Defender: The Story of an Arcade Legend With Eugene Jarvis - The Retro Hour EP75
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2017
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
We talk to the arcade master Eugene Jarvis about Defender, Robotron, Smash TV and more early arcade memories!
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| 0:00.0 | I can't believe it. |
| 0:03.5 | Max has asked me to move in with him. |
| 0:05.9 | I mean, you practically live with each other already, but that's great. |
| 0:09.8 | Did you hear that, Joe? |
| 0:11.5 | Yes, thanks for letting us know. |
| 0:14.3 | I see you've updated your universal credit claim. |
| 0:17.1 | Now you're going to be living together. |
| 0:23.6 | If you're telling other people about a change in your circumstances, tell us too to avoid a penalty. Search tell DWP. Hello and welcome to the |
| 0:31.3 | Retro Hour podcast episode number 75, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 0:38.2 | And me, Ravi Abbott. |
| 0:39.4 | And this is the podcast for you. |
| 0:41.3 | If you remember those heady days of running home from school, |
| 0:45.9 | all straight to your friends, house, also that's still wearing your school uniform, |
| 0:48.9 | everyone playing on like their Sega Master System. |
| 0:51.2 | Yep, I remember that, or being in the kind of arcades and, you know, running out a two piece for those machines and then looking in the bottom of them and finding a few and then getting tons. Well, those kind of penny drop things. Yeah, yeah. I used to nudge them just, you know, ever so slightly so the alarm wouldn't go off? Oh, you had the little skills, yeah. I think I have set an alarm off on one actually. Or maybe when you're at the Seaside Arcades. You remember playing classic games like, let's think of a few Gallagher, obviously huge at the arcades back in the day. I remember playing Pac-Land. That was amazing. What about Defender? Oh, Defender, yeah. That was a massive game. Total game changer, actually. and we have on the show today, Eugene Jarvis, the arcade master, |
| 1:31.2 | the actual creator of Defender, Robotron 2048, and Smash TV. |
| 1:37.1 | NARC as well? |
| 1:38.1 | NARC as well, yeah, got these so many titles. |
| 1:41.0 | Now, this guy, I mean, he is obviously, we're going like to the earliest days of arcades here. |
| 1:47.0 | And you know, he started in pinball, which kind of predated arcades. |
| 1:51.0 | Yeah, a lot of people actually started in the kind of pinball industry and then went into it. |
| 1:56.0 | But he was working for the pinball giants who were Williams, you know, an Atari's pinball division? |
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