The next game that should be on the docket soon that I'm looking forward to is Gex on Game Boy color works.
It's not time for Klax, it's tail time!
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Retronauts Podcast Thread
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The next game that should be on the docket soon that I'm looking forward to is Gex on Game Boy color works.
It's not time for Klax, it's tail time!
It is, but I'm saying it won't sway anyone who is apready indifferent to wrestling games.
I was keen on not playing Stardew Valley because I usually sink so much time in those kinds of games, and this one looks particularly bulky but after listening to the episode I just had to try it. I love HM, so I'm really excited.
Oh boy, here I come for 100+ hours of watering virtual vegetables.
Oh boy, here I come for 100+ hours of watering virtual vegetables.
I played a lot of David's Midnight Magic on my Atari 800XL. Wiki says it came out in 1982. It had a lot of IRL pinball features:
-bumpers
-plunger
-an upper set of flippers
-targets in a row to hit and when you knock them all down, they come back up
-Bonus points at the end of a ball
-bonus point multipliers
-A place where you can lock a ball and if you lock 3, you trigger multi ball.
-bonus extra ball that can be triggered
-a tilt mechanic
You can see them in a longplay here:
-bumpers
-plunger
-an upper set of flippers
-targets in a row to hit and when you knock them all down, they come back up
-Bonus points at the end of a ball
-bonus point multipliers
-A place where you can lock a ball and if you lock 3, you trigger multi ball.
-bonus extra ball that can be triggered
-a tilt mechanic
You can see them in a longplay here:
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Yup, you'll find it was based off a particular real-life machine. Black Knight, which came out in 1980.
I've never seen this machine in the wild. I'll have to track it down.
It used to be in The Pinball Arcade if virtual Pinball is your thing. Not sure if it currently is after they lost the rights to some of the manufacturers though.
Nope, it was pulled because it's a Williams machine. And I doubt it would get selected for Zen Williams, at least not over Black Knight 2000.
TBH I never really liked Black Knight, but it had some great first-time features and is a pretty machine. Don't actually think it's ever anyone's favourite machine, though.
oh man i think there's an episode of a Life Well Wasted about this game's debut in Paris. it involves a horse peeing by accident
I revisited that episode recently, weirdly enough. The interviewee is Steve Ritchie, and you can hear in his voice how dejected he is with the pinball industry at the time (2009). Just shows how (somewhat) quickly a niche hobby/industry can turn around. 10 years ago he was feeling depressed about his lack of employment, but now is happily employed by the biggest pinball manufacturer in the world.
For an interesting watch, I also encourage you to check out Tilt! The Battle to Save Pinball. It was released around the same time, and has a similarly dire outlook from Steve Ritchie and other designers at the time.
I went and looked and Black Knight was in table pack 4 which I apparently did buy.
I fired up my PS3 and I couldn't get it to load. It would just freeze on the table selection screen. I went to my vita and I was able to get it up and running. I'm surprised I didn't notice the similarities before. I don't like the physics on the this version. The ball went wonky a lot and had a knack for ending up in the drain with no way to stop it(either right down the middle or down the far left or right drains).
I want to try a real life version of this. I'll have to be on the lookout. Maybe next Time I'm in Vegas or if I ever go to Californa Extreme.
paperboy episode was fun, love listening to the development stories
seems that Akka Arrh prototype got dumped recently
seems that Akka Arrh prototype got dumped recently
The Yakuza episode is now live for $5 patrons: https://www.patreon.com/posts/retronauts-280-33981766
Catching up on a backlog of podcasts and really enjoyed the Super Mario RPG episode. Fun conversation and good insights from Maddie - you guys need to bring her back on the show more often.
Just out of curiosity, are you using smart speed in the Overcast app?
It'll remove gaps in the audio track and it does really funky stuff to chiptunes since I guess there's absolute silence between notes and no hissing like regular recordings.
Warioland games were one of the very first episodes when the podcast re-launched as a Kickstarter campaign. Must be 7 years ago at this point. I think a warioware podcast has also been done. To be fair though, I haven't listened to the portable mario podcast so I sure if they said they would redo the wario games.
