653: The Bronze Age of Arcade Games

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Kevin Bunch, Benj Edwards, and Nate Lockhart enter the era of TTL circuits and early microprocessors as they celebrate the world of 1970s arcade games.

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0:00.0	This episode of Retronaut is brought to you by Public Rec.
0:04.3	This week on Retronauts.
0:32.4	This should be episode 653, if I'm counting correctly.
0:36.8	And I am your host, Kevin Bunch.
0:39.3	And today, we're going back to not the primordial days of coin-operated video games per se,
0:45.9	but definitely the era when you had the first trilobites crawling around or swimming around.
0:53.6	What did trilobites do again? I don't remember.
0:55.9	I don't know. Exist in fossils.
0:58.6	Underwater?
1:00.3	Crawling around underwater, for sure. So we're discussing what is generally dubbed sort of the
1:06.1	Bronze Age of Video Games, which spanned in 1970s, led into the Golden Age, which really, you know,
1:14.4	skipped a generation there that most people seem to really be more familiar with,
1:19.6	the Golden Age of Arcades, when you had the big hits like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong and Mr.
1:25.1	Doe.
1:25.9	Sure.
1:26.7	But the Bronze Age is really fascinating.
1:29.0	It has a lot of really cool concepts and games that are just really forgotten or overlooked
1:35.0	nowadays.
1:36.1	And I'm really excited to talk about them.
1:38.6	And I brought you two folks to chat about them too.
1:42.7	Wonderful.
1:43.0	So who do we have to my south?
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