UCP Presents "Flashback" a retro gaming show - The Pilot

Step into our time machine and journey back to June 1992, where Mega Drives rule the living room, Game Boys hide in backpacks, and batteries never last quite long enough. Welcome to Flashback – a nostalgic gaming adventure where we don't just talk about retro games, we become retro gamers.

In this pilot episode, we've meticulously recreated the gaming landscape of mid-1992. California Games has us arguing over whether the Master System or Mega Drive version delivers the superior skateboarding experience. Streets of Rage never leaves our cartridge slot as we praise its gritty urban atmosphere and unforgettable soundtrack. Meanwhile, Jeff Crammond's F1 Grand Prix is pushing simulation boundaries on home computers, showing us glimpses of gaming's 3D future.

The news segment drops bombshells that modern ears will find hilarious – we're deeply concerned about a sketchy "MagiDrive" device enabling piracy, impressed by tubular steel furniture designed specifically for consoles, and absolutely convinced that Nintendo's upcoming "Super Mario Kart" sounds like a desperate flop in the making. Our innocence about what games would stand the test of time creates moments of unintentional comedy gold throughout.

Beyond the games themselves, we've captured the full cultural experience of early 90s gaming – from playground game swapping and paper route money funding our habits to the family dynamics of gaming in bedrooms with tangled controller wires. It's a vivid recreation of not just what we played, but how we played.

Whether you lived through this golden era or want to experience what gaming was like before the internet changed everything, Flashback delivers authentic nostalgia with a healthy dose of humor. Subscribe now, and join us on this journey through gaming history one month at a time. Where should we travel next? Let us know at questions@unofficialcontrollerpodcast.com!

Transcript

Introduction to Flashback

Speaker 1 0:03

don't adjust that dial. Yeah, I know what you're thinking. This looks a bit strange. What's happening? Why is george lay prostate in some 90s kids bedroom? Well, the reason for that is we're launching uh, attempting to launch, a spin-off of the main show. It's a retro show that we're quite proud to announce. It's called flashback. This is a pilot episode that we're releasing as episode 266, I believe. Um, it won't. You won't normally find it here in the future, but we thought we'd try it within our main rotation to see what you think. It's basically a flashback show. This episode is going to be set in june 1992 and we're going to present the episode as if we are in June 1992, or at least do our best. If this takes off, you'll be able to find Flashback as a separate channel, as a UCP production going forward. We thank you for your patience and let's introduce you to the pilot. Welcome to UCP Productions. Brings you Flashback.

Speaker 2 1:25

Yep, we are as George said, we're in 1992. And it's me, RGT, joined by the very youthful George from 1992.

Speaker 1 1:35

Still with a bit of stubble there. Yeah, I was going to say. Testosterone took a victim in 1992 with me, didn't it Slapped? Me in the beard, a deep voice. I'm okay with it.

Speaker 2 1:47

You look like the kid who's been put back a few years.

Speaker 1 1:50

I think the idea of it is that we're adults that have come maybe back in time. Not we're, because Hello RGT, how are you.

Speaker 2 1:59

Is that what you sounded like? Yeah penis, oh dear. That's a great start. This ain't going to be PG either.

Speaker 1 2:08

It is. This is that. I don't think any of that was illegal. Let's get into it.

Speaker 2 2:12

So, basically, this is going to be our standard show, but set in a random time each time we record it. So, as we say, this is June 1992. We will be doing various ones from, hopefully, from all different eras. We will be doing various ones from, hopefully, from all different eras. We will be talking about what we've been playing in this era. We'll be talking about what the new releases are bit of news, um, what the uh um latest games are that we're hoping to play, um, and we'll hopefully wrap it all in the UCP package, but just for that little flashback element, hence why it's called flashback. So I think we'll have to start, george, with what have you been playing?

What We've Been Playing in 1992

Speaker 1 2:51

Ah well, I was having a moment about the name we've just workshopped. Is that a good one? Yeah, it is. So I have been playing California games. Now I know everyone's hyping on about playing that on Mega Drive. I'm playing it on Master System, so I'm quite keen to see how that goes. There's no need for that face.

Speaker 2 3:14

Well, you know.

Speaker 1 3:16

Mumsy bought me it, bought me it, so she got me a new game.

Speaker 2 3:20

Yeah, that was my old Master System. Yeah, so I upgraded to Mega Drive 16-bit apart, oh right, okay, that's the lore, is it?

Speaker 1 3:28

Because I was just about to say how well has he got me the Master System convertible?

Speaker 1 3:30

That's totally cool. So I'm using your old Master System. Yeah yeah, california Games to me is one of the standout games on there. I think it looks great. It's a great pushing system system. Obviously on the 16-bit consoles it looks a lot better. But california games to me partly nostalgia although I don't know how I have nostalgia for a machine I played a week ago but partly nostalgia for um, california games on the master system. It just fits right to me. How are you finding california games on the beautiful 16-bit system over there?

Speaker 2 4:04

oh yeah, I'm loving it. Graphics are really good. Um, definitely the step up from 8-bit, no offense, although it plays really well on my system. It's very good version on there, I think, for the 8-bit systems. Um, I've always been a bit more of a fan of the master system, with a few more colors than the nes, um or nintendo entertainment system, as some call it. But, yeah, really loving it. Really loved the surf and that's the one for me. Took me a while to master oh is it?

Speaker 2 4:32

Yeah, it took me a while to get. Once I worked out how to do the surf and absolutely love the surf and some of the other ones I find pretty. The skateboard on a half pipe oh, I struggle with that. That. You have to sort of almost sort of pump your way in you steady retro show. Yeah, you have to pump your way in to get the height and to get the angle, to get the tricks.

Speaker 1 4:59

Um, but yeah, cut to a picture of me sweating profusely um, hacky sack is quite good, though.

Speaker 2 5:08

I quite like that. That's all about your time and I didn't know what.

Speaker 1 5:11

I didn't say the name because I was a bit nervous, that was.

Speaker 2 5:14

I've just called it that yeah, hacky sack that's my favorite that's good, because if you get the timing right and once you learn that you get the perfect timing, that's. That's good fun. Yeah, little spins and stuff yeah, that's to me.

Speaker 2 5:26

That's the best, that's my favorite yeah, but yeah, um, yeah, really enjoying it. I think it's brilliant, and you can also think of it as having almost sort of five or six games in one, which is really good, um good, to play with friends and try and master each discipline one thing that I've always took away from it is that the I don't know why it's not directly related, but I always used to get paperboy vibes from the bike sections yeah, definitely, they are tricky though as well, aren't they?

Speaker 2 5:53

the bmx that is tricky, but I can see where you come from with paperboy. Yeah, very, very similar, or even not, sometimes, when you finish your paperboy delivery.

Speaker 1 6:02

You had to successfully navigate, crossing the road and then you entered like a building site yeah, bmx skate park, I've got those right, but that always made me feel very similar vibes to the. Bmx and the bike sections.

Speaker 2 6:17

It's almost like paperboy cross excite bike.

Speaker 1 6:22

Yeah, if you want to talk in the breeding methodology.

Speaker 2 6:26

yeah, what a fine specimen but what else have you played, a judge?

Speaker 1 6:33

uh, super smash tv on the snaz um I gave it all. I gave it all tears on the way in because I didn't have a 16-bit sega but got a 16-bit Nintendo. And may I say Super Smash TV specifically looks great on there Colors, the enemies, the layout. I just think it really pops on that system and I think it looks great. I can't speak highly enough of it. I've always enjoyed the game. To get the Super version on the super nintendo is a nice perk. I think it's a it's, it's nice.

Speaker 1 7:09

Obviously, if you own it on another system say you're playing on home computer, amiga, something like that do you need it? Not really, but if you're a console only player and this is your first time to get on a bit of smash tv, I would recommend it so that's that sort of um isometric sort of shooter.

Speaker 2 7:25

Is it room shooter where you clear?

Speaker 1 7:27

room shoot. It's top down yeah maybe he hasn't got. Has he got a tilt of isometric? It's hard to say really, um, possibly a five percent tilt on it. But yeah, you come in, you fight it out. I mean it's, it's proper of the 90s era, isn't it? I always sorry, I didn't always used to think. I always think it's a bit it's got like running malan elements to it, which is what appealed to me, that's very true, yeah I'm playing running man, I'm a proper grown-up yeah, no, that's, yeah, that's.

Speaker 2 7:59

That's a good comparison, that, and if you play for the prizes.

Speaker 1 8:01

You get through to the end to, I do believe, just live. So yeah, I really like Super Smash TV. It's waves, it's interesting. Obviously, you get different weapons and stuff. I just think that it's just a really nice game for this era. A little bit of co-op play. It's fun, it's throwaway, but there's also an element of sort of competitiveness there where you're trying to get as far as you can. Um, thoroughly recommend everyone, give it a go nice, sounds good yeah what about you? What else have you been playing?

California Games on 8-bit vs 16-bit

Speaker 2 8:34

um, my old favorite released last year 91 streets of rage. Um, can't get enough of that. Love the soundtrack, love playing two player with my mate Brilliant. Yeah, that's never out of the Mega Drive. I don't think that's such a good game. Put so many hours into that now. But it's just that setting, that movie, vibe, the story, you know soundtrack. It's just so addictive, that game. I never get bored of it. Normally you play a lot of these beat-em-ups. You play one one, play for it and you're sort of done and dusted. But this you can just keep playing. You know it's really good, but yeah, that's that's great to play with friends. Also Sonic.

Speaker 1 9:28

I'm trying to complete Sonic last year's banger from sega. I just can't, can't get to the end. It's just, are you?

Speaker 2 9:31

excited about the rumored sequel they've got coming down the pipe. Yeah, I am, because I've heard there's going to be a new little action you can do in that. Yeah, you can sit and spin and I don't mean george, sit and spin no, I mean you can sit and spin. And I don't mean George, sit and spin. No, I mean you can actually crouch down and spin for a lot of boost, which will be, if they do that, it's going to be top draw.

Speaker 1 9:51

I'm confused what a George sit and spin looks like.

Speaker 2 9:55

I'm sure people can use their imagination.

