Season 3 (2004)

Music Games
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February 12, 2004 • 30m

Suddenly, everyone thinks they can bust a move. In today's episode we look at the movement of Music Games. Parappa The Rapper sta...Read more

Sega Dreamcast
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March 11, 2004 • 30m

We explore the rocky history of Sega's last venture into the console market. Hear from Sega insiders Bernard Stolar and Kathy Scho...Read more

ESRB
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March 25, 2004 • 30m

In 1992, games like Mortal Kombat and Night Trap pushed the envelope when it came to advancing graphic and technical capabilities....Read more

Peter Molyneux
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April 8, 2004 • 30m

Peter Molyneux's first game, Populous, helped create an entire new genre, god games - and it has been copied several times since. ...Read more

Tetris
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April 22, 2004 • 30m

Was it the challenge? Was it because it was easy? Was it the colorful blocks? Or was it that distinctive music? What ever it wa...Read more

Electronic Arts
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May 6, 2004 • 30m

Hear how Electronic Arts grew from a small PC publisher to one of the largest game publishers in history. EA has innovated and dri...Read more

Game Boy
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June 10, 2004 • 30m

For 15 years, it has been the dominate console in the videogame hand-held market. Icons follows the creation of the Nintendo Game...Read more

Donkey Kong
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June 24, 2004 • 30m

It started with a flop. But a young visionary turned failure into success, and created a legendary character. He fought back legal...Read more

Nobuo Uematsu
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July 8, 2004 • 30m

Learn how Nobuo Uematsu went from playing keyboard in a band to joining Square in 1985. Join us as Nobuo himself tells us about hi...Read more

DOOM
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July 22, 2004 • 30m

No longer content with safe simple games like Mario, Zelda and Atari games from yesteryear, gamers have evolved to the next level ...Read more

Dead or Alive
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August 5, 2004 • 30m

Mortal Kombat may have reinvented the fighting game, but it did so by promoting bloody violence. The Dead or Alive series, while ...Read more

SNK
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August 19, 2004 • 30m

From it's first game in 1978 Ozma Wars to the soon to be released SVC Chaos: SNK vs. Capcom, SNK has battled against Capcom, lived...Read more

Mortal Kombat
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September 2, 2004 • 30m

No other game can claim that it created such controversy that it lead to the creation of a ratings board. Icons looks at the begin...Read more

Prince of Persia
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September 30, 2004 • 30m

Prince of Persia has a long history in the gaming industry, mostly due to it's creator putting it aside on occasion to also work w...Read more

Mark Cuban
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October 14, 2004 • 30m

Mark Cuban wasn't given his money, he earned it. "Icons" looks at his humble beginning, to his creating then selling of Broadcast...Read more

Metal Gear Solid
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October 28, 2004 • 30m

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima and character designer Yoji Shinkawa take Icons on an exculsive look at the history of the s...Read more

Half-Life
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November 16, 2004 • 30m

In celebration of today's release of Half-Life 2, Icons looks at the history of the title. Half-Life changed gaming in that the m...Read more

Bungie
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December 9, 2004 • 30m

Bungie Studios' name is less familiar than the titles it produces. When a game sells 2.5 million copies on it's release date, you...Read more

Apple II
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January 6, 2005 • 30m

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were men with a vision. Icons retraces their steps to find the stories behind the creation of a comp...Read more

Fighting Games
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January 20, 2005 • 30m

It's the genre that created the ESRB. Simple games like Karate Champ and Yie Ar Kung-Fu suddenly gave way to the more detailed an...Read more