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We've released 13 episodes about Video game history:
113: Animal Crossing Retrospective Part 1 ("Nooks Cranny")
In this first part of a two-parter we do another retrospective look back on a key video game series. Previously we've spoken about Borderlands back in episode 97. This time it's Animal Crossing.
043: Nintendo vs. The Internet
In another 'Octal FM are Nintendo fanboys' episode, we take a look back at the often overlooked history of Nintendo and the Internet. It involves satellites beaming games down to a virtual village on your SNES.
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Intro/outro music: JACKS - Runaway Fashion & an old modem
Photo by Muband for Wikipedia[/caption]
Intro/outro music: JACKS - Runaway Fashion & an old modem
042: A Mostly Harmless Episode
In this episode we tell the story of the Elite game series and our story of playing the original together back at school, and some bits about the space-sim genre as a whole.
- The Guardian excerpt from Backroom Boys about David Braben and Ian Bell.
- Elite (1984) free PC download (and the Mac version)
- Or play it in an emulator in your browser.
- Elite 1984 gameplay footage (Scott Manley)
- ArcElite (the version we played) gameplay footage
- Frontier Elite 2 footage
- Frontier First Encounters gameplay footage (with updated graphics) (Scott Manley)
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