Episode 71: Jonathan Beales Interview

19th June 2018 Philip Hockaday

In this episode Paul chats to Jonathan Beales who has worked within the games industry for over 30 years. Jonathan started his career back in the 80’s working on Popular Computing Weekly and ACE magazines before moving on in 1989 to begin working in games and video promotion.

Jonathan has worked for Gremlin, Sony and many more well known names in the games industry. We discuss his time working with Sony and HMV helping promote Sony’s first games event to promote their products. We also cover making an advert for Games X magazine, working on the launch for 3DO, Tomb Raider 2 and more.

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Episode 70: Listeners Choice – Dreamcast

8th June 201813th August 2018 Philip Hockaday

“Welcome to the stage of history…”

Following our first Listener Top 10 episode, where we took a stroll through a selection of C64 games, we return to the format to spend some time with SEGA’s ambitious Dreamcast. Once again we invited our listeners to contribute their personal favourite games for the system, and we compiled the votes to create a Top 10.

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Episode 69: Andy Smith Interview

10th May 201810th May 2018 Philip Hockaday

Andy Smith has worked on some of the most popular games magazines from the 80’s and 90’s. Starting his career on multi format magazine ACE back in 1987 this was one of Future Publishing’s key magazines before it was sold to rival publisher EMAP.

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Episode 68: Castlevania

27th April 2018 Philip Hockaday 7 Comments

“Once again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.”

Phil is joined by first time guest host, Chris Smith (not that one), to take a wander through Konami’s Castlevania series. Naïvely attempting to drop in on almost every game, our heroes just about make it through to the end for one last fight with Dracula.

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Episode 67: Nick Clarkson Interview

4th April 2018 Philip Hockaday

This episode has Paul interviewing ex games journalist and current PR/Marketing Manager Nick Clarkson. With a career in the games industry spanning over 30 years Nick has seen many changes.

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Episode 66: Paul ‘Mr. Biffo’ Rose Interview

20th March 2018 Philip Hockaday

For gaming fans of a certain age group Digitiser on Teletext was the must visit pages. Running from 1993 to 2003 Digitiser had a mixture of news, reviews, cheats and more alongside a crazy sense of humour and cast of characters.

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Episode 65: Shoot ’em Ups

13th March 2018 Philip Hockaday

The time has come to jump into your R-9/Styx/spaceship of choice, and join the Maximum Power Up team defending humanity against insurmountable odds and bright orange bullets.

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Episode 64: Listeners Choice – Commodore 64

25th February 201813th August 2018 Philip Hockaday

In this episode we start a new series of Listener Top 10’s. First up is the 8bit powerhouse the Commodore 64. The C64 lasted for around a decade from it’s very strong start in the home computer market facing off against the Spectrum and Amstrad 464. Known for it’s amazing SID chip the C64 soon gathered a massive fan base for the music heard coming from it but luckily there were many great games to go alongside that

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Episode 63: PlayStation Portable

15th February 2018 Philip Hockaday

When Sony took it’s first steps into the handheld fistfight it was everything you’d expect from them. Sleek and glossy black, big bright wide screen display, the console stood apart from it’s pears in much the same way as the other systems the Japanese gaming giant had produced.

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Episode 62: Pokemon

24th January 2018 Philip Hockaday

A pocketsized podcast with a young Pokémon fan, Jake and his son Eloy talk about the series, from Game Boy to 3DS, the characters, gameplay and tactics. Everything that makes this long term series appeal to a youngster… and his dad!

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