Matt Chat: Videogame History
By Matt Barton
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Podcast Description
Features in-depth retrospectives of classic games and interviews with their designers, programmers, and publishers. Learn about the history of your favorite hobby!
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| 1 | VideoMatt Chat 150: Piracy, DRM, and Digital Media with Shane R. Monroe | Episode 150! Even I'm amazed that I've produced so many episodes. So many reviews! So many interviews! So many bad jokes! Yes, it's time to celebrate. Besides a great interview with Shane R. Monroe--who I assume most of you are familiar with here, I offe | 5/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoMatt Chat 149: Diablo | With all the attention of the CRPG community focused on Diablo III, I thought it only fitting to give a retrospective on the 1996 game that launched the franchise--the original Diablo! Reducing the complex CRPG gameplay mechanics to utter simplicity, Bli | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoMatt Chat 148: The Fat Man Answers Your Questions | Here's the last installment of my interview with The Fat Man, aka George Sanger. In this section, Fat Man answers your questions concerning game audio, careers in the industry, and even a bit of philosophy. If you think I did a good job on this interview | 5/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoMatt Chat 147: The Fat Man Returns | This week, I'm back with The Fat Man (George Sanger) to talk about some of his most famous game scores. Yes, that means Wing Commander, Ultima Underworld, and The 7th Guest. As always, Fat Man has great behind-the-scenes stories about all this stuff, so | 5/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Matt's Podcast 13: Backwardness compatibility, Smelly Games, Why Stories and Graphics Suck, Matt's Turn to the Darkside | Smell me!Hi, guys! I'm back with a little podcast here addressing some of the popular threads raised right here at Armchair Arcade. After a special announcement and some talk about my Unity game project, I talk about smelly game environments, three games | 5/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoMatt Chat 146: Matt Reviews Legend of Grimrock | I'm back this week with a review of my pick for "Game of the Year," Legend of Grimrock! An awesome game for so many reasons, Grimrock has the added advantage of being independently produced and available for only $15! Get it direct from the developer and | 5/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Matt's Podcast 12: Kickstart me Up! | Legend of Grimrock: Oh, hellz yeah!Hi, guys, it's been awhile since we had a new podcast up, so here's one I recorded today about the epic Legend of Grimrock and some of the latest Kickstarter news. Are we experiencing a fad--a brief phase--or on the cus | 4/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoMatt Chat 144: The Fat Man Talks Business | Here's part 2, and this is one video you do not want to miss if you want to know what's wrong with the industry today. The Fat Man lays it all out with his trademark wit and elegance. BTW, YouTube misidentified another video as "Matching 3rd Party Conten | 4/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoMatt Chat 143: The Fat Man Part I | Here's the interview with The Fat Man himself, George Sanger. George is indeed "The Man" when it comes to PC game audio, particularly back in the pivotal early 90s when we moved from the PC buzzer/speakers to Soundblasters. George helped standardize the | 4/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoMatt Chat 142: Wasteland | Wasteland! By now, everybody who has ever been a fan of this game knows about Brian Fargo's Kickstarter project to make the sequel. So, naturally, I decided this week to take a look at the hallowed original. While not everything has aged gracefully, I mu | 4/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Matt's Podcast 11: Orbliteration | Pencil me in!I'm back from St. Louis with a big new podcast! Topics covered include the gaming events on the trip, Magic the Gathering vs. DLC, the lingering canker sore that is ME3's ending, Gameplay Forever news, the Matt Chat book project, and Orblite | 3/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoMatt Chat 141: David Fox on Cadillacs and Dinosaurs | This week's episode is focused mostly on David's later career, which includes the FMV game Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm, which he'd probably rather people forgot about. ;) Still, the story of its creation is definitely worth listening to | 3/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Matt's Podcast 10: Detoxic Waste | Wasteland 2Hi, folks, I'm back this week with a new podcast. Topics include Wasteland 2 and Kickstarter funding, brainstorming Matt Chat DVDs and documentaries, Baer vs. Bushnell, and a closer look at the Mass Effect 3 ending fiasco. Don't forget to visi | 3/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Matt's Podcast 9: Massive Effect or Affect? | Mass Effect 3I was having such a good time this morning WRITING about Mass Effect 3 that I decided to do a 40 minute podcast about it, too. In addition to elucidating why I like the ending, I also jabber on about why gaming NEEDS this sort of thing--inde | 3/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoMatt Chat 140: David Fox on Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders | I'm back this week with David Fox round III, this time focusing on his epic adventure game, Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders. David has plenty of great stories about the game's development, as well as Lucasfilm Games development strategies in gene | 3/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoMatt Chat 139: Labyrinth, Koronis Rift & More with David Fox | I'm back this week with part 2 of my interview with Lucasfilm designer David Fox. In this part, we talk about a lot of issues David faced in the 80s, such as why he disliked working on conversions (ports) and the steps they took to combat piracy. We also | 3/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoMatt Chat 138: Matt Interviews David Fox of LucasFilm Games | Here's a Matt Chat for all fans of Zak McKracken, Rescue on Fractalus!, and all the other great Lucasfilm Games classics. In this first bit, David and I chat about his early days and what was going on behind the scenes during the development of Fractalus | 2/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoMatt Chat 137: Kingdoms of Amalur, Reckoning | Hi, folks! I'm back this week with another retrospective--or rather, a review of a new action-RPG called Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. I usually don't like this genre, but this time the developers have done a good job uniting action with strategy. Above | 2/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoMatt Chat 136: Peter Oliphant on Stonekeep, Interplay, and Brian Fargo | In this part of my interview with Peter Oliphant, we finally get the dirt on Stonekeep's storied development cycle. What was going on behind the scenes of this monumental game? Peter gives us the lowdown in an emotional rant about the frustrations he suf | 2/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoMatt Chat 135: Peter on Sierra On-Line, Cinemaware, and Interplay | Hi, Matt Chatters! I'm back this week with part 2 of my interview with Peter Oliphant, child actor turned game developer. In this part, Peter talks about his transition from Hollywood to Silicon Valley, which includes stops (and stories about) Sierra On- | 2/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Great Retro Gaming Memories
I'm a big retro gaming buff, wheter it be on computers or consoles and this podcast is perfect for me! Matt takes the classics and gives a brief intro and then shows gameplay, I love it. I wish he could fit in a little bit more gameplay video but I imagine he's trying to keep it short and sweet. Keep up the good work!
Great
Great show but I wish it was in video still...
Great Show!
Matt's podcast is great for the retro rpg gamer. I have been gaming since the 80s and grew up on the same games he talks about. It's great reliving the moments of the classics. When he talks about these games it brings you back. The interviews are top notch too. You learn so much from these old developers about games long gone. If you like the podcast, I recommend you get his book Dungeons and Desktops... it was because of the book that I found the podcast. The book is great and goes over the different "Ages" of crpgs.
My only gripe is that he switched to a Video format that my ipod 3G doesn't play, so I am stuck with listening only to the rare show that is audio only. It used to be all audio btw (here's a request matt...do more audio or make the videos in ipod compatible format...)
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