Real life isn't real enough for you? You need the daily treadmill also in your gaming? Well, we got something for you! In Sierra's 1991 game Jones in the Fast Lane, you get to live your spectacular life as an absolutely ordinary person whose biggest goal is to become assistant manager of the paper company factory.

Joining hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") are new Club members Amy ("SummerB") and Jon ("BogusMeatFactory").

Also a big thanks to DGC member "FireFyte" for sending in a voice message! It's much appreciated. If you want to send in a voice message yourself, you can email them to [email protected]

The month's shoutout goes to Nalani and Roberta, aka NaBerta, who stream adventure games and have interviews with many of the great minds of gaming history. Visit them on https://www.twitch.tv/nabertacgg or check out their Twitter profile @NaBertaCGG.

That's all for now. Enjoy!

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* An interview with Jones lead developer Warren Schwader

* Speedy Adventures: Twitter, Twitch and Discord

* Jon: Twitch

* Amy: Twitch

* BrutalMoose on Jones in the Fast Lane

* NaBerta (Twitch and Twitter)

Update: In case it wasn't clear already, this was an april fool's joke. We made an English language podcast about Jones too and will keep the show in English of course.

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It's 1 APRIL again and that means we look at the game we played in February, which in this case is Jones in the Fast Lane.

Now as is so often the case, we're once again joined by an international cast of guest for this episode. And this got us thinking: rarely is English the native language of the people on our show, yet we do it in English anyway. What a hassle! That's why we've decided to change things up by letting everyone speak in their own language instead. This allows for much easier and more interesting discussion, which surely will improve the quality of the show!

Gastheren Martijn ("Tijn") en Florian ("rnlf") worden in deze aflevering vergezeld door Jozef ("yozy"), Esko ("Firefyte"), Marwane ("wan") en Oddvar ("dollarone").

Zu den Moderatoren Martijn („Tijn“) und Florian („rnlf“) gesellen sich in dieser Folge Jozef („yozy“), Esko („Firefyte“), Marwane („wan“) und Oddvar („dollarone“).

Medzi moderátorov Martijna ("Tijn") a Floriana ("rnlf") v tejto epizóde patria Jozef ("yozy"), Esko ("Firefyte"), Marwane ("wan") a Oddvar ("dollarone").

Jozef ("yozy"), Esko ("Firefyte"), Marwane ("wan") ja Oddvar ("dollarone") ovat mukana juonten Martijn ("Tijn") ja Florian ("rnlf") tässä jaksossa.

Joindre les hôtes Martijn ("Tijn") et Florian ("rnlf") pour cet épisode sont Jozef ("yozy"), Esko ("Firefyte"), Marwane ("wan") et Oddvar ("dollarone").

Sammen med vertene Martijn ("Tijn") og Florian ("rnlf") for denne episoden er Jozef ("yozy"), Esko ("Firefyte"), Marwane ("wan") og Oddvar ("dollarone").

Veel plezier! Habe Spaß! Príjemnú zábavu! Pidä hauskaa! S'amuser! Ha det gøy!

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The Mega-Corps pay well, for those good enough to survive. They call you into the shadows with dreams of wealth, and you answer, the only way you know how.

Apogee's 1994 vertical shooter Raptor - Call of the Shadows was a game that impressed many young players back in the day with its slick graphics, fluid gameplay and massive explosions. But does it hold up today? How does it compare to other games from that genre and era, nearly 30 years later?

Joining hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") are returning Club members Esko ("Firefyte") and Jozef ("yozy"), as well as Hannes ("Mr Creosote"), who's on for the first time.

Also a big thanks to DGC member "Pixel Prophecy" for sending in a voice message! It's much appreciated. If you want to send in a voice message yourself, you can email them to [email protected]

The month's shoutout goes to one of our own, DGC member "watchful", who is creating a podcast with descriptive, audio-only Let's Plays. In our opinion a great way to make our community more inclusive to a wider range of people. You can find the podcast on https://letsplaybyplay.org/.

That's all for now. Enjoy!

[ download mp3 ] (112 mins, 128 MB)

* A review of Raptor in an old UK magazine, scanned in by DGC member Richard ("Pix")

* Review of Raptor from 2021 written by podcast participant Hannes ("Mr Creosote") on goodolddays.net

* "Black Eagle 2", a DOS game made by podcast participant Jozef when he was younger, using assets from Raptor and other games on github.com

* Scott Host's Raptor Remixed Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/scotthost

* Scott Host's Website with Raptor for sale: http://www.mking.com/about.html

* Raptor soundtrack: Adlib/OPL and General MIDI.