Speaker 1 9:58

Before we launch into the news, I just want to say that obviously I'm completely and deeply wrapped in the. I don't imagine in the future I'm going to be a heavy sim guy. I don't imagine I'm gonna be playing lots of sims, but right now I've uh, I've been playing a lot of microsoft, microprose, f19, cell fighter, super realistic, great graphics, probably the most realistic graphics I have ever seen 3d as well, looks 3d looks incredible that's one thing.

Speaker 1 10:26

It's probably a bigger boys game the home computers have got the bigger boys games. Home computers have got these games that are 3d rendered, all that sort of good stuff I'm also playing. Obviously we're all very excited about how, how well big nige red 5 nigel mansell's doing in the f1 this year and we're all very excited to see him next month in silverstone. But, um, you know, I'm very much enjoying microsoft's microproses f1 grand prix. I'm jeff crammond. I can't speak. Admittedly, I'm playing it on sorry st, so you could argue that you know the lesser machine um, still looks good.

Speaker 2 11:04

good though, I mean, I play it on Amiga, me and my friend D2 player, and then you take in turns and it drives the car for you for a certain amount of time.

Speaker 1 11:11

That's one element I love a bit.

Speaker 2 11:13

Oh, it's so good. You know, it really makes you feel like you're an F1 driver.

Speaker 1 11:18

I don't think split-screen if they could have pulled it off. I I don't think split screen if they could have pulled it off. I don't know the reason for not implementing it, but I don't think I'd have liked it as much, no, and there'd have been a lot going on.

Speaker 2 11:29

It was a lot going on on there, so I think that the way they do that is good, because you don't feel like you've lost out for the computer driving on your car.

Speaker 1 11:36

Well, the thing is, in the time when you're not driving you're literally egging your mate on. Exactly, we play as teammates. So I'm like, oh, mate, do it. And then you know he overtakes the ai version of you and you're like, all right, mate, simmer down. Yeah, yeah, cheat. But you know you're sat rooting for them because that's your only medium of escape at that point. So then obviously, when it switches, they're rooting for you. You know they're keeping right on the track and you know trying to offer suggestions to get better lines and things. So you're kind of helping each other.

Speaker 2 12:07

It's a more collaborative way of playing than competitive, which I'll always be a fan of yeah, especially when you're on the same team and your teammates are so good and you know, judge your pit stops and bits really well, we've got I've got a marshall cavendish part work called, called Quest, that me and Mumsy collect in the corner of the room.

Speaker 1 12:28

My friend Terry Blow comes around and we play this F1 Grand Prix and we came up with a team. So we came up with a team and he's a bit of a motoring nerd and he said, oh, why don't we launch as Bukati? They're like an old team, they could make a comeback. I was like, oh, wow, terry, that's great. But he said, oh, but we need a sponsor. And he spanned around in his chair and he laid eyes on my marshall cavendish part work, quest, and went, what about bugatti quest? And I've never forgotten that name. I was like, mate, that's amazing. And now, what a t-shirt.

Speaker 1 13:03

Oh mate, if someone made me a t-shirt, alford. Oh mate, if someone made me a t-shirt of Bugatti Quest and it was like 1992 F1 team wear dude I think I'd probably be one of the happiest men on earth.

Speaker 2 13:16

You'd have someone come up to you and say, what's Bugatti Quest? Right, let me run this past you. Have you ever had Notorious?

Speaker 1 13:24

Or an Amiga.

Speaker 2 13:25

I'm pushing the straws here.

Speaker 1 13:28

Maybe a PC 486, 286, that kind of thing.

Speaker 2 13:32

If they turn around and walk away, then obviously they're not that interested.

Speaker 1 13:34

No, exactly. So me and Terry have been doing a lot of that and in between, as a break, I've got this kind of yellow and green plastic ball with holes in it. Now what you do is you fill a water balloon and you put it in the middle and you set this timer on the top. When the timer runs out, it fires a pin into the balloon and you get wet bro.

Speaker 2 13:54

No way.

Speaker 1 13:55

Yeah, serious. Can't remember what it was called, something like splash attack or something like that. So you put the water balloon in.

Speaker 2 14:01

Obviously you're in your dry clothes as well, and Mumsy's, like don't mess about too much out there, you've got to be careful of your scale electrics as well, because you don't want to get outlets, especially with your RS500 Cosworths touring car pack I don't want to be boring here RGT but if there's a chance of anyone getting wet, it doesn't happen in the bedroom, it happens outside happens outside. Okay, mum's, he don't let you play it indoors then definitely don't want those squirting wet action inside.

Speaker 1 14:29

All that has to go out happening on the back grass. Good lad, so you throw this between you and you can hear it. It's sort of ticking down and you're like oh, I'll throw it. And he's like no, I'm going to hang on to it for a bit. Now you have it. And he's like, oh, I'll throw it. And he's like no, I'm going to hang on to it for a bit. Now, you have it.

Speaker 2 14:46

And he's like oh, I'm going to do that as well. Now you have it.

Speaker 1 14:47

It's like a time bomb, Literally, and then boom, it goes off and you get covered in all this water. Yeah, I don't know what else you've been playing doing outside of video games, but mainly me, and in the months of June I've just been finding the time to F1 Grand Prix and then go outside and throw a water balloon in a timed cage at each other.

Speaker 2 15:10

Well, in between sort of rounds of Kirby's outside, I've been, like I say, mostly on the scale electrics because, as I said, we've got the RS500 Sierra touring car pack which is got your Lambert Lambert's is it Lam lambert's? I can't remember the name of the beer now, labats, labats, that's it, labats beer sponsored car on there. They are hard to control on the bends, especially on the figure eight track. But if you can, if you can nurse it around the corners, that's great fun. Absolutely loving that with my mates playing on the old scale electric see who's the see who's the champ. But, like I say, mumsy wants us to go outside quite a lot, so it's normally rounds of Kirby's out in the street. But rain and Kirby champ at the moment 4-0, so Awesome.

Speaker 1 15:55

Should we hit the news?

Gaming News from June 1992

Speaker 2 15:57

Yes, we've scoured the very darkest regions of the game and magazines to bring you this week's news first up MagiDrive, or a legal drive.

Speaker 1 16:07

What's all this?

Speaker 2 16:10

Well, yeah, this is getting tasty. This you mustn't tell anyone about the latest rumour that there's stirrings of a new piece of hardware for all you Mega Drive owners. Now, whether this hardware is technically legal to use is another thing. As the title would suggest, it's called the Magidrive and, to cut a long story short, it basically allows you to save your software onto Floppy Drive and then reboot. What's the reason for this, I hear you ask. Well, as far as we can work out here at the UCP Flashback Towers, it's simple Piracy. And seeing how hurtful piracy on floppy disks are on the amiga, we can only see this as a bad thing. Don't be tempted gamers. If we want the quality of our cartridges to increase, then don't encourage this at all. Remember.

Speaker 1 16:59

Just say no you say now this is interesting because this magic drive plugs in the top of the mega drive where the cartridge would go right. And then that's right the cartridge in the magic drive and you stick a slew of three and our flop is in this thing because it might take more than one three and our floppy yeah so I don't quite know how it kind of bridges between the games and where the bespoke load of software goes insert this too. I don't quite know how that works.

Speaker 2 17:24

I imagine that being a bit messy, if I'm honest with you, yeah, yeah, especially when it's just as one rom on the cartridge. And. But you know there was rumors there was a piracy person on the amiga had made a rom to run mega drive games on the amiga. So whether this was part of that, I do not know whether you'd be able to. But, like you say, you'd only get halfway through Sonic Level 2 and you have to put another disc in.

Speaker 1 17:53

Yeah, that don't feel right to me. Maybe you have to put the discs in, as it puts the ROM into the Mega Drive or onto the MagiDrive Flash Memory ROM drive or onto the magic drive flash memory rom. Maybe you have to. Oh no, now this too. So it stops, then continues to write this to to the rom and then, when the rom is loaded, it will then push into the mega drive itself like a normal one yeah, yeah, yeah imagining.

Speaker 1 18:17

That's how it works right and that's okay. So you. But what's wrong rgt with just making copies of the games you already own?

Speaker 2 18:26

But what's wrong, RGT, with just making copies of the games you?

Speaker 1 18:29

already own Boy, would you want to make copies of your games? What if one got damaged? What if, let's say, Mumsy invited Cousin Ian round and he was in one of his more destructive temperaments?

Speaker 2 18:36

Oh God, he does lose it, doesn't he?

Speaker 1 18:38

And you know Auntie's saying, oh, he's OK, just give him space. But in his last sort of threshing his legs just gone out and he didn't get the squash he wanted. So his legs just lashed out blindly and he's literally kicked the corner of your game, stack down and your whole game library's collapsed like an avalanche. Even that crappy lego model that you made last week that you thought looked really good, but I hate to tell you it looks terrible. It collapsed down on the floor and Sonic 2 split asunder like the Ten.

Speaker 1 19:10

Commandments and you're thinking to yourself. Damn it, I wish I'd made a copy of that with a magic drive.

Speaker 2 19:17

That's true, but the problem is with copies, especially when it comes to floppy disks. People will abuse it, won't they? If you just say just make copies of your own games. People aren't going to, are they? Before you know it, they're swapping copies of Sonic on the Amiga and disks in the playground, you know.

Speaker 1 19:34

Yeah, I think we need to keep our eyes on this to see how it develops.

Speaker 2 19:37

I mean Sega, are going to shut this down, surely, aren't they? I can't say Sega have said.

Speaker 1 19:41

Stageroth said no and we've reached out to Madly Drive by the medium of fax, but we've heard nothing back, so we take that as a no comment at the moment, so possibly does hint at shades of darker connotations I would say.

Speaker 1 19:56

Next bit of news RGT Seeing as I'm the SNES king around here SNES Dr Franking coming in November 1992. Better than Mumsy. Anyway, we have to hold our hands up and say a big well done to the guys over at Elite. Not only did they develop the awesome Dr Franking on Game Boy, which, if you don't know, is one of RGT's favourites of all time First time he's mentioned it, but definitely in his top 10 games of all time but they could have copied the game straight over to the Super Nintendo, but they haven't. Now it's an even bigger scenario. Frankie's still searching for the love of his life, bitsy, but this time, due to the failings of the Transylvanian Postal Service, she's been scattered to the four corners of the earth. So, along with the colours and awesome graphical power of the Super Nintendo, we're sure this is going to be nothing short of a hit.

