Episode 108: John Davison Interview

15th January 2021 Chris Smith

This episode Paul is joined by John Davison, current VP with IGN.

Episode 107: Gary Whitta Interview

22nd December 2020 Chris Smith 1 Comment

Our latest guest is Gary Whitta who discusses his career working on games magazines, bring a Hollywood scriptwriter, his Animal Crossing talkshow and much more!

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Bonus Episode: Pandemic Pod – Covid Hard with a Vengeance

14th December 2020 Chris Smith 1 Comment

Chris Smith version 2.0 is joined by Dark Universe Chris Smith, Jake and Arron for another bonus episode recorded during lockdown.

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Episode 106: Tim Weaver Interview

30th November 2020 Chris Smith

This episode Paul is joined by best selling author Tim Weaver.

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Episode 105: Better Call Paul(s)

23rd October 2020 Chris Smith

In this episode Paul Davies returns to the show to discuss his career in games magazines. Joining him this time is Paul Glancey.

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Episode 104: Chris Scullion Interview

29th September 2020 Chris Smith

In this episode Paul chats to games writer and huge Nintendo fan, Chris Scullion.

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Episode 103: Paul McNally Interview

18th September 2020 Chris Smith

Paul McNally is our latest guest. Paul started his career in gaming at Europress publishing up in Macclesfield in 1991. Previous podcast guest Nick Clarkson gave Paul his start on ST Action where he stayed until almost the end of the magazine. In his years at Europress he also worked on Games-X, Mega Action and Bad Influence, as well as being involved with the tv show.

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Episode 102: Martyn Carroll Interview

31st August 2020 Chris Smith

In this latest interview, we speak to original Retro Gamer magazine editor Martyn Carroll. We cover several magazines for the first time on the podcast as Martyn shares his early experiences of the magazine industry.

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Episode 101: Listeners Choice Mega Drive

16th August 2020 Chris Smith

This episode we revisit the “listener choice” format, previously used on our Dreamcast, Game Boy and Commodore 64 shows. Back before the world went mad, we asked our listeners to share their five favourite Mega Drive games with us, which we then got Paul to count up and combine to create a Top 10 of the most popular ones.

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Episode 100: The Episode 100 Show

31st July 2020 Chris Smith

Welcome to episode 100 of Maximum Power Up. Since launching the show in 2015 we have stuck to our plan of covering a mixture of both modern and retro games.

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