Peter Willington is your guide on a short series of podcasts exploring video games and their relationship with music, spinning discs for audio nerds. This week, it’s the subject of soundtracks, the tracks that invoke memories and feelings for a game, or perhaps just the odd track that deserves to be heard again. The show …
Peter Willington is your guide on a short series of podcasts exploring video games and their relationship with music, spinning discs for audio nerds. This week, it’s the subject of covers, specifically chiptune interpretations of pop, rock and dance numbers. The show contains the following tracks, by the following artists. Leeni covering Lana Del Ray’s …
For the fourth and final episode of the third arc of Pause:Continue, Peter Willington speaks with freelance writer Mark Brown to talk about Broken Sword: Shadow Of The Templars. Mark talks about early memories of gaming on the Game Boy and PlayStation, and why the first Broken Sword is his favourite game from childhood. Mark …
In episode 3 of Peter Willington’s continued search for the games we most fondly remember growing up, he’s joined by Brendan Caldwell to talk demos. Remarking on just how important these trial versions of full games were to him in his youth, Brendan reveals how they inadvertently got him into writing, why he was initially …
Continuing the third Arc of Pause:Continue, Peter Willington is joined by Kris Lipscombe from TheSixthAxis to talk Sonic The Hedgehog on the Master System. They discuss the differences between 8-bit Sonic and his bigger brother on the Mega Drive, how the game was seen as a dumbed down port where in reality it was a …
Do the games we played as children affect us as we became older? Are we informed by the classics from our youth or are we held back by them? Do our tastes ever change that dramatically? Do we still love the games we played for hours on end before we grew up into the people …