Speaker 1 20:53

Now obviously you compiled the news this week and you're a self-confessed Dr Franking nut.

Speaker 2 21:01

Very underrated game on the Game Boy.

Speaker 1 21:03

Brilliant little platformer, really good looks are you going to get this in november? Because what if, like sonic 2 hits at that time?

Speaker 2 21:10

well, I've took on an extra paper round. So, um, I'm trying to save.

Speaker 1 21:16

I'm trying to save, yeah, for double games at the moment especially what I'm struggling with with this flashback image is you grown-ass man on a kid's bmx burner outside the paper shop with all the other kids.

Speaker 2 21:31

I actually had a rally striker, but there we go on your rally striker full grown man.

Speaker 1 21:36

So this bike looks like something, looks like one of those little bmx trick bikes you could get in the late 90s yeah, I have outgrown, I will admit you've got this big orange backpack on and there's loads of 12-year-olds around looking at you going like all right, mister, you're smoking a pack of Lamberts.

Speaker 2 21:59

Just a little puff. Yeah, anyway, why did?

Speaker 1 22:05

you bring him in here. This is the flashback show.

Speaker 2 22:11

Yes, sorry yeah, so anyway, um, I've seen screenshots of this, um, their early development of this. It looks really good, I mean, especially with the super game boy player. I mean most people would have thought you could just plug that in and play your your game boy games on there, but they but they've completely rebuilt the game up Similar levels, but it's just the graphics look so good. I think there's added bits in as well. Sounds really good. We all know what the Super Nintendo, I mean, that's a powerhouse, isn't it really, when it comes to these platforms and that. So really looking forward to it. If you haven't played Dren on your game boy, definitely recommend it. And, uh, yeah, definitely check out your local news agents for gaming magazines and check these screenshots out, because this, this game, looks really good. If you played in, you know you played dr franken on game boy george played it on game boy, but this has completely blindsided me.

Speaker 1 23:00

I didn't know anything about this um so I'm very interested to, I'm very interested to see some footage of it. Now I do believe I might have been flicking through a copy of total it's a super nintendo magazine and I think I saw some copy, some just some small print images of this, uh, and I was pretty impressed. I have to say, like you say, they've taken a game, boy game, and they've really given it that 16 bit magic. So yeah, I'm quite excited.

Speaker 2 23:31

Yeah, definitely. So, yeah, watch your space on that and we'll see. We'll see when it come out of this, you know if all the hope is worth it, but I think it will be a leader pretty good at this sort of thing and, yeah, I don't think they'll put a misstep here. But next up, we have Stand and Delivered. If your games room is anything like ours here at UCP, then this next product is going to be right up your street.

Speaker 2 23:54

With the ever-growing list of Mega Drive accessories, we have this very sleek-looking Mega Drive accessory stand. Made from classy tubular steel, it has plenty of room for not only your beloved Mega Drive, but also your controllers, arcade stick and games. This is a very sturdy unit that oozes quality, and also includes these nifty little hooks to either keep those troublesome cables out of the way from either your mum tripping over them and bringing you your tea or your cat getting tangled up in a mad fit moment. It's that sturdy. It's that sturdy you could even use it as a stool. This brilliant accessory called the mega stand is available from kma engineering and retail for 59.95, and we think it's worth every penny. Well, what do you think of this then, george? I think I need this in my life, especially in my bedroom.

Speaker 1 24:44

That's going to be ideal um, I was trying to get the inside track on kma engineering just to see if they had done any other products. Could find any. Um. So the mega stand is absolutely the sort of thing we're crying out for.

Speaker 2 24:59

Um I just had my mega drive on the floor with the leads going across the amount of time munsies brought my um, my vimto in and kicked the leads out. You know you're now on the last level of Sonic and I've got to start all over again.

Speaker 1 25:12

I don't have mine on the floor. I've always been a bit more respectful, but there's something uncool about it sitting on top of an heirloom. That's sort of come down in your family for the last two or three generations. You know I look at, although saying that my bedroom looks pretty fired on it, but you know.

Speaker 2 25:28

Yeah, I was going to say I don't know if you need one, to be honest.

Speaker 1 25:31

No, I don't know if I do, but let's imagine I've just stuck a poster on my wall at a total non-stop gaming and I'm sat in front of that and I would love. I dream of a stand where it's like a hi-fi solution area, where it's this kind of angular thing that suits the angle of the Mega Drive, so I can have this sort of bespoke gaming area Suck up, my controllers, cable management, the whole thing. I'm very excited for this and I think it. You know, I can see this taking off.

Speaker 1 26:03

I can see this being in every kid's bedroom I think in like 40, 50 years time, kma engineering are going to be a big name gaming keeps growing the way we do so. For every mega drive and super nintendo that gets sold, he's selling the kma engineering magic mega stand. I mean, what's to stop them being the biggest company in the world in the next 10 years?

Speaker 2 26:25

Well, exactly, I mean, especially with all these rumors of this virtual reality they're talking about. Well, if you get that fired up and you had a virtual reality KMA accessory stand as well, had one for your Super Nintendo, one for your Mega Drive, one for your virtual reality, I mean that is going to be awesome. Your bedroom's going to be like an arcade.

Speaker 1 26:52

Is a Mega Stand adapt going to be awesome. Your bedroom's going to be like an arcade, is it? Is the mega stand adaptable, you know? Let's say, if sega, you know, bring over the, the mega, the, the cd add-on to the uk, and then, working on that rumored uh neptune thing, which you know could be called something else, possibly 32x, we don't know that's going to massively change the dimensions of the magic of the mega drive. Is it going to fit in the mega stand?

MagiDrive Piracy Concerns

Speaker 2 27:08

people want to call it the magic stand, but yeah, I think the top of it looks pretty good and it's quite wide, wider than the actual mega drive itself. So I think with you know, especially if you're a you know mega drive owner with the the mark one cd add-on, I think there's plenty of room on there for it. Um, especially as I've added in, you know, like room for your arcade stick and stuff. I mean that is amazing. You know, not everyone has an arcade stick.

Speaker 1 27:32

I'm still saving for mine, but I'd love one let's say that I can't afford the 59.95 for the the mega stand from kna engineering. What's to stop me going out and getting a three-tiered vegetable shelf rack from Argos, spraying it black in my back garden and using that in my room?

Speaker 2 27:51

You sound like you've already done that.

Speaker 1 27:54

It looks very similar to the game in Mega Stand.

Speaker 2 27:57

Yeah, your mum just comes back. Your mum comes back and finds a vegetable that's just piled on the floor. Where's the veggie rack gone? No, it's in mega stand now, Mum.

Speaker 1 28:06

Well, come at me If anyone wants one of my mega stands. You know where I'm at.

Speaker 2 28:11

Yeah, that's JN Designs.

Speaker 1 28:15

You'll love it. In all seriousness, though, check out the mega stand. No doubt it's only available through mail order sign-off in the back of some obscure gaming magazine. And, being tubular steel, expect about £30 P&P, but KM Engineering sound like a heavy-duty engineering company whose dad's sort of seen his son on the Mega Drive and made this sort of pre-Dreadnought era steel. You see, when my dad makes things out of metal they weigh probably 40 times more than they need to.

Speaker 2 28:49

You order a KMA Designs mega stand, they bring it on an Arctic and you can only have it downstairs because upstairs it's going to restrict the usage of the joints.

Speaker 1 28:59

But Mumsy and Dadsy have got a bloody aqua prop in the middle of the lounge like it's a bloody stripper pole. For Mumsy and Dadsy have got a bloody aquaprop in the middle of the lounge like it's a bloody stripper pole for Mumsy.

Speaker 2 29:08

Yeah, I was only going to be there until I get the new RSJ in son.

Speaker 1 29:13

Mumsy's like I don't know, I like it. Daddy's like well, daddy, I'm getting to quite like it too.

Speaker 2 29:19

Well, anyway, what's next, George?

Speaker 1 29:21

Next in the news a new lease of life. If buying batteries for your handheld of choice has started to destroy your paper round money and we know RGT's verging on a lawsuit by entertaining the idea of a paper round, or Mumsy is sick of paying for another pack of Everettis, like they're awful from Woolies then this is the perfect product for all you gamers on the go. With rechargeables being an expensive option. This rejuvenator the four-way suspension, is a perfect way of getting more life out of those quickly draining money pits. It will recharge up to five of your standard.

Speaker 1 29:54

You shouldn't be talking about this on the show, rgt. It sounds dangerous. Yeah, take five of your standard disposable batteries at once and you can recharge them up to 20 times, as long as the batteries are under one year old. This sounds like an amazing solution to the expensive side of portable gaming. It's a thumbs up from us. It's a thumbs up from RGT. I'm erring on the side of caution and saying be careful, because how do you know how old the batteries were that you put in the walkman six months ago? Were they already a year old, or?

Speaker 2 30:30

well, I was just thinking. I mean with my game gear, you know, you're going through six batteries a time that lasts about an hour and a half. Well, when I'm sitting in the back of the cortina, when we're going to, chroma is, you know, you need nearly all you're being driven on a family holiday, even in 1992 oh yes, how I roll, and this is something I'll probably keep going until I'm an adult.

Speaker 1 30:48

So I doubt they're a middle-aged man.

Speaker 2 30:56

Yeah, but yeah, I just think it's a really cost-effective way of getting some more life out of those batteries. But, like you say, what would happen if the battery is over a year old and you try and charge it for the 50th time? Do you get a small explosion, house fire and then you're homeless I think it's just.

Speaker 1 31:13

I just think that initially this is going to feel like a great bit of kit and I do, on the principle of it, think it sounds like a great idea. But I imagine within six months it's just going to have like this well, of that brown, leaked, oozed liquid and it's probably going to end up rotting out off the back of that acidic battery juice that leaks yeah, you can.

Speaker 2 31:36

You can have to be quite organized, isn't it really? Like I say, you're probably gonna have to be um quite careful and monitor your, monitor your battery usage and even maybe mark them each time you've charged it, so you know yeah, and I wouldn't recommend ever readies.

Speaker 1 31:55

They're a great affordable battery, but maybe one of the reasons why you're going through batteries so much in your game gear is you're buying the cheaper battery. Now I know mums is like listen, there are consumable items. We might as well buy the cheapest one. You need to be getting the duracells to maximize your time, and then it might make sense if you're buying ever readies, which are I, I. I think the common garden house fleet has more electrical energy than an ever ready double a battery I've been disappointed with them.

