Yes here at RGDS spooky towers we thought  it would be fun to go through some spooky and horror games.  As we have done a few of these in the past, we decided to go a bit more modern looking at games from the late SNES and PS2 era of gaming.

So put on your best trick 'n treat garb and join us through these spooktacular video games.

So come and reach out to us on Discord and chat through with like minded people and ourselves all about Retro gaming.

https://discord.gg/BwUwY8A

Hope to see you soon.

Come join us back to the totally radical 90's, when Sega was king and taking the World by storm with all their ground breaking 3D arcade games.

The Sega Model 2 Arcade Board was special, with games such as Daytona, Sega Rally and Virtua 2 to name but a few... So come join Aaron White and Paul Driscoll as we wax lyrical about this special time in gaming and all of our hearts.

Come say hi on our RGDS (Retro Gaming Discussion Show) Discord channel for show notes and catching up with us and our listeners.

In this fantastic episode, Drisky and Kingy cover the great early period of the ZX Spectrum - 82-84.  From mail order games to ones from upstart companies that became industry giants, the lads have it covered.  Join in as they go through their chosen list.

Show notes

Launchbox

https://www.launchbox-app.com/

The Retro Hour Podcast episode on text adventures

https://theretrohour.com/text-adventure-games-history-ep238/

Adventuron

https://adventuron.io/

A Guide to ZX Spectrum Games book

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B077RLWTKP/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Spectaculator

https://www.spectaculator.com/

Oliver Twins Website

https://www.olivertwins.com/

WOS Classic

https://worldofspectrum.net/

Spectrum Computing

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/

Hey Matthew song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Jb9aTSoSc

Rise and Fall of Imagine Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hmItsUvyhM

ComCon configurable interface

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=96&id=1000070

Outro music Hey Matthew by Aaron White

Get those balls polished and join us for another fantastic episode of RGDS.  Yes Kingy and Drisky are looking at games with trackballs and Spinners.  So join us as we go through some all time classic games

X-Arcade: https://shop.xgaming.com/products/x-arcade-tankstick-trackball-usb-included

Mayflash 300 - arcade stick: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mayflash-F300-Arcade-Fight-Joystick/dp/B019MFPLC0/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=mayflash+f300&qid=1599387628&sr=8-1

Video Tour of Arcade Club: https://youtu.be/8o4ZcV0t_z8

Kensigton with Orbit Ring Trackball: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kensington-Orbit-Mouse-ergonomic-ambidextrous-Sapphire-Blue/dp/B002Q42S4E/ref=sr_1_3?adgrpid=52572632589&dchild=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwkdL6BRAREiwA-kiczOf8fI6HiXbb3SwGJ6YHSaeIpK_e06gDta__2ObMAib8ZPhPcgAixxoCOtEQAvD_BwE&hvadid=259043908211&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9045517&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=17016366982645344268&hvtargid=kwd-316360756243&hydadcr=24354_1753692&keywords=kensington+orbital&qid=1599387744&sr=8-3&tag=googhydr-21

Atari Vault Collection on Super Sale right now on PC:
https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/atari-vault-complete-pack

Ultimate Guide To Videogame History by Steven L Kent:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ultimate-History-Video-Games-Pokemon-ebook/dp/B003FCVF6I/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=steven+l+kent&qid=1599387792&sr=8-2

Join Drisky and Kingy as they celebrate the excellent series of games in the Bubble Bobble world. The timeless classic that is Bubble Bubble is consistently on arcade players' top ten favourites and is undisputedly one of the best arcade games of all time.  It spawned many other spin offs too, including the excellent Rainbow Islands.

Don't let Baron von Blubba get you, sit bat and let us make a journey to the cave of monsters!  

In this episode, Aaron, Matt A & Matt L table the discussion that troubled so many gamers in the 8-bit, 16-bit and even 32-bit era. Which is better, PAL or NTSC. More importantly, what’s the difference?

If you’ve ever been confused about this eternal struggle, we’re here to help. If you don’t know your RGB from your RF, your 60HZ from your Big Black Borders, and perhaps you’re complexed why box art varies so much from region to region, don’t worry… the boys cover all this and more as they pull out the best and the worst that each gaming region has to offer.

