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Retronauts Episode 186: Inside SNK's Archives (Patreon)

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2018-12-03 14:54:42
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2021-08

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Hi all, Jeremy here again. This week's posting schedule is going to be a little screwy—Bob is in the process of recovering from having had his computer and other equipment stolen at gunpoint and didn't have time to put together today's episode as planned. So I've bumped forward Friday's bonus episode into the Monday slot, and if all goes well he'll run the full episode for the week on Friday. With luck, everything will be back to normal next week!

This episode is the companion to the recent SNK 40th Anniversary Collection show. This time, I sat down with the collection's producer, Frank Cifaldi, to talk about the work and philosophy that went into the set. 

This week's cover art (which currently is in rough draft form) is being drawn by Cassie Hart Kelly, who has illustrated a couple of our T-shirts and will be contributing cover illustrations a few times a month going forward. Between her clean punk-poster style, Nick Daniel's digital illustration techniques, and my old-school ink-and-paper approach, there should be some decent variety to our podcast illustrations from now on!

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Normallyretro

Athena is obviously playing Micronics Ikari in that picture.

littleterr0r

Sounds good. This will make a good companion piece to the article on Digital Eclipse in Retro Gamer.

Anonymous

I absolutely love that cover art

Kevin Bunch

So SNK may be the first company to produce swappable arcade hardware with the Micon Kits, but RCA seems to have developed the tech for it first with their 1975 microprocessor based arcade prototype units! You could change out these PROM daughterboards (pretty much cartridges) to run a different game on the same hardware.

retronauts
>>17700416

That's the thing about trying to figure out "firsts" in history. There's no such thing. There was probably some Cro-Magnon sitting around the Lascaux caves contemplating the possibility of interchangeable ROM boards for his bison paintings.

Marcus Drakken

It's me, I'm the person with fond memories of 2600 Vanguard. I still have a special place in my heart for all those rainbow blocks. Anyway, this was a great listen, and I definitely appreciate all the hard work that went into the SNK 40th. As a Johnny-come-lately who just fell into Neo Geo fandom last year, this collection was perfect timing for info on SNK's earlier titles. (now let me tell you about how SNK kept their commitment to story and how they were a localization pioneer in the 90s. I have proof they were doing simultaneous translation and release in 1993!) Thanks to both of you for all your hard work.

Diamond Feit

I am so glad how Frank, a legit expert, verified so much of the casual speculation Jeremy and I made on the last SNK episode. Jeremy pointed out the Dexterity/Canvas Croquis connection months ago and now it's a fact.

retronauts
>>17711927

Yeah, I forgotten about a lot of that until I edited our episode and was like, "Wow..." — JP

Anonymous

I hope Bob is doing all right, that sounds terrifying.

Lucien Hoare

This episode was so good I ordered a copy of the collection straight after. Would be great if all collections were put together with as much passion and effort.

Anonymous

Hearing you guys talk about which projects Frank could tackle next got me to thinking that I would love to see Falcom go back to making collections of their old PC-88 stuff. I think the last collection was on Saturn(?) with a Dragon Slayer set unless you count Ys I and II on PSP. I would love a legit way to play all the early Dragon Slayer games officially on modern hardware, and a few of them were already localized by Broderbund! I have a copy of Legacy of the Wizard in my house without a working NES to play it on.

Anonymous

I hope Frank Cifaldi gets to curate another collection. He gives the games the reverence they deserve. This era of SNK is a little too early for my personal "sweet spot", but I'd scoop up a Konami action game collection in a hot second. Thinking about other companies, it's funny how there will never be a Sunsoft collection, as so many of their classic games were licensed. :/ Off topic: Did Retronauts ever do an episode on Disney games? While I'm certain Ducktales have come up a number of times, a dedicated episode on the many great Capcom, Sony and Sega Disney titles could be an interesting topic? Just Mickey Mouse had a killer platform trio in Mickey's Magical Quest, Mickey Mania and Castle of Illusion. Anyways....