Arcade Attack Retro Gaming Podcast

Desert Island Diskettes - 5 Must Have Retro Games Challenge

You're stuck on a desert island. You somehow have full electricity, a TV and a game console of your choice. Which 5 retro games would you take with you to keep you sane before you are rescued?

Friend of the show Andy came up with a lovely idea for us to rip off a popular Radio 4 segment, we'll leave you to guess the rest ;)

Adrian, Rob and Dylan venture their choices and there's only a bit of Atari Jaguar stuff in there. Kidding, obviously...

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Walker (DMA Design)

Walker was a really popular side-scrolling shooter for the Amiga game, developed by DMA Design. It also had a novel control system and showed off some of the best graphics ever achieved on an Amiga title. So buckle up in your Walker robot and press play!

Do yourself a favour and for the first minute or so crank the volume UP!

Ian Dunlop and Neill Glancy's side-scrolling shooter captured the imagination of our Adrian and Dylan when they were teenagers. It struck such a chord with Adrian that he's structured a whole podcast about it! Also channelling Scott Johnston's supreme mech animations, Raymond Usher's thumping soundtrack and DMA Design's David Jones pulling the strings, it received 80%+ reviews across the board.

The keyboard (or joystick) and mouse combination was revolutionary at the time and made for satisfying action. But was it all a bed of roses? The boys are here to pick it all apart...

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The Story of Syndicate & Dungeon Keeper 2 - Alex Trowers (Bullfrog) Interview [AAPOD151]

Alex Trowers made some true classics while working at Bullfrog. He worked on Syndicate, Magic Carpet, Hi-Octane, Dungeon Keeper 2, PowerMonger and Populous 2. Alex shares some amazing stories while working at one of the most innovative video game companies of the 90's.

I really don't think we've interviewed enough Bullfrog employees so in addition to Sean Cooper and Mark Webley we've now sent Adrian to seek out the legendary Alex Trowers, level designer on awesome games such as: Syndicate; Magic Carpet; Hi-Octane; Populous II and PowerMonger!

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Bonus Podcast: PlayStation Classic Wrongness

How wrong can Arcade Attack be about something? Well, confirming many of yours suspicions, quite a bloody lot, especially as far as the PlayStation Classic is concerned!

Listen to the podcast that was scheduled to come out before the final lineup for the console was announced only for Sony to get the jump on us! We luckily pulled it at the last minute but here it is so you can all have a good laugh as to how wrong we were. Wouldn't you rather our lineup though? ;)

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2010 to 2020: A Decade of Retro Gaming

As we face a brand new decade full of the promise of the new we’ve naturally decided to look backwards, at 10 years when retro gaming really staked a claim in the mainstream. Revamps, reissues, tournaments, bars and, of course, the characters that helped cement retro gaming's place in culture.

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Max Payne

The American dream turned sour, Max Payne is the outlawed cop hellbent on revenge after the murder of his family. The 3rd person shooter brought many things to the fore so it's only right that Adrian and Dylan enter bullet-time to chew the fat/painkillers to get to the bottom of the original game, its successful sequels and the not-so-great Marky Mark film.

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Secret Santa 2019 and lots more Tim Quizzes!

It’s Christmas, which means it’s the annual Arcade Attack Secret Santa, and another couple of music quizzes to play along with!

Who got diamonds, who got coal and who won the worst how-to-draw book ever published? You'll have to listen to find out...

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The Power Glove, The Wizard and The Nintendo World Championships

Is there anything as crap yet beloved by retro gamers as Fred Savage movie The Wizard? The answer is yes: The Power Glove. We cover the 30th anniversary of both together with the Nintendo World Video Championships in a special 90-minute* episode. It's baaaaaad.

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"Rare" Dreamcast Games Vol.1 - Giga Wing 2, Project Justice & Cannon Spike

What do classic Dreamcast games Giga Wing 2, Project Justice and Cannon Spike have in common? You won't have to wait til the end of the episode to find out. Dylan's done his research (for once!) and takes us through their history, and we find out which classic 2000's punk band was named after an obscure Japanese shoot 'em up.

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David Craddock (Arcade Perfect) - Interview

It's not often we invite an interviewee back for another pod. It's not often the ones we do ask agree! We're big fans of David Craddock's and he's back with a new book titled "Arcade Perfect" detailing arcade games' journeys to the home console including AA favourite's such as Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam.

Adrian chatted to David about the book, their shared love of arcade games and the immense amount of work required to get those classics into your living room.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46841504-arcade-perfect

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The SEGA 32X

I mean, the thing only sold 800,000 units but damn was there a lot to enjoy on it. The Genesis/Mega Drive peripheral brought 32-bit power (OK that's debatable) to your home for cheaper than a Saturn. But why? Thanks to a mystery source (listen to the pod to find out who) Adrian now has the hallowed contraption. But what does he make of it and his initial batch of games? Ohhhhhhh here goes!

