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Matt Chat 532: Craig Ritchie of Drop Bear Bytes
In this exclusive interview, Craig Ritchie talks about his game Broken Roads and the challenges he faced developing and releasing this Australia-based, post-apoc RPG.
Matt Chat Podcast: Interview with Kevin Saunders
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This is the audio from my interview with Kevin Saunders, Obsidian and inXile veteran. Topics include Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords, Alpha Protocol, Wasteland 2, Torment: Tides of Numenera and many other prominent RPGs that Kevin’s been part of over his long career.
Blasteroids 3D
Here’s the file. If you can get this running properly in DosBox, please let me know your settings!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10f88e9qtkpS5jzvpne6j3Eg-WbkdchiJ/view?usp=sharing
Thanks,
Matt
The Complete List of Matt Chat Interviews (WIP)
The following links are to playlists containing all of the relevant videos for each person. Enjoy, and please share this with anyone you know who’s interested in game history and development. If you find these interviews enlightening, enjoyable, or useful, please take a moment to offer your financial support for Matt Chat.
Actual Table of Contents for Vintage Games 2.0
Yikes and yowsers! I noticed (after the fact, of course) that the table of contents I displayed for my book Vintage Games 2.0 in my latest video is, in fact, INCORRECT. Here’s the actual list of games covered:
- Spacewar!
- PONG
- Space Invaders
- Zork
- MUD
- Rogue
- Maze War
- Pac-Man
- Donkey Kong
- Pole Position
- Pitfall!
- Flight Simulator
- Elite
- Pinball Construction Set
- King’s Quest
- Wizardry
- Ultima
- Super Mario Bros.
- The Legend of Zelda
- Final Fantasy
- Tetris
- Street Fighter II
- SimCity
- Civilization
- Pool of Radiance
- Wasteland
- Dungeon Master
- Myst
- Doom
- John Madden Football
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- The Sims
- Diablo
- Starcraft
- Pokemon
- Ultima Online
- Super Mario 64
- Tomb Raider
- Final Fantasy VII
- Metal Gear Solid
- Ocarina of Time
- Dance Dance Revolution
- Grand Theft Auto III
- Halo
- Call of Duty
- Half-Life 2
- World of Warcraft
- WIi Sports
- Angry Birds
- Minecraft
Transcription of Anthony and Nicola Caulfield Interview
Matt Chat 308-311
Caulfied Interview Transcript
Matt: All right folks I am here today with Anthony and Nicola Caulfield the husband and wife team behind the documentary From Bedrooms To Billions. Which I happen to have a copy of right here. Really nice cover on this. Now this covers the British side of the video game industry. Throughout I’d say the eight bit, before and up to the I guess everything up to the sixteen bit era?
Anthony: It actually goes all the way through to the present day. It speeds up a little bit through the sixteen bit era. There’s a reason for that.
Nicola: The film would have been about ten hours long.
Alexey Pajitnov Interview Transcript
Hi, all, thanks to my Patreon supporters, I’m able to post the following transcript to you free of charge. If you read this transcript with the great Alexey Pajitnov, please consider supporting my effort to preserve videogame history by visiting my Patreon page. I only ask $1 per episode.
Watch the interviews below; transcript follows.
Matt: Hi, folks, I’m here today with none other than Alexey Pajitnov. He is a computer engineer and game designer. He created one of the best-loved video games of all time, namely Tetris.
Alexey: I am fine.
Matt: Before we start diving into the history of Tetris and all that stuff, I was wondering if you could tell us a little bit about what you have been up to lately and what your plans are for the near future?
Alexey: I am a little bit of all dollerated for game industry so I can say that I am rather a bit tired over it, but I am still working perhaps small projects and that I might have a small team working for and of my partner, which was fun when we worked together. We do several games for apps store, they are there.
Richard Bartle Interview Transcript
Hi, all. The transcript for my interview with Dr. Richard Bartle, creator of MUD, is finally available! Enjoy. Transcript begins below.
Vintage Games 2.0 Update
Time to celebrate!
Hi, all! I just heard back from Sean, my editor at Focal Press. The manuscript has been received, and I’ll soon be assigned a production editor to get us to the finish line. I really think you guys and gals will LOVE this thing. I dug deep to find the stories, quotes, and context that will really suck you in.
Some of my favorite parts:
- Shigeru Miyamoto’s development of Donkey Kong. What will you use the fire button for, Miyamoto? Fire button–what fire button???
- Will Wright and Sid Meier’s struggle to get anyone to believe in their “stupid” ideas for SimCity and Civilization. Who in their right mind would want to play such boring games?
- An anxiety-ridden Iwatani hiding out in a movie theater to see if any of the couples filing out would notice his bizarre arcade game–Pac-Man!
- Grand Theft Auto was boring and full of glitches. But wait–one of them turned out to be its greatest feature!
- A smug journalist told Sega’s Nilsen, “The Super Nintendo has 32,768 colors. Your Genesis only has 512. What are you going to do?” Nilsen pointed at a screen behind him, where Sonic the Hedgehog was playing. “That.”
I wish the book was out already! I can’t wait to see what you all think about it. For those wanting signed copies, keep in touch. I’ll keep you posted on publication dates and such.