The second episode of Down Memory Game and our first Christmas special were we occasionally shoe horn in a Christmas reference into our nerd banter about all things tabletop and geek culture.  The year is 1982/83. Phil, Andy and our very special guest, Dave from The Frankenstein RPG Podcast https://www.frankensteinrpg.co.uk/ talk about Star Frontiers, more Cthulhu, Ogre, Fighting Fantasy and much more!

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All of us here at Down Memory Game, including our wonderful guests, would like to wish everyone a very happy holidays!

This is the first episode of Down Memory Game. Recorded 'live' from the Geek Retreat Games store in Liverpool city centre.  The year is 1981. Phil, Andy, Chris and Neil discuss their first foray into the world of role playing games and the store that brought them all together (figuratively speaking) Games of Liverpool.

Games discussed: 

Dungeons and Dragons Moldvay and Red Box editions. 

Call of Cthulhu 1st edition.

Movies mentioned: 

Lord of the Rings by Ralph Bakshi

Conan the Barbarian

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

Rambo First Blood

TV shows:

Kenny Everett

The Young Ones

Locations: 

Games of Liverpool

Midroll shout out to Tale of the Manticore https://taleofthemanticore.podbean.com/

Greetings and welcome to the Down Memory Game Podcast…

Down Memory Game (DMG) is a tabletop gaming and nostalgia show. What does that mean? Well, the tabletop gaming bit refers to RPGs, Board games, war games and card games.  The only rule is that the games in question have to have been owned by one of the show members.

What about the nostalgia bit? Well between us we have a lot of games, and a lot of years playing them!  We want to explore how we were playing the games at the time and looking back, how we felt the pop culture of the era influenced how we played those games. So, what books were we reading? What movies and tv shows were we watching at the time? How they may have they affected how we played said games?