493: Dragons in Games & Sega's 8-Bit Journey preview

Retronauts

Games, Leisure, Technology, Video Games

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Coming to you live (or formerly live) once again! Nadia Oxford kicks things off at Retro World Expo with a look at the grandest dragons in video game history, and Jeremy Parish follows up with a look into Sega's forgotten 8-bit arcade history in Portland.

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0:00.0	2022 has been a year of travel and
0:04.0	retranauts people speaking in front of large audiences, but not everyone can
0:08.0	make those audiences, so we've pulled together a couple of our recent panel
0:11.3	presentations and posted them here for you to listen to in high quality audio.
0:15.0	Nadia Oxford kicks things off by talking about dragons and video games,
0:19.2	a personal interest of hers, and I follow up on my recent obsession with the Sega
0:23.2	SG1000 by talking about Sega's 8-bit legacy in our Cades and Beyond.
0:27.2	Both presentations are available for you to listen to now as patron exclusives
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0:55.2	You will almost never go from fighting a level one slime to a dragon.
0:59.2	It's against the natural order of the universe, so that's one reason why they're
1:03.2	so cool and why that makes such excellent RPG characters and bosses and whatnot.
1:08.2	They're versatile. You can do whatever you want with a dragon.
1:11.2	Who's gonna stop you? Is God gonna come down and say, that's not a dragon looks like,
1:14.2	no, he can't, he's helpless. So you are free to do whatever you want with a dragon.
1:18.2	And that's why in many cultures you'll see Western dragon more represented as like a
1:23.2	big beefy boy and Eastern dragons more benevolent and tend to be more intuned
1:28.2	with the elements. And of course there's a whole mix up in between.
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