EPS Podcast Shorts: "Hitting the Road"

Everything is a Primary Source

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EPS Podcast Shorts: "Hitting the Road"

EPS Podcast

Dec 13, 2022

Road Rash II was developed by Electronic Arts in 1992 for the Sega Genesis, the 16 bit video game platform that had itself been created to compete with home video game giant, Nintendo. Both game and system were a product of commercial outlets trying to get the attention of the teenage demographic that Nintendo and other brands were falling behind with.

Brian visited with me during my recent visit to Loaded Question Brewery in Portsmouth, NH to talk about how games like Road Rash II and many other titles for the Genesis helped elevate the status of Electronic Arts among video gamers.

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Everything is a Primary Source

The analysis of a primary source helps us to learn about the time period and the place from which it came. Too often we limit the term "primary source" to mean just newspapers, letters, diaries and such, when in reality EVERYTHING, from toy packaging to movies, websites to toothpaste, restaurant menus to , well, podcasts, can be dissected. This podcast focuses on American Popular Culture and treats films, songs, food, comic books, toys, games, TV shows, clothing...& etc as artifacts waiting to inform us about the time period and society that produced and embraced them.To learn more about the process, see materials and follow the episodes, go to epspodcast.club Join the EPS Podcast Facebook Group to follow new episodes, see announcements and offer up suggestions for future episodes.

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