Show notes for Episode 1
Wednesday Sept 8th 2010
PC Love -
Game topics from the week.
News game/industry
Duke Nukem -
“Duke Nukem Forever,” a video game synonymous with never being released, is finally being released.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/09/the-death-and-rebirth-of-duke-nukem-forever-a-history.ars
Image via WikipediaOpen to current and former subscribers as well as recent participants in the closed beta, The Lord of the Rings Online Head Start begins 09/08/10.
Game of the week:
Monkey Island
Image via WikipediaMonkey Island is the collective name given to a series of five graphical adventure games produced and published by LucasArts, originally known as LucasFilm Games through the development of the first game in the series. The fifth installment of the franchise was developed by Telltale Games in collaboration with LucasArts. The games follow the misadventures of the hapless Guybrush Threepwood as he struggles to become the most notorious pirate in the Caribbean, defeat the plans of the evil undead pirate LeChuck and win the heart of governor Elaine Marley. Each game's plot usually involves the mysterious Monkey Island and its impenetrable secrets.
Monkey Island Special Addition
Monkey Island LeChucks Revenge
PC Retro
Retro PC game of the week – the Birth of an Adventurer
The Atari 800XL was the first PC
Pirates Cove was the first game
The Atari 800XL was the third version of the Atari 8-bit line of computers introduced in 1983. The system contained a full 64K of memory, had all the standard VLSI chips (Antic, GTIA, Pokey, PIA) and was in a smaller and more compact design.
Scott Adams Adventure Series – Text base game
Born in Miami, Florida, Adams was the first person known to create an adventure-style game for personal computers, in 1978 on a 16KB Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I, written in the BASIC programming language. Colossal Cave was a year earlier, but on a mainframe, the PDP-10. These early text adventure games use a minimal parser, recognizing 2-word commands of the form VERB NOUN. Scott had access to an advanced 16 bit computer at home, built by Richard Adams, that gave him a jump on game programming in his leisure time.
Scott Adams's original twelve adventure games were:
Secret Mission (originally called Mission Impossible): Prevent terrorists from destroying a nuclear reactor.
Strange Odyssey: Explore strange planets and collect treasure.
Mystery Fun House: Capture secret plans hidden in a fun house.
Pyramid of Doom: Plunder an Egyptian pyramid.
Savage Island parts I & II: The most challenging adventure games, you are not even aware of the adventure's goal. If you complete part one, you are given the password to play the second part.
Rock n Roll -
Music/Song/Artist topics of the week.a) News from the pit
A man was recently captured on video at a recent MEGADETH concert (Aug 30, Long Beach Arena) driving his electric wheelchair in the middle of a rowdy pit.
Fuse On Demand pays tribute to legendary Ronnie James Dio
(Black Sabbath , Heaven & Hell, Rainbow, Elf) who passed away from metastasized stomach cancer this past May 16th. Check out members of Rob Zombie, Killswitch Engage and Godsmack paying homage to the metal icon here
Former Dio guitarist Rowan Robertson has an unheard recording of his boss in action – but he’ll never release it from his private collection.
b) Artist/Song of the week: this segment covers a highlighted Artist/Song
Singing Yin and Yang: this segment covers the “not my type” of music but will listen to the song
The song has, in the past, been modified to fit the boundaries of genres like country, folk, gospel an techno. As "God's Gonna Cut You Down", it was performed by Odetta on Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues (1956) and Johnny Cash on the posthumously released American V: A Hundred Highways (2006). As "Run On", it was recorded, among others, by Elvis Presley. A version incorporating sampled vocals by Bill Landford & The Landfordaires was included on Moby's album Play. The Blind Boys of Alabama also included the song on their Grammy-winning album "Spirit of the Century" in 2001. In 2007, Kevin Max of dc Talk covered the song as "Run on for a Long Time" with Chris Sligh.
American V: A Hundred Highways is a posthumous album by Johnny Cash released on July 4, 2006. As the title implies, it is the fifth entry in Cash's American series.
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