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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

385: First Person Shooters: Exploring 40 Years of History - The Retro Hour EP385

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9558 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Join us in this episode as we chat with David L. Craddock and Richard Moss, the creators of 'First Person Shooter', the ultimate documentary tracing the evolution of FPS games. We'll explore industry secrets, personal favorites, and insights from their interviews with gaming legends.  From the rudimentary wireframe graphics of Maze War and Spasim to the genre-defining classics like Doom and Half Life.

First Person Shooter Documentary: https://fpsdoc.com/

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Show notes:

Sega 1990s brand review leak: https://tinyurl.com/y6hdbra2
Final Vendetta coming to Neo Geo: https://tinyurl.com/bdewn9va
CRT is still the king of gaming monitors: https://tinyurl.com/4x5axr8y
Double Dragon Gaiden: https://tinyurl.com/ycy3wjdp

Transcript

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0:00.0

Coming up on this week's show, a massive Sega leak has happened.

0:03.5

A legendary beat-em-up comes to the Neo Geo.

0:06.0

And we celebrate the history of first-person shooters.

0:09.0

And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you every Friday with our amazing friends at Bitmap Books.

0:24.8

Now, maybe you've got a holiday coming up soon.

0:26.2

You want some good poolside reading or do something for the garden this summer.

0:29.7

The Secret History of Mac Gaming, the Expanded Edition.

0:33.6

Now, you can celebrate the previously untold history of gaming on the Apple Macintosh

0:38.3

with a gorgeous 480-page hardback book featuring more than 250 Mac titles,

0:43.4

including some games that started life on that went on to be massive,

0:46.8

Myst, SimCity, Shadowgate, and lots more, even Halo's in there too.

0:50.7

So you can check that out on the rest of their retro gaming collection at bitmapbooks.com.

0:55.7

Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 385, your weekly dose of retro gaming

1:02.2

and technology news with me, Dan Wood. Me Ravi Abbott and me Joe Fox. And great to be joining us

1:07.8

for our first show of July, right in the middle of the summer here in the UK.

1:12.4

And of course, we're all on a bit of a high after the incredible weekend that we just had.

1:18.6

Now, I don't know about you guys, but I'm pretty much floating on pure caffeine after Ravi's massive event at the weekend.

1:25.3

Of course, I kickstart the first Amiga show that's happened in almost a decade. Joe, can we give Ravi a little round of applause for an incredibly well-organized event, Ravi. I'm going to say, hats off to you, mate. It was so good. Cheers, guys. You know, it was a bit of a blur for me. I'm still trying to recover. I was running around a lot. and I kind of shot myself in the foot because I really wanted to go to this event

1:47.2

and, uh, trying to recover. I was running around a lot and I kind of shot myself in the foot because I

1:45.6

really wanted to go to this event. I didn't even know what was being sold on the tables. You know,

1:51.7

there was some cool devices and it was really cool just to see everyone have a good time. And

1:56.6

I can't wait to see some of the footage come out and like some of the photos. And also it's good meeting the patrons as well. Really good time. What did you guys think? I really, really enjoyed it. I was kind of glued to our stand all day because of Dan, you know, Mr. Popular, kept him getting like torn away and stuff like that. But I had a really great time. Like you say, talking to a lot of patrons, a lot of people just coming over and saying their fans of the show or even just coming over and having no idea who I am and just being like, why have you got a table of PS1 games that you're selling with an Amiga CD 32 on here what you're playing as well. And then it was just a fun day just kind of telling people what I was doing and who I was and stuff like that but

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