Follow us @RGDSPodcast

Music featured in this episode

- Intro: Sonic 1 (NTSC and PAL)

- PAL Intro: European Club Soccer (Title Theme)

- NTSC-J intro: Pilotwings (Rocketbelt)

- NTSC-U Intro: Mortal Kombat (MD, Title Theme)

- Outro: Midnight Resistance (MD, Level 1 theme)

Y'aar welcome to an episode themed around swashbuckling pirate games. 

Join Drisky and Kingy as they go through various gaming systems and various genres within the theme.

Games features in this episode are:

Booty

Overboard

Monkey Island 2

Pirates

Capt'n Havoc

Skull & Crossbones 

Cutthroat island

Windwaker

Show Notes:

Alwa's Legacy

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1205900/Alwas_Legacy/

Join Kingy and Drisky as they turn their eye to the amazing SNES and Super Famicom and some hidden platform game gems.

Games covered are;

Super Adventure Island 2
https://youtu.be/Mq9puS2dark

Umihara Kawase (girl with fishing line)
https://youtu.be/FDt4ulUnBrc

Plok
https://youtu.be/r-29NkxK6YY
Link to Pickford Bros site and Plok Comics:
http://www.zee-3.com/pickfordbros/

Do-Re-Mi Fantasy - Milon no Dokidoki Daibouken (Elf)
https://youtu.be/WXNmZb2U3SY

Claymates
https://youtu.be/9UWlVQ1i9Ag

Sutte Hakkun (Colour Penguin)
https://youtu.be/SHrAV2JNgMg

Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel
https://youtu.be/bD9kUSaXoXE

Join Garron and Drisky as they take you through some more classic Amiga Shooters on Volume 2 of our imaginary compilation of Amiga Shooters.

Supercade Book 2 : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vanburnham/supercade-a-visual-history-of-the-videogame-age-1985-2001
SEGA Announcement (FOG & Game Gear Mini) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6XBIhtFg58
Adventure Game Studio: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/

FS-UAE Emu: https://fs-uae.net/
Buy Kickstarter roms officially: https://www.amigaforever.com/
WHDLoad: https://www.whdownload.com/

The Games:

Apidya
Game: https://youtu.be/QCwvVpfhi7k
Manual:
Manual
Chris Huelsbeck Remaster MP3:
https://chrishuelsbeck.bandcamp.com/album/apidya-soundtrack

Agony
Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4RnxYPpMKI
Manual : https://www.lemonamiga.com/games/docs.php?id=38
Frank Sauer Website: http://francksauer.com/index.php/games/test/15-games/published-games/10-agony

Frenetic
Game: https://youtu.be/hCRoQzGVf6E
Manual: http://hol.abime.net/627/manual

Killing Game Show
Game : https://youtu.be/mLZoYUgilkI
Fatal Rewind Game : https://youtu.be/qh3G5mWVj-E
Manual: http://hol.abime.net/627/manual

StarDust
Game : https://youtu.be/c35y_rBOrDY
Manual :
Manual
Super Stardust CD32 : https://youtu.be/d0FDH-Wfcic
Super Stardust HD : https://youtu.be/-UPZ3L_MMJ0
Super Stardust VR : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc6XyfJwBbQ

Silent Demo scene Amiga :
Soul Kitchen : https://youtu.be/07Uf-wW7zzY
Fruit Kitchen : https://youtu.be/SE3eUVUWtVU

Turrican 2
Game : https://youtu.be/wFtLGDywZlg
CDTV Version : https://youtu.be/DmkgaHTHD6I
Manual:
Manual

Soundtrack and Remaster : https://chrishuelsbeck.bandcamp.com/music
Gunlord : https://youtu.be/9v22jvBf5pU (Buy Gunlord X on PS4 or Switch)

Walker
Game: https://youtu.be/UaNEml45ZL8
Manual:
Manual

Controls:
Manual

Xenon
Game : https://youtu.be/N8zfoir_T8M
Game - Arcadia Version : https://youtu.be/3xfin5uNa_s
Manual:
Manual

Get Fresh TV show : https://youtu.be/LYyBi2Bgfvg

Xenon 2
Game : https://youtu.be/d-TfIo8UGwc
Game CDTV: https://youtu.be/ywwGYL4Qtng
Manual : Manual

Kingy is joined by 3 fantastic guests in this fascinating topic of text adventures; back to an era when flashy graphics meant nothing, but good writing was everything.

