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By Joel McLaughlin
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The podcast currently has 136 episodes available.
Mattel made more than just games for the Intellivision with the M-Network line. From 1982-1983 they made many interesting games for the beloved 2600.
DOOM is responsible for the first person shooter genre and death matches. Today we talk about this the best I remember it.
Just give a little update on my health and then talk about some cool hardware from Atari.com
I give a Life Update and 5 reasons why retro games are better.
Today I share some of the memories I had of playing my first PC game, Space Quest and about Sierra OnLine which at one time was the top company making PC games.
Metal Jesus Rocks Sierra Reunion;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxW1IK0fDJs
Metal Jesus Rocks We Worked at Sierra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmNCFtAlYN0&t=1s
Before we had games like Space Invaders we had electro mechanical games like Ride Motorcycle. These were games that did not have CPUs or CRTs but motors and lights. Today we talk about games like Motorcycle, Pinball and Varisty as well as the Tomy Classics Digital Derby, Baseball and Blip where were all electro mechanical games.
https://www.arcade-museum.com/Arcade/motorcycle
https://rctoymemories.com/2012/11/16/tomy-digital-derby-auto-raceway-1978/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blip_(console)
https://handheldmuseum.com/Tomy/Diamond.htm
Today I talkabout the 2024 version of CORGSCON! The Central Ohio Retro Gaming Society Convention! Be there in 2025!
Not a top 5 list but just some racing games I think are cool.
From Journey, to Aerosmith and even Van Halen bands and video games go hand in hand since the very beginning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Band-centric_video_games
Call it copy protection or DRM. No doubts about it...it is killing our games.
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