Square Waves FM Podcast

Hoo! Don’t go in there, Graham; a poooisonous podcast! This week we’re joined by the boisterous and charming Francisco Gonzalez to declare that we will discuss all Sierra games and not only Roberta Williams, but end up discussing little more than this bourgeois master storyteller. Tune in to score full points on Ken’s Quest. The […]

Flush your keyboard buffers and untangle your Y-splitter cables because we’re talking about early multiplayer gaming this week. We ran our mouths a little too long (imagine that) so we’ll resume with part 2 soon. Big thanks to Troels for sharing his harrowing story about programming adventure games in BASIC. Also, a very special thanks […]

In this week’s daily dose of 80s and 90s gaming nostalgia, we welcome a new guest to the podcast: Mr. Ben Chandler! This week we discuss our first loves: flight sims, arcade conversions, graphical adventures, hotseat multiplayer, city builders, physics puzzlers and a capitalist brainwashing simulator by the name of Donald Duck’s Playground. Brian coins a […]

Welcome to Episode 4, where Brian and Chris come clean about their unabashed love for Rebel Assault and Myst, and Troels airs out a fearful encounter with Jim Walls. This week we welcome our first special guest, the Space Quest Historian himself: Troels Pleimert! Fearing nothing, we plunge into a deep discussion of the pitfalls of Star Wars: […]

Welcome to episode 3, where Brian gets to talk about an awkward BBS meet-up with a fashion model, and Chris admits his voyeurism in The Last Express. You decide which is worse. This week we discuss the multiplayer door games of the BBS era like Solar Realms Elite, Barren Realms Elite, VGA Planets, Legend of the Red Dragon, and Tradewars […]

It’s episode 2, now with 65% more meandering! This week we continue our discussion of dial-up BBSes of the 90s with a look message bases, local and geographically distributed instances, and QWK message packets. And don’t miss Chris’s amazing tale of dorking out with the one and only John Romero! The song at the end […]

Welcome to the inaugural episode of the Square Wave FM podcast! Your hosts Chris and Brian bring you the very latest in decades-old historical computing, retro gaming, and all-round nerdery. In this week’s episode we wax nostalgic about dial-up BBSes and old telecommunications hardware and protocols. It’s every bit as enthralling as it sounds, we […]