Guests are:

Mark Hardisty, curator of Classic Adventurer magazine

Tim Gilberts - owner of Gilsoft and the genius behind The Quill, Illustrator and PAW

Stefan Vogt - a modern day text adventure author.

Show Notes:

Classic Adventurer http://classicadventurer.co.uk/

A Gremlin in the Works - https://www.bitmapbooks.co.uk/products/a-gremlin-in-the-works

Gilsoft adventure systems kindly written in Stefan's Blog -

http://8-bit.info/the-gilsoft-adventure-systems/

Stefan's text adventure games - https://8bitgames.itch.io/

In this episode, Professor Will Brooker makes his return visit and chats with Kingy, the oddity that is/was British Gaming. They discuss the obscure British references during the 8-bit era; a time when international sales was but a pipe dream.

Join the guys as they take a stroll down suburbia and chat about working class depictions in games.

Show notes:

The ZX Spectrum Experience Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp5NLOIuJRk

Klass of 99 - Skooldaze sequel

http://retrospec.sgn.net/users/rjordan/klass/

Games that Weren't

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/

We thought in these strange times, we would look for our listeners how to Netplay, in other words playing classic retro machines remotely.

To add to the fun, Kingy and Drisky decided to have a competition of some versus games on the Mega Drive and 32X virtually, where the very honour of our retro gaming crown and our respective countries were at stake.

Kingy and Drisky dive back into the wonderful world of magazine cover tapes and disks on the Amiga and Spectrum.

Cor Blimey!  Howz-about a free exclusive book to accompany show for every listener!!! ... https://archive.org/details/rgdscovertapewars_202004/mode/2up

Talk about generous!!!

At last, and back my popular demand, the team return to the epic battle-fest that is Best Game of 1987.

The lads argued, fought and whittled the list down to a whopping 25 games and then argue their case for their own personal top 5. Which game will be crowned the top game of this year.

Join Drisky, Kingy, Ric and Garron as they try their best to entertain you in such a difficult time we are globally living in. Please note that many references made in this episode were recorded prior to the lockdown in which we are all currently living under.

Be safe everyone, we will make it through this.

Games features in this episode:

1943: BATTLE FOR MIDWAY

AFTER BURNER

AUF WIEDERSEHEN MONTY

BLACK TIGER

CALIFORNIA GAMES

CONTRA

DARIUS

DIZZY

DOUBLE DRAGON

DRAGON SPIRIT

DUNGEON MASTER

GALAGA 88

HEAD OVER HEELS

IK+

LEISURE SUIT LARRY

MANIAC MANSION

OPERATION WOLF

PAC-MANIA

R-TYPE

RAINBOW ISLANDS

RASTAN

SHINOBI

STREET FIGHTER

WARDNER (PYROS in USA)

WONDER BOY IN MONSTER LAND

Show notes:-

Blast Annual Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1863593401/blast-annual-2020-volume-1-multi-platform-retro-game-book

Black Tiger Speedrun - https://www.speedrun.com/black_tiger/run/zq6r5j5y?fbclid=IwAR21Xw4YiZrOEfw5Pq7QhFFvkpZHa3_c0kuVIJMpu4s9rt1mPt4XA5bASJg

Shinobi Megadrive/Genesis - https://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?30411-WIP-Shinobi-MD-port&p=824182&viewfull=1&fbclid=IwAR2n990LZTt7j3E2LSUQEK7o-S2Xrbnr3SjQdiwXdymQaSEh_WYc60fQWZY#post824182

Darius info - http://shmuplations.com/darius/?fbclid=IwAR2ifjK8FpJ2xHwDTxfTdpBDZ1rGYZUXH2f7nKi89ymWFAfDnhUr-kqrerg

EX  Mosquito Rtype Speedrun - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_16HX57QRA&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0t7q6_pNrFd6OxYkXpJivqrwfcS1VID77KQ7riG0MWTyqB3678q9eW0as

Head over Heels remake - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1134050/Head_Over_Heels/

Monster Max - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ga1rmuNjMA

Drisky and Kingy return with volume 2 and continue on their journey of rare arcade game discovery. This time, the lads go through Drisky's chosen list.

