Game Makers

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Game Makers
Country of origin Flag of the United States United States
No. of episodes 71
Production
Running time 21-22 minutes
(30 minutes w/commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel G4TV
Original run 5/1/2002 – 12/12/2005

Game Makers is a TV show on G4. The original series followed the process of game development, as a company attempts to finish a big new game in time for shipment. The "original" Game Makers did not air often, and when it did it was referred to as a "G4 Special Presentation" rather than a separate entity. The original Game Makers was cancelled and taken off air in early 2006. After the revamp of Icons in June 2006, the classic game based episodes of Icons began to air under the name Game Makers. The original series no longer airs, but a few re-runs aired in May 2006. Game Makers (episodes of the original Game Makers and original Icons) last aired December 1, 2006, on G4. Considering one new episode of the show on Madden 07 (essentially an original Game Makers episode) was aired in November. G4 reran Game Makers in December 2007 on Wednesdays, despite it's air in the early mornings.

Currently, Game Makers airs exclusivley on the G4 Rewind block which airs programs from the network's past. Scheduling for the show is spontaneous

Contents

[edit] Episodes from Game Makers, previously Icons 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. Megaman
  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
  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] Trivia

At least four of these episodes were put onto versions of the games they were about.

  • The Mega Man episode was featured on the Gamecube and Xbox versions of Mega Man Anniversary Collection (Though some of the content featured in the original episode that was unrelated to Mega Man or Capcom was removed).
  • The John Madden NFL Football episode was featured as part of the Madden 2005: Collector's Edition on Playstation 2.
  • The Doom episode was featured on the Doom 3 Collectors Edition for Xbox.
  • The Splinter Cell episode was featured on the Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory collectors disc for the Playstation 2.

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