Dai-Cast is a weekly podcast highlighting recent developments in Japan and Japanese pop culture from a western perspective.
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Who is the recently deceased “Father of Video Games” and the Game he is credited with creating?
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Hosts: Ian Horner, Jason Hill, Brendan “Beej” Dery, and Eryn Deardon.
Topics Covered this Week:
- Obon? What the hell is obon? - link
- Sapporo Set to Take Over Sleeman - link
- Hard Gay is a Married Man - link
- The Life of a Japanese AV Director - link
- The Life of a Japanese AV Star - link
- I Love Everything About the JP Game Rating System - link
- I Love Everything About the JP Game Rating System - link
- Only 40.1% Of Japanese Female University Students Have Masturbated - link
- Fake ID’s and Enjo Kosai - link
- Beej’s Webcomic of The Week - Platinum Grit
Running Time: 01:24:16
The iTunes download isn’t working and also the AAC and MP3 links on the web page says “File not found” for me.
Roth, many thanks for the heads up on that. Don’t now how that slipped by me, but the issue is now resolved! Download away good Sirs/Madams!
You’re welcome.
Oh and also I have an answer to your contest question.
The first “Father of Video Games” was not Nolan Bushwell (Creator of Atari Pong), nor was it Steve Russell (Creator of Spacewars, the first computer game). The true “Father of Video Games” was Willy Higinbotham who created Tennis For Two! Why was he the first? Because this game wasn’t played on a computer, it was in fact played on an Oscilloscope (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscilloscope). Tennis for Two was played basically like pong.
I hope that was the correct answer and thanks for reading. :3
Sorry. Nolan Bushnell. Not Bushwell.
So….. what happened to the last two topics, did it get cut off?