Speaker 1 32:23

I literally got halfway through the first level of sonic and it died you look at them in their box, that blue rat battery, and it's almost saying I'm seconds away from leaking and you've not even installed me in your system. I mean you put one of those in a remote and it's death. Your dad's got the back of the remote off and he's spinning the batteries and smacking the remote off the table within an hour of the new ones going in.

Speaker 2 32:54

Yeah, that's very true. And then because what happens when the batteries runs out? I have to keep getting up and turn the telly over what?

Speaker 1 33:03

a world Child slave labour.

Speaker 2 33:09

Yeah, yeah, it is. You know, know you're trying to do your latest lego build and just put, just put the itv on with his son so what we're saying?

Speaker 1 33:12

keep your eyes peeled for the rejuvenator. Are we saying the ucp must buy?

Speaker 2 33:16

I think it's. I think it's a great idea. I think if you, if, if you're organized with your batteries and you know and like you say you've got decent batteries to start with, that might be worth purchasing some Duracells and then using them.

Speaker 1 33:27

It's an investment, then, isn't it?

Speaker 2 33:29

Yeah, and then see how it goes. But yeah, if anyone does have one, let us know how you get on with it, because we're very tempted. But right, we'll move on to the next part of the news, which is Master System Smash coming to the Game. Gear Outrun Europa was such a success on the Sega Master System that US Gold has managed to squeeze the title onto Sega's beloved handheld. If you haven't played Outrun Europa, it has been a rather silly story, but it's definitely worth a play.

Speaker 2 33:59

You're basically an international spy who has had his car stolen, with some very important documents on the parcel shelf, so off you go to try and get them back, whilst trying to avoid attacks from the thieves who you stole. Spy who has had his car stolen with some very important documents on the parcel shelf, so off you go to try and get them back, whilst trying to avoid attacks from the thieves who you stole your car from and your own side, who are pretty upset with you for being so stupid in the first place. You'll blast your way through europe taken in such views as the white cliffs of dover and the eiffel tower, and either a stolen car on a motorcycle or even a jet ski. This is definitely one to look out for when it releases, especially if you're a boy racer who fancies a go at being James Bond Coming soon from US Gold Now this looks good, so they're handling the release of this bad boy.

Speaker 1 34:43

And the conversion yeah, it's US.

Speaker 2 34:49

And it's gold Gold standard.

Speaker 1 34:51

You're absolutely right United States of America wrapped in gold. There is no greater effigy of quality.

Speaker 2 34:58

Yep.

Speaker 1 34:58

So if you're going to call your software house something, us gold is a banging name, and when you're open, Yep. Nice bit of fun on the master system.

Speaker 2 35:09

Um nice twist on outrun as well. It's almost sort of outrun meets spy hunter. It's that sort of you know, I just yeah blurb.

Speaker 1 35:18

I never realized this game had a blurb and that's the blurb and I I love it. Uh, it's, it's nice. It's obviously an easy port to get your master system games onto the game gear. Obviously they've also got the game gear adapter um sitting in the wings and you've got to wonder is it just a form factor thing here to make the cartridge small enough to go on the go? Because you know the master assist to convert does affect the portability of the game gear quite a lot, because I play mine as well with the screen magnifier. It ends up being quite a chunky bad boy, if I'm honest.

Speaker 2 35:57

Quite a girthy you need a rucksack just to carry it all in yeah that's why you've got your. Ac adapter and your light, I mean.

Speaker 1 36:06

Don't forget your rechargeable lithium battery belt pack.

Speaker 2 36:09

Mm-hmm, yeah, yeah, I mean.

Speaker 1 36:11

There's a lot going on there.

Speaker 2 36:13

You're looking three, four kilos away. You're going to have some guns by the time you're finished playing OutRun Europa on your Master System.

Speaker 1 36:19

Convert, you're going to need the aforementioned Megastam just to rest it on, so you don't get your wrist snapped plus, if you've got your tv adapter, I mean, yeah, you've got a bag full of game gear stuff there so much game gear stuff you don't know what to do with. So is it the portability factor? Because we are gonna. Are we gonna lose a little bit of graphical quality to get it on the game gear cart? What's your thoughts? You're the regular sega guru. What's going on here?

Speaker 2 36:45

I think we'll obviously lose a bit because I mean it's very similar power to the Master System. Obviously we use smaller screen and sprites and whatnot. They scale down. From what I've seen of the early screenshots, it looks really good. I don't think you're missing too much from what the Master System version has. Plus, like you say, it's on the go, isn't it?

Speaker 1 37:08

You've always been a purveyor of game and on the go. What I'm wondering is if I'm hyped up, I'm not as lucky as you. I don't work a paper round a nice, clean child labour job. I work on a chicken farm. I'm wondering do I need to do some extra shifts at the chicken farm to get this on game gear, or is the master system adapter in the master system game good enough?

Speaker 2 37:30

yeah, that's a tricky one. I think the only way we'll find out is when it's released and uh, um see if a side-by-side comparison side by side comparisons and send them out to people that are interested on vhs and we can do like we could do.

Speaker 1 37:44

We could even count the frames. We could call ourselves like analog foundry or something like that oh, that's a good name yeah, because and we, and we, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and. It's 1992, I'm 12 and this is how I would have talked and and, and, and, and, and, and and and your brain's going quicker than your mouth.

Speaker 1 38:07

You're already four sentences ahead by the time you're trying to get everything out and then maybe, if the world catches up with us and we can all share our ideas somewhere, just in one place, then maybe we could take off yeah, that'd be brilliant analog foundry. Bear that in mind can't see it, I can't, I can't, I can't see it, I can't see it to be honest, I don't think anyone would steal it or use it for anything, so no, no, I think we're good but no, I think it's um.

Speaker 2 38:34

That's going to be a brilliant little racing title for the game gear. Um, I love my racing games so very looking forward to this. Always been a fan of outrun. So you know if someone's sister you in the playground what you're playing outrun. So you know if someone's sister you're in the playground what you're playing outrun. You can know.

Speaker 1 38:48

Plan eight run you run the gold standard because obviously in the, in the in the bowl into the show I mentioned obviously jeff crammond's microprose grand prix and that's obviously a fully 3d realized this height deformation. You go up and down. Interlagos is a great example of monaco. You go up the hill, circuit happens at the top, then you come down it links up. You know, when I show my dad these games, he looks at F1 Grand Prix and he's like, wow, that's impressive. He looks at games like Outrun, where it's basically the sprite stuck on a rotation at the front of the screen and then the road kind of rolls beneath you with these corners that come out of nowhere all of a sudden, the static buildings on the side of the track.

Speaker 1 39:26

They're not squares or triangles or anything like they are in f1. Um, they're sprite realized, but they're clumsy. You were meant to be heading towards the town, but you never get there. It just stays as a silhouette on the horizon. As my dad got a point, you say you're an f1, you say you're a racing game fan. Which camp do you sit in and which camp do you see becoming the future and one becoming like a dinosaur?

Speaker 2 39:53

I think one and, and, and, and and and and and and I think for your things like Outrun, that's your classic arcades. They're built for arcades, they're built to chomp coins, that's what they're for. They're good fun in short bursts. But I think, like you say, jeff Gramman's F1 is a sim. It's as real as you can get to F1 racing. You know everything is modelled in. You know polygons and you know, although it is very square and triangular, it's more realistic than cartoon sprites and cartoon versions of cars. Um, equally as fun in each, but depends what floats your boat. If you, if you want that realism and sim like, then that's got to be. You've got to get yourself an amiga and atari st and play jeff grammons f1. If you want to, you know, just a blast in a ferrari and blast down a road, then that's outrun for you. But it depends what floats your boat. I enjoy both, but yeah, I do love the Sims side of things, which I can see becoming very popular, I think.

Speaker 1 41:02

Only time will tell.

Stingray's Boot: Upcoming Games

Speaker 2 41:03

Yes, but yeah, it'll be interesting to see, when us gold released that, what the version's like and how it compares to the the mass system version. And they've obviously released it because of the popularity of the mass system version. But we'll, yeah, we'll see. Like you say, time will tell see what the release is like. So well, it's time for a peek in what we call Stingray's boot. Who Stingray?

Speaker 1 41:31

Does he not come?

Speaker 2 41:32

round your way the law. Yeah, oh, he looks like Pat Sharp, but he's got real tight denims on.

Speaker 1 41:39

No, he doesn't.

Speaker 2 41:40

Don't he he does to me. Get him here and we'll have a look at what he looks like. He a handlebar mustache and he says a lamb and butler. He did have silk cut, but I weren't mad enough for him I'm so confused.

Speaker 2 41:53

Let's get him here and we'll have a look at him yeah, anyway, time for a peek at what we call stingrays, whilst nestled between some counterfeit nappies and a dodgy copy of battle for endor. These are the new release highlights of the 29th of July to the 27th of September. 92. Listeners, these are out on either cartridge, floppy disk or even CD, or will be by the time this podcast is in your cassette player, but they might be region dependent.

Speaker 1 42:18

First up, Looks like we've got time to launch Analog Foundry after all. He's popped out. Does this mean someone's for the retro show? Someone's going to have to pay Phil to edit in the Stingray car sound.

Speaker 2 42:34

Are you going to charge for that, phil, phil? Are you going to charge for the car sound Stingray, stingray. Yeah, he's back.

Speaker 1 42:45

Yeah, yep, yes, yes, he's back, yeah yeah, yes, yes, he's gonna charge four, four pound fifty in a whisper gold, that's. That's a day's wage I know can you not?

Speaker 2 42:59

no, he said it's the going rate, so can't he charge 90s prices 90s prices. That is, 90s prices, apparently, jesus? Well, yes, because he said he's got to cut and snip all the reels, so it's going to take him a day to do it.

Speaker 1 43:17

I hope the audio quality is okay because you've just sat the boom box down in the corner of the room and recording on that.

Speaker 2 43:22

Yeah, yeah, and I've had to record over my top of the pops recording. I've done so.