* Let's Play by Play (watchful's podcast): https://letsplaybyplay.org/

What have you gotten yourself into this time, Roger Wilco?

You wanted to have an easy, laid back job as a janitor on a space ship, but somehow it all went straight to crazy land the moment a bunch of space pirates came to take away a mysterious device you wouldn't understand anyway.

Will you be able to save the world many times over? Survive crash landing on a jungle planet and a big robot boxing match? Will you stop the invasion of the life insurance salesmen clone army? Do all those things - and many more - in Sierra's classic adventure series that ran in six episodes from 1986 to 1995 and represents a cross cut through almost the entirety of DOS gaming hardware.

Joining hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") are returning Club members Richard and Michael, as well as Jess, who has been running the very first Space Quest fansite on the web since the 90s.

Also a big thanks to DGC members "watchful" and "Shattered" for sending in a voice message! It's much appreciated. If you want to send in a voice message yourself, you can email them to [email protected]

And last but not least: we're doing shout outs now! This time we'd like to guide your attention to the Talking Simulator Podcast, which is a great little videogame podcast by Jordan Erica Webber, featuring many interesting guests.

That's all for now. Enjoy!

[ download mp3 ] (172 mins, 197 MB)

* Jess' site: Roger Wilco's Virtual Broomcloset

* SpaceQuest.net

* Space Quest Historian

* Space Quest: the movie

* Wiki page on "Software Excess" from Space Quest 4, with links to all the funny box texts

* Space Quest FAQ

* Archived copy of Wilco's Domain on Geocities

* Space Venture Kickstarter, the upcoming spiritual successor to Space Quest by the Two Guys From Andromeda

* Shout out: Talking Simulator Podcast

Addendum: we talk a bit about "AGI", but never explain what it is. AGI is shorthand for "Adventure Game Interpreter" and was the original engine developed by Sierra for King's Quest and their later adventure games. It was later followed by an engine called SCI, the Sierra Creative Interpreter. More info on Wikipedia: AGI.

Did you really, really want a model train set as a kid, with a landscape modeled after your preferences, stations where you want them and amazing trains that you control? Was it absolutely out of reach for you as well?

Well, thanks to Chris Sawyer's Transport Tycoon, we got what we wanted in the end, even if it was just virtual in our computers - maybe even better in many aspects. We also look at how projects like TTDPatch and OpenTTD kept the game alive through the decades and how the game is still being actively improved to this day.

Joining hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") are returning Club member David and new member Niels, who is actually an active developer of OpenTTD and thus very knowledgeable about the game and especially OpenTTD's history. Sadly, David had to leave a couple minutes early, so the last 20 minutes ro so it's just the three of us.

We're doing shout outs now! This time we'd like to guide your attention to Ms Mad Lemon (Website) who makes (among others) hardware tinkering videos about 8 and 16 bit computers. Even this "Amiga" we hear so much about. Go subscribe to her and say hi from us!

That's all for now. Enjoy!

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* David's videos about TTD (among others)

* Niels' TTD music collection

* Richard ("Pix") has once again scanned UK magazines reviews for us

* tt-forums.net is *the* place to talk about Transport Tycoon

* TTDPatch website

* OpenTTD website

* Ms Mad Lemon's Website (with further links to her Twitter and YouTube)

Oh no! First Penelope is kidnapped by the evil Dr. Hammerstein, then your uncle Horace is murdered and finally, you crash your airplane in the South American jungle where Penelope gets bitten by a venomous spider!

Join us as we explore the world of the Hugo series, made for the most part by one man in the late 80s and early 90s, consisting of 3+1 games that are both heart-warmingly charming and mind-boggingly (and involuntarily) psychedelic.

We played the First Person Shooter sequel "Nightmare-3D" in episode 10, back in our club's first year!

Joining hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") are Michael, host of the DOS Games Jam (which we covered earlier in episode 41) and Dr. DOS, who is the current world record speed runner of the first game in the series.

Björn ("TigeQuoll") and Bernd have sent in voice messages, for which we're very grateful. If you'd also like to share a voice message, please send them [email protected]

We're doing shout outs now! This time we'd like to guide your attention to Lady Decade (Twitter and YouTube) who makes brilliant videos mostly about 3rd to 5th generation consoles and games for those. Go subscribe to her and say hi from us!

That's all for now. Enjoy!

[ download mp3 ] (134 mins, 154 MB)

* DOS Game Club episode on Nightmare-3D

* Dr. DOS' world record Any% speedrun

* Explanation of exploitable glitches, also by Dr. DOS

* David P. Gray's Website, where you can still buy HHH and N3D

* Interviews with David P. Grey: adventureclassicgaming.com, classicdosgames.com & plusxp.com (via archive.org)

* Lady Decade on Twitter

* Lady Decade's YouTube Channel

Hang on to yer helmet while we drive over a couple pedestrians and cows and try to wreck the other drivers in Stainless Software's 1997 cult classic "Carmageddon".

