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A lively, accessible and entertaining weekly retro gaming podcast from Keith, Adrian, Dylan and James @ www.arcadeattack.co.uk. We will cover whole episodes on single retro gaming classics, discuss the latest retro news and topics, broadcast interviews with some of the true legends of the industry or whatever else may take our fancy!
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Thursday Oct 29, 2020
Thursday Oct 29, 2020
Hey paisanos! National stereotypes and off-duty wrestlers abound as we discuss the Super Mario Brothers Super Show, while Adrian pretends to hate the Zelda cartoon...because of the colour of Link's hair? Well excuse me, princess! And who is that making their long awaited return to the pod?
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Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Thursday Oct 22, 2020
Rat Man from GTA, the even darker secrets of the Secrets of Evermore, the ghost of Minecraft and a scary FPS game hidden in Microsoft Excel! Yup, ten more gaming myths and urban legends to get your teeth into!
***This podcast contains adult themes so if there's any little-uns about you can either stuff some cotton wool in their ears or tell them they're in for a treat, up to you!***
We've now covered EVERY GAMING MYTH THERE HAS BEEN AND EVER WILL BE! Well, not really! We've come to the end of Adrian's countdown of the greatest gaming myths he could find on the internet.
A game with a darker meaning and a nasty surprise for spreadsheet users (we're not talking about you, Serco) are just two of the treats in store.
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Thursday Oct 15, 2020
Thursday Oct 15, 2020
Jon Hare is the football game pioneer (Sensible Soccer, SWOS), Gustav Hedenborg is the latter day football game guru (Pro Evolution Soccer series) and they've now joined forces on the exciting Sociable Soccer. It was only right to get them both on the podcast, right?
Adrian caught up with Jon and Gustav for a lot of football/soccer chat, what their previous soccer-game escapades were like and what the future looks like for Social Soccer.
Sociable Soccer Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/sociablesoccer
Sociable Soccer Twitter - https://twitter.com/Sociable_Soccer
Gustav's Sociable Soccer Twitter - https://twitter.com/CaniggiaCM
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#retrogaming #podcast #arcadeattack #retrogames #gaming #jonhare #sensi #amiga
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Like seriously, wtf?? So it's not a thousand but it's about twenty which is as ridiculous as its marketing. The PC Engine (as we'll call it here in the show notes) is a thing of wonder at Arcade Attack as none of us owned one. Why? We shouted "rise from your gwaaave" at Keith a lot and it worked! He's here to explain all to coincide with him finally getting ahold of Konami's mini version of the console.
So let Mr B explain how the NEC/Hudson Soft partnership came about, what made the console so special in Japan and pretty much redundant everywhere else, what the most popular titles on it are, the crazy CD peripherals and what he made of the mini. We also discuss one of the most famous Kanye West myths of all time. Bonk, anyone?
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Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Mortal Kombat 2 improved in every aspect from the Midway classic. We run through the fighting games development, backstory, the new characters (Baraka, Jax and Kitana) and our views on one of the best games ever made.
Do we cover Mortal Kombat too much? Probably. But we love it so we'll keep on doing it mwahahahahahahahaaaa!
MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTT...two was quite the feat on arcade and home ports but how good was/is it? Rob's bringing the pain yet again as the boys wax lyrical about the game some say is even better than Street Fighter 2! Well, I don't say it but some do.
Mortal Kombat 2 took all that was great about the first game and ramped it up to eleven. With new characters, moves and cool concepts, is Mortal Kombat 2 truly the best ever MK game ever made!?
Lots of tales of the game's arcade birth and upgrades, the home ports, some juicy trivia and the team shouting a lot. What more could you ask for?
And for dessert go check out our John Tobias interview, MK1 pod and MK films pod xxx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XYAd8LMYcg
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#retrogaming #podcast #arcadeattack #retrogames #gaming #mortalkombat #mk2 #mortal #kombat
Thursday Sep 24, 2020
Thursday Sep 24, 2020
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Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
The much-hyped Evercade dropped earlier this year and appears to have been a commercial success but is the thing any good? Nathan's sent us a unit to review which Adrian promptly bought off him (bit of a clue how this is gonna go there). James joins us in Keith's absence for a chat about said item and also the worth of physical media in this day and age.
