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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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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. If you like video games you be interesting in know how is the Hit rate or hit frequency of European online slots indicate how many times the reels will hit a winning combination. So, if a slot game has a hit rate of 25%, it means that out of every 100 rounds you play, you will win rewards in 25 of them on an average, you can click to learn more now.

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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. Las Vegas is a city that is pretty much synonymous with game slot casino – every year millions of people visit it for a gambling holiday, you can visit now las Vegas and get nice experience with gambling.

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Gavin is joined by Stephen, Sera and Jean to look back at gaming in the year 1993, as well they enjoy nowadays gaming like for example online betting, you can get the best deal with this at fantasypunter.co.uk.

Games covered include:
Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening
Chaos Engine
Secret of Mana
Mortal Kombat 2
Doom
Alien Breed 2
Star Fox
Day of the Tentacle
Rise of the Robots

1993 also saw the launch of the 3D0, CD32 and the Atari Jaguar.

Some of the games and and topics are covered in more detail in previous podcasts, but also you can learn more about videos games here:

Arcade and Retro Podcast Episode 7: The Legend of Zelda Series (part 1)

Arcade and Retro Podcast Episode 5: Lucas Arts Graphic Adventures

Arcade and Retro Podcast Episode 2: Hudson Soft

Arcade and Retro Podcast Episode 1: Star Fox

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In the second part of our look back at the Sonic the Hedgehog games Gavin and Connla are joined by regular contributors Sera and Stephen.

This podcast covers Sonics often awkward transition to 3D platforming. We also discuss all things Sonic related in general, including the cartoon series and comics.

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