Player/Missile, a new Atari 8-bit game podcast

[playermissile]

Episode 23 is published. June 1982 magazines and a review of Quarxon. I abandoned the attempt to look at Galahad and the Holy Grail because Quarxon uses display list interrupts and I wanted to look into that for my new reverse engineering focus of the game review section.

[RJ]

 I forgot about this until I got a notification email just now.

 

Wow, eps. are few & far between.

Edited December 9, 2019 by RJ

[+nurmix]

Episode 23 is published. June 1982 magazines and a review of Quarxon. I abandoned the attempt to look at Galahad and the Holy Grail because Quarxon uses display list interrupts and I wanted to look into that for my new reverse engineering focus of the game review section.

Awesome! I’ll listen today.



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[+Ripdubski]

Great cast.  Loved the detail on the DLI/VBI, and the blog post as well about that.  And my head exploded when you starting talking about color clocks.

[TomDarth5]

I have given this a listen 

 

Great Stuff highly enjoyable

[playermissile]

Just released episode 24, usual magazine coverage and a small review of Typo Attack. My kids are learning typing and they like this game better than their online typing instruction.

[playermissile]

So I'm bad at self-promotion! 3 episodes since the last update:

 

Episode 25 with an overview of Aug 1982 magazines including a new addition, Softline. I also throw shade on Adventure International for publishing the sub-par Atari port of Rear Guard, and in an attempt to not get the author Neil Larimer mad at me, praise his much better followup game Stratos.

 

Episode 26 for Sep 1982 magazines & talking about Deluxe Invaders with a tangent talking about the Lost Cause retcon of the Civil War due to the unfortunate (and unrelated) game Hazard Run that was based on the old Dukes of Hazzard TV show.

 

And just this week, Episode 27 for Oct 1982 where I unexpectedly encounter and try to dissect a kernel game, Worm War I which is a port of the 2600 game that @ferghead discussed very early on in his show.

 

Embrace pause technology, since all episodes are at least 2 hours. Enjoy! If you like this sort of stuff, of course; otherwise, probably don't download them.