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Monday Nov 21, 2016
Monday Nov 21, 2016
A funny old week in LGR towers as Mark goes all sub-aqua on Andy & Cev. The trio are joined by special guest Stevie Patmore of @TheMoncast & @YearOfSteam’s Little Sister Podcast. Together they offer an update on the games they’ve played recently as well as discussing particular gaming news stories of interest.
The Lapsed Gamer Radio Team created this episode. Edited by Mark Hamer, with music and audio selections by Mark Hamer.
Original LGR themes, FX and music cues created and composed by Cevin Moore.
For more details about this episode as well as our full contact information and where to go for additional LGR content - please visit our blog: http://lapsedgamer.com/
You can stream or directly download our episodes via our Podbean homepage: http://lapsedgamerradio.podbean.com/
If you’re enjoying our content, please subscribe to Lapsed Gamer Radio on iTunes. All reviews are most welcome and appreciated in order to allow our little community to thrive.
REMEMBER: Our ongoing game codes giveaway can be found here (enter your email or Twitter next to the game you would like): https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HTHbVerYJ2PF1gTcDMmBL24HeuIrN67896Ncn3R_1l4
As always, thank you for listening.
Monday Nov 07, 2016
Monday Nov 07, 2016
So Halloween has come and gone for another year and we tentatively peek from behind the cushion, having survived the scares and frights of ‘Silent Hill’ and ‘Resident Evil 4’, to welcome you all to another ‘lapsed news’ show. Join Mark, Stuart, Lee and LGR alumni Mark ‘Chazzee’ Reay as they offer an update on games they’ve played recently as well as discussing a selection of gaming news stories of interest.
For reference, here is the superb Mark Brown video mentioned on the show - Super Mario 3D World's 4 Step Level Design | Game Maker's Toolkit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBmIkEvEBtA
The Lapsed Gamer Radio Team created this episode. Edited by Mark Hamer, with music and audio selections by Mark Hamer.
Original LGR themes, FX and music cues created and composed by Cevin Moore.
For more details about this episode as well as our full contact information and where to go for additional LGR content - please visit our blog: http://lapsedgamer.com/
You can stream or directly download our episodes via our Podbean homepage: http://lapsedgamerradio.podbean.com/
If you’re enjoying our content, please subscribe to Lapsed Gamer Radio on iTunes. All reviews are most welcome and appreciated in order to allow our little community to thrive.
REMEMBER: Our ongoing game codes giveaway can be found here (enter your email or Twitter next to the game you would like): https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HTHbVerYJ2PF1gTcDMmBL24HeuIrN67896Ncn3R_1l4
As always, thank you for listening.
Monday Oct 31, 2016
Monday Oct 31, 2016
Welcome listeners to our second horror themed special for Halloween, hot on the hellish heels of our Ballyhoo! SILENT HILL movie double-bill. Today it’s another entry in our Playlist series where the team play-through an older game and give our thoughts and feelings about it. On this episode Andy, Mark, Adam & Stuart fend off zombies and rescue Ashley in the critically acclaimed RESIDENT EVIL 4.
RESIDENT EVIL 4, known in Japan as ‘Biohazard 4’, is a survival horror video game developed and published by Capcom. The sixth major installment in the ‘Resident Evil’ series, the game was originally released for the GameCube in North America and Japan in January 2005, and in Europe and Australia in March 2005. The story of RESIDENT EVIL 4 follows the U.S. government special agent Leon S. Kennedy, who is sent on a mission to rescue Ashley Graham, the U.S. President's daughter who has been kidnapped by a sinister cult. Traveling to a rural area of Spain, Leon fights hordes of violent villagers and reunites with the mysterious spy Ada Wong.
WARNING: In case you’ve not yet played this game please be aware that spoilers abound as we traverse the numerous settings within the game and talk about the story-line as it unfolds.
During our discussions we reference a couple of YouTube videos and links for these are as below:
What Capcom Didn't Tell You About Resident Evil 4 | Game Maker's Toolkit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFv6KAdQ5SE
Resident Evil 4 - Who is the Merchant?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAldeHbJkW0
The Lapsed Gamer Radio Team created this episode. Edited by Stuart Neill.
