Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Diary Of An Arcade Employee Ep. 034 (BurgerTime)
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Diary Of An Arcade Employee Ep. 034 (BurgerTime)
Friends, welcome back to a new episode of the Diary of an Arcade Employee podcast – for this show we are tackling BurgerTime, Data East’s 1982 classic platform arcade game. I didn’t think many of you would be stumped by BurgerTime being the subject of the show for this go around but I will admit I was a little surprised by how many private messages and e-mails I received with the answer – I guess everyone enjoyed that Centipede episode?
Time to make the burgers!
On this podcast I give you a bit of history on Data East, the developer and producer of BurgerTime – in particular how it was designed for their novel DECO cassette system. As I explain in a little more detail on the show itself – it was a system that was meant to make it easier for an arcade owner to switch up the games they had on the floor, once the popularity of a title was wearing out. As mentioned on this BurgerTime episode, I found this YouTube video that shows not just the DECO cassette system in action but what might be the only arcade in the World still using it!
BurgerTime did extremely well and that meant there were ports of the arcade game to the more popular home consoles and personal computers of the day. As an audio treat I’ve included three original commercials for these home ports on this episode – including that iconic live-action version… that just so happens to feature the terrifying Mr. Hot Dog ending.
If you have any suggestions for future games to cover or comments on the show itself you may email them to me at [email protected]. You can also contact me on Twitter and of course on Facebook. You can also keep up to date on what is going down at the Arkadia Retrocade by making sure to “Like” their Facebook Page. If you need a daily fix you can check out the Official Diary of an Arcade Employee Facebook Page too.
I hope you will enjoy this BurgerTime episode and thank you as always for taking the time to listen to the show.
Subscribe to the Diary of an Arcade Employee Podcast:[iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes. (MP3)
Directly Download the Diary of an Arcade Employee Podcast:
Episode Mirror #1 (MP3)
Episode Mirror #2 (OGG)
View all episodes
By Vic Sage
4.9
8181 ratings
Friends, welcome back to a new episode of the Diary of an Arcade Employee podcast – for this show we are tackling BurgerTime, Data East’s 1982 classic platform arcade game. I didn’t think many of you would be stumped by BurgerTime being the subject of the show for this go around but I will admit I was a little surprised by how many private messages and e-mails I received with the answer – I guess everyone enjoyed that Centipede episode?
Time to make the burgers!
On this podcast I give you a bit of history on Data East, the developer and producer of BurgerTime – in particular how it was designed for their novel DECO cassette system. As I explain in a little more detail on the show itself – it was a system that was meant to make it easier for an arcade owner to switch up the games they had on the floor, once the popularity of a title was wearing out. As mentioned on this BurgerTime episode, I found this YouTube video that shows not just the DECO cassette system in action but what might be the only arcade in the World still using it!
BurgerTime did extremely well and that meant there were ports of the arcade game to the more popular home consoles and personal computers of the day. As an audio treat I’ve included three original commercials for these home ports on this episode – including that iconic live-action version… that just so happens to feature the terrifying Mr. Hot Dog ending.
If you have any suggestions for future games to cover or comments on the show itself you may email them to me at [email protected]. You can also contact me on Twitter and of course on Facebook. You can also keep up to date on what is going down at the Arkadia Retrocade by making sure to “Like” their Facebook Page. If you need a daily fix you can check out the Official Diary of an Arcade Employee Facebook Page too.
I hope you will enjoy this BurgerTime episode and thank you as always for taking the time to listen to the show.
Subscribe to the Diary of an Arcade Employee Podcast:[iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes. (MP3)
Directly Download the Diary of an Arcade Employee Podcast:
Episode Mirror #1 (MP3)
Episode Mirror #2 (OGG)