Ten Pence Arcade Podcast V2.0

Strap on your driving gloves, grab street cash and get it to the bank, quick! Steer clear of bunk rubbers and weird steamrollers ( ? ) Use a deadly saw horse to get you out of trouble! Usual nonsense or actually a good description of the game? Listen to this podcast and YOU can decide!

Gyruss – Journey to Blackburn, via the M40 and M6, with a diversion through Neptune. Fly with us through the solar system to try and get home in time for dinner (we’re having spaghetti hoops!)

Oh lord – has Doc Mac picked a game for us! Horny Eddie as we call it, but actually, your character is a bit of an action hero. But did we like it?, did the listeners like it? Listen in and find out. The wintery holiday festivity things have been and gone and we are now recovering from Xmas pud and brussell sprout poisoning. So, pull up a comfortable podcast player and listen to us ramble about arcade games n stuff. xxx

We’ve been on an arcade road & air trip to Chicago! Biscuits & Gravy, Galloping Ghost, Walmart, Underground Retrocade, Chik Fil A, Pixel Blast, Burritos, Logan Arcade etc. Listen in to hear us tell of some of the best arcades on the planet in the heart of arcade land.

Oh! We think we’ve found a hidden, lost, forgotten about diamond in the dark with this show’s game! No idea what the name means but, it’s a great little game. SEND SHAUN ALL YOUR OLD SCART BLOCKS!!!

Truxton 2 or DK Remix Spooky Edition? We’ve been playing both! Some more than others… Truxton 2 – Tedious or amazing? We decide! We argue! We laugh! We cry! It changed our lives (or not)

On this episode we discuss ‘are Twinkies any good’, how many CRT monitors Shaun actually needs and is Lewis Waddington actually Shaun’s alter ego (he’s not) Another cab finds it’s way in to Victor’s arcade as one bids farewell (or actually forcibly removed from the premises)

Cute, but dead ‘ard – that’s us! Er, no, that’s this show’s featured game Plus Alpha from Jaleco. Shaun finds out that that metal cupboard in the kitchen with a hole in it is actually an oven. He can now have hot pies now.

Dix Francs Arcade Presente Le Menage A Trois avec Victor, Shaun & Alex Bagman ou ‘Le Bagnard’ par Valadon Automatique. Un jeu en Francais sur les sacs d’argent et les chariots de train agacants. Aussi, des biscuits.

Recorded live over the Arcade Club / UKVAC partaaaaay weekend. Actually, while looking VERY suspicious in a parked car…

Flax? Fraks? Cacks? Trax? Snacks? (oh, yes please – got any Hob Nobs?) NO! – KLAX! It’s the nineties and a time for Klax, of course! Go back in time and order yourself a t shirt, man! This podcast was recorded LIVE at the Centre For Computing History in Cambridge BIG NEWS IN THE HOLLEY CAMP! Victor gets Rampage Disrememberance.

The game? You play a little kid on a trike, peddaling around a bendy maze collecting flowers to give to a little friend on a bonus screen. Knock baddies off the road with the bendy barriers in the maze. The name of it – oh, SPATTER, obviously. Huh? Too cute for words and obviously made by the creators of Flicky (see podcast 54) “There’s no walls in the sky” – True dat, mother.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it on fire? Or is it just a drab Galaxian clone? We will get to the bottom of this!

Aaaarrgh – iiiie – aaaawaargh! Yeah, right. YOU try spelling that noise Tarzan makes at the start of Jungle Hunt. I hope a monkey tosses you off your rope! NERG! Bonehead Steve’s mini meet up! London Video Gaming Market! Other Stuff – may feature a side scrolling man.

Bobbles and Bubbles – In a fantasy land where your partners have been kidnapped by a drunken geezer (superdrunkdave) and you’ve been turned into a cute dragon. Phew. What a day! Get bubblin’ and eat tons of fruit and junk food. My favourite things. When is someone going to make the fighting game – ‘Flutes Of Fear’ ???

Uh oh. No one is owning up to picking the less than great game this podcast. LET’S HAVE A WITCH HUNT! BURN THE WITCH! Or, maybe try and find some positives in it? Who knows? It may be the best game in the world (it’s not)

We reminisce the Revival retro Event while banging on about arcade games and biscuits. Ah, the love of twiddling a biscuit’s joystick and dunking an arcade cabinet in a mug of tea… Beware of stuff falling out of Shaun’s head… Victor makes wrong words during a quiz. Sounds legit?

This is a lo-fi recorded podcast from a hotel room in Walsall, UK. We were both enjoying Revival Retro event and this was after the first day’s play. We get joined by ‘housekeeping’ in the form of Nintendo Arcade Alex Crowley, who gives a bit of an insight into our featured game – ALANS.