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Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Our Mega Drive Top 25 was such a disaster we thought we'd do it all again for its older brother!
No spoilers (as usual) but we can divulge that we've brought in our resident 'Master System' specialist to make up the numbers and mix it up. Please welcome our good bud James to the podcast! Rob takes up hosting responsibilities for this one.
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Thursday Sep 03, 2020
Thursday Sep 03, 2020
Ten scary gaming myths and urban legends that rocked the gaming world.
We look at how the E.T. Atari 2600 game almost destroyed an industry and was dumped in a landfill. Can you play as Rebecca in Resident Evil 2? Did Killswitch, a game that uninstalls itself actually exist? And lots more stories to get your teeth into!
*Warning - this podcast contains adult themes (LOL) so it's up to you to shield your offspring or those of a sensitive disposition. Or let them loose on the madness!*
Adult theme jokes aside we're back! With another gaming myths podcast! I'd like to say it's because the first one went so well but it's due to the fact that Adrian found too many to fit in one! Ha ha!
This week we tackle myths concerning games uninstalling themselves, a certain Final Fantasy VIII theory and what actually happened to those "spare" copies of the Atari E.T among many other weird and wacky tales. We also laugh at our own conspiracy theories.
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Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
This has been a long (ish) time coming. Covid poses its own problems but it also opens up new opportunities. We invited three of our mates from the other side of the world - ...Since Spacies (Brian); Sega Master Tim (Tim); and The Top Loader (Todd) - to do battle with us over the airwaves. Well, not quite...
The boys join Ade and Dylan for a chat about SEGA, Nintendo, Brian and Tim working for the SEGA Hotline, what collecting means to us, why heart attacks are bad, Aussie slang (we're sure Adrian is NOT a drongo) and a few subjects we always cover on AA. Yeah, you know the ones! So sit back and enjoy a whopping two-hour chat with Australia's finest.
Twitter Links:
https://twitter.com/sincespacies
https://twitter.com/The_Top_Loader
https://twitter.com/Segamastertim
YouTube:
...Since Spacies https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCglptaKA4eqejYu2eTtj1gA
Top Loader https://www.youtube.com/c/TheTopLoader82
Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/sincespacies
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Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Oh we've a real treat for you SEGA fans this week! SEGA's 'Mr No' Michael Latham, the Eternal Champions creator had a mammoth chat (over two hours) with our Adrian about everything and anything!
We won't spoil the surprise too much but our highlights include Michael covering his time working at Activision (Ghostbusters/Power Drift), meeting (and winning over) Michael Jackson, stopping a buggy Sonic 2 flying out to production, working on many 32X games (three of which were unreleased) and the never-ending battle between SEGA of Japan and SEGA of America. There's even a nice George Lucas story in there!
And here's the previous written Q&A we did with the legend himself.
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Thursday Aug 13, 2020
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
Did the infamous Polybius arcade game ever exist? Does the Madden curse actually stop footballers in their track? Was the Sonic 3 soundtrack actually written by Michael Jackson? And can you save Aerith's life in Final Fantasy VII?
*Warning - this podcast contains adult themes so the little uns probably shouldn't be present. Or maybe so, it's up to you!*
Oh you'd better believe there's a second volume of this in a few weeks! Adrian has come up with podcast gold to present to you a menagerie of gaming myths (retro and current) to sink your teeth into. Well, for Dyl and Rob to sink their teeth into while pulling funny faces that you can't see because this is an audio-only podcast.
Sonic 3, Polybius, the Madden curse, Aeris' death in FF7 and lots lots more!
https://ratethispodcast.com/arcade
David Irons - 'Polybius' author - Q&A;
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Thursday Aug 06, 2020
Thursday Aug 06, 2020
Faran Thomason worked across 3 of the largest video game companies of all time; Atari, SEGA and Nintendo. Faran shares some great stories including working on the Atari Jaguar, Mortal Kombat 3 and loads of insight on all 3 companies.
This week's guest may be the only person we've ever interviewed who's worked for Atari, Nintendo and SEGA - the magic three! Faran Thomason kindly gave us some of his time a while ago for a text interview but we simply had to chat to him to get more of those stories out.
