Ep. 38: The Sega Mega Modem Saga
Norman Caruso is here to share the history of the Sega Mega Modem from his most recent video SEGA Mega Modem: Ahead of Its Time | Gaming Historian. Despite many of its drawbacks and pitfalls, this dev...
30 Juni 202158min
Ep. 37: Nokia's Disengaged N-Gage
Grace Kramer and Derek Alexander are this week’s guests discussing the Nokia N-Gage from their recent documentary, N-Gage: Cell Phone Gaming's First Big Flop | Past Mortem [SSFF]. While there is some ...
23 Juni 20211h 4min
Ep. 35: The Dreaded Age Rating
We sit down with Jimmy Maher, author of The Digital Antiquarian, to examine his recent four part series: The Ratings Game. This series takes a look at how games came to have age ratings, why it was in...
9 Juni 20211h 23min
Ep. 34: The CRPG Book
Felipe Pepe takes us through his collaborative, non-profit project to create a historical guide to computer role playing games: The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games. What CRPG’s aroun...
2 Juni 20211h 10min
Ep. 32: Darkwatch with Eric Switzer
Eric Switzer joins us to share the development and downfall of Darkwatch in his article The Untold Story Of Darkwatch. A vampiric haunted western, Darkwatch could have, in another universe, been a maj...
19 Maj 202153min
Ep. 31: Spacewar!: Dual to the Death
Our podcasting duo takes us back to the dawning of real-time computer games: Spacewar! Alex Smith joins us for round two, being our second second-time guest, to pairaphrase the history of this 2-playe...
12 Maj 20211h 33min
Ep. 30: Bejeweled: A Match 3 Made in Heaven
Ben Hanson returns to the show to bring us The Oral History Of PopCap Games, a not 4 hour long video in which we learn how the “colors game” spawned the casual juggernaut Bejeweled, the black sheep in...
5 Maj 20211h 1min
Ep. 29: Chronological + Nintendo = Chrontendo
Dr. Sparkle, the creator of Chrontendo, takes us through his more than decade long project to analyze every commercially released game for the NES and Famicom in chronological order while simultaneous...
28 Apr 20211h 2min
