In this Halloween special Gavin investigates a mysterious arcade cabinet called ‘Polybius’
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In this Halloween special Gavin investigates a mysterious arcade cabinet called ‘Polybius’
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Gavin, Stephen and Sera share their childhood memories of gaming in Ireland in the 80s and 90s.
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We’re a finalist in the Irish Web Awards in the podcast category. Wish us luck, theĀ Awards takes place in the RDS Concert Hall on October 15th.
Tomorrow is International Podcast Day and we’ll have a brand new podcast up to celebrate.
Gavin, Sera and Stephen look back at some of the video game mascots who tried to make a go of it over the years but never quite reached the dizzying heights of Sonic and Mario.
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Gavin, Sera and Stephen discuss the Mother series of games, known as Earthbound outside of Japan.
We also talk about Satoru Iwata, who died tragically recently, and how instrumental he was in the development of Mother 2 and the important roll he played in Nintendo and gaming in general.
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Gavin and Steven take a look back at the awkward history of sex in classic videogames.
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As a special episode in the run up to Halloween Gavin and Stephen look at the history of the use of blood in video games.
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Gavin and Stephen inspired by recently playing the awful Batman: Dark Tomorrow have a look back some of the Batman video games that have been released over the years from the isometric spectrum title to the over the top contra inspired Megadrive game.
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I was a contributor to this weeks Threat Detection.
Threat Detection is a new weekly serious video game discussion show and podcast on RadioMade.ie
It’s a good show and well worth a listen. I hope to be able to contribute again at some point.
Gavin.
Threat Detection with Gareth & James featuring Arcade & Retro’s Gavin Byrne – 25 / 2 / 14 by Radiomade on Mixcloud
We’ve started up a YouTube channel and are having a go at doing some Let’s Plays. Still working out a few technical kinks but we should get better.
So in the first one Gavin, Stephen and Brian play through ‘Ninja Kids’ a fun side scrolling beat ’em up by Taito from 1990.