Retronauts Episode 293: Alex Kidd and Shadowgate

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Parish chats with Retronauts contributor Stuart Gipp about the mysterious appeal of Sega's Alex Kidd franchise, then talks to Shadowgate creator Dave Marsh about the history of the game and the inspiration behind its modern-day remake.

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0:00.0	Presenting Hop On Board, a podcast series by Southeastern, six podcasts, six celebrity
0:06.2	hosts, taking you on a whistle-stop tour of some of the best places to explore by rail
0:10.8	on the Southeastern network.
0:12.4	Join Greg Wallace as he tucks into delicious food and drink, rave-wilding, uncovering
0:17.2	unsolved mysteries and spooky happenings, and Miranda Sawyer getting Arty on the Kencoast.
0:22.7	Get the inside track on Kenton East Sussex with Hop On Board, listen now wherever you
0:27.2	get your podcasts.
0:30.4	You're listening to RetroNots, a part of the Greenlit Podcast Network, a collective
0:34.2	of creator-owned and fully independent podcasts focused on pop culture and video gaming.
0:39.7	To learn more and to catch up on all the other network shows, check out GreenlitPodcasts.com.
0:47.1	This weekend, RetroNots, a 38-year-old lust and a three-year-old dinky.
1:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome to RetroNots.
1:15.9	This is a pandemic protocol segment episode, which means because I'm not able to record
1:22.6	with people in real life.
1:24.3	Instead, I'm having just, you know, a one-on-one conversation with a friend or a regular
1:28.1	or someone who knows a lot about video games or all the above.
1:31.7	It's going to be an episode stitched together from multiple little parts.
1:36.2	This part, in particular, is on a Sega franchise that has only been mentioned really in passing
1:42.6	on RetroNots before and really only so that we could slag it.
1:46.5	I believe that because it was popular in the UK, we do say slag here, yes.
1:53.9	I am Jeremy Parish and with me on the line from the UK, talking about how much he loves
1:59.3	this benign franchise.
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