400: The SCUMM Engine: From Maniac Mansion to Monkey Island - The Retro Hour EP400

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 558 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

It's our 400th episode! In the first of an epic two-part interview, we chat with Aric Wilmunder, the co-creator of the legendary SCUMM Engine, which enabled some of the best adventure games of all time, including Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, and Loom.

Contents:

00:00 - The Week's Retro News Stories
40:00 - Aric Wilmunder Interview

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Show notes:

Analogue's New Hardware: Nintendo 64: https://tinyurl.com/2p8bfay2
New Hogs of War - Lardcore: https://tinyurl.com/mt3x8xn8
Fraser Fantasy RPG: https://tinyurl.com/43zydvmk
Super Mario Film (1993) Getting 4K Re-release: https://tinyurl.com/5n94fbj4

Transcript

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0:00.0	Coming up on this week's show, the Nintendo 64 gets reimagined.
0:05.2	Hogs of War is back, and we chat to the man behind the legendary scum engine, Eric Wilmunder.
0:20.2	And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you every week with our incredible friends at Bitmap Books.
0:25.9	Now, have you seen their brand new book, perfect for October?
0:29.4	From ANSTA zombies, six decades of video game horror, delving in to the remarkable history
0:36.4	of games that terrify and delight in equal measure
0:40.0	launching on Halloween.
0:42.1	So you can check that out on the rest of their retro gaming collection at bitmapbooks.com.
0:47.8	Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 400.
0:53.4	Your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood.
0:57.5	Me Ravi Abbott and me Joe Fox.
1:00.4	And I think we need a bit more excitement.
1:02.2	Episode 400, boys.
1:05.1	I knew the side effects that come out.
1:08.4	Have some champagne, Joe.
1:12.7	Set the fireworks off on the lawn at the front as well.
1:16.9	400 episodes.
1:19.0	And this little podcast that we started, we're trying to work it out, weren't we?
1:21.7	It was January 2016 when we launched this podcast thinking, I remember I
1:27.1	saying we'll do maybe two or
1:28.3	three episodes see how it goes and here we are almost eight years later and 400 episodes of this show
1:34.4	out there in cyberspace covering the news every single week and of course the guests that we've had on
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