Shaun & Victor put on their best ‘Crimson Scorcher’ lipstick and a Marilyn Monroe beauty spot to play a classic game, with a fun speedup hack – seen on many updated arcade machines running Pac-Man’s lady friend. Learn cornering and play along with us in a sea of daftness with tiny islands of wisdom.

Oooo – arrr! Like an unripe avocado, a bag of Kryptonite nails or lego that imbeds into your foot – Ghouls and bleedin’ Ghosts. Impossible? NO! Some weirdos can actually complete it – TWICE! Listen in as our intrepid podcasters whine about how hard the dang thing is. Up yours Capcom!

Shaun & Victor agree on arcade games being awesome but come to actual blows on this show’s featured game. Oh dear. Bruises before bedtime. Hopefully the guesty mc guest face co host Vipp can get in the middle and stop them hitting each other with their fetching handbags. Shaun’s has bullets embroidered into it and Victor’s has a ‘Harrumph!’ sticker on it.

Uh oh. There’s an 800lb Gorilla in the room – and he’s your dad! That dastardly Mario (I thought he was the good guy?) has monkey napped him and imprisoned him in a cage. Get those keys and free him! Watch out for the return of the HATE BEAKS!!!! SQUARRRRRRK!

Alan Baba and 40 Thieving Gets – hammer those muthafu**ers! It’s all Trollnads’ fault!!! Eugene Jarvis at Arcade Club!

We’re back – AGAIN! One is back from New York (heavily laden with Cheez Its) and the other from Play Expo Blackpool (heavily laden with a poorly voice).

Weeeeeee’re back! With a bumper podcast reviewing not one, not two, but, oh – actually 2 games. One in a top secret hotel and the other billions of light years away in a massive garden. Probably. We’ve both been super busy and missed all our lovely listeners, but rest assured 2018 will be arcadtabulous. Yes, I went there. AND I MEANT IT. Now go and play Robert Smith and the Deadly Chicken Dinner. We also find out that Shaun is possessed by a Marmot or Marmite?

A lickle tiny giftington to the lovely listeners to tide them over the xmas holiday period. Grab a Turkey sandwich and yer headphones and get stuck into two buffoons yapping about the top 50 arcade games as voted for by YOU, yes – YOU DECIDED! Featuring :- Dave Punisher Pete Punisher Death Equals Adder Them ‘fork things’ Crashing a red car and a blonde woman falls out

Blah, blah, guff about something that may have happened in the podcast recording or just some nonsense that falls out of my head. What exactly is a biscuit shark, anyway? Warning! – Shaun’s opinion may be wrong. Or right. YOU decide.

BOING, BOING, BOING! Flop eared marsupial ‘fun’ at the Ten Pence towers this time. Everyone loves Kangaroo, right?

FURTHER INTO UNKNOWN WORLD! Victor and Shaun are piloting time this time. If only they could turn back time? They keep on podcasting time after time. Oh lord. All the ‘time’ lyrics. Remember kids, DON’T RISK IT FOR A BISCUIT!

We play a bit of a ‘ropey’ game – d’ya get it? See what we did there. Oh, never mind… Dig Dug with a 6 letter hi score? Nonsense, sir! Level 5 – IT’S FULL OF BANANAS! RETURN OF THE HATEBEAK INTRODUCING LOVEBEAK

Wahoo! A busy, busty 3 weeks has gone by. The Sky Skipper event / Arcade Club party went well, Play Expo was on, Victor and Shaun have been busy as fuel injected bees with a heavy schedule and to top that we had some lovely Americans over! The past weeks have been chock full of arcade fun. “Doesn’t like rum n raisin” ? “Likes slippers” ? “Pointless inertia guff” ?

One of us is well versed in Thundercade. A shmup. A very good shmup. The best shmup. I don’t know of a better shmup, do you? I mean, really. It’s a shmup. God save the shmup. The other has been away. A long way away. Probably a lot of miles. To the best place. Have you seen the donuts over there? I like donuts. Who doesn’t? God save the donuts. What were we doing again?

No Victor this week, so Shaun is joined by The Taggsta and Daz Domination from ‘Stralia, and we have returned to the Fantasy Zone to shoot mammoths in the face. No sign of Opa Opa this time, just a guy with a gun on a mission to destroy. Fly like a really fast bird, or maybe a quick insect, all over the screen. Don’t run into owt or you may die. Peace.

Oh my lord – this one is a big ‘un. Literally, an 800lb gorilla in the room! Barrels, fireballs, ladders, girders, apes! What more could one want from a single arcade game from 1981? We were also present at the Cambridge History of Computing Arcade Experience and it was AWESOME. Listen in to find out how we got on with both of the above… and remember… JAMS HAVE TO BE APPLIED FRUGALLY!

