This week, Smitty talks to Rob Atkins about his nearly 30 years of working in the video game industry. Rob is a co-founder of Ritual Entertainment and CEO of Balanced Media Technologies. His video game roots include Duke Nukem, Terminal Velocity and Max Payne, and he now uses the processing power of video games to help with medical research in the fight against COVID-19, cancer, and other critical medical challenges.

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Timestamps:

02:07 - listener letters

12:31 - interview with Rob Atkins

34:39 - Fire Flower, the history of Nintendo part 1

41:09 - what's new at Special Reserve Games

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Podcast Production by Dan Vadeboncoeur

Intro theme music by Jesse Hamel

Other music:

"Magic Cloud" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/