Wed, 6 February 2019
Today's episode is about Crackpots, the Activision game that was the first 2600 game by Dan Kitchen, who went on to make many more (and is still making them!). I hope that you enjoy the episode. Next on the podcast is Malagai, by Answer Software. If you have this game, I would love to see a photo of it on Facebook or Twitter, see the links below for those. If you have any thoughts on the game, please send them to me at 2600gamebygame@gmail.com by end of day 17 February. Just tell me what you think of it, I will take care of the nuts and bolts of the game. As always, I thank you for listening. Crackpots on Random Terrain Crackpots on Atari Protos Dan Kitchen's web site Dan Kitchen's Games site Dan Kitchen interview by Classic Gamer 74 Atari Age thread on Keystone Kapers 2 discovery Crackpots patch on Digital Press ...and accompanying letter Crackpots commercial Jim's Ferg Quest sprite hack Ryan's Atari Age High Score Showdown post for Crackpots Wilson Oyama's Crackpots playthrough video No Swear Gamer 521 - Crackpots Sean's Autobiography of a Schnook Podcast Chapter 5 Check out Jose's awesome spreadsheet for the list of games I've already done, with links to the episodes! Thank you Jose! Proud member of the Throwback Network! Proud member of the Retro Junkies Network! Facebook page Twitter page Google + page My YouTube channel, for whatever reason Blog page WHAT A FORUM TOO Listen to the show on Stitcher! Subscribe to the show on iTunes, and leave a review! Reviews are nice! Listen to the show on Tune In! Check out Don's awesome t-shirt designs! Please check out my other shows: Intarivisions Podcast Please Stand By! The League of Extraordinary Podcasters
Direct download: Crackpots_by_Activision.mp3
Category: Video Games
-- posted at: 11:00am EDT
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Sun, 27 January 2019
Direct download: Pengo_by_Atari.mp3
Category: Video Games
-- posted at: 9:03am EDT
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Mon, 21 January 2019
Greetings and welcome to my hopefully new feature, interview episodes! First up is Jeff Ronne, who was the programmer for Tron Deadly Discs from M Network. I really enjoyed talking with him and I am grateful to him for his time. He's an interesting guy and also one of the few programmers at that time who programmed games for multiple systems. If you have any comments, you can email them to me at 2600gamebygame@comcast.net, or leave them on the Facebook or Twitter pages. Thanks so much for listening! Jeff Ronne on Quora Takeover on Intellivision Lives Tron Deadly Discs on Intellivision Lives Tron Deadly Discs episode
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Wed, 9 January 2019
Direct download: Tron_Deadly_Discs_by_M_Network.mp3
Category: Video Games
-- posted at: 11:00am EDT
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Tue, 25 December 2018
Direct download: Christmas_2018.mp3
Category: Christmas
-- posted at: 4:26am EDT
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Sun, 9 December 2018
The closing of Toys R Us has been rolling around in my head for months, I finally had some time to sit down and record it. I guess it's appropriate since it's Christmas time. I hope you enjoy it, thank you for listening! Toys R Us bankruptcy press release Vintage Toys R Us on Retro Junk Sunnyvale Toys R Us on Computer History Museum (thumbnail photo) Doug McCoy's Nintendo Get With It Kit video Jean Shepherd's Route 22
Direct download: Bonus_Track_-_Toys_R_Us.mp3
Category: Bonus Track
-- posted at: 3:09am EDT
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Wed, 28 November 2018
In this episode I will be looking at (and also talking about) the Apollo game Infiltrate, which is kind of like a dumbed down Elevator Action for our Atari 2600. I don't have an exact date for the next game yet, but it will be tron Deadly Discs by M Network and will come out in January. If you have any Christmas memories that you would like to submit to the 6th annual Christmas show, please send them to me by the end of the day on December 16th. Also, I will be announcing a date and time for when Sarah and I will do a livestream of all the games I covered this year. If you are feeling charitable, please consider donating to my or my friends' Extra Life campaign. You can donate until the end of the year, every little bit will help kids who are sick. Please check the links below to donate. Thank you all so much for listening! Please donate to my Extra Life campaign! Sean's Extra Life page Andrew's Extra Life page Rick's Extra Life page Bryce's Extra Life page Marc's Extra Life page Infiltrate on Random Terrain Ed Salvo interview by Scott Stilphen Infiltrate (Blue) on Atarimania No Swear Gamer 492 - Infiltrate Check out Jose's awesome spreadsheet for the list of games I've already done, with links to the episodes! Thank you Jose! Proud member of the Throwback Network! Proud member of the Retro Junkies Network! Facebook page Twitter page Google + page My YouTube channel, for whatever reason Blog page WHAT A FORUM TOO Listen to the show on Stitcher! Subscribe to the show on iTunes, and leave a review! Reviews are nice! Listen to the show on Tune In! Check out Don's awesome t-shirt designs! Please check out my other shows: Intarivisions Podcast Please Stand By! The League of Extraordinary Podcasters
Direct download: Infiltrate_by_Apollo.mp3
Category: Video Games
-- posted at: 6:55am EDT
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Sun, 18 November 2018
Thank you to everyone for your patience waiting for this Stargunner episode. Of course, the research was all done the week before the episode was due out, then I got sick that weekend. So the lesson here is that procrastination is good. I have a lot of the research done for Infiltrate, so that will be out the week after Thanksgiving, and that will be the last game of the year. So if you have feedback for Infiltrate, please send it to 2600gamebygame@gmail.com by end of day November 25th. I would like to thank everyone who donated to my Extra Life campaign as well as those of you who watched the live streams that I did. I raised $1500 for the Children's Hospital of Philadephia thanks to all of you. I got an email from Extra Life saying that I was in the top 30 earners for the hospital, which is great! I plan on doing it again next year, but I will be doing the two days in one weekend. I had fun playing the games, but I got a little frustrated towards the end of the second weekend. Sinistar is an extremely difficult game but I love it so much, for some reason. Thank you all so much for watching, listening, and donating. I hope that all my American friends have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Please donate to my Extra Life campaign! Sean's Extra Life page Andrew's Extra Life page Rick's Extra Life page Bryce's Extra Life page Marc's Extra Life page Stargunner on Random Terrain Alex Leavens interview by Dan Gutman, Video Game Players magazine 11/83 Stargunner on Atari Protos Video Game Update newsletter February 1983 Arcade Express newsletter January 3 1983 Arcade USA Atari Remote Control Joysticks Check out Jose's awesome spreadsheet for the list of games I've already done, with links to the episodes! Thank you Jose! Proud member of the Throwback Network! Proud member of the Retro Junkies Network! Facebook page Twitter page Google + page My YouTube channel, for whatever reason Blog page WHAT A FORUM TOO Listen to the show on Stitcher! Subscribe to the show on iTunes, and leave a review! Reviews are nice! Listen to the show on Tune In! Check out Don's awesome t-shirt designs! Please check out my other shows: Intarivisions Podcast Please Stand By! The League of Extraordinary Podcasters Theme from Feedback remixed by Giles Martin Strudders: two.
