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Sprite Castle 058: Barbarian

Get ready for sword-swinging, a scantily-clad princess, and muscle-bound fighters in this week’s game, 1987’s BARBARIAN

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Link: RetroGamer.net – The Making of Barbarian
Link: EuroGamer.net – The Making of Barbarian the Ultimate Warrior
Link: Freaky Fish DX

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Sprite Castle 057: Park Patrol

While this week’s game isn’t trash, we’ll spend some time picking it up while discussing a classic Activision game for the Commodore 64, PARK PATROL

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Sprite Castle is sponsored by Retro Rewind. Visit Retro Rewind for all your C64/C128/C16/C+4/Amiga needs! Use this link for %10 off all purchases.

Video: Sprite Castle Plays Park Patrol
Video: Sprite Castle Plays Racing Games
Software: Freaky Fish DX
Software: Monstro Giganto
Podcast: The Aud Pod Podcast

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YDKF Episode 200.2: A Retrospective

On the second part of Episode 200, I tell how You Don’t Know Flack came to be, how it got its name, and where the first 100 episodes went. After that I run through episodes 101-199, offering brief reviews, comments, and insight. Thank you for celebrating You Don’t Know Flack with me!

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Multiple Sadness 010: Naked Space

Some people know it as The Creature Wasn’t Nice, others refer to it as Spaceship, but most people know it as Naked Space. On this episode of Multiple Sadness we join the crew of the spaceship Vertigo and attempt to not get our faces bitten off in this Alien parody from the early 1980s.

Watch the movie on YouTube here: Naked Space

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Sprite Castle 056: Paradroid

This week we send our 001 infiltration unit off into space to save a freighter overrun with malicious robots in one of the great Commodore 64 games of all time, PARADROID

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Video: Sprite Castle Plays Paradroid
Video: 8-Bit Show and Tell: Programming the C64
Software: VirtualC64 v4.0 (Mac C64 Emulator)
Software: Spinning Jenny (C64 Drum Machine)
Software: SidTool 2.0.5 (SID Frontend for Windows)
Software: Uberswap (Match 3 Game)

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YDKF Episode 200.1: My Buddy, Andy

It took me 13 years, but I finally made it to episode 200 of You Don’t Know Flack! To celebrate this event, I will be publishing a mamma-jamma episode split into three parts. In part one, I interview my buddy Andy. We met around the age of five, and we are still best friends today. So many of my stories begin with “my buddy Andy” so it only made sense to get him on the show!

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Sprite Castle 055: Below the Root

This week we climb grunds, glide with shubas, and rest in nids in this fantastic release from Windham Classics, BELOW THE ROOT

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Video: Sprite Castle Plays Grid Pix (YouTube)
Video: Sprite Castle Plays Rally Games (YouTube)
Video: Sprite Castle Plays Shinobi (YouTube)
Game: Spider Fighter (CSDB)
Game: Puzzle Bobble (VITNO)
Hardware: FujiNet for C64? (VITNO)

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YDKF Episode 199: McDonald’s

On this episode of You Don’t Know Flack, I talk about the earliest restaurant I can remember — one that serves Big Macs, Filet-o-Fish, Quarter Pounders, French Fries, icy Cokes, thick shakes, sundaes, and apple pies. Yes, I’m talking about McDONALDS! This episode is filled with stories, memories, and more than a few soundbites.

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Sprite Castle 054: Dino Eggs

On this week’s show we go to the future in order to go back to the past in order to take eggs back to the future in the classic 1983 game from Micro Fun, DINO EGGS!

Be sure to check out this week’s video stream on YouTube where I play Dino Eggs!

Also, check out David Schroeder’s (the original programmer of Dino Eggs) updated version of the game on Stream: Dino Eggs: Rebirth

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Link: RetroGames firmware upgrade for THEC64 Mini and Maxi
Link: RetroRewind.com
Game: 8Bit Sticks
Game: Runn ‘N Gunn
Video: The History of Epyx
Video: 8-Bit Show and Tell
Video: 10 MARC’s SX-64 Ultimate Reset

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