Welcome to the early edition of the gaming podcast, because I’m going to be in Germany this week we had to record a bit early and post the podcast for listening. Hopefully this won’t screw up too many people’s schedules with a day-early release! This week we’re flashing back to Sid Meier’s Pirates and learning about women’s rights (or lack of) in the life of a privateer. We’ll talk a bit about the history of the Amstrad CPC 464 and cover some news:

• Nintendo Wii Rumor: Price Rollback
• Wii Sales Down 50 Percent
• Bethesda Sues Interplay Over Fallout License
• Bungie Says Natal Won’t Be Implemented To Be Gimmicky

The community questions were great, gave us lots of nice ideas for a future gaming cave! This week we’re riding on the community listener, Onyersix who wrote a good question of the week: “What was the scariest moment you ever experienced playing video games?  We’re talking the type of shock that makes you need to go and put on a new pair of pants!”

Hey, did you notice our new microphone quality, Jennifer and I have upgraded our studio setup (by about $1,000!), hopefully you’ll notice the more dynamic vocal qualities.

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Post edited 5:41 pm – September 20, 2009 by Onyersix
Post edited 5:43 pm – September 20, 2009 by Onyersix

When you started talking about having LANfest in the gaming cave with personal butlers, all I could see in my head was the South Park WOW episode, where they camp in Cartman's basement to level up all weekend, with Cartman yelling at his mother to fetch food, drinks, and even to put a bucket under his seat as he couldn't get up to go to the bathroom.

I'm afraid I can never think about the cave again!

Oh, and Jennifer is correct.  The Amstrad CPC 464, the ZX Spectrum, and the Commodore 64 all used cassette tapes to store their games.  (Of course we “never” copied these games onto a blank cassette that would then end up being used on our friend's computer!)

The Amstrad owner is Sir Alan Sugar.  He is the top man in the UK version of The Apprentice.  I think you have the same show with Donald Trump in the US.