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Icons Season 3

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3x01 Music Games aired Feb 12, 2004

Suddenly, everyone thinks they can bust a move. In today's episode we look at the movement of Music Games. Parappa The Rapper started the fad of making a ga... read more

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3x02 Dreamcast aired Mar 11, 2004

We explore the rocky history of Sega's last venture into the console market. Hear from Sega insiders Bernard Stolar and Kathy Schoback about the Dreamcast's ... read more

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3x03 ESRB aired Mar 25, 2004

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

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3x04 Peter Molyneux aired Apr 08, 2004

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

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3x05 Tetris aired Apr 22, 2004

Was it the challenge? Was it because it was easy? Was it the colorful blocks? Or was it that distinctive music? What ever it was, Alexey Pajitnov's creati... read more

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3x06 Electronic Arts aired May 06, 2004

Hear how Electronic Arts grew from a small PC publisher to one of the largest game publishers in history. EA has innovated and driven the industry forward si... read more

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3x07 Game Boy aired Jun 10, 2004

For 15 years, it has been the dominate console in the videogame hand-held market. Icons follows the creation of the Nintendo Game Boy; from it's formulation... read more

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3x08 Donkey Kong aired Jun 24, 2004

It started with a flop. But a young visionary turned failure into success, and created a legendary character. He fought back legal battles and obscurity to b... read more

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3x09 Nobuo Uematsu aired Jul 08, 2004

Learn how Nobuo Uematsu went from playing keyboard in a band to joining Square in 1985. Join us as Nobuo himself tells us about his musical influences in cre... read more

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3x10 DOOM aired Jul 22, 2004

No longer content with safe simple games like Mario, Zelda and Atari games from yesteryear, gamers have evolved to the next level - it includes more action a... read more

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3x11 Dead or Alive aired Aug 05, 2004

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

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3x12 SNK aired Aug 19, 2004

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 through a takeover, finall... read more

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3x13 Mortal Kombat aired Sep 02, 2004

No other game can claim that it created such controversy that it lead to the creation of a ratings board. Icons looks at the beginnings and future of the Mor... read more

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3x14 Prince of Persia aired Sep 30, 2004

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 with his other interest in c... read more

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3x15 Mark Cuban aired Oct 14, 2004

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

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3x16 Metal Gear Solid aired Oct 28, 2004

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima and character designer Yoji Shinkawa take Icons on an exculsive look at the history of the series that defined the stea... read more

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3x17 Half-Life aired Nov 16, 2004

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 main character wasn't a sold... read more

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3x18 Bungie aired Dec 09, 2004

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 would think more people wo... read more

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3x19 Apple II aired Jan 06, 2005

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

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3x20 Fighting Games aired Jan 20, 2005

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 and more violent Street Fight... read more

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