The Shmup Talk Show

I sit down with The Hidden Fortress for a wide-ranging conversation about retro gaming from a shmup player's perspective to content creation and many things in between. When did playing old games turn into collecting them? We get into absurd retro prices, CRTs and PVMs, physical collecting, emulation, MiSTer and FPGA, expensive PCBs, modern shmup ports, game pricing, YouTube hype, and what The...

On episode #5 of The Shmup Talk Show, I sit down with Koa: longtime shmup player, scorer, rhythm game player, and a familiar face in the online STG community. Follow KOA here: https://x.com/dwrkoa https://www.youtube.com/  ⁨@sfkhoa⁩  https://www.twitch.tv/sfkhoa Koa's history with shmups goes all the way back to the early '90s, growing up around arcade cabinets. But around 2005, something...

For Episode 4 of The Shmup Talk Show, I sat down with Filipe, creator of ShmupsBR and Pixel Pilots, for a conversation that ended up going just about everywhere. We talk about his history with gaming and arcades in Brazil, the rise of ShmupsBR and Pixel Pilots, creating shmup content on YouTube, his popular Shmup Drops series, and the differences between retro and shmup culture in Brazil, the UK,...

Episode 3 of the Shmup Talk Show is a sit down with bord3rlin3, owner of EC3 Arcade, one of the East Coast's most prominent shmup, fighting game, and puzzle arcades, located in Shelton, CT.We talk about how he got into shmups during the pandemic, the early days of running candy cabs out of his own home, hauling them to conventions before he had a physical space, and the eventual leap into open...

What drives someone to spend eight months building their first shmup? In Episode 2 of The Shmup Talk Show, I sit down with SealBro, Director at XtraSoft, to talk about the development of Emerald Blue, one of the standout indie shmups of the past year. We get into the origins of the project, how a small hobby team turned their passion into a commercial release, and why they designed Emerald Blue wi...

For the very first episode of The Shmup Talk Show, Zirolux sits down with DrBossKey, founder of Uplifting Goat and creator of Interstellar Sentinel and Interstellar Sentinel 2 . What starts as a conversation about indie shmup development quickly turns into a three-hour-plus deep dive into game design, arcade history, storytelling, cyberpunk influences, fighting games, development tools, community...

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