Original LGR themes, FX and music cues created and composed by Cevin Moore. Other music and audio sampled in this episode comes from the soundtrack of RESIDENT EVIL 4 as composed by Misao Senbongi & Shusaku Uchiyama.
For more details about this episode as well as our full contact information and where to go for additional LGR content - please visit our blog: http://lapsedgamer.com/
You can stream or directly download our episodes via our Podbean homepage: http://lapsedgamerradio.podbean.com/
If you’re enjoying our content, please subscribe to Lapsed Gamer Radio on iTunes. All reviews are most welcome and appreciated in order to allow our little community to thrive.
REMEMBER: Our ongoing game codes giveaway can be found here (enter your email or Twitter next to the game you would like): https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HTHbVerYJ2PF1gTcDMmBL24HeuIrN67896Ncn3R_1l4
As always, thank you for listening.
Friday Oct 28, 2016
Friday Oct 28, 2016
Welcome listeners to another instalment of Ballyhoo! Our spin-off series where we look at other forms of media connected to gaming properties. In celebration of Halloween we’re talking horror movies, so join Cev, Lee, Andy and community guest Nick @Laneit360 Jones as they visit the eerie town of Silent Hill as envisaged by filmmakers Christophe Gans (SILENT HILL, 2006) and Michael J. Bassett (SILENT HILL: REVELATION, 2012).
With the continuous shouts of “Sharon!” still ringing in our ears, what will we make of these silver screen adaptations of Konami’s famous survival horror franchise? Can we fathom the mystery of the desolate fog/hellish nightmare cycle which grips Silent Hill? We certainly couldn’t comprehend Sean Bean’s American accent. Precisely what is going on with Sharon/Heather/Alessa now all grown-up and the star? Hang on a second, isn’t that Jon Snow? All this and more as we review SILENT HILL and SILENT HILL: REVELATION. Happy Halloween!
WARNING: In case you’ve not yet had the (mis)pleasure of watching these movies for yourself, please beware spoilers abound as we revel in their oneiric haze and on occasion lose ourselves in the thick mist of their absence of logic.
Michael Mackenzie original review of SILENT HILL: http://film.thedigitalfix.com/content/id/63959/silent-hill.html
The Lapsed Gamer Radio Team created this episode. Edited by Cevin Moore, with music and audio selections by Cevin Moore.
Original LGR themes, FX and music cues created and composed by Cevin Moore. Other music and audio sampled in this episode comes from the soundtracks of "Silent Hill" and “Silent Hill: Revelation” by Akira Yamaoka and Jeff Danna.
For more details about this episode as well as our full contact information and where to go for additional LGR content - please visit our blog: http://lapsedgamerradio.blogspot.co.uk/
You can stream or directly download our episodes via our Podbean homepage: http://lapsedgamerradio.podbean.com/
If you’re enjoying our content, please subscribe to Lapsed Gamer Radio on iTunes. All reviews are most welcome and appreciated in order to allow our little community to thrive.
REMEMBER: Our ongoing game codes giveaway can be found here (enter your email or Twitter next to the game you would like): https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HTHbVerYJ2PF1gTcDMmBL24HeuIrN67896Ncn3R_1l4
As always, thank you for listening.
Wednesday Oct 26, 2016
Wednesday Oct 26, 2016
You might well be aware of this but Nintendo are releasing a new console in March 2017 with the snappy moniker "Switch". Some of the crew are giddy with anticipation whilst others have serious misgivings join them to find out who...
LGR still have a few free games to give away and the doc can be found at:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HTHbVerYJ2PF1gTcDMmBL24HeuIrN67896Ncn3R_1l4
The Lapsed Gamer Radio Team created this episode and it was edited by Mark Hamer
Original LGR themes, FX and music cues created and composed by Cevin Moore
For more details about this episode, including any links to relevant material, full music usage listings and notes, as well as our full contact information and where to go for additional LGR content visit lapsedgamer.com
You can stream or directly download our episodes via our Podbean homepage: http://lapsedgamerradio.podbean.com/ and if you’re enjoying our content, please subscribe to Lapsed Gamer Radio on iTunes. All reviews are most welcome and appreciated in order to allow our little community to thrive.
