Video Game History Hour

Veteran game designer Noah Falstein looks back on his 42 year long, and counting, career and reflects on the evolution of both the role and industry over these four decades. We find Noah’s cassette tape, Simon is in Silicon Valley, $30 brings utter horror, Noah has to rein in the fun or else you’ll get hurt, and we put out a call for your tattoos. See more from Noah Falstein: Twitter: @nfalstein Website: theinspiracy.com Video Game History Foundation Podcast Twitter: @gamehistoryhour Email: podcast@gamehistory.org Twitter: @GameHistoryOrg Website: gamehistory.org Support us on Patreon: /gamehistoryorg

Benj Edwards - journalist, tech historian, and recovering retro computer hoarder - teaches us a little about MS-DOS and QBasic through their How-To Geek article: GORILLA.BAS: How to Play the Secret MS-DOS Game From Your Childhood. Frank and Benj reminisce back to day zero, Snacks 'n Jaxson gets swatted, we hack a powerful secret instead of learning our lesson, and Frank sings the theme song for history. Mentioned in the show: Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California - https://computerhistory.org/ https://oldcomputers.net/ https://www.vintagecomputing.com/ See more from Benj Edwards: Twitter: @benjedwards Website: http://vintagecomputing.com/ How-To Geek: https://www.howtogeek.com/author/benjedwards/ Video Game History Foundation Podcast Twitter: @gamehistoryhour Email: podcast@gamehistory.org Twitter: @GameHistoryOrg Website: gamehistory.org Support us on Patreon: /gamehistoryorg

A couple months ago we hosted a ticketed event as a fundraiser we called Nintendo Power Reunion - Stories from the Original Nintendo Power Staff. Nintendo Power was one of the most popular and iconic video game magazines in the US, and its original staff have gathered together for the first time to talk about it! Our panelists are Gail Tilden, Howard Philips, Leslie Swan, and Jeff Bafus. Please enjoy the audio from an incredible afternoon of stories and behind-the-scenes making of the classic Nintendo magazine. Our Panelists: Gail Tilden - Nintendo of America’s first VP of Brand Management, creator and first Editor-in-Chief of Nintendo Power. Howard Phillips - Nintendo of America’s Game Master, co-star of the Howard & Nester comics in Nintendo Power. Leslie Swan - Second Editor-in-Chief of Nintendo Power, and first Localization Director at Nintendo of America. Jeff Bafus -  Former Sales and Marketing manager at Nintendo of America, writer/editor for Nintendo Power and Nintendo Power Strategy Guide. Video Game History Foundation Podcast Twitter: @gamehistoryhour Email: podcast@gamehistory.org Twitter: @GameHistoryOrg Website: gamehistory.org Support us on Patreon: /gamehistoryorg

Translator, localizer, and writer Nob Ogasawara shares highlights of his career working with the Pokémon franchise and at EGM. He shares his birthday with two funny coincidences, gets called a “god,” inadvertently creates a fashion legend, and laments a lost Brittney Spearow. See more from Nob Ogasawara: Twitter: @DougDinsdale Video Game History Foundation Podcast Twitter: @gamehistoryhour Email: podcast@gamehistory.org Twitter: @GameHistoryOrg Website: gamehistory.org Support us on Patreon: /gamehistoryorg

Dimitris Giannakis, well-known for creating excellent videos on the technical aspect of video game preservation, explains. Luckily, he wears a T-shirt as a perfect example, we ponder at what point the code becomes Michael Jordan, and a boy dancing with a baguette solves a problem. See more from Dimitris Giannakis: Twitter: @ModernVintageG YouTube: /ModernVintageGamer Patreon: /ModernVintageGamer Video Game History Foundation Podcast Twitter: @gamehistoryhour Email: podcast@gamehistory.org Twitter: @GameHistoryOrg Website: gamehistory.org Support us on Patreon: /gamehistoryorg

Join us in our celebration of the Video Game History Foundation’s 5th birthday! Let’s take a ride through history as we retrace the long road to how the VGHF came together, what we’ve been up to for these last 5 years, and where we’re going next. Thank you to everyone that has contributed to our dream; we hope we have made, and will continue to make, you proud. Everything we’ve done has only been possible because we’ve had the support of those around us, near and far, and we’re eternally grateful. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you! Video Game History Foundation Podcast Twitter: @gamehistoryhour Email: podcast@gamehistory.org Twitter: @GameHistoryOrg Website: gamehistory.org Support us on Patreon: /gamehistoryorg

Phil Salvador - video game historian and librarian - has not only joined the Video Game History Foundation as its new Library Director, he’s also joined the show this week to tell us all about what he’ll be doing in this new role. Phil has quite the endeavor ahead of him getting our collection organized, cataloged (what we have, who it came from, why it’s significant, etc.), and eventually digitized. We talk about what makes up our collection, our hopes for its accessibility, and both the short and long-term goals on our roadmap. See more from Phil Salvador: Twitter: @itstheshadsy Website: obscuritory.com Video Game History Foundation Podcast Twitter: @gamehistoryhour Email: podcast@gamehistory.org Twitter: @GameHistoryOrg Website: gamehistory.org Support us on Patreon: /gamehistoryorg

Our guest this week, Yahel Velazquez from the Patreon funded YouTube channel Wrestling With Gaming, caught our eye with his recent video How Perfect Dark Surpassed Goldeneye On N64 - The Making Of The Nintendo 64 Classic. Yahel shares the story of the making of Perfect Dark - the Nintendo 64 game made by Rare as the follow up to its smash hit Goldeneye - as well as people who made it happen. See more from Yahel Velazquez: YouTube: /WrestlingWithGaming Twitter: @WrestlesGaming Patreon: /WrestlingWithGaming Podcast: Obscurity Now! Obscurity Now! YouTube: /ReptilianMedia Video Game History Foundation Podcast Twitter: @gamehistoryhour Email: podcast@gamehistory.org Twitter: @GameHistoryOrg Website: gamehistory.org Support us on Patreon: /gamehistoryorg

Author and oral historian Brian VanHooker recently caught our attention with his very appropriately titled article, An Oral History of ‘The Simpsons: Road Rage’. Briefly putting aside his obsession with Ninja Turtles, Brian talks to us about The Simpsons: Road Rage, which many consider the first breakthrough game from the franchise since the Konami Arcade debut, as well as the people who made it. See more from Brian VanHooker: Twitter: @bvanhooker Website: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/author/brian-vanhooker Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/turtletrackspodcast Comic: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/barnum-elwood/barnum-and-elwood-issues-1-and-2/description Video Game History Foundation Podcast Twitter: @gamehistoryhour Email: podcast@gamehistory.org Twitter: @GameHistoryOrg Website: gamehistory.org Support us on Patreon: /gamehistoryorg

Video game historian and documentarian Kevin Bunch is here to talk about the Fairchild Channel F: the greatest game console ever made by Fairchild. Creator of the Atari Archive series of gaming documentaries about the Atari 2600’s library, Kevin tells us the story of this “alternate universe Atari” console in his latest video The Fairchild Channel F Story - Archive Annex Episode 3. The channel F was the first ever programmable game console for the home; the first game system that you could program a game for and then sell said game on a cartridge, as opposed to everything already built into one unit. Mentioned in the show: https://archive.org/details/olney-fairchild-documents/ See more from Kevin Bunch: Twitter: @ubersaurus YouTube: /atariarchive Website: atariarchive.org Patreon: /atariarchive Video Game History Foundation Podcast Twitter: @gamehistoryhour Email: podcast@gamehistory.org Twitter: @GameHistoryOrg Website: gamehistory.org Support us on Patreon: /gamehistoryorg