Doors and Dungeons Gaming Podcast

Aliens? Aliens! Today is part one of a three part in-depth conversation on Japan’s fascination with Ancient Aliens theory and esotericism during the late 80s and early 90s. In the first part we explain the theory a little and why it became popular in Japan, then discuss Relics, Treasure of Usas, and Chrono Trigger!

Welcome to our 3rd seaso- err, floor! Here to kick off the 3rd floor are Rowan and Tom, in a special collaborative effort! Please check out the prequel episode that I did for Platforms and Pitfalls about 5 very famous Famicom Disk games! https://www.idris-effect.net/platformsandpitfalls/2020/9/15/platforms-and-pitfalls-episode-26

Are you prepared to be scared? Turn out the lights and turn on... Clock Tower. Support our passion on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/doorsanddungeons Follow on Twitter @doordunpodcast Join the Discord discussion https://discord.gg/jGaBMDZ

Dragon Slayer! Snatcher! Star Trader! So much more! There's so many games to talk about on the PC-8801 that it's hard to choose, but in this episode we randomly discuss some of the games which interested us. TechFury's Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/techfury90 Doors and Dungeons Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/doorsanddungeons Patreon https://www.patreon.com/doorsanddungeons Discord htt

It's a holiday gaming mystery! The $1800 NES Aging cartridge! What is it? Where did it come from? Is it real or fake? Find out more about this unique (or not?) cartridge! Orochi's Youtube video (spoilers) can be seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iRb6cfmBK0 Orochi's blog is here https://famicoms.net/ Rolemusic's albums https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic

Last weekend, Tom Lipschultz, SQPat, RadicalR, and I went on a shopping trip to Akihabara! Skip the Super Potato, we hit up the good ones! BEEP, Suruga-ya, and Traders 1 were our retro-PC gaming stores of choice.

This week we're (finally) getting to my favorite Japanese retro PC, the NEC PC-88! (Or "hachi-hachi" as Japan calls it.) Joining me is special guest, Techfury, who has worked extensively behind the scenes in retro PC communities. This week is all about hardware, and next week is THOSE PC-88 GAMES!!! Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/7S3Yuj2 And Patreon!: https://www.patreon.co

It's time to discuss The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (one of my favorite games of ALL TIME) as well as its new remake for Switch! Special thanks to John Szczepaniak for info that (I believe) came from his book The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0753FFL1P?ref_=series_rw_dp_labf Please contribute on Patreon if you really love this

I have a few thoughts I really want to share on Stardew Valley and how it has impacted me over the last couple of weeks. Since I waited so long to release an episode, I thought I'd throw this in as a bonus. Enjoy!

Welcome back! Today we're discussing two retro-inspired games for smartphones/devices, QuestLord (and QuestLord 2) and Game Dev Story. Our guest is Eric Kinkead, developer of QuestLord! Follow him on Twitter: @lavalevel and http://www.questlord.com/ Also, here's a link to my guest appearance on the more awesome Platforms and Pitfalls podcast! https://www.idris-effect.net/platformsa