Games featured in this episode are:

Big Karnak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw8QpIejpg4

Racing Hero

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcv62GL_Sj4

EDF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkgO23Ye7DM

Vendetta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX4Rf_DghKg

Cyvern

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfjSAM1OVvQ

Asura Blade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZrICa38J9g

PhotoY2K

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH4c815CznE

Super Side Kicks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrP_V6lrSDI

The kings of retro fighters RetroRic, Matt Lambourne and Matt Aguilera revisit the gory age of the early games of the Mortal Kombat franchise. MK1, MK2, MK3, UMK3 and MK Trilogy.

Talking fatalities, controversies, secrets, censorship, the impact of the franchise and its lasting legacy within the vs fighting scene. 

FINISH HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mortal Kombat II Unlimited

https://youtu.be/gdoe0ApzPDM

Fergality

https://youtu.be/HZ-xxOjBKtE

Lawsuits

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_surrounding_Mortal_Kombat

RetroRic

https://twitter.com/RetroRic79

Matt Lambourne 

https://twitter.com/LamboMat

Join Garron and Drisky as they take you through some classic Amiga Shooters.

The Games covered:

Hybris:
Hybris Video
Hybris Manual

Battle Squadron:
Battle Squadron Video
Battle Squadron Manual

Blood Money:
Blood Money Video
Blood Money Manual

Z-Out:
Z-Out Video
Z-Out Manual

SWIV:
SWIV Video
SWIV Manual

Project X: Special Edition:
Project X : SE Video
Project X: SE Manual
Project X Original Manual

Disposable Hero:
Disposable Hero Video
Disposable Hero Manual

Banshee:
Banshee Video
Banshee Manual

This is a great episode and we can't wait to hear from you your favourite Amiga shooters.

Join Kingy and Ric in this epic episode where the lads share their memories and chosen games in this exciting 8-bit era.  They mainly focus on the micro-computers of this period; if Commodore, Sinclair, Atari, Acorn and Amstrad floats your boat, then this is the episode for you. Expect gaming anecdotes, the bad humming of tunes and camaraderie driven banter.

Combat Hack Red vs Blue

https://atariage.com/hack_page.php?SystemID=2600&SoftwareHackID=197

Combat Comeback

https://archive.org/details/combat_201506

Micro Men

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM

Nifty Lifty remake

https://archive.org/details/nifty_201506

Mario Dream cast Hack

http://dcevolution.sourceforge.net/index.php?id=nifty_lifty

Citadel Randomizer mod

http://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=2841

BBC Emulation website

http://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/index.php

Lord of the Rings cartoon trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnIhJwhBeqY

Get Dexter comic strip

https://www.gamesdatabase.org/Media/SYSTEM/Amstrad_CPC/manual/Formated/Get_Dexter_-_1986_-_Personal_Software_Services.pdf

Sid vs Pokey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioZRUVTKLx0

Atari 800 XL Emulator

http://www.virtualdub.org/altirra.html

Alley Cat Remeow

https://gamejolt.com/games/alleycatremeow/327439

Join Drisky, Garron, Ric, Jon and Kingy as they drunkenly celebrate the year end and reflect over all the previous decades of gaming.

Warning: This episode contains alcohol misuse, swearing and other type of content not suitable for all. You have been warned.

We'd like to thank our of our listeners for making 2009 great and we shall see you all in 2020.

In celebration of the new Star Wars film, ending of a Saga, join Drisky and Kingy as they chat about some of the lesser known Star Wars Games out there, that we love and all mixed in with two big hitters that are our favourites.

