Into The Vertical Blank

By Jeff Fulton & Steve FultonSociety & Culture Technology Leisure Video Games Personal Journals

Into The Vertical Blank episodes

November 22, 2018S1:E9: Laser Blast And The Weird Family Thanksgiving (remaster)
S1:E9: The Weird Family Thanksgiving In the Vertical Blank
In the penultimate episode of season one of Into The Vertical Blank, travel back to Thanksgiving holidays of the past to find out how pop culture, games and Atari fit into The Vertical Blank. This episode features a story by Steve Fulton named "The Weird Family" and Story by Jeff Fulton named "4 Days In November"
Notes:
See images mentiiend inpodcast here:
http://www.8bitrocket.com/2018/11/21/s1e9-the-weird-family-thanksgiving-in-the-vertical-blank/
Of Dice And Men: by David M. Ewalt : https://www.amazon.com/Dice-Men-Dungeons-Dragons-People/dp/145164051X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1542898885&sr=8-1&keywords=of+dice+and+men
Colonial Coquest by SSI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Conquest
Starleague Baseball: http://www.geekometry.com/2013/11/gamechanger-star-league-baseball/
Laser Blast!: http://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=270
Lilttle Alchemy : https://littlealchemy.com/

Images Mentioned In Podcast
50's Day 1982
Laser Blast High Score, 1982
1 hr 8 min
October 25, 2018S1:E8: Wild Gunman and The Bronze Age Of Arcade Games (remaster)
S1:E8: The Bronze Age of Arcade Video Games
In this episode Steve and Jeff discuss their favorite games and memories of the Bronze Age of arcade video games, a period that spans 1971 (pong) to 1978 (Space Invaders). The pair talk about what was special about those games, and why they matter today. Also included: new music by Jeff, Atari Haiku, a remix by Jeff, and brand-new story by Steve named “Sharpshooter”.
Games Mentioned
Pac-Man 256: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F86_pplPreo
Bard’s Tale 4: https://store.steampowered.com/app/566090/The_Bards_Tale_IV_Barrows_Deep/
Atari Flashback Classics 1: https://www.atari.com/games/atari-flashback-classics-volume1/
Atari Flashback Classics 2: https://www.atari.com/games/atari-flashback-classics-volume2/
Atari Flashback Classics 3: https://www.atari.com/games/atari-flashback-classics-volume3/
Atari Flashback Classics Switch: https://www.atari.com/games/atari-flashback-classics-switch/
Atari Vault: https://store.steampowered.com/app/400020/Atari_Vault/
Atari Baseball (Arcade) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLsAjY_aNho
Atari Basketball (Arcade) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KlJieawWcQ
Atari Soccer (Arcade) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyHn73nrx3k
Avalanche (Arcade) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VDvRlNuaX4
Canyon Bomber (Arcade): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdpo5jgxtSk
Destroyer (Arcade) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kuJfqVG_A
Dominos (Arcade) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSt2gMQ2U9w
Fire Truck / Smokey Joe (Arcade)
Maze Invaders (Arcade) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSja0y0N-N8
Monte Carlo (Arcade) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLjgkwCu1Lk
Pool Shark (Arcade) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lco2tW-X9Ms
Super Bug (Arcade) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBPe14I13Lk&t=12s
Wild Gunman (Nintendo, 1974). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmdOHmnbYHw&t=30s
Breakout (Atari, 1976) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW7Sg5pXAok
Space Wars (Cinematronics, 1977). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNNrzEGgpCs
Hercules (Atari, 1979)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=d9gvtl3o1no
Fire Truck (Atari, 1978 ).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMol8ES3DGM
Sky Raider (Atari, 1978) https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=34&v=u-u5FA3Rqho
Speed Freak (Vectorbeam, 1978). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syDQ1GEM-s8
Stunt Cycle (Atari, 1976): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU_Up648_kU
Video Pinball (Atari, 1978). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oI5oDBSQM8
Freeway: http://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=192
Crossyroad: https://www.crossyroad.com/
Books Mentioned
Beautiful Boy : https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Boy-Fathers-Journey-Addiction/dp/0547203888?keywords=beautiful+boy&qid=1540508310&sr=8-1&ref=sr_1_1
Breakin The Borders Vol. 1: https://www.microzeit.com/atari-store/volume-1/
Beyond The Borders Vol. 2: https://www.microzeit.com/atari-store-1/volume-2/
Vintage Game Consoles: https://www.amazon.com/Vintage-Game-Consoles-Commodore-Platforms/dp/1138428388?keywords=matt+barton&qid=1540510167&sr=8-5&ref=sr_1_5
