Cleaning Dirty Floppy Disks - This Week In Retro 177
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2024
- Wouldn't it be great if there was a machine to clean your old and dirty floppy disks? Now there is! Footage from a cancelled Indiana Jones game has surfaced. Did you ever want to play that shark arcade game seen in the movie Jaws?
All this and more retro computing news along with the Community Question Of The Week.
00:00 - Show Opening
06:32 - Jonesing For Indiana Jones
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26:36 - Du Du , Du Du , Du Du Du Du (Shark)
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40:52 - Dave's Housekeeping
Links to stories mentioned found at the end of this text.
58:18 - Clean That Dirty Floppy!
Story Link: • What is this Crazy Con...
01:07:33 - Community Question of the Week
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Pocket386: liliputing.com/pocket-386-is-...
Lunar Lander Bug: arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/0...
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Thanks so much for the very kind shoutout, and glad you enjoyed the blog post. It was an interesting topic to ponder, if a little sad in some respects!
I'm watching from my hotel room while my hangover from last nights kickstart meet up subsides. ❤
Good luck Neil! I left another comment on the last video about my experience being adopted myself. You’re going to smash it 👍
Thank you Paul!
@@ThisWeekinRetroHave you played/seen the 2600 version of Boulder Dash 2?
It truly has to be seen to be believed.
You'd think it was on any system other than the 2600 if you didn't know better.
Hope it all goes well Neil, never commented on one of your videos before, this occasion deserves it. You will be a brilliant dad I have absolutely no doubt about that!
Thank you Iain!
Finally got a chance to catch up after Kickstart - it was great to meet Chris in person! But I do need to have words about Rob Smith. The man is simultaneously an incredibly affable genius and a menace to society. I had the "pleasure" of being on the table next to his floppy cleaning machine - all weekend - and I think Rose Royce's "Car Wash" is going to be haunting me in my sleep for weeks...
Its 1977 - a 7-year old me played his first ever arcade game in the Spanish City in Whitley Bay - it was non other than Killer Shark - it was absolutely amazing - I can vividly remember firing the harpoon gun and the scream of the sharks when you shot them - fantastic
Good golly, you guys have great co-host chemistry. I look forward to getting my dose of feel good retro energy every Saturday.
36:45 We had the same, a fair came around once or twice a year, they had an arcade wagon, They had Moon patrol, always wondered why they had these old games (Was on my CPC at this time), I wanted the Outrun's, Cabal, WWF, Shinobi etc arcades, but I probably did put a coin or two in the older games, because they still fascinated me then and now, but never caught me long enough to spend more than a 5-10 mins on them. Want to get hold of that wagon with content now :)
I visited it before covid and it was all claws/crane machines, it was a sad sight to behold, wonder if the bought back the arcades, if people would put coins in them again.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who used to call it Manic Mansion 😁
under a killing moon is pinnacle of fmv games mostly because it also has a rather fancy for the time 3d engine to actually PLAY A GAME, in addition to the fmv stuff.
Yep, no green screen shenanigans from Duncan. Hehehe....
Wishing the best to both of you Neil and Lily. A little one definitely changes your life. You're going to do an amazing job as parents.
I distinctly remember sticking tanners (6d / 2½p piece) into 2 electro-mechanical machines at an arcade in Penarth and they were Jet Rocket and Periscope (both by Sega). My earliest memory of arcade games!
As for Jaws, it was the first thing I ever watched on our shiny new VHS machine!
I remember playing a lot of electro-mechanical games at the mini arcade at the caravan park we always stayed at in Cornwall - the one I remember the most was a rifle shooting game that punched holes in a paper sheet with multiple targets on, and then when you were done, it would give you the sheet to assess your sniper proficiency. I would love to give that another go now.
Good luck Neil, I'm sure all will go well for you both. It certainly is a challenge, like trying to figure out a pirate copy Birds Of Prey on the Amiga without the manual but even more rewarding when you do :)
Your grannies wallpaper just adds to the retro feel. I say go all in with the 70s/80s feel. Full-on woodgrain and beige etc.
Good luck mate
Good Luck Neil, you're a genuinely lovely person. All the best.
I really, really hope Neil can't go to Kickstart ;-) Lots of love to the growing family.
Full Throttle managed to have a reasonable action sequence in a point and click
All the best Neil from Team DPADFTW. Thanks for the Podcast as always.
"Not much happened this week", Queue a longer than average episode.
I must have watched Jaws a a far too young an age, I didn't even want to go upstairs and clean my teeth after watching it for fear of a Shark jumping out of the sink at me ( I was not a very bright person).
Between it's release on Boxing Day and the New Year in 1975, my father took me to see Jaws. I was 9 years young. I had nightmares for a few days after it. Years later, when the internet appeared, I wondered what certificate it had, wondering if my father had sneaked me in somehow. Turns out it was PG, so I was allowed to see it legally aged 9.
