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Mode 7 style scaling comes to the Mega Drive.

And we chat interplay, fallout and audio with Doug Rappaport.

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Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 405, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood.

Me Ravi Abbott and me Joe Fox.

And a very warm welcome to the podcast, of course, a show that every single Friday lives and breathes retro video games brings you up to speed on all the big happenings in the world of retro from over the last

seven days, a little bit of a roundtable discussion in the first half of the show. And then the

second half of the podcast is when we welcome on a veteran of the industry to tell us their story

and talk about some of the games we grew up playing. And we've got an amazing guest for you

this week, an interview that you just did Ravi. and I know you were so hyped about this one.

Yeah, so this is a really interesting interview. It's with Doug Rappaport, and he basically

worked on audio for video games, but a very specific area, which was he worked on voices and voiceovers. And, you know, he worked for some

absolutely amazing companies, Interplay, Mattel, EA, Trey Arch and Konomi as well. So he kind of worked

in that period where CD-ROMs just started coming out and, you know, games were really exploding. And that kind of

acquisition of voice talent, getting people onto the games, but also editing it correctly,

working out stuff like the sound effects, the atmosphere, you know, Fallout is a great game for

that because you've got that whole 1940s feel as well.

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