Speaker 1 43:26

I hope it's all right, um which way did you just turn for phil? Are we turning the same way or not? Yeah phil, would it be a nice aside to edit in a like a random snippet of a? Yeah, depends if you've got the time or the patience. I know the feeling, okay, so how are you? Are we seeing ray? Just as pat sharp in this moment well, I see him as pat.

Speaker 1 44:00

I don't know how you see him, but I'll be honest I see him as noel edmonds um dad's annoyed because you just handbraked a bluebird in the drive and the gravel's hit the green edge. Did he put a painting through?

Speaker 2 44:12

No, it's just. You know, it's only pebble dash.

Speaker 1 44:15

Oh, that was set down.

Speaker 2 44:16

Yeah, that's all right, dad don't worry.

Speaker 1 44:18

Do I get first? I want second dibs, by the way. So you take first dibs. Well, what have we first dibs? Well, what we got here.

Speaker 2 44:30

Oh, first up, 29th of july. Echo the dolphin for the players. Echo the bottlenose dolphin as you try and save your fellow marine life and possibly the whole ocean, from exploration to aliens and even time travel. Yep, you heard that right a time traveling dolphin out next month on the Sega Mega Drive. Well, I have heard rumours about this, but a time-travelling dolphin? This sounds a bit of a trip.

Speaker 1 44:53

This is going to be a big game.

Speaker 2 44:57

I've heard a lot of good things about it, but I mean I've never really had anything like this before, Playing as a dolphin. That's a strange.

Speaker 1 45:06

I mean it's going to be they are ready for this right, because this is insane, this next release now breaking the fourth wall. I got this at launch and I played it all on the own for months. I loved it. It's 27th of august. Comes out super mario kart and and Super Nintendo. Now I know what you're thinking Mario kart racing. I think this is going to be fantastic sounds like a flop to me it's a massive flop, something you never thought you'd see.

Speaker 1 45:36

Next is a kart racing game. Now some young lad who has aspirations, bizarrely, of being a Formula 1 driver while playing Jeff Crammond's F1 Grand Prix, knows in some way he needs to get his eye in on karts to make him good at. So obviously he bought super mario. Is this the way?

Speaker 2 45:57

it's the way it's, true story, or?

Speaker 1 45:59

it's true story. It's the way you think in the 90s, the various different single player multiplayer modes. Can you prove you're the next nigel manson become the super mario kart champion? Um, I've heard on the great line, because I'm connected that they've got rick male in to do some super mario ads. Uh, and he actually is going to pretend to be nigel mansell to get this. Or is he pretending to be nigel mansell to sell nigel mansell's racing game? Community corrections let me know in the school playground you'll have to send that.

Speaker 2 46:26

We'll put the address at the end because you have to send that by post, so and we'll try and get back to you on fax if you have one. So yeah, it's all done on fax yeah, um yeah, it sounds weird to me super mario in a in a car. Where's this come from, I mean? You're not japanese, like they're crazy and the thing is it sounds a bit desperate. It ain't gonna last. I mean, who's gonna buy this?

Speaker 1 46:49

I think in the in the kind of with sonic just dominating everywhere in europe at the minute. This just screams desperation. They haven't got another mario game to push out, so they're going to squeeze this out. It's a bit of a mode 7 tech demo. I don't imagine really anyone's going to be. You know we talked earlier about outrun. You know proper big boy racing games, the arcade racing games that people want to play.

Speaker 1 47:13

They're those into the screen ones. This one looks a little bit like a crossover between outrun and f1, because they've somehow got the screen there and you've got the circuit already laid out and you kind of drive around it. I don't know.

Speaker 2 47:27

I mean, maybe the multiplayer mode would be good for a few minutes.

Speaker 1 47:30

but there's no way that's going to replace Bomberman in your rotation. Not a chance, no.

Speaker 2 47:36

To me reeks of a flop.

Speaker 1 47:40

Yeah, well, like I say, I'm probably going to try and buy up my birthday money.

Speaker 2 47:44

That'll let me know you get on what I could say.

Speaker 1 47:45

I'm probably going to try and buy up my birthday money. That's letting me know you get on what's next?

Speaker 2 47:48

1st of September? Now, this interests me. This one Championship manager, amiga at RAST. Have you ever fancied being a football manager, taking your team to the top or conquering Europe? Well, here's your opportunity. With Domarck's championship manager, with all four English divisions, the domestic cups and three European cups, now's the chance to become the best team around.

Speaker 1 48:13

I'll be honest, mate. I know you said you're excited for this, but I don't understand this. You know, when you're playing as a striker or a defender or whatever in the game, you normally play as everybody on the team.

Speaker 2 48:23

What do?

Speaker 1 48:23

you do as the manager Just waggle a button until he shouts at sideline and then serve like good oranges at halftime. I don't understand what's the point of this.

Speaker 2 48:33

Well, the thing I like to be a football manager.

Speaker 1 48:35

They're just normally boring guys in track suits who shout a lot.

Speaker 2 48:41

Yeah, but the thing is with this is it's if, if you like the tech side of it, if you like the crunching, the numbers, like bringing players through. I mean, from what I've seen of screenshots, you have youth teams. You can bring young players through. You have to sort the contracts out. You know. To me this, starting in like fourth division.

Speaker 1 49:02

What are the graphics like? Have they got all the players so you see them when you're talking to them? What are the graphics of this game?

Speaker 2 49:07

no, it's more sort of spreadsheet based. It's still colorful that, not as boring as a spreadsheet, but it's it's.

Speaker 1 49:14

You know it's more no one's gonna buy this well, I think it's something different.

Speaker 2 49:19

I think it's gonna be good. You know various manager games. You know kevin tom's done a great one on the spectrum which was really good, but it lacked the depth because of the power of the spectrum. But I think with the pure process and power of the MIG and the Atari ST at the minute, you can get so much more depth in there. You know, I think this game's going to make them smoke Wow. So yeah, I think you know. Think the depth to start your season. Just go through the years, try and work your way up the English divisions. I mean, imagine winning the FA Cup when you started that in the fourth division.

Speaker 1 49:54

But do you see the players scoring the goals?

Speaker 2 49:57

No.

Speaker 1 49:58

Who wants this?

Speaker 2 49:59

How dare you? You'll have to match on and that will flash up when the goals are scored, apparently, and then that will just tell you you're running.

Speaker 1 50:07

Hang on a minute. So you're telling me people are going to go mad for a game that feels like bamboozle on Teletext. Now, I love a bit of bamboozle, but this is going to flop.

Speaker 2 50:18

You think?

Speaker 1 50:20

It just sounds a bit boring.

Speaker 2 50:27

No, but you know you're not really into your football. I love my football, yeah, but this is the more in-depth side. If you kick off, you're the player in this, You're the manager. You know, you control. You control what goes on, you control who you play, you control what the player you know, not so much what the players do, but you sort your team formations out. Try and get your club to rise up the leagues. I'm all about this. Get me a can of Tizer, you know. Pack it a monster munch. Sit me in front of my Amiga and I'm there for days.

Speaker 1 50:54

Not beef. They make your breast smell disgusting.

Speaker 2 50:56

Pickled onion.

Speaker 1 50:58

Oh, I was going to say that's good. I like that smell when it's fresh. When you come at me with the beef, I'll be honest, it's like you've been eating cat food.

Speaker 2 51:06

Yeah, I admit that.

Speaker 1 51:09

When you had them on the bus to school the other morning. I'll be honest with you, it was gross.

Speaker 2 51:14

Well, it's because I added them into my spam sandwich. So the combination was To me it was a meaty treat, but to you.

Speaker 1 51:26

To you. It was obviously smelt of. It looked more like the sort of thing that I would throw in the river and call it ground bait.

Speaker 2 51:31

Yeah, it was similar, but to me.

Speaker 1 51:35

It smelt worse than ground bait.

Speaker 2 51:37

I like the jellied meat with the crunch of the crisp, so to me it's a treat, but to you obviously it's cat food. Yeah, as an outsider looking in it was, it was pretty grim yeah, but then I'll rinse my mouth from a capri sun and you said it was okay, so no, I didn't say it was okay, I said it was better oh okay, yes, because I still had a bit of spam in between my front teeth yeah, great, until fourth.

Speaker 2 52:04

Until fourth lesson as well yeah, but there, okay, you sat the nibble on later on. Um, but yeah, back to championship manager. Yeah, I'm really looking forward to this. I know it's not your cup of tea, but for me I'm yeah, I'm all over this. I can't wait to play it and I'm hoping, if it does well, then maybe they'll do sequels. You don't know, but we'll see. I think you think it's going to be a bit of a flop don't you.

Speaker 1 52:25

I just don't think that many people are going to want to play it. It sounds a bit boring. There's no graphics of the players, you never see anyone scoring a goal, you never serve one half-time orange Like. To me it doesn't sound very realistic at all.

Speaker 2 52:39

No, maybe you know, when the tech gets better and we maybe get a new Amiga or new Atari there's rumors of a 1200 Amiga and a Falcon Atari. I mean maybe the power. Then you could have the graphics and the tech behind it. But I just think at the moment it's one or the other. Because it's so in depth, how much code is in that game. With how deep it goes, I think it's hard to run the graphics as well at the same time.

Speaker 2 53:08

So then they serve you a a spectrum game and hope that they can get by. It's not a spectrum game. Anyway, I'm not talking about this anymore.

Speaker 1 53:12

This, this is actually going to be my uh, mummy, mummy okay, I'm going with this with the second flop of the month, mario car. I'm just intrigued to see how that'll play out and obviously you know I'm an aspiring f1 driver.

Speaker 2 53:23

So well, that's what you mean. You might actually win the championship your first go, and someone might hear about this before you know it. Mansell's on your doorstep. Do you want to come and join me?

Speaker 1 53:32

You know Frank Williams has rolled up the drive. He's probably got Patrick Head to knock on the door. He's come out. We've heard the rumours. I'm like okay, I didn't expect you guys to turn up. He said no, no, no, we can't let someone like you just slip by. So we want to sign you up. You're going to be Nigel's teammate next week. That's how this is playing out.

Speaker 2 53:53

No, they just might say look, we heard a rumor you'd done a 51 second on Rainbow Road. We need you, sam.

Speaker 1 54:01

I don't think that's happening to my family. I do a podcast on an audio tape, so I'm not very good at video games and no one's going to find this tape. Lost media baby.

