Arcade and Retro podcast

Retr0gamer

A few of us from the arcade and retro forum have started making a podcast about old games, we usually manage to get one up every week. Anyway if you want to check it out and give encouragement/nasty comments about it then head over to:

www.arcadeandretro.com

The latest podcast is about Lucas Arts adventures and there's previous ones covering Starfox, Hudson Soft, Horror games and a Valentines Day special on romance in videogames.

We're on itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/arcade-and-retro.com/id501021338

And facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Arcade-and-Retrocom/276484889080229

jaykhunter

Enjoying listening to this, well done! V good audio quality too

Can I ask who are u hosting your podcasts with?

Retr0gamer

Glad you enjoyed it. I'll have to ask Gavin who we are hosting it with but will get back to you.

Mr E

Great job - I just finished the Lucasarts episode, and I'm going to work my way through the others.

James74

Really enjoyed these. Like the one main theme per episode. Well done gents (and Sarah).

Sabre0001

Only got to listen to half LucasArts earlier, but I enjoyed it. Plenty of knowledge and tidbits s of info for the listener!

quarryman

Listening now, sounds good. No introductions though, who am I listening to?

Edit: ah, went to the website, retrogamer and dinorex.

cherryghost

Lads lads lads tone down those sexy voices :pac:

Nah really, good show. Looking forward to more.

DinoRex

jaykhunter wrote: »

Enjoying listening to this, well done! V good audio quality too

Can I ask who are u hosting your podcasts with?

It's just standard shared hosting... think I'm using Digiweb for these.

I have a premium soundcloud account now so may move to that for future episodes.

May have a new one up tomorrow about 8-Bit micros.

SeantheMan

Will give it a go now, just listening to Sabres atm.
Very suprised to find 2 threads about game shows from boards. within the last 10 mins

DinoRex

Episode 6 is now up... Also available on Soundcloud now.

http://arcadeandretro.com/arcade-and-retro-podcast-episode-6-8-bit-micros/

Mr E

Excellent episode guys.... you really only scratched the surface though. Hopefully you'll do more on this topic!

As a massive fan of SID music, I loved the background tracks too. Time to blow the virtual dust off HVSC I think...

Sparks43

Mr E wrote: »

Excellent episode guys.... you really only scratched the surface though. Hopefully you'll do more on this topic!

As a massive fan of SID music, I loved the background tracks too. Time to blow the virtual dust off HVSC I think...

Glad you enjoyed it and i agree that a lot more needs to be said about the 8bit systems.


Next there is a 2 part Zelda special that i had an absolute blast in the recording of.

On 8bit here is a program for you all to try
10 Print "Boulder Dash";
20 Goto 10

Run

eddhorse

These are great for me driving around Germany this week, thanks guys, makes it a lot more bearable

DinoRex

New one should be ready today.

DinoRex

Latest episode just went live:

Arcade and Retro Podcast Episode 7: The Legend of Zelda Series (part 1)

Retr0gamer

Sorry for the hiatus but we are back. Part 2 of the Legend of Zelda podcast is now up and we should be recording at the weekend so hopefully no more big breaks!

http://arcadeandretro.com/arcade-and-retropodcast-episode-8-the-legend-of-zelda-series-part-2/

Retr0gamer

Another episode is up this time covering the Contra series:

http://arcadeandretro.com/arcade-and-retro-podcast-episode-9-contra-or-probotector-or-eh-gryzor/

Mr E

Hands up who thinks Stephen really really loves Contra games?

Good podcast though.... what's up next?

Myrddin

Mr E wrote: »

what's up next?

They're doing a Pillow Pets Special

Retr0gamer

Mr E wrote: »

Hands up who thinks Stephen really really loves Contra games?

Good podcast though.... what's up next?

Yes I do! I love Gunstar Heroes more though, but only just Metal Slug also has a soft spot in my heart.

As for what is next, it's not been decided yet but we have plenty of ideas to try out, depends who we get into the studio.

Retr0gamer

Latest episode is up:


Arcade and Retro Podcast Episode 10 : Tomb Raiding

Retr0gamer

After a bit of a hiatus the podcast is back. This week we are discussing piracy but with a retro slant. We also have a two part sonic podcast we recorded weeks ago but were too busy/lazy to post up:

http://arcadeandretro.com/arcade-and-retro-podcast-episode-11-piracy-special/

From schoolyards to Coffee Mornings, Dial up to internet, Double tape decks to CD rips.Piracy has always been rife in the Videogame industry.

In this Episode Gavin,Sparks,Retro and Sera discuss the history and effects of copied floppies, Duplicated Discs and of course recorded tapes.We also discuss emulation, roms and archives.

Remember Kids Piracy is illegal, immoral and you will go to hell.

Mr E

Listened to it already this morning.... good job as usual.

