480: Retronauts Episode 480: Breakout

Retronauts

Games, Leisure, Technology, Video Games

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Parish and Kevin Bunch spin back into the 1970s to talk about one of gaming's most important and influential foundational works and where it fits into the grand scheme of the medium's evolution: Atari's Breakout.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Retarnauts a part of the HyperX Podcast Network.
0:04.2	Find us and more great shows like us at podcast.hyperx.com.
0:11.0	This week in Retarnauts, a real ball breaker of an episode.
0:39.0	Welcome to Retarnauts episode.
0:41.0	According to my notes, 479.
0:45.0	You can put an echo flange effect on that if you want to make it more dramatic.
0:49.0	But at this point, there's so many episodes.
0:51.0	What's another one between friends?
0:53.0	But this one's a little different.
0:55.0	It's very improvisational, very kind of small.
0:59.0	Just two people.
1:01.0	And about a very specific topic.
1:03.0	But it just seemed a thing to do based on a lot of different kind of threads.
1:07.0	That have been weaving around in my professional and side project life.
1:13.0	So here with me on this episode, we have...
1:17.0	Hi, I'm Kevin Bunch.
1:19.0	I do the YouTube series Atari Archive.
1:23.0	The YouTube series and the upcoming book, which I have been laying out and editing and preparation of its publication.
1:31.0	Probably very early next year.
1:33.0	And it's great. And it helped inspire this episode.
1:37.0	Because looking over the breakout article or breakaway for if you prefer, you seeers fans.
1:45.0	I was reminded of how influential and significant that game is.
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