Welcome to Crash Course Games! In this series our host Andre Meadows is going to discuss the history and science of games. We’re going to talk about video games of course, but also board games, role playing games, card games, even sports! But before we get ahead of ourselves we are going to look at what a game actually is, who is playing these games, and what they are doing to us. It turns out these answers aren’t as obvious as they would seem, but one thing is definitely clear: games make up a huge portion of most peoples’ lives, and we think that can be a great thing!
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | What is a Game? | 2016-04-01 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | Ancient Games | 2016-04-08 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | The Dawn of Video Games | 2016-04-15 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | Atari and the Business of Video Games | 2016-04-22 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | The First Home Consoles | 2016-05-06 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | The Video Game Crash of 1983 | 2016-05-13 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | Nintendo and a New Standard for Video Games | 2016-05-20 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | Sega and More Mature Video Games | 2016-05-28 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | Playstation and More Immersive Video Games | 2016-06-04 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | Microsoft and Connected Consoles | 2016-06-10 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | Casual Gaming | 2016-06-17 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | MMORPGs | 2016-06-24 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 13 | Card Games | 2016-07-09 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 14 | Board Games | 2016-07-16 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 15 | Educational Games | 2016-07-23 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 16 | Psychology of Gaming | 2016-07-30 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 17 | The Olympics, FIFA, and why we love sports | 2016-08-05 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 18 | Role-playing Games | 2016-08-19 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 19 | Game Design | 2016-09-02 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 20 | PC Gaming | 2016-09-09 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 21 | The Future of Virtual Reality | 2016-09-23 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 22 | Open World Games | 2016-10-01 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 23 | Handhelds | 2016-10-08 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 24 | Input Devices | 2016-10-22 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 25 | The History of Game Shows | 2016-10-28 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 26 | LARP | 2016-11-11 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 27 | Gambling | 2016-11-19 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 28 | The Pokémon Phenomenon | 2016-12-07 | 12 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 29 | The Future of Gaming | 2016-12-16 | 12 min |