Grimebox

Just listened to the LucasArts one. Turns out a lot of those point and click games had voice acting.... what the hell versions was I playing?! I don't remember any of that in Day of the Tentacle or Sam and Max! An excuse to replay them perhaps

DinoRex

Grimebox wrote: »

Just listened to the LucasArts one. Turns out a lot of those point and click games had voice acting.... what the hell versions was I playing?! I don't remember any of that in Day of the Tentacle or Sam and Max! An excuse to replay them perhaps

You probably had the floppy versions. Fate of Atlantis was probably the earliest one with voice acting. Think a talkie version of that came out on CD-Rom in 1992.

Also configuring a sound card was a pain in the hole back in those days.

Retr0gamer

The original releases and Amiga releases didn't have voice acting, it was later CD-Rom rereleases that were talkies.

super_furry

Really good stuff, walked around town yesterday listening to the two Zelda podcasts. Almost made me buy a 3DS XL to play Ocarina again.

Retr0gamer

New episode up this time to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Street Fighter. Another thing to mention is that the Irish Fighting Game community is having a tournament in honour of the anniversary this Saturday which has the backing of Capcom. There are qualifiers for a competition in Paris and prizes include flights and accommodation for the event. Registration and details are at http://www.sf25.eu/

http://arcadeandretro.com/arcade-and-retro-podcast-epiosde-12-street-fighter/

Retr0gamer

Since it's Halloween and with the recent release of Resident Evil 6 we just had to look back at the series that coined the phrase Survival Horror:

http://arcadeandretro.com/arcade-and-retro-podcast-resident-evil/

SeantheMan

Will give them both a listen now

Mr E

Just had a listen this morning... I was never a huge fan of the games (apart from maybe RE4). Good job on the podcast though, entertaining as usual.

Retr0gamer

We have a new podcast up, this time a Christmas special about Xmas themed games and memories:

http://arcadeandretro.com/arcade-and-retro-podcast-xmas-xtravaganza/

super_furry

Better have lots of Christmas Lemmings, cos if you don't.....

Retr0gamer

We're back podcasting! The new podcast is about the Ghost n'Goblins franchise. Hope my sore throat isn't too annoying!



http://arcadeandretro.com/arcade-and-retro-podcast-ep-14-ghostsn-goblins/

Retr0gamer

New podcast is up. This time we look at the Phantasy Star series from it's origins as a Master System and Megadrive RPG to it's current online incarnations:

http://arcadeandretro.com/arcade-retro-podcast-15-phantasy-star-retrospective/

Retr0gamer

Part 1 of the Sonic podcast is up!

http://arcadeandretro.com/sonic1/

Myrddin

This is the Half Life 3 of the A&R Podcast world, looking forward to it

Grimebox

The discussion of which Sonic cartridges were male/female, oh god

Retr0gamer

Part 2 of the Sonic podcast id up.

BTW I still think Sonic Adventure sucks

http://arcadeandretro.com/arcade-and-retro-podcast-sonic-special-part-2/

Retr0gamer

We took a new approach with the podcast. This time we focused on a year in gaming, 1993. Let us know what you think:

http://arcadeandretro.com/arcade-and-retro-podcast-1993-special/

Grimebox

Sounds great! You seem to cover all the games from my early childhood!

I'm going to have play Chaos Engine again. That game was nothing short of impossible at the time

super_furry

Grimebox wrote: »

Sounds great! You seem to cover all the games from my early childhood!

I'm going to have play Chaos Engine again. That game was nothing short of impossible at the time

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-07-05-heres-what-the-new-chaos-engine-looks-like

ShadowHearth

HOLY **** that intro was fecking painful to my ears! I had my speakers cranked up too.

Josey Wales

ShadowHearth wrote: »

HOLY **** that intro was fecking painful to my ears! I had my speakers cranked up too.

Exact same thing happened to me.

I thought the show was pretty good but it cut out near the end and wouldn't restart. I'm blaming my iPhone.

I never had an Amiga but a friend of mine had and I used to enjoying playing Chaos Engine.

SeantheMan

Josey Wales wrote: »

Exact same thing happened to me.

I thought the show was pretty good but it cut out near the end and wouldn't restart. I'm blaming my iPhone.

No, it's not your iPhone, I'm listening now and can't even focus on the chat at the start due to this awful music. If it continues I'm turning it off....
God 4.30 mins in and it's still going..

Retro please have a look at this for future episodes...yay, stopped after 5mins.

Retr0gamer

Not my choice of music It does end after a while though.

DinoRex

Retr0gamer

We've been away for a while but while we don't have a new podcast (working on trying to get a time that suits!) Dinorex was a guest on Threat Detection talking about old games:

http://www.mixcloud.com/Radiomade/threat-detection-with-gareth-james-featuring-arcade-retros-gavin-byrne-25-2-14/?utm_source=widget&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=base_links&utm_term=resource_link

Retr0gamer

So we've started doing the podcast again after over a year of absence, sorry about that but hopefully we will be recording regularly again. This time we are talking about Batman games:

http://arcadeandretro.com/arcade-and-retro-podcast-19-batman/

Retr0gamer

New podcast is up. We tried to do something a little different for Halloween this time so looked at the history of blood in videogames.

http://arcadeandretro.com/arcade-and-retro-podcast-20-the-bloodening/