Wishing you the very best in the final adoption stage, Neil. Some friends of ours went through the same process (i recall we were interviewed on their behalf) and they adopted one..then two...then three children (including siblings) and you couldn't wish to see a happier family. You will be fantastic!
Now I want to play an Indiana Jones themed Incredible Machine!!
Killer Shark was the first arcade cabinet game I can remember playing i also saw it at a traveling fair!
I still have the 'Horace In The Mystic Woods' game for the Psion3a (that I got from work at the time, along with a pager!) that was the last official 'Horace' game ever made. Why it was released for the Psion I have no idea. Maybe there's a story in that!
I still have three Psion palmtops (3a, 3c, and Senna), but sadly they are all disintegrating now.
PS. I also still have the pager.
I'd love to be able to play the Midway arcade game The Grid.
Good luck Neil there is a new indiana Jones game due to release on xbox this December
“Shark Attack” and no references to Alan Sugar? Missed opportunity.
Good luck Neil! It seems like minutes ago that I was in the same position as you, and now my eldest is about to go to high school. It goes by so quickly (much faster than the process seems to!)
Congrats on the 9k subscribers 😄
I wonder if Dave was thinking of the LucasArts game, Night Shift (1990)? It's what I was thinking of as he was talking and I misrembered Indy being in the game in addition to the Star Wars.
Dave should mention what companies produced games in Scotland.
If you're looking for almost exactly the kind of modern indiana jones game you wish for on a big budget then what you want is the uncharted series, especially uncharted 2.
I came here to make this exact comment 😂
the Uncharted series is brilliant, and very much a modern Indiana jones game
I have a fuzzy memory of playing shark attack in the early 80's , I might be wrong but I used to visit arcades in seaside resorts in the UK at this time and they often had old cabinets in them.
Good luck and Congratulations Neil on the adoption.
Infernal Machine I’ve got the N64 game (Lucasarts only sold it via mail order in the US and blockbuster stores) which never came out here in the UK. Got a complete in box years ago before it was stupid price. It’s deffo only worth playing on an everdrive if you didn’t get the thing before it went up. It’s not rubbish just not great. You get an exclusive level with an expansion pak installed.
The Emperor’s Tomb I played on the PC (well laptop) back in the day and wasn’t keen on that either.
The Super Nintendo game Indiana Jones Adventures is decent but stupid hard. It’s not retro hard it’s just unfair.
The horse racing game I remember the myth if you pressed your horse button like it was track and field it was meant to move it faster. If I saw that in an arcade tho I would play it for nostalgia. It was 10p a go and they had them in Southport in at least 1996.
Some of my old, Amiga demo disks really were filthy, it's true. 😀👍
In some form or other, everything in an arcade is electro-mechanical - Pinball machines, even the most modern ones, are really all electromechanical entertainment by definition. They combine mechanical parts with electrical ones to create a uniquely tangible gameplay experience.
So in reality, electro-mechanical games never really went away - rather they evolved, and in a bid to maintain interest and provide experiences that you could not get at home, arcade game developers returned to their electromechanical roots by providing steering wheels, fishing rods, dance mats, moving cabinets and more, with perhaps the pinnacle being the Sega R360 which housed the player and could move them in all three axes.
Pachinko machines are interesting, and loud. I walked into a Pachinko place in Japan (Osaka I think, but I could be wrong) just to see what it was like and was immediately hit by the wall of noise! Imagine a large arcade full of pinball machines with every one being played. So electromechanical is defenetly still alive there.
(celebratory bong noises)
It's odd.. my sister adopted.. and my niece turned out exactly like my sister.. you couldn't tell she came from another family
Ahem, a lil guy named Spielberg also had a little something to do with the Indiana Jones films, not just George Lucas :P
And there actually is a new big budget Indy game coming later this year from Machine Games.
Nice copper listing, Duncan!
Such good news Neil! God bless you.
New AAA Indiana Jones game is out later this year on PC.
thunderjaws :P, those who know it will certainly understand.
Your wish for a Bethesda Indy game is coming true on Xbox and PC by the end of the year!
Nightshift game. Dave was right.
grumpy old men, one mouse button not enough, 3 is too many.
Exactly!
Shark! Shark! On intellivision.
What's the e-reader mentioned? The Pocket thing sounds great (Or if it's a standard thing you can do on basically any one please let me know!)
It's a Kobo Sage, but I think that function is available on most of the Kobo range
Re indie games: can’t believe you guys didn’t mention the uncharted games were are basically indie games. And amazing. Sony even filmed Harrison playing that game for promo
For me the "Uncharted" series are the best Indy (not Indy) games.
All early pinballs were completely electromechanical. That alone almost makes moot any argument that they can’t be compelling.
We get lunatic spoof candidates in the States as well. Looks like one might win the presidency, no less.
::)
You got it wrong - "Du Du Du Du Du Du Du Du Du Du Du Du Du Du Du Du Du" is the A-Team theme.
I thought it was Baby Shark personally (runs and hides) :D
Yes, it’s back 😀 happy day 😀💾💾💾