Singing, dancing, impressions, the medium of higher thinking – you name it, we don’t cover any of it in this podcast. Cool arcade stuff, what we’ve been playing and a review of some bobbins game IS what we do this time. Oh yes. We ask ourselves is “Mega Twins” just a cheesey euphamism for a lady’s bosoms? and remember… ALL CUSTARDS ARE GOOD CUSTARDS

Well, well – we’re back after a summer holiday (of sorts) Has the evil Dr Micro poisoned the test tubes with cranberry juice and have the annoyed looking tomatoes cheered up yet? Flop, float and jump your way thru this simple platformer to absolute boredom! Yay. Hmmm.

Welcome to the Fantasy Zone – get ready! For this show we delve into the multi-coloured eye-bleed world of Opa-Opa (so good they named him twice). This game plays a tad like Defender – but is it better? No. In fact, is it better than anything at all? Join us and find out.

I could use this bumf at the start to subliminally recruit my evil horde of biscuit thieves, seeing as no one cares about what I write here. STEAL LOADS OF HOBNOBS AND SEND THEM TO VICTOR AND SHAUN. But don’t tell anyone we told you to do so. Oh and play some arcade games, there’s a good chap / chapess.

Blah Blah Does anyone even read this? Biscuits. Two podcasters not wearing underpants talking about playing games standing up in front of wooden boxes with TVs inside them. Buttons. Joystick. Thrills! I may need help… ...

At last! Another stone cold classic that has taken ages to get to – but are the listeners united in our thoughts or are the ‘features’ just too much to take? LAIR OF THE HATEBEAKS!!! SKRAAAWR! New biscuit song!

Meoww! Cat paws, fish and magical balls are all in the podcast this time around! Shaun and Victor have been away for the weekend at the Revival Retro Event in Walsall, somewhere in the middle of the UK. Bonus SkyCurser Pre Production review after it’s UK debut at The Revival retro Event.

This is a slightly different podcast recording – we did it together at chez Victor, had a walkround of the garage arcade and did the rest of it in a Swedish airport! Live walkround (well, we were alive) at Hey Stockholm as well as most of the usual stuff. Many thanks to Peter Koskimaki for making the Stockholm trip happen.

Busty, busty, busty – we’ve all been busty. Hold on – BUSY. We’ve been BUSY playing arcade games and writing about them, then yapping about them. Oh joy! This time around we’ve been in the garden and been blasting pesky centipedes with our disembodied head, while watching out for 8 legged mother flubbers. Diagonal poopers! Spin that trackball and listen to the ten pence arcade.

We’ve been tasked with rescuing our tiny Kiwi friends from an evil walrus!No, we’ve not been hallucinating – we’ve been playing The New Zealand Story from those crazy dudes at Taito. Flying about on balloons and magical geese while lobbing bombs at mean teddy bears and er, spiky things. Lots of spiky things. Too many spiky things perhaps. More world records for our friends Charlie Far (David) and Pete Hahn (former GG gamer of the year)

Take one hero out of a posse of 4 and rescue the prisoners! This hero is a bit stabby & shooty though! It’s all good clean pixelly arty fun with over the top action and some MASSIVE GUNS, and, er slugs? We’ve had a month ‘off’ of arcades* and we’re raring to get back into it! All the usual stuff, plus more usual stuff. We like stuff, here. Enjoy! – Oh, and get to the outhouse and have a BEEF DROP!

We visit Timewarp Arcade, Bridgwater Somerset in March 2017.

‘Cor blimey guv’nor – it’s old Nick ‘imself chuckin’ dahn lightning bolts and thems gargoyleys lobbing unearthly stuff at’cha! Listen to the podcast to see what the above actually means! A hellish game to review – do the Ten Pencers get posessed? Will they join a black cult and start listening to dark music (one already does) But it’s good old fashioned arcade fun at the end of the day – don’t worry! Some poor unfortunate from ‘Down Under’ gets an 1800s battering from the Victorian insulters.

Solomon’s Flea?, Solomon’s Pea?, Solomon’s Brie? No! SOLOMON’S KEY! Where is it? Why does he keep losing it? Why doesn’t he have it on a chain around his neck – the silly wizard! Shaun talks to Craig Turner about the upcoming Revival event.

Mazes! Apes! Pigs! Er, Paint Rollers? We look at an old ‘paint ’em up’ and discuss all things arcade, including one of us recently going to the EAG corporate show. Someone gets an insult Victorian stylee and a loved listener even gets a bit of a song by Brucie himself…

Oh, it’s a merry jumbo holiday season podcast. Some could even call it a bumper edition! We have an old mate on for some arcade chat and to tell us about his usual awesome pickups. Also an interview with our man in Austria -Hannes Slanec - talking about the arcade warehouse raid he did! Strap in! – It’s a long one! 😀