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YDKF Episode 164: Operating Systems

On this episode of YDKF I take a walk down memory lane through all the operating systems I’ve run, from MS-DOS 2.1 to Windows 10, sprinkling a few 16, 32 and 64-bit memories along the way.

[Links]

Link: Classic Text Adventures (Facebook Page)
Link: YDKF Episode 149: Networks

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Sprite Castle 015: Mail Order Monsters

If you ever wanted to arm a worm with a laser pistol (and some hands) and put it up against a LyonBear, MAIL ORDER MONSTERS (Electronic Arts, 1985) is the game for you!

If you would like to play along, you can find download links to emulators along with all the games played so far on Sprite Castle by clicking on the downloads tab at the top of the page. On the next episode we will be covering 1987’s MicroLeague Wrestling by MicroLeague Sports.

Congratulations to John Justice for being this episode’s King of the Castle! Listen to this week’s episode to find out how you can become the next King of the Castle!

[Show Links]

Link: Amigos Podcast
Link: GameByGamePodcast.com
Link: Scarabaeus
Link: RGCD 16k Game Competition
Link: Reset Issue 7
Link: Emergency Chicagoland Commodore Convention

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Sprite Castle is a proud member of the ThrowbackNetwork. Find more retro-themed podcasts by following @ThrowbackNet on Twitter. If you enjoy Sprite Castle, be sure to check out my other podcasts: You Don’t Know Flack, Throwback Reviews and Multiple Sadness. You can find links to all my shows at RobOHara.com/podcasts.

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Multiple Sadness 003 – Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. (1990)

On this episode we combine shoddy detective work with tons of Japanese cliches and some terrible special effects and get: 1990’s SGT. KABUKIMAN N.Y.P.D.

I apologize for including so many audio clips on this episode. This movie is full of so many dumb quotable lines that I had to include them all. I also apologize for repeatedly incorrectly stating the title of this film as Sgt. Kabukiman L.A.P.D. instead of the correct title, Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D.. If Sgt. Kabukiman ever finds out he will surely make a sushi roll out of me.

YouTube: Trailer

Links: Multiple Sadness Episodes | RSS and iTunes links

YDKF Episode 163: Best Buy

It’s been 20 years since I worked for the big yellow tag. On this episode of You Don’t Know Flack I delve way back into the memory banks and tell a few stories about what it was like working for Best Buy. Not to spoil things but it was actually pretty fun and it got me out of a life of making pizzas. On this episode I talk about working the truck, repairing computers, and a few of the celebrities I met on the job.

[Links]

Link: Arkadia Retrocade
Link: Multiple Sadness Podcast
Link: I Was Geeky When Geeky Wasn’t Cool by Marc Allie (Amazon)

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Sprite Castle 014: 720

Get ready to SKATE OR DIE with this 2-for-1 episode! On episode 14 of Sprite Castle we discuss not one but TWO Commodore 64 ports of the Atari classic arcade game 720, released in 1987 by US Gold (in the UK) and 1988 by Mindscape (in the USA).

If you would like to play along, you can find download links to emulators along with all the games played so far on Sprite Castle by clicking on the downloads tab at the top of the page. On the next episode we will be covering Mail Order Monsters by Electronic Arts.

Congratulations to Steve Schirripa for being this episode’s King of the Castle! Listen to this week’s episode to find out how you can become the next King of the Castle!

[Show Links]

Link: Multiple Sadness Podcast
Link: You Don’t Know Flack 162: 720
Link: 720 Manual (US Gold)
Link: 720 Manual (Mindscape)
Link: Servant 64
Link: Contiki BBS
Link: Bionic Ninja +23D/Hackersoft
Link: Amiga 1200 New Cases
Link: Parallel Port SD Card Reader for the Amiga?

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To see ads for this and hundreds of other classic video games, check out my Facebook page: Facebook.com/VintageVideogameAds

Sprite Castle is a proud member of the ThrowbackNetwork. Find more retro-themed podcasts by following @ThrowbackNet on Twitter. If you enjoy Sprite Castle, be sure to check out my other podcasts: You Don’t Know Flack, Throwback Reviews and Multiple Sadness. You can find links to all my shows at RobOHara.com/podcasts.

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YDKF Episode 162: 720

This episode of You Don’t Know Flack is dedicated to one of the greatest (and one of my favorite) arcade games of all time — Atari’s 720 degrees! In this episode I talk about the game, my first experience with a 720 arcade cabinet, and whether or not I ever ended up getting one! Also, AT&T Natural Voices shut down their free text-to-speech website and so Crystal has been fired and Crystal 2.0 was hired to read the episode number during the intro.

[Links]

Link: 720zone.com
Link: 720 Nike SB Dunks

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To check out other podcasts I record including Sprite Castle and Throwback Reviews, check out RobOHara.com/podcasts.

You Don’t Know Flack is a proud member of the ThrowbackNetwork. Find more Throwback podcasts by following @ThrowbackNet on Twitter.

Sprite Castle 013: Friday the 13th

Lock your doors and check the closet… not that that’ll save you. For episode 13 of Sprite Castle this week we’re doing Friday the 13th by Domark. This is one of the games I originally did during the video run of Sprite Castle, so if you would like to see footage of the game in action check it out here.

If you would like to play along, you can find download links to emulators along with all the games played so far on Sprite Castle by clicking on the downloads tab at the top of the page. On the next episode we will be covering Mail Order Monsters by Electronic Arts.

Congratulations to Paul Ramos for being this episode’s King of the Castle and being the first person inducted into the Sprite Castle Royalty Hall of Fame! Listen to this week’s episode to find out how you can become the next King of the Castle!

[Show Links]

Link: GB64 Reorganizer 4.0.1.1
Link: Commodore Free Issue 88
Link: C64 WiFi Cart by Schema
Link: Scramble 1.4
Link: Ghosts’n Goblins Arcade
Link: Ghosts’n Goblins / Commando Arcade SE EasyFlash
Link: China Miner +26D
Link: Friday the 13th Manual
Link: Friday the 13th Audio Contest

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Sprite Castle is a proud member of the ThrowbackNetwork. Find more retro-themed podcasts by following @ThrowbackNet on Twitter. If you enjoy Sprite Castle, be sure to check out my other podcasts: You Don’t Know Flack, Throwback Reviews and No Quarter.

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YDKF Episode 161: VCRs

On this episode of You Don’t Know Flack I discuss my history with VCRs, from the first one we got when I was 5 in 1978 to the $300 Go Video dual-deck VCR I owned.

[Links]

Link: Visiting the Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile Site
Link: What the Truck? It’s Truckhenge!
Link: Greetings from the Futuro, Earthlings!
Link: Stargardt Disease
Link: Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc.
Link: Interview with Rick Baker from “Everything You Wanted to Know About Monsters”
Link: LoveThyShelf.com
Link: RobOHara.com/Podcasts
Link: Braingames from HBO (YouTube)

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My other podcasts include: Sprite Castle, Throwback Reviews, and No Quarter.

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Me with my Charlie McCarthy ventriloquist doll. Christmas of 1981

Me and my sister, Christmas of 1983