Speaker 2 54:15

Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 1 54:17

What before Ray leaves? We need to pick a VHS Thought. I'd throw it out there. Now you're going to struggle Well let me think, know, does that mean let?

Speaker 2 54:28

me think the, the.

Speaker 1 54:30

The danger of this flashback show is the danger it could cause to the law that's yet to happen in a podcast that me and cousin Tom start recording in 30 years time more you and your cousin Tom are gonna start a what a podcast. I know he only looks like a little kid to you, but he's got some good ideas.

Speaker 2 54:48

Has he? He's got a massive quiff.

Speaker 1 54:51

No, he's not, he's only young. He doesn't know a lot about gaming.

Speaker 2 54:55

Oh I know, but that obviously needs filling.

Speaker 1 54:58

He's got potential.

Supporting the Show: Pen Pals

Speaker 2 55:01

Needs filling with COVID knowledge Right VHS. I am going to go for Willow Ooh, Just saw that in the back in the boot there. All right, please, Ray. Thank you.

Speaker 1 55:17

Well, Ray's known to get pirates, so oh, hang on, Dad needs a chat.

Speaker 2 55:21

What's wrong with Dad, is he? Oh, dad said something about has he got any blue or something? I don't know what he's on about. Blue, what Blue tapes? I don't know what he's on about. But anyway, yeah, pick yours for dad as a chat array.

Speaker 1 55:41

Ray has given me a tape for dad and it just says breaking all the rules and on the front covers some cheerleaders.

Speaker 2 55:52

What are the X's on there for?

Speaker 1 55:55

I don't know, don't ask any questions, but to be honest with you, oh, don't send off the mumsy Okay, this is a real thing and people should find somewhere to check it out.

Speaker 1 56:05

I might take that. No, I'm too young. What am I going to take? I'm going to take. I'm going to try and get myself over the fear of it, because it's very gory and it's a little bit intimidating to me. I'm going to have a slice. I'm going to Ray. I want Robocop. Are you allowed to have a slice? I'm going to Ray. I want.

Speaker 2 56:24

Robocop oh, you're allowed to have that.

Speaker 1 56:27

Well, only if you don't tell Mumsy, we're all good.

Speaker 2 56:32

Do a deal with Dad. We won't say about the cheerleader one. You don't say about Robocop. Dad, done, done.

Speaker 1 56:41

And with that Ray has disappeared. All I saw is a wisp of smoke.

Speaker 2 56:47

I just saw a pebble-dashed greenhouse.

Speaker 1 56:50

Him and Trace are trying for a kid.

Speaker 2 56:52

Are they? Oh, that'd be nice.

Speaker 1 56:55

We're going to name it after the greengrocer, Wayne.

Speaker 2 56:58

Oh yeah, why don't they name it after the greengrocer I?

Speaker 1 57:01

don't know, wayne Veg, apparently. Anyhoo, he's just an inspirational cat around the village, as you know, so they thought they'd like to sound like the name of Wayne. Ooh right, yeah.

Speaker 2 57:24

Wayne Veg, wayne Veg For wayne. There we go um.

Speaker 1 57:32

anyway, we'll, uh, we'll jump on to our uh subs list now yeah, so obviously we've managed to collect up a group of pen pals, yeah, and they send us money and and sometimes, like little calippo drinks, you know the plastic drinks, the foil lid on that you smash through. Yeah, I mean, one of them even sent me a shandy bass.

Speaker 2 57:51

So oh nice, oh can I just say, carlos, can you sell a tape, the 10ps in, because they keep rattling and falling out the envelope. So yeah, they. Yeah. We only had 42 pence last week, so yeah, we lost a few pence.

Speaker 1 58:10

So sellotape them in Later tonight. I'm going to drink that can of Shandy Bass at Boba Lover's set as quick as possible and I'm going to be drunk.

Speaker 2 58:20

Careful, because that's got like 0.02% alcohol in there.

Speaker 1 58:23

If I had two cans I'd be. You know, don't come near me. I'll punch you.

Speaker 2 58:30

Oh my God, careful, you aren't sick.

Speaker 1 58:34

I won't be sick. I'm a real man. That's why I'm drinking Shandy Baths.

Speaker 2 58:37

Last time I was sick, I shot down the can of cream soda.

Speaker 1 58:51

I'm glad it's 1992, because if this was me in the future on some sort of future podcast thing or whatever they call it, I think I'd have wanted to interrogate you about doubling up on a cream soda. Yeah, and that was the big can as well and then the aftermath of what that might look like yeah, it wasn't good let's say, first of all, thank you to everyone that supports us.

Speaker 1 59:08

Uh, we're hoping that if this pilot has done well and you've enjoyed it, it will form part of the rotation. Uh, the good news is you won't need to change your subs or anything like that. You're still gonna get it part of everything. So we're very appreciative for you helping. Um, we won't interest just the tiers, and I'll talk about them here for the sake of doing our best to make this as historically accurate as possible. So we'll kick off our start with I Get the Wonderful all the way from now. We must have found him when me and mum and dad, mumsy and dadsy, went on a skiing holiday sweden, because that's where c nox is from, so we must have shared on the cross channel ferry, maybe he and him share to go on his game gear or game boy, I don't know, but thank you to c nox.

Speaker 1 59:52

Who's next?

Speaker 2 59:54

uh, we have the one man george fan club, carlos. I think we met at boy skates, I think we had a camp somewhere down essex way. So we met and became pen pal.

Speaker 1 1:00:04

So you had a camp. What did he make of that? Yeah, carlos, was he all right with it?

Speaker 2 1:00:09

yeah, yeah, loved it, yeah, loved it, yeah. So thank you very much, carlos okay.

Speaker 1 1:00:16

Well, this next guy, he goes to school with us. He earned his nickname because he was once working, uh, on the bbc micro and he smashed it that hard that the key, the, the enter key, the return key, got really hard, so we call him firm returns yeah, brilliant name, that brilliant.

Speaker 2 1:00:37

He was so good on the bbc micro as well. He's brilliant, isn't he?

Speaker 1 1:00:40

he is and he, he knows his way around Granny's Garden better than anyone.

Speaker 2 1:00:46

Yeah.

Speaker 1 1:00:47

I want to take this next one, if I may, because there's a little village outside near Coningsby in Lincolnshire, on the outskirts of Farmington, called New York, and there's an engineering firm there, not the place in America. Well, there's an engineering firm there that make trestles for KMA Engineering, so they can build the megastands on them.

Speaker 2 1:01:08

Yes, that's trestles for kma engineering.

Speaker 1 1:01:09

So they can build the mega stands on them. Yes, that's trestles of new york, lincolnshire. Oh, maybe, you never know, they might send us a free mega stand. I think you're probably going to end up getting a three-tier veg rack, but uh, who's next?

Speaker 2 1:01:15

next up we have the wonderful bad. A binkster met him on the uh school trip to italy. Uh, lovely lad, yeah, brilliant. So yeah, thank you very much for your support, as always.

Speaker 1 1:01:26

He's beautiful, isn't he Now?

Speaker 2 1:01:27

this guy.

Speaker 1 1:01:28

I met him outside Electronics Boutique in Lincoln as he took me into the big smoke to grab myself a new game, and he was kind of hanging outside one of the cool kids In 1992, I don't think I owned a baseball cap I don't know what this is, let's pretend it's not and he had one. On backwards he had a Game Boy hanging out his back pocket. He looked like a walking advert for Super Nintendo magazine for a game?

Speaker 2 1:01:53

No way he did. He sounds so cool.

Speaker 1 1:01:55

He is cooler than cool.

Speaker 2 1:01:58

Oh man, I want to be friends with him.

Speaker 1 1:02:00

He's the sort of guy that makes Chesney Hawk look uncool.

Speaker 2 1:02:04

I didn't know that was possible. He's the one and only.

Speaker 1 1:02:08

I am the one and only edit that, phil copyright will be after us only if someone plays his take to Chesney yeah not going to happen next up.

Speaker 2 1:02:22

I met this guy outside an old Bits, bits and bytes computer shop in norwich. Uh, digital mongery, yeah, real connoisseur of the mega drive. I've one day, I reckon one day he's gonna have, uh, everything mega drive. He just seems that sort of guy. You know he's, he's really into the system. So in the future he's gonna a full collection, if that's ever possible. But thank you, digital Munkery.

Speaker 1 1:02:45

Well, Gaming Graham joined the pen pal. We met him at school. Me and him sat next to each other we don't normally so I didn't really know him up until this point.

Speaker 2 1:02:56

Was he the guy that always had the peanut butter and jam sandwiches?

Speaker 1 1:02:59

I never sat with him at dinner so I don't know. We were in French. Mrs Dobie, she's quite hot, although she's got hairy armpits bent over Gaming Graham says he saw a nipple. I argued with him quite loudly. She couldn't decide what we were arguing about and obviously we couldn't say so. We both ended up on detention. But while we were on detention we talked about possibly what he saw, which was obviously quite interesting to us, but then we also talked about our video game passion. Ah, cool, and that's why he's here.

Speaker 2 1:03:29

Oh, brilliant. Thank you very much, game and Graham. Next up we have Bald Border. Now this guy is a few years older than me. In school, you know the one. He just tells the teachers whatever they don't care. Next minute he's skateboarding past the window Tricks. Whatever they don't care, next minute he's skateboarding past the window. Tricks. He does boards, slides, everything. He's like that. Who's that new guy in america who's really good at skating? What's his name? Tony hawk, is it someone like that?

Speaker 1 1:03:54

I don't know if everyone any. I don't know. I don't know who he is he's any young kid.

Speaker 2 1:03:58

He's in that guy. No, he's in that um bones brigade is in that all them skateboarders. He's more like california games yeah, well, if you think california games, that's what ball borders, like you know. Teacher saying get in his classroom, then he's doing a kickflip past get over here giving him the bird. Yeah, got a can iron brew. You know proper hard. Uh, yeah, but thanks, ball border. I, yeah, I look up to him, so that's awesome.

Speaker 1 1:04:25

Okay, well, this next guy. He's an elite Special Forces guy. He's just got back from Desert Storm.

Speaker 2 1:04:32

No.

Speaker 1 1:04:33

He is right, he is Andy McNabb's best mate.

Speaker 2 1:04:36

He don't have them.

Speaker 1 1:04:38

Infrared glasses sort of things, glasses sort of thing. No, he doesn't eat anything like that, he just eats carrots.