Especially a treat for Atari Jaguar fans, Adrian talks to the producer, QA tester and level designer himself about Bubsy, Baldies, Cybermorph and the abandoned Jag version of Mortal Kombat 3 among many other lovely retro gaming stories about all three legendary companies. He also talks about making consoles in China, Black Lives Matter, what the Tramiels were really like and working with the legendary Lance Henriksen. Enjoy!
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Thursday Jul 30, 2020
Thursday Jul 30, 2020
Why on earth do we do this to ourselves?! Ha ha! It's of course a pleasure every time! This week we tackle the Mortal Kombat Movies... Rob summons every ounce of strength to bring forward this critique of both movies with lots of trivia thrown in for good measure. One of the team is dragged along against his will (guess who) so it's up to the others to convince him they're both worth watching. Or not.
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Thursday Jul 23, 2020
Thursday Jul 23, 2020
Enjoy our rundown of the top 25 SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis video games ever released. From Sonic 2 to Street Fighter, Gunstar Heroes to Shinobi. Plus a few strange choices to get your blood boiling. We expect nothing less than an almighty ton of vitriol from you and the entire retro gaming community!
Our Amiga Top 25 went so well we thought we'd do it again with our favourite console and without Tim's "lovely and highly complex algorithm", it could have gone better... But kudos to Adrian for coming up with a (tweaked a bit by Dylan, so let's blame him) way of taking Ade's, Rob's, Tim's, Keith's, Faith's, Chris's and Dylan's top 10 MD/Genesis games and compiling this list.
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Thursday Jul 16, 2020
Thursday Jul 16, 2020
Forgive the long title, I really couldn't think of a way to shorten it, ha ha! We haven't put Chris off since last week so he's back to chat comic book heroes/villains and favourite comic-based video games with us. But not before Rob tells us a bit of comic book history and how they and video games are a match made in heaven.
Enjoy our look at some of the best video games based around our favourite comics. We look at the evolution of some of the best games made, such as Batman to X-Men Arcade and a look at Spiderman on the PS4. Plus a lot more comic book chat.
Comic book films even make an appearance! 80 minutes of comic-based ambrosia, whadda ya waiting for!
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Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Chris McAuley is a Northern Irish born author, comic book and gaming columnist who has now branched out from talking about comics to helping create them. An acclaimed colourist for 2000 AD and Marvel he has worked on flagship titles such as Judge Dredd, Roy of the Rovers and Hulkverines. He now works on the official Stoker Dracula comics.
We thought it's about time we introduced you to our second-newest member (Retro Faith just pips him as the newest), Chris McAuley!
Chris has done a lot of colouring work for Marvel and some of you may have bumped into him at a comic convention or two. His road to working for them and dev house Utomik is quite something! We've dragged him along to chat about his career, comics, games based on comics and how he came into our lives (and boy, does Adrian have a story to tell about that!)
Next week we'll be discussing the history of comic books and their influence on games. We're also chatting about our favourite comic-based movies and games so be sure not to miss that one!
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Thursday Jul 02, 2020
Thursday Jul 02, 2020
Adrian's guest this week is Sami Vanhatalo of Max Payne and Alan Wake fame! The Remedy co-founder chats about almost his entire back catalogue, what he really thinks about the Max Payne movie, whether there's scope for more games in the series and also updates us on Sociable Soccer - the spiritual successor to Sensible Soccer which he's working on with Sensible Software legend Jon Hare.
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Thursday Jun 25, 2020
Thursday Jun 25, 2020
Double Dragon the Movie is a 1994 martial arts family film based on the beat-em up series of the same name. Starring Mark Dacascos and Scott Wolf as brothers Jimmy and Billy Lee, along with Alyssa Milano (Commando) as Marian Delario and Robert Patrick (Terminator 2 fame) as antagonist Koga Shuko. Double Dragon gets the Arcade Attack movie review treatment.
The things we do for you lot! We've all had a lovely watch of the Double Dragon movie thanks to someone tweeting us at Christmas to do it (as part of our Secret Santa reveal, of course). Rob was gifted said movie so here he is after many weeks of painstaking research, withered and worn, to give his take on Billy & jimmy's excellent adventure. Spinach, anyone?
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Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Stylishly late to the party as ever, here's our take on Resident Evil 3 old and new.
Keith (who else) guides us through the PlayStation original and what he (re)makes of 2020's effort. And we try not to draw parallels between Jill's fight in Raccoon City and current events. Try.
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