Podcasts about old school gaming

Not everything could be a hit... Even though the 1980s gave us some of the best video games of all time, there were others that just slipped by the wayside--and some of them deserve better than that. Today we will look back at ten forgotten video games covering the big three systems: The Atari 2600, The NES, and the Sega Master System. Since there are so many games that didn't even make a dent, we'll look at ones that are relatively well-known but didn't necessarily achieve breakout status. Some of these games include a creation by George Lucas, the video game version of a very notable product spokesperson, and Sega's answer to Mario. And we'll even throw in a few duds just for good measure... Tron Movie Review: Patreon.com/80s    

Dan and Paul chat with Matt Finch, the ENNIE-award winning designer of the Swords & Wizardry game, and who also created OSRIC, and the Quick Primer for Old School Gaming. Plus he made our favorite Tome of Adventure Design, as seen in use in the Wandering DMs Dungeon Design Dashes. Next up on Kickstarter is Matt's Tome of Wordbuilding Design. Is this just in time for all our fantasy worldbuilding needs? The Tome of World Building is written by ENNIE-award winning author Matt Finch, author of the critically-acclaimed Tome of Adventure Design. Using the Tome of World Building, you can create fantasy worlds quickly and fill them out with a wealth of detail from the random-generation tables in this book. This Kickstarter offers two high quality hardcover books to create a trilogy of creative power with the Tome of Adventure Design. The first is the Tome of World Building, allowing you to create maps, cultures, countries, wilderness regions, and all the history and backstabbing politics of a fantasy world. The second is the Nomicon, with tables to invent fantasy names for everything you'll generate using the Tome of World Building. Back Matt Finch's Tome of Worldbuilding on Kickstarter here

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Paul and Dan get to bring back OSR guru Matt Finch to talk about his new Swords & Wizardry: Expansions, Monsters, and More!, currently on Kickstarter. What new things has Matt cooked up? And what updates has he finally made to the revered Quick Primer for Old School Gaming? Swords & Wizardry is the longest-standing retro-clone of Original D&D, first published in 2008, and now there's a whole set of expansions to make your game wilder, weirder, and more flexible! The Book of Options gives you 11 new optional character classes, new spells, new magic items, and much more. Now you can play a wily demon-hunter, a bard, a troubadour, an illusionist, and many others. Gnomes and Stygians are now playable ancestries in Swords & Wizardry for the first time in a 16 years! Fiends and Foes offers more than 300 monsters (and doesn't repeat the ones from the Complete Revised Rulebook). Encounter the bizarre plant-animal Ultharians on their plane-shifting flamingoes, the giant, foul-mouthed fey cats known as Bulgrimalkins, along with many old favorites from Monstrosities such as the Artificers of Yothri. All are updated with morale numbers and revisions to the Swords & Wizardry Complete Revised rules. Back the Swords & Wizardry Expanded Kickstarter

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Matt Finch is one of the fundamental figures of the OSR style of TTRPG, his works include OSRIC, Swords & Wizardry, the magnificent Tome of Adventure Design, and the super influential Quick Primer for Old School Gaming (among many other things). He is also the founder of Mythmere Games and is constantly making more and more excellent gaming material! It's hard for me to put into words what Mark's work means to me. I don't know if my work would ever be the same without his. The Quick Primer for Old School Gaming, even though meant to help you play games inspired by the first editions of D&D, the document defined a style of play that is not really system dependent, and thus serves as a Game Design framework to design Old-School style games, without necessarily having to use old D&D-like systems. Well, at least that's how I've been using it! But that is just one of the many incredible things he made and that I adore, and in this chat we got to talk a little bit about all of them. We chatted about what the OSR is for us, why we like it so much, how it is based on open-ended situations and improvisation, future projects, greek mythology, adventure design, and so many other things. It was a great chat and even though we talked about so many weirdly wonderful things in a little over 1 hour and a half, when we were finished I felt I could have asked so many more questions and get som many more wisdom from Matt that now I want a "Matt Finch Returns" episode someday. So listen up and get weird with us! Check out Matt's Links! Mythmere Games: https://www.mythmeregames.com/ Matt's YouTube Channel: https://www.mythmeregames.com/ Thank you for listening to Weird Games & Weirder People! Please subscribe to the show to keep up with new episodes!  If you would like to support the show, leave a reviewand/or head to our ko-fi page and pay us a coffee! It will help keep the podcast going! It would really help!  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/wgnwp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ You can also support me buy buying one of my games! Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers!   Get your copy right here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠bit.ly/kosmosaurs⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Join our Discord Server: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/BG8AZYVy (this link is only valid for 7 days from the day the episode is released - always look for a new link in the newest episode). Stuff mentioned in the Episode: Quick Primer for Old-School Gaming: https://friendorfoe.com/d/Old%20School%20Primer.pdf OSRIC: https://osricrpg.com/ Navajo Nation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_Nation Greek Mythology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology Jack Vance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Vance Gary Gygax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gygax Dave Arneson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Arneson Neil Gaiman: https://www.neilgaiman.com/ Glen Cook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Cook Bernard Cornwell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock Michael Moorcock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock Rifts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifts_(role-playing_game) Traveller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveller_(role-playing_game) Call of Cthulhu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Cthulhu_(role-playing_game)

