Ep. 250: 'Achievement Oriented' on Preserving Video Games

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The Ringer

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh and Jason Concepcion talk to Frank Cifaldi, founder of The Video Game History Foundation, about his desire to salvage old video games (6:10), the difference between porting and emulating (9:35), whether online communities can be recreated (14:00), his greatest discoveries (38:05), his efforts to finish unfinished games (42:15), and eight-bit NES porn (50:05). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Chris Ryan.
0:02.9	My name is Andy Greenwald.
0:04.1	And we are the co-host of The Watch,
0:05.6	a pop culture podcast on the Ringer podcast network.
0:08.3	We are on Mondays and Thursdays.
0:10.1	We mostly talk about TV, movies, music, pop culture,
0:14.2	Jeremy Renner, House flipping, the papacy,
0:17.0	Reese Wetherspoon dancing at wedding videos.
0:19.2	We used to talk about Kanye West.
0:20.4	He's in the time out corner right now.
0:22.8	Never ever talk about Christine Bransky.
0:24.5	You can listen to The Watch on Mondays and Thursdays
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0:31.2	And thanks for listening.
0:32.0	It's a good hang.
0:33.0	MUSIC
0:54.2	Hello and welcome to Achievement Oriented,
0:56.9	the gaming podcast from Channel 33.
0:59.4	I am Ben Minberg, writer for TheRinger.com.
1:02.8	And on the other line, Blizzard hasn't banned him
1:05.2	for hacking, so he must just be that good.
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