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YDKF Episode 115: Text Adventures

Episode 115 of You Don’t Know Flack is all about text adventures. This episode is unique in multiple ways. Not only does it feature the infamous Interactive Fiction author Robb Sherwin via Skype … but it features him for approximately two hours. What can I say? Robb and I got carried away talking about text adventures!

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Hangar 22 (My first full-length text adventure)
Caltrops.com – Robb Sherwin’s Game-related Website
Cryptozookeeper – Buy (or download) Robb Sherwin’s award winning game!
Inform – The language I used to write Hangar 22
Hugo – The language Robb Sherwin used to write Cryptozookeeper
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YDKF Episode 114: Arcade Auctions

Episode 114 of You Don’t Know Flack is all about Arcade Auctions. In this episode I talk about my experiences of buying arcade games at auctions. I share some tips and tricks of the trade, including what to bring, what to look for, and what to expect. I have been attending arcade auctions for almost 20 years, and have purchased around 70 arcade games from auctions during that time.

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YDKF Episode 112: Photon

Episode 112 is all about Photon: The Ultimate Game on Planet Earth. Laser Tag was a big part of my teen years and I could talk about it for days … or at least 61:08 minutes.

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My pictures of Photon
My YouTube Photon Videos
LightSport (The Photon/Laser Tag Documentary)
Jim Strother’s Photon Site (Where I got the Photon CD)
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YDKF Episode 110: Floppy Disks

In light of Sony’s recent decision to end production of 3 1/2 floppy disks, Episode 110 of You Don’t Know Flack is all about floppy disks — from the history of floppies to specific memories and stories I have regarding them.

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Sony Announces the End of 3.5 Floppies
YouTube: Don’t Copy That Floppy
YouTube: The Singing 1541 Floppy Drive
USB Floppy RAID
The FC5025 Floppy Controller
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