482: Medal of Honor: The Inside Story with Chris Cross - The Retro Hour EP482

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 558 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re joined by Chris Cross, the original lead designer of Medal of Honor, who cut his teeth at Blizzard on Warcraft II and Diablo, worked on Small Soldiers: Squad Commander, survived Trespasser: The Lost World, and brought us gritty realism in Homefront. Chris shares some amazing behind-the-scenes stories, from Spielberg’s influence and arcade obsessions, to why he loved PS1 development and what went wrong (and right) on some of the most ambitious projects of the '90s and early 2000s.

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Contents:

00:00 - The Week's Retro News Stories
38:59 - Chris Cross Interview

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Wii U Game Pad replacement: https://tinyurl.com/264vu8rn
OutRun on Game Boy Colour: https://tinyurl.com/4z7mdtbe
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun - Words of Vengeance: ttps://tinyurl.com/3v2b4t36
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AROS Live USB: https://tinyurl.com/2b2bu3ae

Transcript

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0:00.0	Coming up on this week's show, how to breathe new life into your Wii U.
0:05.0	An amazing new game for typing of the debt fans.
0:07.7	A Wii chat medal of honor with the lead designer, Chris Cross.
0:20.4	And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you each and every Friday with our sponsor, our friends of Bitmap Books.
0:26.7	Now, of course, today, talking about Medal of Honor.
0:28.9	If you're a fan of first-person shooters, have you seen their incredible new book that just got released?
0:34.8	Hurt Me Plenty, the ultimate guide to first-person shooters. Covering the
0:39.3	years, 2003 to 2010. Now, this covers more than 220 PC console, handheld and arcade games as well.
0:47.7	All the big ones are in there, of course, Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Doom 3, Half-Life 2,
0:51.5	and a few surprises you might have not heard of or forgotten about.
0:55.3	And weighing in at more than 460 pages, you can check it out, and the rest of their retrogaming
1:00.3	collection of Bitmapbooks.com.
1:03.1	And brought to you with our friends at PCB Way.
1:05.6	Now, of course, you know about PCB way?
1:07.5	If you're in the market for fully featured custom PCB prototyping, low-cost, fast turnaround and always quality boards, and they offer services like 3D printing and injection molding and check up their shared project section on their website to see what big supporters of the retro community they are.
1:23.7	And get an instant quote right now at PCBway.com.
1:29.2	Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 482, your weekly dose of retro
1:35.3	gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood.
1:38.0	Me Ravi Abbott and me Joe Fox.
1:40.3	And great to be joining us for another show, the podcast that comes out right at the end of the week. Every Friday, start of the weekend. We just love doing this, don't we? When work's finished, and we get to focus on our favorite thing in the world, we get to geek out about classic video games for an hour or two. Yeah, and, you know, we get to talk about series that we absolutely love when we are growing up and we also get to talk to
2:01.8	you know the people behind them and this week is no exception like uh we're talking about one of
2:07.1	my favorite titles medal of honor so i absolutely love that series joe were you a medal of honor
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