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I was a sucker for hype, and bought many blockbusters — because they were the big new thing — that left me cold. I remember exchanging a bunch of games for it at a little video store down the road from where I lived, which also sold imported games — lest we forget that it was 60 quid, or so, upon release and I think I might have even paid more than that for it.
I was blown away, but only ever really by the graphics. Paul is probably better known as Mr Biffo — the creator of legendary teletext games magazine Digitiser. These days, he mostly writes his videogame ramblings over at Digitiser If you want more Biffo in your eyes, you can catch him as the host of Digitizer The Show at www.
Beat down favourite thing about it. Oh, I can do a Spinning Bird Kick and launch a fireball, but my attempts to master the more complicated moves or combos would inevitably result in my defeat, as I wrestled with the controls.
I would occasionally trigger a move by accident while mashing the buttons, but I always felt I was missing out. This feeling was only exacerbated when I played Mortal Kombat. Not only were there special moves, but special victories, which required a certain button combination to instigate. Given that the spine-ripping was the whole point of Mortal Kombat, it felt like I got a watered-down experience.
That weighed upon me, added to a sense of feeling like a fraud. That said, I bought the last couple of Dark Souls games and Bloodborne, desperate to see what everyone else saw in them, and once again they made me feel like an abject failure!
New episodes are released every Friday over at theretrohour. What prompted you to produce a podcast? Dan Wood: We were frustrated that the retro gaming podcasts we listened to tended to have an American perspective.
We also wanted to get the real stories behind our favourite games and companies, so the decision to feature a special celebrity guest each episode was reached early in the planning process. What can listeners expect to hear on the show? Ravi Abbott: Every Friday we bring you a jam-packed hour of audio entertainment. Then the second half of the show is dedicated to an in-depth interview with a gaming industry figure — a games designer, musician, artist, CEO, magazine reporter or anybody we think our listeners will find interesting.
Tell us about some of your favourite guests. We recently did a full episode examining the history of Firebird Software, which was fascinating, plus we spoke to Howard Scott Warshaw for two hours as he was driving across America, talking about ET and his history at Atari. Hearing Dave Haynie explain the design decisions of the Amiga and Scott Miller giving us the history of 3D Realms and the rise of Shareware was geek heaven and getting Andy Crane to give us an hour-long inside story on Bad.
We still pinch ourselves that we get to speak to our childhood heroes every week. Have you managed to coax any surprising revelations from your guests? Also, we had some crazy tales about the development of Carmageddon from Patrick Buckland and Fergus McNeill about how they strapped a camera to the front of a car and repeatedly drove at a staff member to get the effect of somebody hitting the windscreen!
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Dan Wood: We were frustrated that the retro gaming podcasts we listened to tended to have an American perspective.
We also wanted to get the real stories behind our favourite games and companies, so the decision to feature a special celebrity guest each episode was reached early in the planning process. What can listeners expect to hear on the show?
Ravi Abbott: Every Friday we bring you a jam-packed hour of audio entertainment. Then the second half of the show is dedicated to an in-depth interview with a gaming industry figure — a games designer, musician, artist, CEO, magazine reporter or anybody we think our listeners will find interesting. Tell us about some of your favourite guests. We recently did a full episode examining the history of Firebird Software, which was fascinating, plus we spoke to Howard Scott Warshaw for two hours as he was driving across America, talking about ET and his history at Atari.
Hearing Dave Haynie explain the design decisions of the Amiga and Scott Miller giving us the history of 3D Realms and the rise of Shareware was geek heaven and getting Andy Crane to give us an hour-long inside story on Bad.
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