509: “This Shouldn’t Be Possible on an Amiga 500!” – H0ffman - Demoscene and Game Ports – The Retro Hour Podcast EP509

systems we play in the games we play as well celebrating these benchmarks every couple of months this one though was massive on the uh the amiga when it originally came out and um you remember everywhere rj michael on the podcast didn't we a while ago yeah we were so jim sachs the artist behind it yeah yeah now we're talking about um defender of the crown which i think was definitely in the the earliest days of the amiga obviously this was a cinema where title um we talk about games that come along that kind of…

... And we would play a lot and compete against one another at GDI. And then later at Gottlieb, there was a great game room and Gottlieb full of recent hit coin ops. Anyway, Defender was one of my favorites, but really it was Robotron was the control inspiration, you know, move with the left stick, shoot with the right. ...

podcast recently, but I think this is definitely worth a mention. There was a couple of years ago, we kind of went through a spade, didn't we? Of kind of covering a lot of the homebrew stuff that was coming out on the Amstrad and a lot of it looked really impressive. I remember that the pinball fantasies that came out on there. Yeah, the Batman group, they were doing some great stuff going back a few years now. But this looks really cool. This is a Castlevania style game called mighty castle adventure that…

... Okay, so now it is Joe and Tommy. Okay, he's a former Vic Commando team member responsible for bringing the Commodore Vic 20 to market, the first home computer to sell one million units. ...