Jeremy Parish
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Call for podcast guests: March 2021
🕑 Added 2021-02-28 16:41:02 +0000 UTCNow that the Famiconversations podcast is a real thing that exists, I've begun planning the second episode—and I thought it might be interesting to bring some of the actual video game history experts who follow my video projects into the mix.
For episode 2, I'd like to talk about the U.S. side of video games leading up to the Famicom/SG-1000 launch. That's something I don't touch on very often in videos and don't intend to explore in any real depth, but it nevertheless merits discussion. If you have a lot to say about the Atari 2600/Intellivision/ColecoVision (or even the Odyssey2!), give me a shout. I'd love to get you on the show sometime in the next few weeks to share your wisdom about those platforms and how they fed (indirectly or, in the case of the Atari 2800, directly) into the Japanese console scene that took up the baton from them.
Thanks, and I hope you've enjoyed the first episode!
Comments
Kevin Bunch
I have an big soft spot for the Big Silver Beast, and I think any discussion of 1983 needs to both include it and the ill-fated Odyssey3 (and Odyssey4) for sure
Earl Gray III
If you’re looking for someone to provide perspective on the Odyssey 2, I’d be glad to. Growing up it was my family’s system until I got an SNES, and the relative obscurity of it is what catapulted me into both a love of gaming history and collecting. I had a chance to hear Ed Averett speak at CGE years ago and it’s really astounding how much of the system is the result of one person tirelessly creating games for a few years.
Thomas Young
I've got a lot of lived experience playing the 2600 before the NES, not so much the intellivision nor the colecovision. I'm also not a scholar, but i do consume a lot of history content and i have a background in software development, and i do have a fascination with old systems and how cludgey the coding has to get, especially for the atari.
