Mattel Electronics to Interplay with Peter Oliphant - The Retro Hour EP117
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
We talk to the amazing Peter Oliphant about classics like Stonekeep and Lexi-Cross, working at Mattel Electronics and life as a child actor.
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| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 117, your weekly dose of retro gaming |
| 0:35.8 | and technology news with me Dan Wood. And me Ravi Abbottott. Now, this podcast is for you, if you've got any interest in what we like to call the golden age of video gaming. And that could be, you know, we've covered stuff from the earliest days of the academic networks, muds, text adventures, arcades, eight and 16-bit consoles, up to like, you know, full motion video games on PCCD |
| 0:55.4 | ROMs. Oh, we've even covered the Xbox, you know, we had Ed Fries on with. I think that's |
| 1:00.3 | as far as we go though, really, isn't it? The Xbox. Up to the year 2000. Millennium Bug wiped us |
| 1:05.2 | out of that. That's it. But this week, I think our guest ticks all the boxes. |
| 1:10.7 | Oh, this guest is amazing. |
| 1:13.2 | It's Peter Oliphon, and he's basically been a designer, programmer, producer, project lead, promoter and an actor. |
| 1:20.8 | He's got quite a varied CV then. |
| 1:22.6 | Oh, definitely. Mattel Electronics, Interplay, Cinemaware, Sierra Online, even the Dick Van Dyke Show. |
| 1:29.0 | So he's been with some amazingly famous names in the world of games. |
| 1:34.2 | Now, even thinking about games he was involved with, it was a programmer on Rocket Ranger, |
| 1:38.6 | joint creator of Stone Keep, and also there was like a futuristic quiz show called Lexi Cross that he's involved in as |
| 1:45.1 | yeah yeah kind of out at the same time as Smash TV so uh we'll hear more about that so he's |
| 1:50.3 | going to be really interesting hang around for this week's special guest peter olyphon is going to be |
| 1:54.3 | our guest on the retro at our podcast in around 15 minutes from now now we have got a lot of |
| 1:59.4 | requests recently because our audience in america has been growing massively recently it Now, we have got a lot of requests recently because our audience in America |
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