Jonah Falcon and Jordan Lund discuss PAX Prime 2013, then delve into this week’s news, Listener Feedback, and discuss the 1990’s developer Psygnosis.
The news this week includes:
- Nintendo announces 2DS, Wii U price drop
- Inafune “fought hard” for risk taking at Capcom, creators must be “willing to fail”
- Godus beta to hit Steam Early Access on 13th September
- Diablo III‘s new loot system to “cut the legs out” from the auction house
- Bethesda wants The Elder Scrolls Online available to non-Xbox Live subscribers
The Question of the Week: “How many times have you purchased a new form factor of a console you already owned?”
Now here is another interesting video game for the Atari 2600, the game Dragon Fire consisted of two game screens, one which you ran across a bridge while fireballs were shot at you, you had to duck or jump over the fireball. This screen was a side-scroller style screen (although it doesn’t actually scroll), at the other end of the bridge was a castle door which you’d enter to get to the next screen.
When you finished collecting all the treasure an exit would pop up in the corner and you had to run to it without being burned by the fireballs, that dragon would turn from left to right nearly instantly too! Then, you’d jump into the exit and be back on the bridge again, but this time it was harder. You could die up to 7 times before the game was over (just to show you how hard it is, they gave you a bunch of lives).