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Hold on to your butts as we explore a Steven Spielberg directed film that was a #1 top grossing box office movie and spawned a video game. No, not Jaws. No, not E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Welcome to Jurassic Park (cue the kazoos).How did one Spaz lead to the extinction of a special effects technology and the supremacy of another? Which Jurassic Park arcade game is the best? Who is the Gatekeeper and is there a Keymaster? Are Timmy's dinosaur jokes better than Rob's?Observe the many species of Jurassic Park games placed into the arcades by Sega, Konami, and Raw Thrills. And while we wait on the goat bait to work, listen to conversations about King Kong, going overboard for Halloween, hurricanes, kids ruining theater experiences, and a lot of talk about Orlando.

Dead or alive, you're coming with me to hear the Podouken gang explore RoboCop the movie… and the arcade game!How did a home video game company play the Uno Reverse card on an arcade maker? Why are there so many dicks in this movie? What movie set gave inspiration for the creation of RoboCop? What makes this movie and Starship Troopers so similar? Would you like to know more?Fun fact enough: RoboCop originally received an X rating. We talk about missing out on young emo nostalgia, mime coaches, the horrible 80s affliction of boneitus, Mr. Deco Man, and go Robo!

After 80 episodes we're not going home. We're going to get on our boat, and we're going up river, and we're going to kick that son-of-a-bitch Bison's ass so hard that the next Bison wannabe is gonna feel it. Now who wants to go home, and who wants to listen to a Street Fighter: The Movie podcast?!Why have we been watching this movie all wrong? How did breaking the Seven Dwarfs rule ultimately doom this film? What led to this movie getting an 'R' rating? Who was responsible for creating the official Street Fighter song featuring sports legend Deon Sanders? What is the most outrageous quote from this movie?So bite into a Lay's Wavy Funyuns Onion Flavored Funyuns Onion Flavored Rings potato chip and listen to our exploration of Capcom's cinematic classic, plus discussion on Incredible Technologies, colons, Super Mario Bros., JCVD, and the production cost differences between "later" and "ladder".

After three years of podcasting, nearly 80 episodes, and covering 200 arcade games, it's time to switch our focus to something with more audience potential. So we're going full Hollywood and rebranding as a video arcade game… movie podcast! To start we're covering the live-action Walt Disney classic, Tron.How was this movie inspired by Pong? What convinced Tron's creator to move away from traditional animation and incorporate CGI for the first time? Is Flynn's Arcade the best golden age arcade representation ever shown on the silver screen? Does Tron include an example of the Mandela Effect?As we analyze this movie we'll also talk about jai alai, PastBlaster's recent trip to Galloping Ghost Arcade, the best movie soundtrack ever composed, Robin Williams, using Miyagi-Do as an insecticide, and a follow-up discussion on T-MEK.

The Listeners' Choice miniseries wraps up with a game that won't give you power and wealth by punching hard, or knowing economics, or looking good. Nope, you have to blow up a bunch of hover tanks in T-MEK released by Atari Games.What popular games was T-MEK inspired by? How did this game make Rob thousands of dollars? Is there a secret Atari meetup that we're blacklisted from? Why is there so little information out there about this arcade game?Thankfully the Game Designer of T-MEK, Matthew Ford, joins us to shed some light on the inspirations and development history of T-MEK plus what it was like working for Atari Games in the 1990s, and his life after Atari! Special thanks to JC (@specialcases on Twitter) for nominating this game for the Listeners' Choice series.