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Hi everyone and welcome to episode, oh I want to say 98, 99.

It's way up there for RetroNuts. I am your host for this week, Jeremy Parish and with me it's a RetroNuts East so that means it's Ben Jedwitch and Ben Elton.

Keep those two straight, one as a J and the other does not. And this week we are going to continue the series that we kind of started with our first episode on 8-bit microcomputers and the games that go with them.

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RetroNuts has been looking back at the Final Fantasy series lately in preparation for the series upcoming 30th anniversary. One of my favorite Final Fantasy characters is Shadow's dog Interceptor of Final Fantasy VI.

You can't control him, but as a dog he's a bruiser in combat. When his companion Shadow takes a hit, Interceptor rushes into battle to counter attack. He's hardcore.

You know, I bet Interceptor would have been a lot more chill if Shadow had subscribed to Barkbox. Sure, that might have been a little tough since Barkbox is a monthly service that delivers dog treats to your door and Shadow was a wandering nomadic ninja assassin. Also, Barkbox offers free shipping in the US but not the world of ruin.

But Barkbox would have given Interceptor a fresh assortment of toys and edible treats with a different theme every month, sourced from a variety of local and small businesses and customizable to his size, habits and health needs.

And if Interceptor hadn't liked a particular treat, he wouldn't have had to counter attack. Barkbox offers free replacements for unloved treats. If only Shadow had gone to get Barkbox.com slash game, he could have signed up and gotten a free bonus month of service for subscribing.

Oh well, you aren't a Serly Nomadic Ninja who barely survives the apocalypse though, so why not subscribe for your own canine pal? That's get Barkbox.com slash game.

So back a few months ago, we talked about the Apple 2 and it's sort of legacy and it's important role in the history of video gaming.

This time around what we're planning to do is follow up on that with the next phase of Apple's video game history, the Macintosh.

Of course, the Macintosh was not designed as a gaming system. I don't think it was not designed as a gaming system but once Steve Jobs got his hands on it, he was like, no games, those are frivolous and dumb.

So yeah, the system turned into a pretty neat gaming machine, sort of despite the mandate of its imperious commander, Steve Jobs.

Not going to keep people from making games, especially when they're using it as a hobby.

If you build it, they will develop games. That's the rule of computing. Also porn, but we're going to talk about games.

That's porn not. That's my next page on goal. Right. So anyway, yeah, basically, I can say for myself, Mac gaming is not something I have a lot of experience with.

It was something that I kind of saw from a distance and coveted. Macintoshes were kind of expensive and so they weren't really that easy for me to get a hold of.

We had a few Macintoshes and some of our computer labs. It wasn't until 1993 that I got my own system and had sort of unfettered access to Macs.

But this week we're going to talk about 80s gaming on Macintosh. I think that'll probably fill an entire episode because there's some really interesting games, some very innovative and unique games that were made for the system.

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