Icons (TV series)

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Icons is a documentary TV show on G4 that used to focus on significant people, companies, products, history, and milestones in world of video games. It was relaunched in 2006 and now focuses entirely on pop culture.

In December 2005, the editor for Icons announced on the G4 forums that he had been fired, and that G4 was retooling the show for 2006.

On May 10, 2006, it was announced that Icons was relaunching on June 3 with an episode focusing on J.J. Abrams. [1] The show will feature a broader scope on things and people "men 18-34 care about, admire and emulate." Future episodes will focus on Marc Ecko, The Onion, and Family Guy. This change in format had been suspected, due to the recent episodes about George A. Romero, Frank Miller and the history of the King Kong franchise.

The classic video game themed episodes continue to air on the network, under the new name of Game Makers.

Contents 1 Episodes 1.1 Season One 1.2 Season Two 1.3 Season Three 1.4 Season Four 1.5 Season Five

[edit] Episodes

[edit] Season One

1. Oddworld Inhabitants
2. Nolan Bushnell
3. Pac-Man
4. Lara Croft
5. Activision
6. Shigeru Miyamoto
7. EverQuest
8. BioWare
9. Will Wright
10. Women in Gaming
11. Insomniac Games
12. Sid Meier
13. Scary Games
14. Richard Garriott
15. Bruce Shelley
16. John Madden NFL Football
17. Stealth Games
18. The Lord of the Rings (Vivendi Universal)

[edit] Season Two

1. Atari
2. Music Makers
3. Unreal
4. Yu Suzuki
5. Intellivision
6. The Legend of Zelda
7. Xbox
8. Arcade
9. The History of E3
10. LucasArts
11. Red Storm
12. Warren Spector
13. PC Gaming
14. The Crash
15. Games in the Military
16. Naughty Dog
17. Mario
18. Onimusha Halloween '03
19. Mega Man
20. Yuji Naka
21. Final Fantasy
22. Dungeons & Dragons

[edit] Season Three

1. Music Games
2. Sega Dreamcast
3. ESRB
4. Peter Molyneux
5. Tetris
6. Electronic Arts
7. Game Boy
8. Donkey Kong
9. Nobuo Uematsu
10. Doom
11. Dead or Alive
12. SNK
13. Mortal Kombat
14. Prince of Persia
15. Mark Cuban
16. Metal Gear Solid
17. Half-Life
18. Bungie
19. Apple II
20. Fighting Games

[edit] Season Four

1. Gran Turismo
2. Splinter Cell
3. Frank Miller
4. Tim Schafer
5. Star Wars Games
6. Ralph Baer
7. PlayStation
8. George A. Romero
9. Xbox 360
10. NES
11. King Kong

[edit] Season Five

1. J.J. Abrams
2. SuicideGirls (later aired uncut on July 1st)
3. Marc Ecko
4. Michelle Rodríguez
5. Kevin Smith
6. Jamie Kennedy
7. The Smoking Gun
8. Chuck Lidell
9. Seth Green
10. The Onion
11. Sacha Baron Cohen