Sunday Oct 23, 2016
Sunday Oct 23, 2016
A slightly different Extrasode this week.Team LGR are going VR crazy and talking about all things PSVR. Hosted by Ali Cornwall, Cev and Stu Cullen, the trio chat about this new peripheral and its games. If you're looking at picking one up this holiday season, or it's on your child’s Santa list already, this episode might just help you with that "to buy or not to buy" decision.
LGR still have a few free games to give away and the doc can be found at:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HTHbVerYJ2PF1gTcDMmBL24HeuIrN67896Ncn3R_1l4
The Lapsed Gamer Radio Team created this episode and it was edited by Ali Cornwall.
Original LGR themes, FX and music cues created and composed by Cevin Moore.
For more details about this episode, including any links to relevant material, full music usage listings and notes, as well as our full contact information and where to go for additional LGR content visit lapsedgamer.com
You can stream or directly download our episodes via our PodBean homepage: http://lapsedgamerradio.podbean.com/ and if you're enjoying our content, please subscribe to Lapsed Gamer Radio on iTunes. All reviews are most welcome and appreciated in order to allow our little community to thrive. Thanks for listening.
Monday Oct 17, 2016
Monday Oct 17, 2016
The trees are taking on their resplendent Autumnal colours and the night are drawing in so get yourself cosy with a hot beverage and settle down with a new episode of LGR. On this week’s show Mark, Stuart and Ali contemplate what it would take for games to be taken more seriously as art, chat about some of the games they’ve been playing, and discuss some the news that caught their eye.
LGR still have a few free games to give away and the doc can be found at:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HTHbVerYJ2PF1gTcDMmBL24HeuIrN67896Ncn3R_1l4
The Lapsed Gamer Radio Team created this episode and it was edited by Mark Hamer
Original LGR themes, FX and music cues created and composed by Cevin Moore.
For more details about this episode, including any links to relevant material, full music usage listings and notes, as well as our full contact information and where to go for additional LGR content visit lapsedgamer.com
You can stream or directly download our episodes via our Podbean homepage: http://lapsedgamerradio.podbean.com/ and if you’re enjoying our content, please subscribe to Lapsed Gamer Radio on iTunes. All reviews are most welcome and appreciated in order to allow our little community to thrive.
As always, thank you for listening, and to our new listeners thank you for tuning in
Sunday Oct 09, 2016
Sunday Oct 09, 2016
Despite the world going crazy all around us Mark, Adam and the Stuarts have relocated to the LGR gaming bunker and maintain a relative sense of calm while discussing the games we’ve been playing. We also discuss some of the gaming news that came out this week and caught our eye. Any rumours of the LGR team relocating to the LGR International Space Station are completely unsubstantiated…
LGR still have a few free games to give away and the doc can be found at:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HTHbVerYJ2PF1gTcDMmBL24HeuIrN67896Ncn3R_1l4
The Lapsed Gamer Radio Team created this episode and it was edited by Mark Hamer
Original LGR themes, FX and music cues created and composed by Cevin Moore.
For more details about this episode, including any links to relevant material, full music usage listings and notes, as well as our full contact information and where to go for additional LGR content visit lapsedgamer.com
You can stream or directly download our episodes via our Podbean homepage: http://lapsedgamerradio.podbean.com/ and if you’re enjoying our content, please subscribe to Lapsed Gamer Radio on iTunes. All reviews are most welcome and appreciated in order to allow our little community to thrive.
As always, thank you for listening, and to our new listeners thank you for tuning in
Sunday Oct 02, 2016
Sunday Oct 02, 2016
After a fun weekend at EGX Mark, Ali, Cev and the Stuarts run through the games they played and discuss their highlights, their lowlights, their beverage consumption and their thoughts on VR as a platform and the very noticeable absence of some major players in the games industry.