Don't forget Drisky wrote the book on Star Wars Video Games (literally) way in his time at Retro Asylum, so have a read with this free pdf book that covers every Star Wars game ever made (up to 2014 when it was written)...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxvnp7cHAPAZR3NIZmZsNTlHZm8/view?pli=1

its a great read and perfect accompaniment to the show.

Games covered are:

Death Star Interceptor (Spectrum) : [Vid Link]

Star Wars (Famicom) : [Vid Link]

Star Wars - Attack on the Death Star (X68000) : [Vid Link]

Star Wars (Game Gear) : [Vid Link]

Star Wars Dark Forces (PC) : [Vid Link]

Rogue Squadron 2 : Rogue Leader (Game Cube) : [Vid Link]

Star Wars Episode III : Revenge of  Sith (GBA) : [Vid Link]

Other notes:
Sharp X68000 Emulator : [Vid Link]

As always we would love to hear your thoughts and opinions so please reach out to @RGDSPodcast on Twitter or on Facebook [Vid Link] we would love to hear.

Join Drisky and Kingy as they chat about the very much underrated Atari 7800. Could it have been the dominant console if it were released when planned?  There are some real gems of games on this system, so join the lads as they wax lyrical about them.

Show notes:-

Paul Davies' book - Florin's Zx Spectrum Haul of Games - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07ZZGDDXX/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Blast Annual 2020

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2286690961659824/

Baggers in Space

https://www.spectrumnextgames.uk/baggers-in-space

Pro System 7800 Emulator

https://gstanton.github.io/ProSystem1_3/

Paul's Games X scans

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AiVi73qXqCnMd5MV24tfdwwRvwj1uNfL?usp=sharing

Evercade

https://evercade.co.uk/

The 20th of October saw the RGDS team make their annual pilgrimage to Arcade Club in Bury.  Join Drisky and Kingy as they chat about the weekend and go over their choices of "games of the weekend".

Apologies for the distortion in my mic, I hadn't noticed the gain had been knocked up. (Kingy)

Show notes:-

Kingy's video interviewing the RGDS team at Arcade Club

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeVx-oBKIco#action=share

Will Brooker's successful ZX Spectrum documentary Kickstarter

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mscsi/the-zx-spectrum-experience

Drisky's MAME config

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GYg69kaVcoqC81A7lEtdn5pPtlOZs8iW/view?fbclid=IwAR1UOYT_sPzO6PcRWoADll--BqlxXLrdlQ5f3VAWE8JwJn41tUtOw8qB1so

Arcade Sidekick App

Ios - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/arcade-sidekick/id1462217278

Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rumzcorp.arcadesidekick&hl=en_GB

Join Matt, Aaron and Garron as they talk about their Dreamcast journey, as the console now hits 20 in the PAL region.

We chat about made this short lived console so great, some of our favourite games and its legacy.

Join  the team as they talk about the first entry to the 6th generation of consoles. 

Matt has shared his awesome Apple Music Crazy Taxi playlist 

https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/2019-music-from-and-inspired-by-crazy-taxi/pl.u-Z60Jsr2G3o

Mike Phelan over at the fantastic Dreamcast Junkyard produced this great guide to all of the Dreamcast releases. 

http://www.thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk/p/collectors-guide.html?m=1

Drisky and Kingy take you through some classic Sega games that appeared on Sega 3D Classics Collection on the 3DS by M2.  Don't worry if you don't have a 3DS as really its an excuse (as if we needed one) to talk through some great Sega retro classics.

3D VR NES emulator

https://geod.itch.io/3dnes/devlog/26400/3dnes-v2-release

Kingy guesting on Arcade Perfect chatting about Power Drift

https://arcadeperfectau.podbean.com/e/arcade-perfect-podcast-ep-17-powerdrift/

Super Bub on Net Yaroze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55v7Ifi_li0

You can grab it here:-

http://www.psxdev.net/yaroze.html

Sega 3d Fukkoku Archives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY2w0UrLWgw

Enjoy