Bonus - The Military and Video Games w/ Jesse Robertson (Preview)

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Jesse Robertson, writer and doctoral student in history at Harvard University, sits down with Danny to talk about the history of video games and their connection with the Pentagon. They explore the history going back to 1962’s Spacewar!, the army’s turn toward creating simulations in the 1970s and SIMNET, the neoliberal turn of more private companies developing military gaming, the Doom series, figures like Michael Zyda leading the connection between the Pentagon and the digital entertainment sector, the Call of Duty series, and more. Subscribe now for the full episode! Read Jesse’s piece for The Nation, “Call of Duty: Pentagon Ops”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.6	But I'm very excited to welcome to the podcast today.
0:59.8	Jesse Robertson.
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