Generation X/Generation Atari Podcasts
The Essential Growing up 80’s Podcast - https://player.fm/series/growing-up-80s
Gen X Grownup Podcast: http://genxgrownup.com/
More 80’s podcasts on Player FM - https://player.fm/en/podcasts/80's-podcasts
Atari ST and 400/800/XL/XE Podcasts
Antic - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/
XE Game By Game - http://xegs8bit.com/
XL/XE - https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/xlxe-xlxe-uvPGcxAZnHD/
Player / Missile - https://playermissile.com/
Inverse ATASCII - https://inverseatascii.info/
Atari Game Podcasts
Ferg’s amazing Atari 2600 Game By Game Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-2600-game-by-game-podcast
Atari Bytes - https://player.fm/series/atari-bytes
The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast (classic episodes) - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-7800-game-by-game-podcast
Shinto’s Jaguar game by game Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-jaguar-game-by-game-podcast
The Atari 5200 Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-5200-podcast
The Atari 7800 Homebrew Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-7800-homebrew-podcast
The Atari Lynx Handy Cast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-lynx-handycast
The Atari 5200 Super Community Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-5200-super-community
The Best of the rest (if you are not listed an want to be , please contact us)
The Amazing Intellivisionaries Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-intellivisionaries-podcast
Intarivisions - Atari, Intellivision and Coleco common games - https://player.fm/series/intarivisions
The Pie Factory Podcast - https://piefactorypodcast.wordpress.com/
The Floppy Days Podcast - https://player.fm/series/floppydays-vintage-computing-podcast
Essential Podcasts that might be of interest to this community
Writer Types Podcast: http://swlauden.com/writer-types-podcast/
Reply-All - https://player.fm/series/reply-all
The Moth - https://themoth.org/podcast
Story Corps - https://storycorps.org/podcast/
Never let the fires die The official Alarm Podcast - http://thealarm.com/feed/podcast/
Comfortable Place on the Couch The Midnight Oil Podcast - http://darrenfoulds.com/podcasts/index.html
1 hr 9 min
October 25, 2018 S1:E8: Wild Gunman and The Bronze Age Of Arcade Games
S1:E8: The Bronze Age of Arcade Video Games
In this episode Steve and Jeff discuss their favorite games and memories of the Bronze Age of arcade video games, a period that spans 1971 (pong) to 1978 (Space Invaders). The pair talk about what was special about those games, and why they matter today. Also included: new music by Jeff, Atari Haiku, a remix by Jeff, and brand-new story by Steve named “Sharpshooter”.
Games Mentioned
Pac-Man 256: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F86_pplPreo
Bard’s Tale 4: https://store.steampowered.com/app/566090/The_Bards_Tale_IV_Barrows_Deep/
Atari Flashback Classics 1: https://www.atari.com/games/atari-flashback-classics-volume1/
Atari Flashback Classics 2: https://www.atari.com/games/atari-flashback-classics-volume2/
Atari Flashback Classics 3: https://www.atari.com/games/atari-flashback-classics-volume3/
Atari Flashback Classics Switch: https://www.atari.com/games/atari-flashback-classics-switch/
Atari Vault: https://store.steampowered.com/app/400020/Atari_Vault/
Atari Baseball (Arcade) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLsAjY_aNho
Atari Basketball (Arcade) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KlJieawWcQ
Atari Soccer (Arcade) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyHn73nrx3k
Avalanche (Arcade) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VDvRlNuaX4
Canyon Bomber (Arcade): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdpo5jgxtSk
Destroyer (Arcade) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kuJfqVG_A
Dominos (Arcade) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSt2gMQ2U9w
Fire Truck / Smokey Joe (Arcade)
Maze Invaders (Arcade) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSja0y0N-N8
Monte Carlo (Arcade) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLjgkwCu1Lk
Pool Shark (Arcade) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lco2tW-X9Ms
1 hr 9 min
September 19, 2018 S1:E7: Playing The VCS Together, Interview with Jamie Lendino (Remaster)
This episode takes a slightly more personal turn as twin brother hosts Jeff and Steve Fulton tell stories and relive memories of playing together in both analog and digital ways in the 1970’s. The episode includes an original non-fiction story by Steve Fulton titled “Big Mouse And Little Mouse 1.0”. (Remaster adds a section to this story). This episode also features an interview with Jamie Lendino about his book “Adventure: The Atari VCS At The Dawn Of Console Gaming”.
Show Notes