All the games that we cover and all the rest of the games that were at EGX are listed at this link https://www.egx.net/egx/2016/show-floor
A lot of the games listed in the Rezzed and Leftfield collection have links to the respective game’s websites and many of them have demo versions of the games available, so even if you couldn’t make it to EGX you can still have a go at the games
As always LGR still have a few free games to give away and the doc can be found at:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HTHbVerYJ2PF1gTcDMmBL24HeuIrN67896Ncn3R_1l4
The Lapsed Gamer Radio Team created this episode and it was edited by Cevin Moore.
Original LGR themes, FX and music cues created and composed by Cevin Moore.
For more details about this episode, including any links to relevant material, full music usage listings and notes, as well as our full contact information and where to go for additional LGR content visit lapsedgamer.com
You can stream or directly download our episodes via our Podbean homepage: http://lapsedgamerradio.podbean.com/ and if you’re enjoying our content, please subscribe to Lapsed Gamer Radio on iTunes. All reviews are most welcome and appreciated in order to allow our little community to thrive.
Sunday Sep 25, 2016
Sunday Sep 25, 2016
Welcome back to another LGR PlayList episode. Today it’s all about the gold rings as we race through every level of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive classics SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 1 + 2, before briefly touching upon SONIC 3 + KNUCKLES along with the everlasting legacy of Sega’s spikey blue blur mascot. For this 16-bit, nostalgia infused show, our resident Sonic fanboy Adam Ducker is joined by the ageing and somewhat slower speedsters Stuart Neill and Lee Howard.
WARNING: The discussion on this episode covers the entirety of all three games and includes key details on the levels and boss fights of each zone. So beware of spoilers when listening.
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG was released in 1991 and remains one of the best selling games ever, helped in part by it being bundled with purchases of the Genesis/Mega Drive console. This success elevated the creators Yuji Naka and Naoto OhshimaIt to Sega royalty and they changed the name of their development team to ‘Sonic Team’ in recognition of this breakthrough title.
Useful link: For a full copy of the ‘Mean Machine’ review online and scanned PDF please click here; http://www.meanmachinesmag.co.uk/review/152/sonic-the-hedgehog.php
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 introduced Miles "Tails" Prower and was released worldwide on November 24th, 1992. Dubbed "Sonic 2sday," the simultaneous release was an unusual move for the time. The game eventually replaced the original SONIC THE HEDGEHOG as the default pack-in title for the Genesis/Mega Drive, being bundled with the redesigned Mega Drive II model (which reportedly had an inferior sound chip).
Useful reference: ‘Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation’ by Blake J Harris (ISBN 978-0062276698) is available in Hardback, Paperback, Audio and all popular digital formats.
SONIC 3 was released in February 1994, as a standalone release and was well-received. Significantly, this was soon followed by SONIC AND KNUCKLES in October of that same year. The two games were originally intended to be a single game. However, due to time constraints and the cost of a large-memory-capacity cartridge, Sega split the game into two. Notably, this two parts of one game, saw the introduction of series stalwart Knuckles the Echidna.
Interesting related stories:
Did Michael Jackson create the music? http://info.sonicretro.org/Michael_Jackson_Involvement_with_Sonic_3
Pop Fiction episode uncovering the mystery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFgnUa1v8uA
The Lapsed Gamer Radio Team created this episode. Edited by Stuart Neill, with music and audio selections by Stuart Neill.
Original LGR themes, FX and music cues created and composed by Cevin Moore. Other music and audio sampled in this episode comes from all three Sonic games composed by Masato Nakamura and various artists.
For more details about this episode, including any links to relevant material, full music usage listings and notes, as well as our full contact information and where to go for additional LGR content - please visit our blog: http://lapsedgamerradio.com
You can stream or directly download our episodes via our Podbean homepage: http://lapsedgamerradio.podbean.com/ and if you’re enjoying our content, please subscribe to Lapsed Gamer Radio on iTunes. All reviews are most welcome and appreciated in order to allow our little community to thrive.
As always, thank you for listening and best wishes in your own efforts to pick up the controller and play!