I am using Overcast but I don't have smart speed or voice boost turned on. Another podcast I listen to (Retro Game Audio) uses chiptune all the time and doesn't have this problem.
paper boy music sounded off to me, vanilla iphone podcast app. some stuff was more muted than the others
That's what I meant by deep-dive. Parish and Bob mentioned that they'd like to go back and revisit the series in the new format.
I'll have to look into the NES audio claims, but it's possible that the new normalization utility I'm using is causing issues. I have used Levelator for YEARS, but I finally had to upgrade to the current Mac OS X and it dropped support for 32-bit apps (including Levelator). Unfortunately there's nothing on the market as good as Levelator for normalizing podcasts.
robocop episod was great! and it's on HBO right now, so ggave it a rewatch right after
little weird watching it after birds of prey, not 100% similar but some touches.
The locker room scene in Starship Troopers always stands out to me, because they panned and scanned it on cable so it looked really weird. alas, USA is scared of boobs
little weird watching it after birds of prey, not 100% similar but some touches.
The locker room scene in Starship Troopers always stands out to me, because they panned and scanned it on cable so it looked really weird. alas, USA is scared of boobs
In my experience, the answer to "is it just me or is something missing from the Patreon feed?" is always "it's just you." Patreon's subscriber feeds appear to be pretty failure-prone, but it's nearly always on an individual basis.
I thought it was a stylistic choice to isolate specific sound channels in order to hear the game music in an unfamiliar way.
seen this on the feeds today:
Patreon Support on Twitter
“@dbloodworth2 Thanks for sharing that. Looking into the post in that image it looks like the URL for downloading is not present on the main posts feed, but if you click on the time stamp you'll get to the post and the link is there. We'll reach out to the team about this.”
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I use that setting and I hadn't noticed anything weird but the Mario Bros music (all other songs were fine though) in the latest episode got really mangled and I thought what the hell is this before I remember reading this post a while ago. Haha had to record it.
Can anyone direct me to where I can find JeremyParish 's prog rock podcast? Just heard the ad in the new ep of Retronauts but searching Google and Podcast Addict for 'Alexander's Ragtime Band" failed me 😑
It's named after a track from Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, right?
Waiting patiently for the day Jeremy finally does the NGPC video series he mentioned in the Year 2000 episode
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" was name-dropped by ELP, but it was originally a song by Irving Berlin.
I, in turn, am waiting on this: https://twitter.com/collingall/status/1234616760051159041
Exciting stuff! NGPC is the most underrated handheld of all time. So many gems
Really enjoyed the latest episode on Parasite Eve. Given Kitase's comments this week, maybe a comeback isn't so impossible after all? (Still fairly unlikely in the near future, I'd say).
Thanks to PE never coming out in Europe/Australia (to this day?!), I've only played the first hour via emulator and have always intended to go back to it.
I did play PE2 back in the day and, selfishly, I was hoping for some brief coverage of that instead of skipping straight to the extremely mediocre 3rd Birthday. PE2 isn't the best but it has some interesting components to it. I actually posted a short summary of my feelings on PE2 recently in another thread:
It's worth watching a LP of the first 50-60%...then just watch the cutscenes.
I've been meaning to subscribe to the higher Patreon tier with exclusive episodes but it means unsubscribing from others...may have to make some hard Patreon culling decisions.
Thanks to PE never coming out in Europe/Australia (to this day?!), I've only played the first hour via emulator and have always intended to go back to it.
I did play PE2 back in the day and, selfishly, I was hoping for some brief coverage of that instead of skipping straight to the extremely mediocre 3rd Birthday. PE2 isn't the best but it has some interesting components to it. I actually posted a short summary of my feelings on PE2 recently in another thread:
It's worth watching a LP of the first 50-60%...then just watch the cutscenes.
I've been meaning to subscribe to the higher Patreon tier with exclusive episodes but it means unsubscribing from others...may have to make some hard Patreon culling decisions.
The prog rock podcast has launched, for anyone who might be interested.