Extreme Tech Website edited by Jamie Lendino: https://www.extremetech.com/

Adventure: The Atari 2600 at the Dawn of Console Gaming” by Jamie Lendino:

Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation” by Jamie Lendino

Generation X/Generation Atari Podcasts
The Essential Growing up 80’s Podcast - https://player.fm/series/growing-up-80s
Gen X Grownup Podcast: http://genxgrownup.com/
More 80’s podcasts on Player FM - https://player.fm/en/podcasts/80's-podcasts
Atari ST and 400/800/XL/XE Podcasts
Antic - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/
XE Game By Game - http://xegs8bit.com/
XL/XE - https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/xlxe-xlxe-uvPGcxAZnHD/
Player / Missile - https://playermissile.com/
Inverse ATASCII - https://inverseatascii.info/
Atari Game Podcasts
Ferg’s amazing Atari 2600 Game By Game Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-2600-game-by-game-podcast
Atari Bytes - https://player.fm/series/atari-bytes
The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast (classic episodes) - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-7800-game-by-game-podcast
Shinto’s Jaguar game by game Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-jaguar-game-by-game-podcast
The Atari 5200 Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-5200-podcast
The Atari 7800 Homebrew Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-7800-homebrew-podcast
The Atari Lynx Handy Cast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-lynx-handycast
The Atari 5200 Super Community Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-5200-super-community
The Best of the rest (if you are not listed an want to be , please contact us)
The Amazing Intellivisionaries Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-intellivisionaries-podcast
Intarivisions - Atari, Intellivision and Coleco common games - https://player.fm/series/intarivisions
The Pie Factory Podcast - https://piefactorypodcast.wordpress.com/
The Floppy Days Podcast - https://player.fm/series/floppydays-vintage-computing-podcast

Essential Podcasts that might be of interest to this community
Writer Types Podcast: http://swlauden.com/writer-types-podcast/
Reply-All - https://player.fm/series/reply-all
The Moth - https://themoth.org/podcast
Story Corps - https://storycorps.org/podcast/
Never let the fires die The official Alarm Podcast - http://thealarm.com/feed/podcast/
Comfortable Place on the Couch The Midnight Oil Podcast - http://darrenfoulds.com/podcasts/index.html

1 hr 24 min
September 19, 2018 S1:E7: Playing The VCS Together, Interview with Jamie Lendino
This episode takes a slightly more personal turn as twin brother hosts Jeff and Steve Fulton tell stories and relive memories of playing together in both analog and digital ways in the 1970’s. The episode includes an original non-fiction story by Steve Fulton titled “Big Mouse And Little Mouse 1.0”. This episode also features an interview with Jamie Lendino about his book “Adventure: The Atari VCS At The Dawn Of Console Gaming”.
Show Notes

