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Sprite Castle 052: Super Off Road

Put the hammer down and start slinging mud in this week’s game that puts players inside trucks with more horsepower than safety features and head-to-head against a man with nerves of steel, IVAN IRONMAN STEWART’S SUPER OFF ROAD!

Sprite Castle Plays Break Street: YouTube
Sprite Castle Plays Super Off Road: YouTube
Support Sprite Castle at Patreon.com/RobOHara

Link: Vice 3.5 Released
Link: Sprite Invaders
Link: Retrogaming Times
Link: Ditheridoo

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YDKF Episode 196: Christmas Part II

Merry Christmas, seasons greetings, and happy holidays! On this episode of You Don’t Know Flack I go back to the well and come up with even more Christmas and holiday-related memories.

Here’s a link to the first Christmas (and New Year’s) episode of You Don’t Know Flack, posted back in 2014.
Link: https://podcast.robohara.com/ydkf-episode-147-merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year/

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BONUS: Home Alone Christmas Spectacular Megashow

Happy holidays! Earlier this week I was invited to join several podcasters from Everything Amigas to discuss every port of Home Alone we could come up with. I hope you like this wacky Christmas crossover show featuring Boat and Aaron from the Amigos, Aaron and The Brent from ARG Presents, Cody, Eric and Tim from Pixel Gaiden, and myself.

A video version of the podcast has been uploaded here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RufYo0fbagg

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Sprite Castle 051: THEC64 Maxi

On this episode of Sprite Castle I take a look at the newly released THEC64 Maxi, the full-size Commodore computer from Retro Games Limited. I talk about the settings, the built-in games, and playing downloaded games. I also talk about what a pain in the butt it was to acquire one in North America, and compare it to everything from a Raspberry Pi to an FPGA-based MiST and an Ultimate 64 to help people decide if this product makes sense for them.

Sprite Castle Plays Prince of Persia 1 & 2: YouTube
Sprite Castle Plays Mat Mania (MAME): YouTube
Support Sprite Castle at Patreon.com/RobOHara

Link: JordanMechner.com
Books: Greatest Hits Game Bundle (StoryBundle.com)
Game: TheC64 Winter Games Development Competition
Game: Chiller 2
Game: Monster Catcher
App: AnyKey

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Sprite Castle 050: Karateka

On this episode I get killed by a guard, killed by a bird, and killed by a gate while playing this week’s game, KARATEKA!

Sprite Castle Plays Karateka: YouTube
Sprite Castle Plays Donkey Kong Jr (C64): YouTube
Support Sprite Castle at Patreon.com/RobOHara

Video: Jordan Mechner on rotoscoping (YouTube)
Video: Commodores in Movies (YouTube)
Link: Protopad from Protovision
Games: C64 Xmas Bundle (itch.io)
Books: Greatest Hits Game Bundle (StoryBundle.com)

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YDKF Episode 194: Crossroads Mall

As a kid, the period of time between Thanksgiving and Christmas was spent making Christmas wish lists, and many of the entries on those lists came from window shopping at the mall. Tune in to hear about the birth of one of then largest malls in America, my memories of shopping there, and the event that marked the mall’s demise.

Link: YDKF 180: Thanksgiving
Link: Twitch.tv/RobOHara
Link: Sprite Castle Plays 10-Yard Fight (YouTube)
Link: Sprite Castle Plays Misc Games (YouTube)
Link: Sprite Castle Plays Mario Bros (YouTube)
Link: Sprite Castle Plays Jeopardy (YouTube)
Link: Visiting Crossroads Mall (YouTube)
Link: Jasper Mall (IMDB)

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Sprite Castle 049: Jeopardy

On this week’s episode of Sprite Castle, I wanted to honor the life of Alex Trebek by playing and reviewing JEOPARDY!

Sprite Castle Plays Jeopardy: YouTube
Sprite Castle Plays VideoKid: YouTube
Support Sprite Castle at Patreon.com/RobOHara

Game: Shoot ’em Up Destruction Set 3 ($3, itch.io)
Game: Showdown ($1, itch.io)
App: IRC Client for C64Net WiFi Modem
Pre-Order: Soul Force

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YDKF Episode 193: Puppets

After a stressful week of work and election headlines, I decided to pick a light topic. On this week’s episode, I’ll be discussing puppets — the ones I owned as a kid, the influence the Muppet Movie had on me, the most expensive puppet I ever owned, and what became of my paltry puppet collection.

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