Retronauts Episode 452: The Amiga
Added 2022-04-25 13:00:08 +0000 UTCBloomin' Nora, they'll let anyone write these now. Oh, hullo! I'm Stuart Gipp and you're about to listen to an episode of the podcast "Retro Nauts". Now, normally this podcast exclusively covers NES games, but today I'm presenting you with something from the leftfield, baby; it's the Commodore flippin' Amiga!
And, of course, I'm joined once again by enthusiastic Internet Remembering Man Dave Bulmer, he of Sonic the Comic the Podcast fame. He brings a crucial element of verisimillitude to the episode by virtue of having actually grown up with an Amiga, whereas I (nervous swallow) didn't.
I do my best, here, though, and I believe what we've produced is actually a bit bloody good, thank you very much! You'll learn the secret origins of the Amiga, an attempt to start a beef with another content creator, how I discovered the existence of furries and the story of Dave's astonishing "game of the month" club that made him the happiest little boy in Englandshire.
Naturally, of course, we also talk games; it's the nature of the Amiga, frankly, that things can get a little charged with emotion, as you'll see in this episode. Also, shockingly, we find out that Gilbert Gottfried died as we were recording, so things get a bit "blimey" and "gosh!" around that time. A moment in history, preserved forever.
Fear not, Amiga amigos. The subject is too broad to be contained in just one podcast. Expect a follow-up some time in the future when we make another one. Of them. That was an Amiga Power reference, natch.
Edits by Greg Leahy; cover art by Leeann Hamilton.
Bangers this episode:
- 07:20 - Pinball Dreams: Beat Box Theme
- 19:07 - Lars
- 31:38 - Lemmings "Cracktro"
- 42:39 - "It's a Skull" (Valhalla & the Fortress of Eve remix)
- 48:31 - Aladdin: A Whole New World | Superfrog: Title Theme
- 58:55 - Oh No! More Lemmings: BGM No. 1
- 1:14:35 - Lemmings 2: The Tribes: Classic Tribe
- 1:26:55 - Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon: Giant/Castle Yard BGM
- 1:36:51 - Twin World: Level 1 Caves
- 1:47:42 - Chaos Engine: World 1 BGM No. 1
- 1:55:34 - The Settlers: Main Theme
- 2:07:23 - Red Dwarf Theme (Protracker cover)
- Closing - Captain: "Space Debris"
Comments
Best home computer ever. Commodore destroyed it, unfortunatley.
NapoPeb
2022-11-17 03:17:32 +0000 UTCAlso woo Azumanga Daioh
Dylan Colborne
2022-05-10 16:47:01 +0000 UTCBack in the 80s and 90s, my grandma worked in a local computer shop. She was all-in on the Amiga. I believe she said it had a modded region switch on it. Sadly, the aforementioned giant sliding hard drive broke off while moving in 2001, so she tossed it. My earliest gaming experiences were playing a PS1 on her RGB Trinitron designed to be an Amiga monitor.
Dylan Colborne
2022-05-10 16:43:26 +0000 UTCStuart and Dave when doing a podcast by themselves is some of the most aggressively British content I have ever heard in my life. And I love it.
Philip Renshaw
2022-05-09 07:12:34 +0000 UTCWhat a belter of an episode - every one with Stuart and Dave has me chortling away, but this was just simply superb. You have no idea how overjoyed I was that a) it seems to have been an overtly British trait amongst chaps of a certain age to map out dozens of levels for Amiga titles on paper, b) my love of The Chaos Engine is validated, and c) Dave's call out for Gobliiins! I agree with everything that was said on that series. Any chance of an episode covering Simon the Sorcerer (1 and 2 only, of course...) in the future?
Dr James Butler
2022-05-02 20:36:00 +0000 UTCI can pay you in tacos to make that happen 😆
2022-04-29 11:03:26 +0000 UTCGames That Were Distributed Free With Tacos is my next episode. 4 hours
Stuart Gipp
2022-04-29 07:59:55 +0000 UTCAnytime Stuart's on a show, I'm in. It could literally be him reviewing the Jumping Bean Jamboree game that Taco Bell put out on floppy disk as a promotional item. I don't even care...I know it's going to be great!
2022-04-28 18:47:21 +0000 UTCSeriously I was all ears about the Amiga as all in one multimedia workstation and game system. Rip mod files from ram and replay and modify them in your tracker software. I’d actually read the first few dozen strips of Sabrina Online back in a time when an Amiga fan comic distributed on a website was SUPER unique. Comes from a time when furry art was inspired more from Warner Bros. cartoons than anime.
John Simon
2022-04-28 06:42:56 +0000 UTCI remember playing such beloved classics on my Dragon 32 as Chuckie Egg, Lifts and Mates, Utter Kak, Hungry Horace, SQUJ!!, Wellington Steps Out, and Taking the Piss.
John Simon
2022-04-28 06:15:33 +0000 UTCGood call, they'll both make great companion pieces to the Red-Dwarf-onauts episodes. Unbelievable to me that Dwarf was never spun out into a Monkey-island-esque game series.
thatcamjones
2022-04-27 08:36:24 +0000 UTCAfter the Shepherd's Pie ep drops
Stuart Gipp
2022-04-26 19:27:05 +0000 UTCLove these episodes😊
Gabriel Schray
2022-04-26 17:23:37 +0000 UTCI had literally no prior knowledge of the Amiga and absolutely loved this episode. Great stuff.
Craig
2022-04-26 15:13:57 +0000 UTCChip butties episode, when?
thatcamjones
2022-04-26 11:32:33 +0000 UTCDiamond and the Gippster justify my subscription. Love their episodes.
Michael Hanretty
2022-04-26 07:17:16 +0000 UTCI would have liked Jeremy's perspective on this to help delineate the European approach to the games, given the continent giving the majority of the Amiga's support. Also seemed to apply to the C64, which I had instead. There seemed to be an emphasis on HARD games. Also, lots of musical embellishments that carried over from SID. Just stuff I can't put my finger on. Sometimes I wonder what an unofficial Hombre recreation (think Moonsound after MSX was abandoned) would be like. Even an FPGA would be interesting to see.
Moomoo
2022-04-26 03:54:55 +0000 UTCI got the latest issue of Retro Gamer in the mail today and the Amiga is on the cover, what kind of witchery is this?!
littleterr0r
2022-04-26 03:19:06 +0000 UTC