Extreme Tech Website edited by Jamie Lendino: https://www.extremetech.com/
Adventure: The Atari 2600 at the Dawn of Console Gaming” by Jamie Lendino:

Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation” by Jamie Lendino

Generation X/Generation Atari Podcasts
The Essential Growing up 80’s Podcast - https://player.fm/series/growing-up-80s
Gen X Grownup Podcast: http://genxgrownup.com/
More 80’s podcasts on Player FM - https://player.fm/en/podcasts/80's-podcasts
Atari ST and 400/800/XL/XE Podcasts
Antic - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/
XE Game By Game - http://xegs8bit.com/
XL/XE - https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/xlxe-xlxe-uvPGcxAZnHD/
Player / Missile - https://playermissile.com/
Inverse ATASCII - https://inverseatascii.info/
Atari Game Podcasts
Ferg’s amazing Atari 2600 Game By Game Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-2600-game-by-game-podcast
Atari Bytes - https://player.fm/series/atari-bytes
The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast (classic episodes)
1 hr 19 min
August 21, 2018S1:E6 - How The Atari ST and MIDI Might Have Ruined Our Favorite 80's Rock Band (Remaster)
The only thing from the 80's that could rival our love for Atari was our love for punk rock and new wave, and especially, our favorite band: The Alarm. In 1987 those two things combined in an unexpected way. So unexpected in fact, that we were only able to fully understand impact of those two world's clashing more than 30 years later. This episode documents that journey to understanding.
In 1987 we gave up the "Little Blue Desktop " of Atari 800 DOS for the Little Green Desktop of the Atari 520 ST. At that exact moment in time, the music industry was changing dramatically from one that used mostly analog recording practices to adding digital instruments and recording methods into the Studio. The ATARI (ubiquitously known without the ST) mostly in studios was the cheapest, most accurate sequencer on the market.
The list of bands that used an Atari ST for recording was compiled from the following sources: Atari Age,com forums, Sounds On Sounds Forum, https://www.musictech.net/, Matt Aniss and http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/, stuff.tv, Wikipedia and Google.
Matt Aniss has written the definitive exploration of the Atari ST an MIDI “Instumental Instruments- The Atari ST” http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/10/atari-st-instrumental-instruments
The Snippets of Alarm, songs played were used under fair use guidelines for the purposes of criticism. They were as follows:
Rain In The Summertime from the Album Eye Of The Hurricane, 1987
Declaration - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984
Marching On - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984
Across The Border - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984
Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke? - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984
Unsafe Building - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984
The Stand - live At The Hammersmith Palais, December 1984
Rain In The Summertime (Live) from the album Electric Folklore Live, 1988
Rescue Me, live at the Tower In Philadelphia, April 16th, 1988
Sold Me Down The River, from the album Change, 1989
Hardland, , from the album Change, 1989
Change 2, from the album Change, 1989
Prison Without Prison Bars , from the album Change, 1989
Rivers To Cross, from the album Change, 1989
Change 1, b-side of Raw singe, 1991
Two Rivers, from the album Equals, 2018
13 Dead Reindeer , from the album Equals, 2018
Tomorrow, from the album Equals, 2018

