PC RPG Quest - 1980s: The Rise of JRPGs w/ PC98 Audi

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

This week on Axe of the Blood God, Kat, Nadia, and Eric board the Magic School Bus and travel back to the very beginnings of JRPG development. PC98 Audi from Digital Foundry makes a guest appearance to delve deep into the machine that arguably started it all: The humble PC-88. Audi also has tons of history to share about the MSX, and other high-tech '80s stuff that was vital to the early evolution of JRPGs. Frankly, he's the proverbial Miss Frizzle on this trip. Without him, Kat, Nadia, and Eric would probably fall out of the bus and get eaten by a microprocessor. Also in this episode: Kat's in Super Robot War heaven, we have a trailer for Netflix's adaptation of The Witcher 2, and Square Enix is gonna make you wet with a new Star Ocean game. ["Hey Hey 16k" is by MJ Hibbett and the Validators. Enjoy your earworm] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God and Independent RPG Podcasts.
0:24.4	I'm your host, Kat Bailey, and joining me as always my lovely co-host, Nadia Oxford.
0:29.4	Hello, Kat.
0:30.1	I'm feeling spooky because, well, actually, by the time this episode, it'll be November 1st.
0:34.9	Never mind, sorry.
0:36.4	Halloween will be over. Halloween will be over.
0:38.6	Halloween will be over.
0:40.1	There was one year, I think it was in grade four, where I didn't have makeup. I was going as a rabbit.
0:45.6	So I didn't have makeup. So I drew on my face with a magic marker, like the whiskers on the nose.
0:50.6	And then we had picture day, the next day. And that was the best thing I've ever done in my life. I am very anti-Holwine. Are you really? Are you like the Christian woman who won't
1:00.2	hand out candy? No, no, it's fine. I like Halloween, but I don't like particularly wearing costumes
1:04.9	or getting dressed up. I find it actually kind of stressful. But a lot of my friends are very
1:10.2	into Halloween. So I just have my friends are very into Halloween.
1:12.8	So I just have to roll with it, unfortunately.
1:18.6	I actually went to, I have a good friend who came to Toronto, and we went to a Halloween thing that has set up at Casilloma.
1:20.3	So for all you Scarp Pilgrim fans out there, I didn't go down the railing and turn
1:25.5	to Tuneis, explode in a cloud of money, unfortunately.
1:28.2	Didn't have time.
1:29.0	Every new week is a new Scott Pilgrim reference.
1:31.3	It's magical.
1:34.4	And hey, it's our pal, Eric Van Allen,
1:37.3	who also special announcement,
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