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Ed Fries - Interview - Launched XBOX & Microsoft Gaming Division

Xbox owners, it's time to pay homage to the man who led the team that created the first ever iteration of the console. Microsoft/FireAnt supremo Ed Fries joins our Adrian for a chat encompassing the early gaming days at Microsoft, bringing life to the Masterchief and acquiring dev houses like Bungie, Rare and Ensemble to ensure Xbox's success.

The video game crash, Flight Simulator and so much retro gaming gold discussed for your entertainment. Enjoy!

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Dragon's Lair & Space Ace

Dragon's Lair is the game that put the Quick Time Event genre firmly on the map whilst Space Ace was its plucky younger sibling.

Rob's done a lot of research, so him, Adrian and Dylan sit down to discuss the game's inception, the weird and wonderful tale of Don Bluth (and his many companies) and what sort of legacy both games have left.

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The Retro Hour - Gaming Chat

A few months ago The Retro Hour kindly invited us on for a chat, it's about time we returned the favour!

Dan and Ravi join Adrian and Dylan for a lovely gaming discussion covering how they got started, who their favourite guests are, how great the Atari Jaguar/Jag CD is and what awful games they love (time to pay them back for the Rise of the Robots question) as well as much much more.

And there's only a bit of Atari ST bashing. Honest.

Retro Hour Site - https://theretrohour.com/

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Atari Jaguar CD & Sega (Mega) CD Discussion - Which CD Peripheral is Better?! - Part 3

The Atari Jaguar CD and SEGA Mega CD were both made to give their consoles a new lease of life. Adrian owns a Jag CD and Dyl own a SEGA CD and decide to continue to chat about these legendary and divisive console add-ons.

Well, the time has come for Dyl and Adrian's final chat about these legendary CD peripherals (mainly because Adrian has run out of Jag CD games). 

This week takes focus on the Jag conversions of Myst and certain quick-time (real-time?) event games whilst Dylan has had a lot of "fun" with Sega's foray into FMV gaming.

We also have a chat about the Jag SD and Mega SD solutions which mean you never need to own a Jag or Mega CD. But why would you do that? ;)

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Sean Cooper (Syndicate Creator/Bullfrog) - Interview

The Syndicate creator and outstanding Bullfrog employee (Populous, Hi-Octane, Magic Carpet, Dungeon Keeper - to name a few) chats to our Adrian about what it was like working for Bullfrog, the birthing of Syndicate, the eventual demise of the legendary company and much much more.

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Electronic Arts Tribute & Tim's Quiz

As many of you will know we had quite a big dig at EA a few weeks ago because of their current day practices but it got us thinking, how much do we actually owe them as a company (see what I did there)? We had an off-the-cuff chat about our Electronic Arts memories and dig up more great games than you can shake a stick at.

And, as a treat, long time listener (and newest Arcade Attack writer) Tim Wilson has put together a lovely musical "guess that Electronic Arts" game that you can all play along to at home/the train/the bus stop. Can you guess more than us? Spoiler alert: yes.

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Stephen Sexton - Interview - Retro Gaming Poet Based on Super Mario World

Something a bit different today. To mark national poetry day here in the UK Adrian caught up with upcoming poet (who The Sunday Times described as the new Seamus Heaney) Stephen Sexton to talk about his book titled "If All the World and Love Were Young".

Why is this important for retro gamers? The book is a wonderful compilation of poems about Stephen's late mother that mirror the levels in Super Mario World and is receiving critical acclaim across the board. So, get those tissues at the ready and prepare yourself for this lovely chat.

You can buy the book here:

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/311/311078/if-all-the-world-and-love-were-young/9780141990026.html

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The 3DO - Panasonic, Goldstar & Sanyo Models Discussed

Keith played a "what's in the box game" with us which we've kinda given the surprise away to via the title of the pod... Nevertheless, we introduce our first ever 3DO chat but is Keith happy with his purchase? You'll have to listen to find out and don't worry. plenty of fact and initial opinions there are (and Dylan also saying poohed a lot - sorry, not sorry)! This will not be our last 3DO chat by any means as we need to discuss our thoughts on the many many games Keith got with it. Enjoy!

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Mortal Kombat Co-Creator John Tobias - Interview

Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Raiden... We have one man to thank! John Tobias co-created Mortal Kombat and helped change fighting games forever! Enjoy this exclusive and in-depth interview with a true gaming legend.

As we promised last week here is 80 minutes of pure retro gaming gold chat between our Adrian and the MK legend that is John Tobias! How did the Mortal Kombat phenomenon come about? John goes into absolutely everything and the journey on which he and Ed Boon went on to create a game that went toe to toe with Street Fighter 2.

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