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Retronauts Vol. IV Episode 53: Williams' Arcade Classics

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Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2015

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Jaz Rignall joins Bob and Jeremy to look back at Williams, who became an arcade legend with a small but fantastic collection of coin-ops. The innovation of Defender! The brilliance of Robotron! How Sinistar was arguably the arcade's first RTS! And more!

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0:00.0

This week in RetroNots.

0:01.2

See where I live.

0:25.6

Hi everyone and welcome to Episode Mystery of RetroNots.

0:30.2

I'm this week's host Jeremy Parrish and with me here to discuss the majestic topic of Williams' entertainment, we have the usual...

0:40.2

I'm Bob, stop the new order bus, Mackie.

0:43.2

You'll find out what that means later.

0:46.2

I don't know what that means.

0:47.2

And our local Williams expert.

0:50.2

Hi, I'm Jazz Ragnar.

0:52.2

And we brought Jazz in because one, I think Defender is his favorite video game ever, is that correct?

0:57.2

Robatron, but Defender is a very close game.

0:59.2

Well, both of those are Williams' games.

1:01.2

And also because he had the knockdown dragout interview to end all interviews with Eugene Jarvis about a year ago.

1:09.2

Is that why we haven't seen Eugene since?

1:11.2

Only one two-minute inter-one-man leave and Jazz is here with us.

1:17.2

So anyway, yeah, Jazz is what you would call an expert on the topic.

1:22.2

So he's here to elucidate and enlighten us.

1:28.2

So anyway, yeah, it's a topic style that we haven't really done a lot.

1:34.2

We don't talk about specific developers or publishers or manufacturers that often.

1:40.2

We usually go for either specific games or series or else bigger, broader topics.

1:46.2

But Williams is actually a pretty interesting case study in game history, I think.

1:52.2

They were a major arcade powerhouse in the Golden Era of video games.

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