Direct download: Stargunner_by_Telesys.mp3
Category: Video Games
-- posted at: 5:57am EDT
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Wed, 24 October 2018
Today I'll be covering Atari's Kangaroo, a 1983 arcade port. It has a kangaroo in it, in case you were wondering. Two, actually. I hope you enjoy the episode. Coming up next is Stargunner by Telesys, a pretty rare game. If you have a great many thoughts on this game, please send them to me by end of day 4 November, and I will include it in the show. Please make sure you put your name in the file if you send an audio submission! Also, please consider donating to me or any of my friends that you see here who are doing Extra Life marathons (half marathons in my case), starting on November 3rd. Thank you for your generosity, and as always, for listening. Please donate to my Extra Life campaign! Sean's Extra Life page Andrew's Extra Life page Rick's Extra Life page Bryce's Extra Life page Kangaroo on KLOV Kangaroo on Atari Protos Kevin Osborn's Bald Wisdom blog Kevin Osborn's YouTube page May/June 1983 Atari Age ad for Kangaroo and Jungle Hunt May/June 1983 AA Kangaroo New Cartridge Report August 1983 Video Game Update newsletter - Kangaroo review (p. 67) and release date (p.80), from Atari Compendium Mike Halley's Gravitar binder (scroll down to Memos, 1.1 and 1.2) Arcade USA Ataricade 2600 - Kangaroo No Swear Gamer 88 - Kangaroo No Swear Gamer Kangaroo game play Saturday Supercade - Kangaroo White Squirrel of Dover episode Saturday Supercade - Kangaroo Tail of the Cowardly Lion episode Check out Jose's awesome spreadsheet for the list of games I've already done, with links to the episodes! Thank you Jose! Proud member of the Throwback Network! Proud member of the Retro Junkies Network! Facebook page Twitter page Google + page My YouTube channel, for whatever reason Blog page WHAT A FORUM TOO Listen to the show on Stitcher! Subscribe to the show on iTunes, and leave a review! Reviews are nice! Listen to the show on Tune In! Check out Don's awesome t-shirt designs! Please check out my other shows: Intarivisions Podcast Please Stand By! The League of Extraordinary Podcasters
Direct download: Kangaroo_by_Atari.mp3
Category: Video Games
-- posted at: 11:31am EDT
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Sun, 7 October 2018
After a short delay, I am back with Crypts of Chaos by 20th Century Fox. A fine dungeon crawler if I do say so (and I do), a genre that is underrepresented on the Atari 2600. Coming up next is the arcade port Kangaroo by Atari. If you have feedback for this game, please send it to me by end of day October 18th, and the show will be out on the 21st. So he says. I am playing for Extra Life again this year, but I am going to split it between November 3rd and 10th. I am old and I can't stay up that long anymore, it's really the thought that counts. I will be playing once again for the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Please donate at the link below, thank you for your support! And I thank you as always for listening. Please donate to my Extra Life campaign! Sean's Extra Life page Andrew's Extra Life page Crypts of Chaos on Random Terrain Michael Rideout's CoC maps on Atari Age John WS Marvin's Dread Unicorn Games site Cyberroach interview with John WS Marvin John WS Marvin on Iconic Podcast John WS Marvin on Game Master's Journey Podcast John WS Marvin on GM Intrusions Podcast James Dowlen's web site James Dowlen on The Computer Chronicles Florian's Atari Age thread about Sun Science Weird Levi's commercial No Swear Gamer 198 - Crypts of Chaos Check out Jose's awesome spreadsheet for the list of games I've already done, with links to the episodes! Thank you Jose! Proud member of the Throwback Network! Proud member of the Retro Junkies Network! Facebook page Twitter page Google + page My YouTube channel, for whatever reason Blog page WHAT A FORUM TOO Listen to the show on Stitcher! Subscribe to the show on iTunes, and leave a review! Reviews are nice! Listen to the show on Tune In! Check out Don's awesome t-shirt designs! Please check out my other shows: Intarivisions Podcast Please Stand By! The League of Extraordinary Podcasters
Direct download: Crypts_of_Chaos_by_20th_Century_Fox.mp3
Category: Video Games
-- posted at: 9:55am EDT
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