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On this episode, Hunter and Ryan kick it off by unboxing the Fear Bundle and previewing the Fallen Bundle from Iko at The Lost Bay. Then we read and review the Shadowdark RPG from Arcane Library, the game that bills itself as "Old-School Gaming, Modernized" and "Classic adventure gaming for 5E and old-school players alike," and discuss whether Shadowdark succeeds at these claims.

Dan and James get together and are scheduled to talk to Steve Sullivan, fantasy author, artist and publisher who worked for TSR in the early days. GROGTALK is available as a podcast at www.grogcon.com/podcast/ Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify and Google Play or connect to our feed – https://www.grogcon.com/feed/podcast. GROGTALK is on YouTube and on Twitter […]

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Dan and James get together and end up doing mad libs and wondering was a Succubus would do on her spring break Then they pretend it is 1983 and discuss how to make encounters better with unarmed combat. Make sure you fill out your goldenrod sheets before tuning in. GROGTALK is available as a podcast […]

On our first episode back from break, we discussed the origins and characteristics of the OSR TTRPG play style, broke down common misconceptions, and shared their game recommendations! Monkey's Paw Games (Noora's online store) - https://monkeyspawgames.com/ Learn more by reading "Principia Apocrypha: Principles of Old School RPGs, or, A New OSR Primer" by Ben Milton, Steven Lumpkin, and David Perry - https://lithyscaphe.blogspot.com/p/principia-apocrypha.html //SUPPORT Help us produce new and exclusive content! Join us on Patreon for exclusive audio and series! https://www.patreon.com/aznsrepresent //SPONSOR Head to diceenvy.com/aznsrepresent and use code AZNSREPRESENT to get 10% off! //FOLLOW Website | aznsrepresent.com Twitter | @aznsrepresent Twitch | @aznsrep Follow Daniel @danielhkwan and Noora @rosesonhergrave on Twitter! //CONTACT If you have questions about this episode's themes, suggestions, or anything else related to Asians Represent, get in touch with us at aznsrepresent.com

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Dan and James get together and end up doing mad libs and wondering was a Succubus would do on her spring break. GROGTALK is available as a podcast at www.grogcon.com/podcast/ Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify and Google Play or connect to our feed – https://www.grogcon.com/feed/podcast. GROGTALK is on YouTube and on Twitter (@GROGTALK)!!! Join the Grog […]

Dan and James get together and end up doing mad libs and wondering was a Succubus would do on her spring break. GROGTALK is available as a podcast at www.grogcon.com/podcast/ Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify and Google Play or connect to our feed – https://www.grogcon.com/feed/podcast. GROGTALK is on YouTube and on Twitter (@GROGTALK)!!! Join the Grog […]

Here are the items that couldn’t fit in the regular episode. GROGTALK posts episodes every week and is available at www.grogcon.com/podcast/ Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify and Google Play or connect to our feed – https://www.grogcon.com/feed/podcast. GROGTALK is on YouTube and on Twitter (@GROGTALK)!!! Join the Grog Empire on Discord – https://discord.gg/AfXtmjnAlso get Grogtalk swag at […]

Dan and James speak to Zack from Zenopus Archives about Holmes Basic and whatever else they want to talk about. GROGTALK is available as a podcast at www.grogcon.com/podcast/ Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify and Google Play or connect to our feed – https://www.grogcon.com/feed/podcast. GROGTALK is on YouTube and on Twitter (@GROGTALK)!!! Join the Grog Empire onRead More

Here are the items that couldn’t fit in the regular episode. GROGTALK posts episodes every week and is available at www.grogcon.com/podcast/ Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify and Google Play or connect to our feed – https://www.grogcon.com/feed/podcast. GROGTALK is on YouTube and on Twitter (@GROGTALK)!!! Join the Grog Empire on Discord – https://discord.gg/AfXtmjnAlso get Grogtalk swag atRead More

