Amigos Retro Gaming Network - Amigos: Everything Amiga / ARG Presents / Sprite Castle / Pixel Gaiden

To keep Our Sinclair alive, I’ve decided to do some small solo episodes profiling the packaging and gameplay of some of the games listeners have sent us over the years. I hope these are entertaining to listen to in audio form (at least the first half), but to get the full experience they are available in video version on Youtube.

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Discord's Questions, our Answers!

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Greetings and welcome to BIG episode 128 this week!  In a stunning surprise, it's ANDROID GAME week on ARG Presents.  Join us for some conversation about mobile games journey from SNAKE and UNO to today's big money blockbusters.  Then put your best legs forward for Doodle Jump and the thrill to the pigskin classic RETRO BOWL.

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Settle down students, class is now in session!  Dean Aaron and Professor BRENT are schooling you this week on ARG Presents!  The subject?!  The V-TECH SOCRATES!  Crack open your history books as we look at the past of the Socrates, then we study it's anatomy, before finally graduating into the games themselves.  In first period, it's time to work out that brain in Memory M...

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It's Acorn Electron week!  Join Amigo Aaron and THE BRENT as we take a look at the BBC Micro's little brother, and pick a few acorns from the tree of the Electron ourselves!  Pop open your umbrella for Boffin (or Boffin 2 if you prefer)!  Then prepare yourself for the adventure that lies within the Palace of Magic!

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It's CHAT CHOICE week on ARG Presents, and the Chat has chosen the AMSTRAD CPC line of computers for us to play games on!  After a quick recap of Amigathon 2020, we dive HEADFIRST into two vastly different games!  Ponder the  bizarre isometric world of DOPPLEGANGER, the leap HEADLONG into the unapologetically arcade inspired budget game, The Island Of Dr. Destructo!

It's MicroProse week here on ARG Presents, and we have two games featured that couldn't be more different!  After we chat about MicroProse and it's incredible back catalog, we cover Floyd Of the Jungle on the Atari 8-bit computers and the Commodore 64, and then we surf the matrix as a VAMPIRE in Bloodnet for the Amiga and DOS machines!

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Well, after seven long months, the wait is over.  Join Amigo Aaron as he takes a look at the interesting new FPGA UnAmiga A500 Header.  Watch for the unboxing, stay for the INCREDIBLE story of roller coaster ride that getting this video made was.  If you are curious about the UnAmiga or FPGA's in general, or just want to see the Sketchy Tech do his thing, this video is for you! I ha...

Much like Cheap Trick and Adam Ant, THE BRENT and Amigo Aaron are BIG in Japan!  Well..not really, but we're big ON Japan, and this week we're excited to present the Fujitsu FM-7 Computer!  Enjoy a look at the Japanese take on Miner 2049, and then experience another rare gem, as we look at Yokai Tantei Chima Chima!

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Discord's Questions, our Answers!

Welcome to another wacky episode of ARG!  This time out, we're back to the UK for a look at the Enterprise 64/128 Computer...the one with the BUILT IN JOYSTICK!  After learning about the Enterprise, we go to WARP SPEED with two game from it's vast library.  PREPARE yourself for a trip into the DEADLY Devil's Lair, and then deal yourself in to Jack's House of Cards!

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ARG goes mobile again this week as we look at the would-be Gameboy competitor the WATARA SUPERVISION!  After a rundown, we look at a handful of titles, including the TOTALLY original SUPER KONG and a game THE BRENT is the worlds foremost authority on, JUGGLER!

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Welcome to a DOWN AND DIRTY episode of ARG Presents!  This week it's UNDER GROUND Games, and we dig through the dirt to come up with something buried long ago.  Join Amigo Aaron and THE BRENT as we shovel out O'Riley's Mine on the Commodore 64 and Ardy the Aardvark on the Apple 2!

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Don't hit that button!  It's NO BUTTON ARCADE GAMES week on ARG Presents, and THE BRENT along with Amigo Aaron are going to work!  Kick back and enjoy our conversation about games with Trackballs and Twin Sticks...but no buttons allowed!  Then we try our hands at two examples, the film based arcade game KRULL , and the classic competitive scene arcade standout, Nibbler!

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