Retro Obscura 42: Solomon’s Club & The Meaning of Life

Paul & Aaron talk Solomon’s Key, IF Games, ASCII Mode Games and Silver Surfer with a special Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy retrospective from Vipp!

Intro:

Florida Free Play:

http://www.freeplayflorida.com/

Play Brutal Alien Throwdown by Dan Bisciglia here! :

http://www.vintagegames.us/batr/

Video Game Challenge/Listener Pick :

Solomon’s Key (NES)

Features

Aaron: Silver Surfer (NES)

Paul: Caves of Thor (DOS)

http://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-thor-trilogy-11c

Aaron: Insantiy (DOS)

“http://www.textmodegames.com/download/insanity.html (1989)

Special Mention:

Ascii Sector: http://www.asciisector.net/

Dwarf Fortress: http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/

Vipp :

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (8 bit home computers)

Play here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-game-30th-anniversary-edition

Play Island Stakeout here:

http://www.jamesonline.net/islandstakeout/

Sidequest:

Do you think in 20-30 years time our obsession with collecting old video games will die out?

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Time Stamp

0:00:00 – Show Theme

0:02:16 – Intro

0:21:58 – Brutal Alien Throwdown (Approach Back Mountain – Swerdmurd aka Dan Bisciglia)

0:23:21 – Video Game Challenge (Solomon’s Key – NES)

0:33:48 – Silver Surfer (Stage Theme 02 – Tim and Geoff Follin)

0:35:23 – Feature Games