Chris from "Retro Hangover" & Bill from "Gaming & Collecting" walk us through gaming history. Retrohangover: https://linktr.ee/retrohangover Gaming and Collecting : https://linktr.ee/Thebarberwhogames

Dan and James give the greatest gift of all to those in the Grog Empire….themselves….. They celebrate the holiday season by showing what really should have happen on Christmas Eve starting Yukon Cornelius and Hermy the Elf as they try to save Rudolph and his family. GROGTALK is available as a podcast at www.grogcon.com/podcast/ SubscribeRead More

Here are the items that couldn’t fit in the regular episode. GROGTALK posts episodes every week and is available at www.grogcon.com/podcast/ Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify and Google Play or connect to our feed – https://www.grogcon.com/feed/podcast. GROGTALK is on YouTube and on Twitter (@GROGTALK)!!! Join the Grog Empire on Discord – https://discord.gg/AfXtmjnAlso get Grogtalk swag atRead More

Here are the items that couldn’t fit in the regular episode. GROGTALK posts episodes every week and is available at www.grogcon.com/podcast/ Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify and Google Play or connect to our feed – https://www.grogcon.com/feed/podcast. GROGTALK is on YouTube and on Twitter (@GROGTALK)!!! Join the Grog Empire on Discord – https://discord.gg/AfXtmjnAlso get Grogtalk swag atRead More

Dan and James give thanks by doing what they do best…..talk about old games for a very long time. They bring back when animals attack, but this time it is against a Cleric gathering the holiday feast. GROGTALK is available as a podcast at www.grogcon.com/podcast/ Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify and Google Play or connect toRead More

Dan and James discuss the DeathMaster NPC class by Len Lakofka for their Feast Day of Orcus Special. GROGTALK is available as a podcast at www.grogcon.com/podcast/ Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify and Google Play or connect to our feed – https://www.grogcon.com/feed/podcast. GROGTALK is on YouTube and on Twitter (@GROGTALK)!!!Join the Grog Empire on Discord – https://discord.gg/AfXtmjnRead More

GROGTALK posts episodes every week and is available at www.grogcon.com/podcast/Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify and Google Play or connect to our feed – https://www.grogcon.com/feed/podcast.GROGTALK is on YouTube and on Twitter (@GROGTALK)!!!Join the Grog Empire on Discord – https://discord.gg/AfXtmjnAlso get Grogtalk swag at our store…Grogtalk Merch Click Here!Support GROGTALK by becoming a Patron! – https://www.patreon.com/grogtalk Get exclusiveRead More

Dan and James go over Grogcon 22 including their experience running Holmes Basic. GROGTALK is available as a podcast at www.grogcon.com/podcast/ Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify and Google Play or connect to our feed – https://www.grogcon.com/feed/podcast. GROGTALK is on YouTube and on Twitter (@GROGTALK)!!! Join the Grog Empire on Discord – https://discord.gg/AfXtmjn Grogtalk now has merchandise!Read More

In spite of a massive hurricane that caused major destruction and power outages….Grogcon 22 still went on! During Grogcon 22, Lew Pulsipher was our special guest and he provided a seminar on Old School versus New School gaming live! GROGTALK is available as a podcast at www.grogcon.com/podcast/ Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify and Google Play orRead More

Join Rob and James as they get ready for Grogcon 22 and discuss the upcoming issue of Flipping and Turning 9, which is set to release at the same time! Links – Grogcon 22 www.grogcon.com GROGTALK posts episodes every week and is available at www.grogcon.com/podcast/ Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify and Google Play or connect toRead More

Here are the items that couldn’t fit in the regular episode. GROGTALK posts episodes every week and is available at www.grogcon.com/podcast/ Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify and Google Play or connect to our feed – https://www.grogcon.com/feed/podcast. GROGTALK is on YouTube and on Twitter (@GROGTALK)!!! Join the Grog Empire on Discord – https://discord.gg/AfXtmjnAlso get Grogtalk swag atRead More

After getting So Ya Wanna Be a Rock n Roll Star as a gift, James created an adventure for Grogcon 22 and Flipping and Turning 9. Rob (editor of Flipping and Turning) found the creator of the game and called him! James was thrilled to talk to the author about this and his other twoRead More

