EPISODE 41: HAUNTED HOUSE

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It’s Halloween! (As this episode drops). Here’s a little pod-treat for your goodie bags, you little goblins.

I’m joined by not one, but TWO, cohosts as both Henry and Sophie light candles and come along on a tour of Zachary Graves’ spooky old mansion in Atari’s 1981 fright-fest HAUNTED HOUSE. Join us…if you’ve got the guts.

BOO!

My thanks to Kevin McLeod at Incompetech.com for creative commons use of his songs “Take a Chance”, “Reformat” and “Pinball Spring”.

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EPISODE 40: M*A*S*H

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Grab a martini and Radar’s teddy bear and come play M*A*S*H! The video game! On your TV!*

*You might need to put down either the martini or the bear to hold the joystick.

In episode 40, our focus is the 1983 20th Century Fox Video Games edition of the game based on the HUGELY popular show about whacky doctors and nurses plunked down in the army camp 4077 during the Korean War.

Plus…We have a special guest.  Henry is back! He joins us to share his thoughts about a game set in a war that, historically, means little to him because it happened sixty years ago and he’s only seven.

But did he like the game? Tune in to find out!

Thanks to Kevin McLeod at Incompetech.com for creative commons use of his songs “Reformat”, “Pinball Spring” and “Take a Chance.”

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EPISODE 39: G.I. JOE: COBRA STRIKE

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Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?

G.I. JOE: COBRA STRIKE, the 1983 Parker Brothers Atari game, is here to slither its way into your ear holes.

The game finds the evil COBRA organization targeting new Joe recruits with a HUGE laser-shooting and venom dripping snake. As one does.

In the game, you are manning the guns to defend the Joes. All of this smacks of bad military strategy to me. Does the plot hold up? We put our forked tongue all over this one to find out.

Thanks to Kevin McLeod at Incompetech.com for creative commons use of his songs “Reformat”, “Pinball Spring” and “Take a Chance.”

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EPISODE 38: DONKEY KONG JUNIOR

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In “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”, Harrison Ford saved his father. Ian Ziering saved his dad David Hasselhoff a bunch of times in those “Sharknado” movies.

And now, this week, Donkey Kong Junior steps – make that leaps – up to claim his own place as daddy-saver. Will he do the family proud? If not, there’s always “Sharknado IV”.

Also in the episode: I rap, apparently.

Thanks to Kevin McLeod at Incompetech.com for creative commons use of his songs “Reformat”, “Pinball Spring” and “Take a Chance”.

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EPISODE 37: DONKEY KONG

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Back when this full-grown podcaster was but a wee audio sprout, there were the BIG THREE GAMES that were integral to forming his arcading self: Frogger and Pac-Man were two of them, both of which we have talked about on this show. And now, we look at the third of the triumvirate:

DONKEY KONG – Coleco, 1981.

 Does this port live up to the thrill of the arcade version? Does the story of a little Italian plumber (who, in this game, is actually a carpenter because…reasons) chasing down a homicidal gorilla still hold up? Did it EVER make any sense?

These questions and more will be answered this week. So put down your bowl of Crunch Berries and DVD collection of the Donkey Kong cartoon show and join us.

My thanks to Kevin McLeod at Incompetech.com for creative commons use of his songs “Reformat”, “Pinball Spring and “Take a Chance”.

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