Retronauts Micro 87: The History of Video Game Ads Part I

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738: 2025: In Memoriam

Jeremy Parish, Diamond Feit, and Kevin Bunch take a moment to reflect on some of the most influential figures in video games who passed in 2025: how the work they created touched lives, and what their loss means for the medium. (This episode was recorded before Infinity Ward foun ...  Afficher plus

737: Holiday Special 2025 - Video Power

It's that time of the year again, so hang your stockings, haul home a coniferous tree, and pack the required survival gear for another harrowing trip to the Retronauts Holiday Cabin in Parts Unknown. And for this 15th outing, we'll be taking a long, mostly confused look at Video ...  Afficher plus

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Ridiculous Video Game Tie-ins, Part One: The Rise of Cool Spot -- and Fall of the Noid
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Cast your memories back to the strange days of the 1980s and 1990s -- boy howdy, things were weird. At some point, marketing executives the world round realized that video games could be a new, powerful field of advertising. In the first part of this special two-part series, Ben, ...  Afficher plus

NBN Classic: Mark Bartholomew, "Adcreep: The Case Against Modern Marketing" (Stanford Law Books, 2017)
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This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time. Advertising is everywhere. By some estimates, the average American is exposed to over 3,000 advertisements each day. Whether we realize it or not, "adcreep"―mod ...  Afficher plus

Vintage Video Games (ft. Curtis T)
I Wasn't Asking You

Ever feel like you've just been hit by a truck? One of the most famous vintage games features just this. Frogger[a] is a 1981 arcade action game developed by Konami and manufactured by Sega.[5] In North America, it was released by Sega/Gremlin. The object of the game is to d ...  Afficher plus

#82 David Ogilvy (Ogilvy on Advertising)
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What I learned from reading Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy. --- In my Confessions of an Advertising Man I told the story of how Ogilvy & Mather came into existence, and set forth the principles on which our early success had been based. What was then little more than a cre ...  Afficher plus