Matt Chat: Videogame History

Matt Chat Podcast: Interview with Kevin Saunders

Download: mattchat_kevin_podcast This is the audio from my interview with Kevin Saunders, Obsidian and inXile veteran. Topics include Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords, Alpha Protocol, Wasteland 2, Torment: Tides of Numenera and many other prominent RPGs that Kevin’s been part of over his long career.

Blasteroids 3D

Here’s the file. If you can get this running properly in DosBox, please let me know your settings! https://drive.google.com/file/d/10f88e9qtkpS5jzvpne6j3Eg-WbkdchiJ/view?usp=sharing Thanks, Matt  

The Complete List of Matt Chat Interviews (WIP)

The following links are to playlists containing all of the relevant videos for each person. Enjoy, and please share this with anyone you know who’s interested in game history and development. If you find these interviews enlightening, enjoyable, or useful, please take a moment to offer your financial support for Matt Chat. Adams, Scott (3 videos). […]

Actual Table of Contents for Vintage Games 2.0

Yikes and yowsers! I noticed (after the fact, of course) that the table of contents I displayed for my book Vintage Games 2.0 in my latest video is, in fact, INCORRECT. Here’s the actual list of games covered: Spacewar! PONG Space Invaders Zork MUD Rogue Maze War Pac-Man Donkey Kong Pole Position Pitfall! Flight Simulator […]

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Transcription of Anthony and Nicola Caulfield Interview

  Matt Chat 308-311 Caulfied Interview Transcript Matt: All right folks I am here today with Anthony and Nicola Caulfield the husband and wife team behind the documentary From Bedrooms To Billions. Which I happen to have a copy of right here. Really nice cover on this. Now this covers the British side of the […]

Alexey Pajitnov Interview Transcript

Hi, all, thanks to my Patreon supporters, I’m able to post the following transcript to you free of charge. If you read this transcript with the great Alexey Pajitnov, please consider supporting my effort to preserve videogame history by visiting my Patreon page. I only ask $1 per episode. Watch the interviews below; transcript follows. […]

Richard Bartle Interview Transcript

Hi, all. The transcript for my interview with Dr. Richard Bartle, creator of MUD, is finally available! Enjoy. Transcript begins below. Matt:   Alright, folks. I am here with the great Dr. Richard Bartle. He’s the writer, co-creator of MUD, the game that pretty much laid the foundations for all of the later MUDs of […]

Vintage Games 2.0 Update

Hi, all! I just heard back from Sean, my editor at Focal Press. The manuscript has been received, and I’ll soon be assigned a production editor to get us to the finish line. I really think you guys and gals will LOVE this thing. I dug deep to find the stories, quotes, and context that will […]

Kickstarting Free Software

I meant to respond in more depth to a part of my last segment with Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov, but a cold and a massive time crunch (plus an unstoppable Civ 5 binge) kept me from appending to the video. It’s been awhile since I’ve done a blog post, so I’ll just sketch out my […]

Possibility Space #1: A Simulation of Life Itself

Okay, thanks to some timely advice, I’ve re-uploaded this and changed the title! In short, this is little experiment I’m trying with podcasting: a 5-minute mini-history format inspired by Nate Dimeo’s excellent podcast Memory Palace. Please enjoy, and let me know what you think! The Story of SimCity