Speaker 2 1:04:43

No right, he must eat a lot of carrots then.

Speaker 1 1:04:45

He basically downloads them in every office he can, so he can see as much as he can.

Speaker 2 1:04:50

Hmm. Going orange Going orange, what an image. Anyway, sorry Boba, but thank you Next up.

Speaker 1 1:05:04

Can I just say say, by the way, jumping off the retro thing is it's the stories I've picked up like he keeps having like the hottest, freshest drip. I saw him in a vhs and a gremlins t-shirt this morning.

Speaker 2 1:05:15

I was like wow I know he's too cool now he is too cool for us.

Speaker 1 1:05:20

I messaged him to say them t-shirts are awesome, mate, I mean all these toy cons, all that, you know I I aspire to be his left toenail you probably set your inspirations a bit high there, but fine, what's lower than that?

Speaker 2 1:05:41

right next up we have it was clean as well.

Speaker 1 1:05:46

Oh, he's a ground scraper from up there, so that's lower than that, jesus wheeze. No wonder he's a hit with the ladies right. Who's next?

Speaker 2 1:05:54

we've got the wonderful ginge. I can't say the usual line we say, because that puts the whole show out of kilter but no, he's my red-headed stepbrother I see what you've done there he's the kind of guy I want to hate.

Speaker 1 1:06:06

He's coming to the family. He's giving it all. The big I am. He's a bit younger than me, so he cries all the time, gets what he wants.

Speaker 2 1:06:12

But he's harder than you.

Speaker 1 1:06:14

He's so strong, he's got that feral kid in him. Do you know what I mean? He doesn't you win the fight fairly and then he gets up and comes at you. He's like a feral dog yeah you know, you put him down. That's the end of it. Now, mate, and everyone's like yeah, and then he gets up.

Speaker 2 1:06:31

He just doesn't know when to stop the other day he said a swear word at deb's babs she come after him and he pushed her off her bike and I mean I did think she was ever movable off that bike and he actually pushed her straight off her bike and I just thought that kid's got some strength thing is, you say that about deb's bubs but, like right now, she's obviously older than this, she's 21, she's running that thing.

Speaker 1 1:06:52

I actually think she's quite pretty yeah, I suppose so she's the sort of person in like 10 years time you're going to still be sniffing around maybe, maybe, I don't know.

Speaker 1 1:07:04

Seems to have a big cure gentleman there, and none of them seem to be getting burgers, so I don't know what's going on yeah, well, you'll be curing for a hot dog like the rest of them anywho, who we got next I don't know, harvey, retro fine kid he, he, he he no, he has a mega drive stand he has and I met him outside of um village video in the local village and he came out clutching like freddy and all those scary things and I no way I was a bit intimidated by it, because I saw like 10 minutes of freddy and I couldn't sleep for a week. And he's's walking around with all of them, he's renting them and he's cool as well. He's got long hair as well.

Speaker 2 1:07:48

So he looks like one of the lost boys.

Speaker 1 1:07:50

Yeah, yeah, and he's got long hair and he's like scary, like a bigger boy, like he's in Guns and Roses or something.

Speaker 2 1:08:04

He looks well cool. I love them high-tech basketball boots he wears. They're well cool.

Speaker 1 1:08:10

Sometimes as well. He even puts his hair in a ponytail and he looks really cool.

Speaker 2 1:08:18

Yeah, I'm not allowed to grow my hair long, Mum said.

Speaker 1 1:08:21

Mumsy said I asked for a wedge and she said no. So then I had a short back and sides, which is ultimately the same haircut but not quite as aggressive, and I just it was embarrassing I've just got a pudding basin that I try and use my dad's gel on, but I end up looking like robert smith my wedge was about half a centimeter up the back of my head and I just looked like a lesbian and everyone at school said so, so it's not unfair to say that next up, we've got true story school was harsh in the 90s it was very harsh.

Speaker 2 1:09:04

There's a lot of stories I can't say next up.

Speaker 1 1:09:07

Should we start?

Speaker 2 1:09:08

no. Next up we have the wonderful Emma Sharp.

Speaker 1 1:09:14

I hear she's going to start travelling the world.

Speaker 2 1:09:16

She's going to start taking our tapes she's aiming to and she leaves school at the moment. What do?

Speaker 1 1:09:23

you think she's going to do when she's older?

Speaker 2 1:09:27

I don't know she's got her lessons and everything. Yeah, I think she'll be a journalist or something like that.

Speaker 1 1:09:31

Oh yeah, I imagine I can see that she's got a pork pie on. Does she need to wear a meat product as a hat?

Speaker 2 1:09:39

I don't know Well last week she gave her my Highland toffee off my Beano and a Wham Bar and she'd done my maths homework and I got an A for that. So she's clever, she is clever.

Speaker 1 1:09:53

I honestly didn't know where this was going and I was so relieved when you said maths homework that I don't think I knew what to do with myself.

Speaker 2 1:10:00

Right. Who's next?

Speaker 1 1:10:02

Emma Sharp. I'll tell you who's next. Emma Sharp, I think he's next. Okay, this kid. He's a whiz on the 486 in the IT computer room.

Speaker 2 1:10:11

Is he the Doom champion?

Speaker 1 1:10:12

He's the Doom champion, he's always in there in playtime. Yeah. I know who you mean no no, no, no, he's not Doom champion. He ain't got access to that yet. He's the Wolfenstein champion, and that's why he's nicknamed in the playground Because everyone would think that you need to be living in Germany to be good at Wolfenstein. That's why his nickname in the playground is nowhere near Berlin.

Speaker 2 1:10:34

Oh, that's why Wolfenstein champ Damn yeah, he's good he asked me if I wanted to play some of these FPS or something they're called I don't think he knows that they're called that. Yeah, well, I do, but yeah, no, I can't play them. They make me feel sick. Then next up we have Mumsy, as always. Thanks, mumsy. I got a pound last week for doing washing up for a week. A pound note, did you?

Speaker 1 1:11:01

get a note.

Speaker 2 1:11:03

I did.

Speaker 1 1:11:04

Well, that's not much use to you then Sunbeam, so knock yourself out.

Speaker 2 1:11:08

Mum's yet told me that yeah.

Speaker 1 1:11:11

I get next.

Speaker 2 1:11:12

There goes my pick and mix.

Speaker 1 1:11:13

There's a group of three girls that walk around the school and they All got braces. No, Lucy ain't got them anymore.

Speaker 2 1:11:23

Don't she no Jesus they look't got them anymore, hasn't she?

Speaker 1 1:11:25

No, jesus, they look like Stonehenge. She's your girlfriend part, so you know. Hopefully she don't get a copy of this tape, but seeing as she pays £4.50 for this tape, she's getting the tape. So you better tell her that you love her.

Speaker 2 1:11:40

Sorry, lucy, love you.

Speaker 1 1:11:42

Was it Lucy I?

Speaker 2 1:11:43

think so. If not, that sounds really weird saying that.

Speaker 1 1:11:48

But anyway they'll follow you around break time and all that because I think you're a celebrity, because you've got a tape.

Speaker 2 1:11:53

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 1:11:56

And they call themselves the RGT fan club.

Speaker 2 1:11:58

Lucy, lucy, it's Lucy S and Lucy Tyt yeah, well, they also said if right, I said because they're only getting into game and not very good hang on, hang on, hang on, hold on, hang on.

Speaker 1 1:12:15

No, no, no, wait, wait, wait, no, no, no, stop stop no, I'm not stopping put your brakes on and admit the fact if you are called rgt at school. Damn near really can't stand for retro game mechanic. So what does it stand for?

Speaker 2 1:12:33

well, because they're getting into like uh, spectrums and stuff, and they're a few years old now and they're asking if there's anything like retro to play. And I say I've got all the gear, got the C64 set up, got the Vic-20.

Speaker 1 1:12:48

I thought it was because you argued that sports shouldn't be sexualised and therefore you wanted to be on the netball team. And you were rearguard Thomas and that's why they were your fan club, because you were the best rearguard they've ever had.

Speaker 2 1:13:00

Anyway, they said to me as we're new to gaming, could you recommend any old games for us we should get into to get up to a speed where you are? And I said, well, I could maybe do that. She said, well, maybe you get something like call it a hidden gem or something and we'll write a little theme song for you. So apparently that's what they're going to be doing. So you'll have to listen out for that, as long as they don't go and copy a lot of TV shows. That would be ridiculous, yeah. So who have we got next?

Speaker 1 1:13:31

I want the netball thing to grip in.

Speaker 2 1:13:34

I feel it's a safer bet you want it to grip in yeah, up.

Speaker 1 1:13:42

Next, the guy who, outside the Brearley building, threw a brick at me uh, with, with, without even breaking sweat.

Speaker 2 1:13:50

It's pete brocklehurst and I see what you've done there. You just jumped the queue and said two on the truck, because then I know what that ends up with vom getting so um next.

Speaker 1 1:13:58

Oh, I didn't mean to do. I've lost track because we both talked during your fan club era.

Speaker 2 1:14:04

No, sorry next up we have our mate Billy, and because of his love of Twiglets your mate, my mate, billy Marmite. Billy Marmite. Thank you, billy. You know I don't have a lot of money, but it's good you give us a bit of your pocket change yeah, because he's the poorest guy at school and the fact that he's on this list is incredible. Yeah.

Speaker 1 1:14:27

And if you think you haven't got enough money, to send us £3, and that's not 1992 money, that's now money and it's $3, so it's damn near tuppence-hapenny Please send us some money.

Speaker 2 1:14:41

Tuppence-hapenny that's the term.

Speaker 1 1:14:46

Which means I get the immortal. Now he's big into Dungeons and Dragons.

Speaker 2 1:14:53

Oh, yes, he is.

Speaker 1 1:14:55

He loves a bit of it.

Speaker 2 1:15:00

Quite often you just see him walking down to the spa dressed as a wizard.

Speaker 1 1:15:11

Hmm, ooh, come on control, control.

Speaker 2 1:15:18

Oh, do I still have to do this? This seems wrong in 1992.

Speaker 1 1:15:22

Well, who's he named himself after in 1992?

Speaker 2 1:15:26

That's the question. He's named himself after that smash hit from 1991. Street Fighter 2.