Libsyn page: http://ragtimeband.libsyn.com
Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/ragtimeband
Libsyn page: http://ragtimeband.libsyn.com
Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/ragtimeband
I don't know of any hard connections between city pop and game music, but there's a lot of game music (especially SEGA mid-80s arcade jams like Out Run) with a strong city pop vibe, so it HAS to have been an influence on some level.
Listened to The Matrix episode...immediately watched The Matrix for the first time in 15+ years. Damn that movie holds up. Trinity running is so damn stylish it hurts. Now to finally go back and watch Robocop.
Our Sam & Max Hit the Road episode just went live for $5 patrons: https://www.patreon.com/posts/retronauts-286-34716246
I put the last 2 main eps on the backburner to catch up on my audiobooks and did them back to back now. Listening to the Y2K one really shows that history actually ended after 2001 and not in the 90s. The The West Wing comparison is very apt and the "web economy" crash happened just after the year 2000 too as all noted.
I just turned 12 when we numbers rolled up to 2000 and was in 6th grade. I love my PC that had a Voodoo3, Chuck Dixon was my favorite writer (writing this makes me a bit sad) and the Dreamcast just launched in Europa. That console´s life cycle was something else in Europe. From the hot new thing to termination in only 1,5 years. One of the reasons I have no nostalgia for it.
Remembering all the (non-apocalyptic) possible post-2000 futures in pop-culture, T2´s deleted epilogue comes to mind, just shows that we diverted into something else altogether after the salad days of the 90s.
Remember when this was seen as terrible and worthy of deletion? About that... (T3, DF and the show are fine enough fan-fiction). And notice the lack of phones. A 2029 worth fighting for I say! There's no fate but what we make for ourselves Retronuats.
You guys did many, mostly great, film episodes before. I now know which film duology one I would like to see covered in the future or even a James Cameron ep in general. Kojima, RE 1.5/2 or Halo could have only come about due to him. A lot of Fallout and every Space Marine shooter ever, so the whole last-gen, are on him too. Cameron and Ridley Scott shaped gaming more than most famous game directors now that I think about it! I wonder if Miyamoto likes Legend 1985... That movie is worthy of a podcast of its own too as even Scott is aware of how big an influence the then flop became on other media.
Edit: Dragon Quest 7 is a mess on both versions, so is FF VIII and bobservo saw the light. Shenmue 1 was never good! Even back then. The 2nd half drove me crazy. Play SM2 till you had enough and that´s it. None of the Megaman Legends work either and they maybe aged even worse.
I just turned 12 when we numbers rolled up to 2000 and was in 6th grade. I love my PC that had a Voodoo3, Chuck Dixon was my favorite writer (writing this makes me a bit sad) and the Dreamcast just launched in Europa. That console´s life cycle was something else in Europe. From the hot new thing to termination in only 1,5 years. One of the reasons I have no nostalgia for it.
Remembering all the (non-apocalyptic) possible post-2000 futures in pop-culture, T2´s deleted epilogue comes to mind, just shows that we diverted into something else altogether after the salad days of the 90s.
Remember when this was seen as terrible and worthy of deletion? About that... (T3, DF and the show are fine enough fan-fiction). And notice the lack of phones. A 2029 worth fighting for I say! There's no fate but what we make for ourselves Retronuats.
You guys did many, mostly great, film episodes before. I now know which film duology one I would like to see covered in the future or even a James Cameron ep in general. Kojima, RE 1.5/2 or Halo could have only come about due to him. A lot of Fallout and every Space Marine shooter ever, so the whole last-gen, are on him too. Cameron and Ridley Scott shaped gaming more than most famous game directors now that I think about it! I wonder if Miyamoto likes Legend 1985... That movie is worthy of a podcast of its own too as even Scott is aware of how big an influence the then flop became on other media.
Edit: Dragon Quest 7 is a mess on both versions, so is FF VIII and bobservo saw the light. Shenmue 1 was never good! Even back then. The 2nd half drove me crazy. Play SM2 till you had enough and that´s it. None of the Megaman Legends work either and they maybe aged even worse.
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