Maximum Power Up podcast episode 80: Interview with the PS UK marketing chief of the time, Geoff Glendinning, who describes how they implanted the PS1 in the UK club scene.
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I’m not listening to this but I’m gonna assume this is how Wipeout ended up in Hackers
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It may have had an influence, but apparently Psygnosis was still operating more or less like a third party studio at that point, and it was the film’s producers who approached them.
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Brain Tape Discord podcast
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Nice! It seems like this will be a super close reading, if it keeps up at this pace.
The Dreamcast Junkyard
Spends a lot of time on a relatively small pool of games for instance Shenmue, but they know their stuff and also manage to talk about other things.
Vintage RPG Podcast - Erol Otus interview
Classic D&D – and video game! – player and artist Otus discusses his career–and his artistic influences, which range from Frank Frazetta to Dr. Seuss.
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Designer Notes podcast
Civ IV lead designer Soren Johnson interviews Civ co-creators Bruce Shelley and Sid Meier, and Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix designer David Sirlin:
- Designer Notes 9: Bruce Shelley - Idle Thumbs Network
- Designer Notes 23: Sid Meier - Part 1 - Idle Thumbs Network
- Designer Notes 24: Sid Meier - Part 2 - Idle Thumbs Network
- Designer Notes 25: Sid Meier - Part 3 - Idle Thumbs Network
- Designer Notes 26: Sid Meier - Part 4 - Idle Thumbs Network
- Designer Notes 41: David Sirlin - Part 1 - Idle Thumbs Network
- Designer Notes 42: David Sirlin - Part 2 - Idle Thumbs Network
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CRITICAL!: The History of Wrestling Video Games
This series covers the history of wrestling video games. From WWF, WCW, ECW, Japanese promotions, independent promotions and more. As well as upcoming games yet to be released.
Two wrestling game fanatics go over old games and series, and complain about new ones; listening to this, you start to realize that the purpose of many of these games is not so much to be a challenging adventure, but to let hardcore fans recreate their favorite wrestlers and matches.
A surprisingly large segment at the end of each episode goes to chronicling the latest developments in what sounds like the extremely lucrative industry of collectible wrestling dolls action figures.
this podcast about stafford beer and salvador allende’s project of cybernetic management / planning of the chilean economy under socialist lines seems pretty interesting.
haven’t listened to it yet, though. the emphasis seems to be on stafford beer and the cybersyn project, but i do hope they draw on the broader context of the popular unity government so it doesn’t end up being the same techno-fetishistic narrative euro-americans always tell when talking about this topic.
this period of allende’s popular unity government is super informative of all sorts of patterns that still play out among progressives in liberal-democratic states all over
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All the best podcasts have long, unannounced hiatuses
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i’m one of the greatest podcasters of all time if that’s the case
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with dozens of episodes worth of recorded content that will remain undiscovered until some distant aeon where future archeologists try to reconstruct the 21st century from the contents of that hard drive
“Carbonara Timestamp was a typical name for people in the dark age of the early 21st century” these archeologists will say
If archaeologoists try to reconstruct the 21st century from my hard drive they’re gonna think that our entire culture is obsessed with GI Joes acting abstractly stupid
And, you know. Aren’t we?
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WARNING! A Huge Podcast
aka “WAHP”
http://feeds.feedburner.com/wahp
Mentioned by @Ymer, @Rudie and @Cerium in various threads. Some stuff in earlier WAHP episodes hasn’t aged great but the three ex-Gamefan hosts provided perspective and insights on the Japanese game industry and Japanese gaming culture from the now-distant years of 2010-2012 that I hadn’t heard elsewhere.
(Also it was their contemporary incessant fanboyism of Demon’s Souls and then Dark Souls–this was a period where Japanese console gaming was at something of a low point as the industry there had bet big on handheld gaming rather than investing in learning how to make games in HD, but certain things were developing that in hindsight we now know become huge later, like the Souls games and Yakuza/Like a Dragon–that, listening to it now all these years later, finally got me to try that series for myself.)
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Forgot who said it but there’s an episode around when Yakuza 4 came out when they said the series was getting really stale and should end soon and I think about that comment a lot.
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The Bancast
LOVE platformer series and Deltarune dev Fred Wood’s old podcast of 20s-something dude friends talking mostly about games.
The podcast has been deleted.
I dredged up I think 11 episodes from old versions of thebancast.com in archive.org (two of the episode links here were basically 404; some of the others took multiple tries): The Bancast – A podcast about introducing you to new things and making you laugh.
And some raw later episodes, and earlier let’s plays, survive on Wood’s YouTube channel ( youtube.com/@TheBancast ); I compiled them into a playlist:
These verge on bro-cast territory a few times but always manage to veer back into pretty true geek lands. Starts its ~8yr run pretty immature and gradually becomes slightly less immature.
It made for pretty okay background listening and I learned a few PS3/PS4-era game things I hadn’t known. And it was Wood’s professed love of the Sonic series that got me to take another look at those games.
RIP “Get to da Choppa” podcast, the latest gaming (this time merged with movie) podcast by UK retro gaming “podfather” Andy Godoy; its feed went offline a week or so ago after new shows gradually petered out; various bits remain on the YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@Gettodachoppapod .
Godoy started with the 1HMPS Retro podcast, which quickly sort of evolved into Retro Asylum, which is still going under a pool of other hosts. After a little time away he was back single-handedly churning out several hundred episodes of the RGDS podcast, also still going under other hosts Godoy helped recruit. He also directly inspired the Australian “Arcade Perfect” podcast.
@Felix Valley Heat has a new episode. First one since June 2022 and it picks up right where it left off. Strangely enough, it’s on MaxFun now.
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