivers 2 (Feb 8, 2024) - Defender (Feb 1981) - Contra on NES (~Feb 2, 1981)
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