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Gaming Podcast 129: My WalkmanGaming Podcast 129: My Walkman
This week is full of crazy energy. We seem to have gone 100% Sony on news chatter but we level that out with some great community feedback about our question of the week. We hit a little Burgertime action in our gaming flashback and bust through some Data East company history.
Analyst says Sony Motion Control beats MS Natal- Sony dropping the PS3 price?
- EA heading for a takeover?
- Sony backing Home
- Sony making a PSP Phone?
- Sony Exclusives not anything great
This week we’re asking the question, what is your favorite end-boss in a video game from todays games to the past classics?
Episode 655: QuebecoisEpisode 655: Quebecois
Ce podcast n’est pas parlé en français. Ce n’est même pas en français canadien. Désolé, nous ne vivons pas à Montréal. Les gars se moquent du gouvernement du Québec pour leur peur provinciale de l’anglais et blâment tout sur la langue.
L’épisode de cette semaine comprend les nouvelles suivantes:
- L’industrie québécoise du jeu vidéo sera impactée par une loi linguistique controversée
- RimWorld: Console Edition arrive sur PS4, Xbox One le 29 juillet
- Samsung Gaming Hub est officiellement lancé
Il y a aussi des retours d’auditeurs. Dites-nous ce que vous en pensez.
Gaming Flashback: Lode RunnerGaming Flashback: Lode Runner
Lode Runner, a game many of us logged hundreds of hours upon. Lode Runner has a great deal of replay value thanks to its great map editor. The game was first published by Broderbund in 1983, but was first prototyped by Douglas Smith, an architecture student at the University of Washington.
The Lode Runner prototype was called Kong and was originally written for a Prime Computer 550 minicomputer on campus, but shortly after it was ported to the VAX minicomputer. Originally programmed in FORTRAN and utilized only ASCII character graphics (the most basic of characters).
In September of 1982 Smith was able to port it to the Apple II+ (in assembly language) and renamed it to Miner. In October of that same year he submitted a rough copy to Broderbund and he’s said to have received a one-line rejection letter, “Sorry, your game doesn’t fit into our product line; please feel free to submit future products.”
The original title had no joystick support and was developed in full black and white…not exactly exciting. So, Smith then borrowed money to purchase a color monitor and joystick and continued to improve the game. Around Christmas of 1982, he submitted the game, now renamed Lode Runner, to four publishers and quickly received offers from all four: Sierra, Sirius, Synergistic, and Brøderbund.
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