Atari Dos 2.X - Inside Atari DOS Byby Bill Wilkinson, published 1982 https://www.atariarchives.org/iad/
Atari ST TOS 1.0 Information, pictures, more
http://toastytech.com/guis/tos.html
BAAL - Atari ST - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=baal+atari+st
Better Dead than Alien - Atari ST -
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=better+dead+than+alien+atari+st
A selection of Atari ST game videos featuring music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_JcYTI-HT4&list=PLvf41E1k8S56HHewILZJ07qDZdRJP-UcO
The History of Midi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHmshRb5HQs
1986 Discussion of Midi Computers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-UtxKEXAAk
PODCAST ROLL:
Atari ST and 400/800/XL/XE Podcasts
Antic - https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/
XE Game By Game - http://xegs8bit.com/
XL/XE - https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/xlxe-xlxe-uvPGcxAZnHD/
Player / Missile - https://playermissile.com/
Inverse ATASCII - https://inverseatascii.info/
Atari Game Podcasts
Ferg’s amazing Atari 2600 Game By Game Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-2600-game-by-game-podcast
Atari Bytes - https://player.fm/series/atari-bytes
The Atari 7800 Game by Game Podcast (classic episodes) - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-7800-game-by-game-podcast
Shinto’s Jaguar game by game Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-jaguar-game-by-game-podcast
The Atari 5200 Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-5200-podcast
The Atari 7800 Homebrew Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-7800-homebrew-podcast
The Atari Lynx Handy Cast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-lynx-handycast
The Atari 5200 Super Community Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-atari-5200-super-community
The Best of the rest (if you are not listed an want to be , please contact us)
The Amazing Intellivisionaries Podcast - https://player.fm/series/the-intellivisionaries-podcast

The Essential Growing up 80’s Podcast - https://player.fm/series/growing-up-80s
Intarivisions - Atari, Intellivision and Coleco common games - https://player.fm/series/intarivisions
The Pie Factory Podcast - https://piefactorypodcast.wordpress.com/
The Floppy Days Podcast - https://player.fm/series/floppydays-vintage-computing-podcast
Essential Podcasts that might be of interest to this community
Reply-All - https://player.fm/series/reply-all
The Moth - https://themoth.org/podcast
Story Corps - https://storycorps.org/podcast/
Never let the fires die The official Alarm Podcast - http://thealarm.com/feed/podcast/
Comfortable Place on the Couch The Midnight Oil Podcast - http://darrenfoulds.com/podcasts/index.html
More 80’s podcasts on Player FM - https://player.fm/en/podcasts/80's-podcasts
58 min
July 22, 2018 S1:E5: All Appointments Life (Asteroids Part 2) (Remaster)
Into the Vertical Blank - Generation Atari: Season 1, Episode 5. All Appointments Life (Asteroids Part 2 )
This is the second episode where we will be covering the game Asteroids in story and discussion form. We have a story from 8bitjeff, and also very nice contributions Shinto, and Jim Fullerton.
The discussion dives into versions of Asteroids (and clones) after the arcade 2600, 5200 and Vectrex. These the Atari 7800, ST, Lynx, and various versions released for more modern hardware.
All music, sound FX and production on the Episode By Jeff and Steve Fulton.
Links:
Download an EXE file of Jeff’s Retro Evolved Asteroids game, Retro Blaster.
If you have the Flash Plug-in, you can play the browser version of Retro Blaster here.
8bitrocket.com Blog Posts on of the Essential Guide to Flash Games Book By Steve and Jeff Fulton

The Essential Guide to Flash Games Infomercial
The Essential Guide to Flash Games Book Preview Video Podcast
If you have the Flash Plug-In, you can play the Book Asteroids game called Blaster Mines
Buy the Essential Guide to Flash Games on Amazon.
8bitrocket.com Blog Posts on The HTML5 Canvas Book By Steve and Jeff Fulton
The HTML5 Canvas Asteroids Game, Geo Blaster Basic
8bitrocket.com 5 HTML5 IOS and Android Demo Games including Retro Blaster Touch
Buy the HTM 5 Canvas by Jeff and Steve Fulton on Amazon
Shinto’s Jaguar Game by Game Podcast
Upcoming Episode:
Buy the books for the book club so you can read too!
Gamelife By Michael W. Clune
Adventure, The Atari 2600 at the Dawn of Console Gaming by Jamie Lendino

