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Episode 425: Paul’s Return Part 1Episode 425: Paul’s Return Part 1
Paul returns to the show to drown his sorrows in the discontinuation of a game series he loved, and the podcast ran so long it has to be split into two parts.
The first half of this podcast includes the following news items:
Stay tuned for Part 2.
Episode 327: Not-Love LettersEpisode 327: Not-Love Letters
This week’s podcast has Jonah having a new job, while some really long Listener Feedback letters lengthen the podcast. In fact, several discussions between Jonah and Jordan were cut and will be in a near-future Outtakes episode.
This week is full of news as well, including:
- Star Wars 1313 was to have starred Boba Fett after all
- Shadow of the Eternals dev Precursor Games disbands
- Techland: Dying Light isn’t another Dead Island
- China lifts console ban, Microsoft collaborating with BesTV to make new console
- Watch Dogs ships on two discs, requires install, 30 FPS cap on Xbox One and PS4
That plus the long Listener Feedback, and Jordan has an appeal to veteran listeners to write in.
Gaming Flashback: DOOMGaming Flashback: DOOM
DOOM is a PC game titlat that wasn’t initially released in stores. It was uploaded to an FTP server in the University of Wisconsin-Madison and on the Software Creations BBS on the 10th of December; released as a shareware game, people were encouraged to download and spread the game around to all their friends.
In days before social networks and the wildfire of the Internet (or high speed networking) this game still managed to spread around to everyone in the gaming community. From1993 to 1995 the title had an estimated install base of 10 million computers. We were one of them.
Granted, ten million copies were installed but most were not registered and simply remained as shareware. However, over one million copies were sold for the registered version of DOOM and this brought momentum to their next non-shareware copy of the DOOM series. The Ultimate Doom (version 1.9, including episode IV) was released, making this the first time that Doom was sold commercially in stores.
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