Join Dan and James as talk with Laurel and John, authors of the classic Role Aids supplement, Undead as well as other Mayfair products. Of course they do their normal nonsense. The audio was unfortunately not as great as we would have liked (through no fault of our guests, this error was on our side).Read More

Here are the items that couldn’t fit in the regular episode. GROGTALK posts episodes every week and is available at www.grogcon.com/podcast/ Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify and Google Play or connect to our feed – https://www.grogcon.com/feed/podcast. GROGTALK is on YouTube and on Twitter (@GROGTALK)!!! Join the Grog Empire on Discord – https://discord.gg/AfXtmjnAlso get Grogtalk swag atRead More

Join Dan and James as they return to play the intrepid adventurers…Ferek and Denkainen! We remodeled the Grogtalk studios and that resulted in some audio issues so apologies. Links – Grogcon 22 www.grogcon.com GROGTALK posts episodes every week and is available at www.grogcon.com/podcast/ Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify and Google Play or connect to our feedRead More

Join Dan and James as they stream live from the reborn Sci-Fi City (aka FLGS) where that chat with Owner Lloyd and do some of the normal bits before hosting the 5th Annual Central Florida Gary Gygax Summer Tournament! Thanks again to Lloyd and the entire crew from FLGS – Orlando. Please stop by andRead More

Here are the items that couldn’t fit in the regular episode. GROGTALK posts episodes every week and is available at www.grogcon.com/podcast/ Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify and Google Play or connect to our feed – https://www.grogcon.com/feed/podcast. GROGTALK is on YouTube and on Twitter (@GROGTALK)!!! Join the Grog Empire on Discord – https://discord.gg/AfXtmjnAlso get Grogtalk swag atRead More

Join Dan and James as they have a conversation with a legend of our hobby, Mike Carr! Mike was a co-author of Don’t Give Up The Ship!, with Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. He worked on numerous TSR products and has continued to be part of the tabletop community by producing articles, products, and runningRead More

Here are the items that couldn’t fit in the regular episode. GROGTALK posts episodes every week and is available at www.grogcon.com/podcast/ Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify and Google Play or connect to our feed – https://www.grogcon.com/feed/podcast. GROGTALK is on YouTube and on Twitter (@GROGTALK)!!!Join the Grog Empire on Discord – https://discord.gg/AfXtmjn Support GROGTALK by becoming aRead More

Here are the items that couldn’t fit in the regular episode. GROGTALK posts episodes every week and is available at www.grogcon.com/podcast/ Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify and Google Play or connect to our feed – https://www.grogcon.com/feed/podcast. GROGTALK is on YouTube and on Twitter (@GROGTALK)!!!Join the Grog Empire on Discord – https://discord.gg/AfXtmjn Support GROGTALK by becoming aRead More

Join Dan and James for fun and excitement and they discuss things that interest them. You will learn the fate of Stormy Daniels and Clyde Avanatti. Is an ordinary skunk more deadly than a 1st level magic user? Why so many magic swords and weapons are intelligent? and much much more! GROGTALK posts episodes everyRead More

Join Dan and James as they discuss how adventures could travel inter and intra planerly (is that a word???) They also have a 1st Magic User fight off a deadly creature….a normal squirrel. See who wins in this edition of Fight Familiar! GROGTALK posts episodes every week and is available at www.grogcon.com/podcast/ Subscribe via iTunes,Read More

Here are the items that couldn’t fit in the regular episode. GROGTALK posts episodes every week and is available at www.grogcon.com/podcast/ Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify and Google Play or connect to our feed – https://www.grogcon.com/feed/podcast. GROGTALK is on YouTube and on Twitter (@GROGTALK)!!!Join the Grog Empire on Discord – https://discord.gg/AfXtmjn Support GROGTALK by becoming aRead More

Join Dan and James as they continue to explore the World of Greyhawk as Ferek and Denkainen. They also delve into random magic items in Artifact Road Show GROGTALK posts episodes every week and is available at www.grogcon.com/podcast/ Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify and Google Play or connect to our feed – https://www.grogcon.com/feed/podcast. GROGTALK is onRead More

Here are the items that couldn’t fit in the regular episode. Dan’s mic had an issue mid way through and so we have tried to correct for this. We apologize about any issues in quality that you experience. GROGTALK posts episodes every week and is available at www.grogcon.com/podcast/ Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify and Google PlayRead More

Join Dan and James as they celebrate 100 episodes of Grogtalk by….doing more of things you have come to love, only after repeated exposures to it….100 episodes seems like a good time to call it quits…. Could this be the end of the show? Find out! GROGTALK posts episodes every week and is available atRead More