Episode 85: Top 10 Games Magazines Part 1

24th March 2019 Philip Hockaday

Welcome to our latest episode where we discuss the first part of the Top 10 Listener’s Choice Games Magazines. Back in January this year we asked for people to tell us their favourite magazines, the votes were counted and here are the results! Over 100 magazines were voted for so some obviously didn’t make the cut but some that did may surprise you.

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Episode 84: Video Pinball

7th February 2019 Philip Hockaday 6 Comments

Chris Smith redux and Phil take a journey through time and pinball, taking a look at highlights and interesting curios from the world of Video game Pinball.

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Episode 83: Dave Upchurch Interview

22nd January 201922nd January 2019 Philip Hockaday

In this episode Paul interviews Dave Upchurch. Starting his career at EMAP on popular 90’s magazine ACE he soon was moved to The One Amiga where he became the magazines editor. At the time the Amiga was going from strength to strength with games such as The Secret Of Monkey Island 2, Chaos Engine.

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Episode 82: Batman

24th December 2018 Philip Hockaday

Phil, Maximum Power Up’s very own answer to Bruce Wayne, is joined by a rogues gallery of Chris Smiths to discuss some of Batman’s many video game outings.

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Episode 80: Geoff Glendenning Interview

15th November 2018 Philip Hockaday

The Sony PlayStation is one of the most successful consoles and brands that we as gamers have seen. We spoke to Geoff Glendenning who was Head Of Marketing for the PlayStation as he shares some of his memories. Geoff had worked in advertising previously and did work for Commodore and Acclaim before his big move to Sony.

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Episode 81: Farewell GamesMaster Magazine

17th December 201824th December 2018 Philip Hockaday

When GamesMaster magazine launched way back in December 1992 it was a big deal! With the tv show bringing gaming to the mainstream, Future publishing had been hard at work ready to capitalise on the ready made audience. GamesMaster was the new and exciting multi-format magazine covering Nintendo, Sega, Amiga, PC and much more.

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Episode 79: Run & Gun

30th October 2018 Philip Hockaday 3 Comments

Join the Maximum Power Up Commandos as we go runnin’ and gunnin’, and diving into the shoot’em up sub genre of run’n’gun games. Hosts Phil, Jake and Chris Smith MkII pick up some heavy weaponry, don their bandanas and camo kecks, and jump in the chopper… or do they?

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Episode 78: Neil West interview

14th October 201814th October 2018 Philip Hockaday

In this episode we speak to another well known journalist from the 90’s. Neil West was known for his work on much loved Sega magazines Sega Power and MEGA. At the time the 16 bit Sega vs Nintendo war was heating up and there were many great games for the Sega Megadrive. We discuss how EA were so important for Sega with many hit games for the system.

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Episode 77: Gary Penn interview

27th September 2018 Philip Hockaday

Gary Penn has been working in the games industry for over 30 years. Starting out on the now iconic Zzap64 magazine for the Commodore 64 he became the editor in less than 2 years. We discuss those early days of his career at Newsfield and the challenges he faced as well as his memories working alongside Jaz Rignall.

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Episode 76: H.P. Lovecraft

10th September 2018 Philip Hockaday 5 Comments

Phil, Chris & Tom are reunited for the first time since the Dreamcast episode to discuss games influenced and inspired by the works and extended mythos of H.P. Lovecraft.

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