Join us as we try to figure out what the whole hype was about, exactly how far over the top this game really is and whether this is a racing game, an action game, both or neither!

Joining hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") is returning DGC member Björn ("TigerQuoll"), who hadn't actually played the game before and new member Thanael ("Trumad") who has been a big fan ever since it came out.

Starting this episode we want to highlight retro content creators who are not white men in their late 30s (those are cool, too, but let's find out what other, less prominent voices are out there in our community!)

For our first time we'd like to give a big shout out to Tech Ambrosia, who creates fantastic videos, mostly about late Pentium era hardware. You can find her on YouTube and Twitter. Go subscribe to her and say hi from us!

Enjoy!

[ download mp3 ] (127 mins, 146 MB)

* Lots of UK magazine reviews, scanned in as always by DGC member Pix

* Björn's Comparison Video

* The Retro Hour Podcast Episode 106: Crystal Quest to Carmageddon with Patrick Buckland

* The Retro Hour Podcast Episode 53: Carmageddon & Lawnmower Man with Fergus McNeill

* Stainless Christmas Party 2010 (YouTube)

* Tony Through the Looking Glass (YouTube)

* Archived interview with Patrick Buckland on Carmageddon in Edge Magazine from 2012

* Tech Ambrosia's YouTube Channel

* Tech Ambrosia on Twitter

It's time for round four of our "year of the adventure game"! So far we've covered Day of the Tentacle, Lost Eden and Simon the Sorcerer, but now it's time to go beyond the stars with Interplay's 1992 Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the original series. Originally released on floppy disk and later expanded with a CD-ROM edition, this space combat / point & click adventure hybrid game plays like interactive episodes of the TV series.

Joining host Martijn ("Tijn") is returning DGC member Tyler ("Corgibuttz"), who was intrigued by the game since childhood, but never actually got around to playing it for real. Also joining is Juho Kuorikoski, a Finnish game historian and journalist, who is also a Trekkie. He has a YouTube channel reviewing old games and the very first video he posted was about this very game, Star Trek: 25th Anniversary. It's in fact the very first PC game he has ever bought, so he's more than qualified to tell us all about this game.

Sadly our trusty co-host Florian ("rnlf") had to skip this episode due to a scheduling mishap, but he'll be back for the next one for sure.

Enjoy!

[ download mp3 ] (117 mins, 135 MB)

* Juho's video on Star Trek: 25th Anniversary

* Old magazine scans of Star Trek: 25th Anniversary scanned in by DGC members TigerQuoll and Pix

* A great retrospective on Star Trek: 25th Anniversary by The Digital Antiquarian

* A video interview with Brian Fargo on Star Trek: 25th Anniversary by Dr. Matt Barton, video game historian

* Old clip of William Shatner arguing during the voice recordings about the pronounciation of the word "sabotage" (requires Flash)

Back when Blizzard Entertainment was still known as Silicon & Synapse, they made a funny looking puzzle-platformer called The Lost Vikings. It's hard as nails, utterly unfair, but also weirdly kind of compelling. What more can we say about it? Listen to find out!

Joining hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") for this episode are Oddvar ("dollarone") and Bjorn ("TigerQuoll"). We were also kindly sent a voice message by Thanael.

If you also want to send us a voice message, simply record your thoughts and e-mail them to [email protected]

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* DGC-member Pix scanned & uploaded some of his UK magazines with reviews of The Lost Vikings

* Free download of The Lost Vikings from blizzard.com - before it was added to the Arcade Collection, Blizzard offered The Lost Vikings for free through their website and the link still works to download it now.

* Blog post on The Lost Vikings on blizzard.com - has some neat background information and developer insights.

* The Lost Vikings on retrovolve.com - a nice retrospective with lots of neat info on the game.

Calypso needs your help! The evil sorcerer Sordid has turned him (and a couple other people) into stone. You need to become a Wizard and save the day in Adventure Soft's 1993 graphical adventure hit "Simon the Sorcerer"!

Joining hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") for this episode is Richard ("Pix").

[ download mp3 ] (119 mins, 136 MB)

* DGC-member Pix scanned & uploaded some of his UK magazines with reviews of Simon the Sorcerer

* adventuresoft.com - original website of Adventure Soft, still in operation, and has all the original games for sale and more!

* nemmelheim.de/horrorsoft - oldskool fansite of HorrorSoft / AdventureSoft, featuring among other things some interviews with the founders