1 hr 29 min
July 22, 2018 S1:E5: All Appointments Life (Asteroids Part 2)
Into the Vertical Blank - Generation Atari: Season 1, Episode 5. All Appointments Life (Asteroids Part 2 )
This is the second episode where we will be covering the game Asteroids in story and discussion form. We have a story from 8bitjeff, and also very nice contributions Shinto, and Jim Fullerton.
The discussion dives into versions of Asteroids (and clones) after the arcade 2600, 5200 and Vectrex. These the Atari 7800, ST, Lynx, and various versions released for more modern hardware.
All music, sound FX and production on the Episode By Jeff and Steve Fulton.
Links:Download an EXE file of Jeff’s Retro Evolved Asteroids game, Retro Blaster.
If you have the Flash Plug-in, you can play the browser version of Retro Blaster here.
8bitrocket.com Blog Posts on of the Essential Guide to Flash Games Book By Steve and Jeff Fulton
The Essential Guide to Flash Games Infomercial
The Essential Guide to Flash Games Book Preview Video Podcast
If you have the Flash Plug-In, you can play the Book Asteroids game called Blaster Mines
Buy the Essential Guide to Flash Games on Amazon.
8bitrocket.com Blog Posts on The HTML5 Canvas Book By Steve and Jeff Fulton
The HTML5 Canvas Asteroids Game, Geo Blaster Basic
8bitrocket.com 5 HTML5 IOS and Android Demo Games including Retro Blaster Touch
Buy the HTM 5 Canvas by Jeff and Steve Fulton on Amazon
1 hr 29 min
June 21, 2018S1:E4: Escape To The Asteroids Zone (Asteroids Part 1) (Remaster)
Into The Vertical Blank: Generation Atari Season 1, Episode 4: Escape To The Asteroids Zone Part 1.
In Part One of our two-part extravaganza, we delve into the that game forms the backdrop of The Vertical Blank: Asteroids. We discuss our experiences with Atari’s best selling coin-op and discover why this game, in particular, means so much to us. This episode includes a story written by Steve Fulton named, appropriately enough, “Escape To The Asteroids Zone”
Show Notes
The intro music and many, but not all, of the ambient 8-bit sounds you hear through out the podcast were created with a loop library by 8bitweapon.
Reach us for comments and suggestions via email at [email protected]
Links
1001 Video Games To play Before You Die by Tony Mott
The First Quarter By Steven Kent
8bitweapon
The 8bitrocket.com site
FaceBook Into the Vertical Blank
Twitter Into The Vertical Blank (@Atari_VB_POD)
Twitter 8itrocket (@8bitrocket) Jeff’s Twitter
Twitter FultonBot (@fultonbot) Steve’s Twitter
1 hr 24 min
June 21, 2018 S1:E4: Escape To The Asteroids Zone (Asteroids Part 1)
Into The Vertical Blank: Generation Atari Season 1, Episode 4: Escape To The Asteroids Zone Part 1.
In Part One of our two-part extravaganza, we delve into the that game forms the backdrop of The Vertical Blank: Asteroids. We discuss our experiences with Atari’s best selling coin-op and discover why this game, in particular, means so much to us. This episode includes a story written by Steve Fulton named, appropriately enough, “Escape To The Asteroids Zone”
Show Notes
The intro music and many, but not all, of the ambient 8-bit sounds you hear through out the podcast were created with a loop library by 8bitweapon.
Reach us for comments and suggestions via email at [email protected]
Links
1001 Video Games To play Before You Die by Tony Mott
The First Quarter By Steven Kent
8bitweapon
The 8bitrocket.com site
FaceBook Into the Vertical Blank
Twitter Into The Vertical Blank (@Atari_VB_POD)
Twitter 8itrocket (@8bitrocket) Jeff’s Twitter
Twitter FultonBot (@fultonbot) Steve’s Twitter
1 hr 24 min

About Into The Vertical Blank

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A Podcast about growing with a twin brother up In the 70s and 80s, at the dawn of video games, navigating family strife, punk rock, Star Wars obsessions, and