Speaker 1 1:15:35

Oh, wow.

Speaker 2 1:15:36

He's cutting edge, this guy. So I'm going to say this normally For now. I know I'm contractually obliged to no, you're contractually obliged to.

Speaker 1 1:15:44

No, you're contractually obliged to.

Speaker 2 1:15:46

No, you just want me to do it.

Speaker 1 1:15:49

You made yourself contractually obliged.

Speaker 2 1:15:51

I did not make myself Just do a 1992 version. Okay.

Speaker 1 1:15:56

You've watched chamomile lawn on quiet in your bedroom through your fingers.

Speaker 2 1:16:02

No, I've watched Bad Influence.

Speaker 1 1:16:06

Oh, in your bedroom through your fingers. No, I've watched bad influence.

Speaker 2 1:16:12

Oh thing is, bad influences aren't like half four yeah, but they had an amiga cd tv on there and if that's the road you want to go down, you go down it. So just going to have to say thank you very much to that's some grief.

Speaker 1 1:16:31

Wow, it sounded like your first Thank you to.

Speaker 2 1:16:36

Technically was, but yeah.

Speaker 1 1:16:38

That's canon, that's canon, that's canon. Now it's canon. It's canon, that's canon, now it's canon. We can do so much retrospective re-canonisation of the storyline with this flashback show. I love it. Okay, that's great.

Speaker 2 1:16:55

I feel there's going to be, if this continues and people like this, there's going to be some very deep lore coming out of this.

Speaker 1 1:17:02

I'm still waiting on someone taking the effort to write the law Bible.

Speaker 2 1:17:10

Yeah, but that's all over the show. It's all over every show.

Speaker 1 1:17:14

They're going to have to listen to every show and right now I need to download, so so far.

Speaker 2 1:17:19

Yeah, download a back catalogue please.

Speaker 1 1:17:22

Start a better back catalogue. Yeah, do something. Anyway, thank you to everyone that subscribes, thank you to everyone that doesn't. We call you the cheap seats. We don't mean it as an insult, but the show will always be free. It remains so and we're hoping, as you can see, we're hoping in the year of 2025, to broaden and deepen the content that we give you. If you saw the artwork reveal on YouTube, you would have seen possibly some hints towards this coming down the line On the desktop. Maybe there's some hints at other things that are coming down the line. If you go and have another look at that episode, or if you've only heard the audio version, go check the video version. With all that said and done, we'll discuss the tiers next week on on the normal show, but now's a great time to get involved because we've got the new artwork coming out.

Speaker 1 1:18:08

So for everyone to go check instagram, have a look at the artwork, have a look at on twitter blue sky wherever you go.

Speaker 2 1:18:14

Have a look at the artwork just to say to everyone. They're being sent this week, so I have started contacting people. So if you haven't been contacted, don't worry, I will be getting your but as a new joiner, for five pounds they get the full. They could get a full suite, get a lot of perks and get smart on the postcard yeah, get it on a fridge magnet, so, and I'll chuck in one of our special limited edition postcards as well. Okay, so the fridge magnet.

Speaker 1 1:18:40

I call a postcard from. It's come from the wooden postcard company, but it's a magnet, but it's got the artwork on it, so you get to keep it forever. This will be very collectible. Sounds like QVC. Once we move to the next season, we might have to start blocking off this stuff. This could become very, very collectible.

Speaker 2 1:18:57

So, like the original two fridge magnets we've done, there's no stock of those anymore, so if you got them, you've got them. So whoever's had those that's the only ones there is available of those the same with these. So these will be, once they're gone, they're gone, we've had one.

Speaker 1 1:19:14

So if you're listening and want to get on board, you can start from now. But you're gonna have to sweet talk out the hands of some of the older listeners. If you want the full set, you're gonna have to start talking to them very kindly to get yourself the first two postcards. So this is how it starts. Don't say we didn't warn you. If you get on board at season six it's not so bad, but you need to probably hurry up and get on board. Uh rgt yes what's next?

Speaker 2 1:19:44

I guess I need to ask you what you're hoping to play for this game week yes, well, I'm still trying to complete sonic, so I will be putting some more time into that. I need to get that done, you know, because a few of the guys at school have already done it and you know they keep taking the mickey why didn't you tell me that this made me look like Jabba the Hutt? It doesn't.

Speaker 1 1:20:06

Let me reach into my thing and grab out a squid. La, la, la la. Now you do? I look more like Sil La, la, la, la, la, la, la la.

Speaker 2 1:20:19

There's a deep cut, hmm, hmm. Anyway, I'm going to try and complete something, hmm, hmm. Anyway, I'm going to try and complete, get that done. I'm going to play more Streets of Rage because, yeah, I'd like to try and get through that. Try and do an old one life job on that. That'd be good, as we're getting better at it. And also I need to try and perfect skateboarding on California Games hacky sack done, surfer perfect skateboarding on California games Hacky sack done, surfer done. Skateboarding and also probably BMXing I'm not very good at, so I really want to get them done. But that's probably what I'll be playing, depending on what I'll be allowed to play, as long as I do my chores.

Speaker 1 1:20:57

What about?

Speaker 2 1:20:57

you, George. What are you hoping to play?

Speaker 1 1:21:00

I'm going to be having a go at Off the back of playing some Jeff Crammons. I did actually pull out Stunt Car Racer. It's obviously totally different.

Speaker 2 1:21:10

What a game.

Speaker 1 1:21:11

They're similar so he obviously did his Stunt Car Racer game. I got that pirate from Stephen Pratt in the playground.

Speaker 2 1:21:19

Um, what are you playing now on your Atari?

Speaker 1 1:21:21

The Atari ST.

Speaker 2 1:21:23

Yeah, I had it on my Spectrum, but I played the Amiga version and God graphics. I mean, how can they get better than that? It's just so realistic.

What We'll Play Next & Closing

Speaker 1 1:21:29

They're knocking on the door of F1 Grand Prix right.

Speaker 2 1:21:31

Yeah.

Speaker 1 1:21:31

And it's an older game. Yeah, so yeah. I'd actually got my mum's old Honda Melody crash hat and sat and wore it stunt car racer just to give it that realistic vibe I don't, because this is, I'm not confessing to this, not again, uh wow, the the circuits, though, and their the slimness of them, do actually make it quite difficult, I found can be.

Speaker 2 1:21:57

Yeah, you have to know the speed, and for the jumps, but also for the corners, and also you crack your. So you have to be careful where you don't bottom out and keep cracking your chassis.

Speaker 1 1:22:07

So it's quite technical. I'm also playing. I don't know if this is new out or old, but I'm also playing on the Atari ST Super Cars 2.

Speaker 2 1:22:17

I haven't played that. What's it like?

Speaker 1 1:22:19

So I'm hoping to play it's top-down. Obviously it's a bit like Ironffman or something like that. Um, it's top down super fast techs. It's like controlling a remote control car, though because you top down, you need to be thinking on the bonnet of the car all the time about which way's left and which way's right, but you get these weapon. You get weapons on the car. So when you were talking earlier about, uh, outrun europa and feeling like bond, no spy hunter and that yeah, I feel a bit like bond, but you're obviously racing, I think, five other cars.

Speaker 1 1:22:49

So yeah, supercars 2 is is great, I've really enjoyed it. And um, if terry comes around, we're either going to play some f1 grand prix or we've been playing the um that no second prize game, the motorbike 3d begins with 3d at the minute yeah, well, that's the future, mate. It's the future he's threatening to pick up stunt car race fx with a an adapter pack for the snaz that is, yeah, that's the business.

Speaker 2 1:23:26

Can he afford that or?

Speaker 1 1:23:30

breaking the fourth wall a little bit. Yeah, he can afford it. But to think that we all got around like, went oh and are at the snaz performing some 3d rendered graphics on a screen that it was generating on your telly that was no bigger than a postage stamp. And I shunned things like the Atari ST that had 22 cars running around a track simultaneously with a 3D area to flock to the SNES, because in my mind it was technically superior.

Speaker 2 1:24:00

Oh, yeah, yeah and cartridges must be cool. Yeah, we were quite fickle in those days, weren't we?

Speaker 1 1:24:08

Very fickle.

Speaker 2 1:24:10

But well, you've got some gaming ahead with Ted Len.

Speaker 1 1:24:14

Yeah, ted's a. Yeah, he's a good gaming companion, he's a good friend and wherever he ends up in the future, I wish him the very best. Bless him. Bless him well, one day he's going to hear these odes to himself. He's going to stumble across them. He's going to be like Rory. Probably not going to be Rory. Like what an idiot. I don't even care for him why am I on here? Why am I on here?

Speaker 2 1:24:49

I never give him up, but she's not suing, terry, please no tell, please tell yeah, right anyway, what I will say is I hope you like this pilot for you, for you people in the discord, give us a bit of feedback, let us know what you think.

Speaker 1 1:25:09

If you enjoyed the show um and if you've never messaged him before and you've heard this and think, actually I like the idea of the broadening it, I like the idea of this reach out on the email, reach out any form of social media or the email. Questions at unofficialcontrollerpodcastcom. Let us know your feedback because we want to steer this in this direction. But equally so, we want to make sure it's something that you guys can enjoy guys and girls can enjoy and can get behind.

Speaker 2 1:25:35

So yeah, give us you know, please. If you think you know the laws a bit too much and you want a bit more factual about the times, let us know know. If you like the lore and think there isn't enough and want us to play along with it, let us know. Either way, you know, everything's constructive. Just let us know what you think, what you prefer, and we'll try and tailor it to what you know.

Speaker 1 1:25:53

And this is a pilot. This is our first snap before we launch into Episode 1, series 1, a flashback and also some feedback on the name. Yeah, on the name.

Speaker 2 1:26:02

um, yeah, let us know, yeah, see what you think, and yeah, like I say, any, uh any feedback is brilliant for us and we can. We can sort of tailor it around that and and so you think you know, even if you, even if there's something you turn around and say, well, it's not really for me, didn't really like that, prefer this side of the other shows, let us know what you like so we can. We can then perfect the other shows as well, but, yeah, just let us know what you think. Um, and just leaves us one more thing to say, which is thanks everyone, and there's nothing wrong with being given the unofficial controller. It's what you do. That that counts. See you later, george see you later.

Speaker 1 1:26:50

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