3.16 Running in Circles

Why are arcade joysticks so tiny? Who let Peter Molyneux into the industry? Both answers are somehow related to a game where robots call the player "chicken."

Chapters

• 0:00 Opening
• 2:24 Chase, the beginning
• 3:32 Sheriff is in town
• 7:18 Tank Battalion blasts bricks
• 8:04 We go Berzerk
• 15:03 Exidy's Targ-et practice
• 16:42 Watch out for the ambulance, Armored Car!
• 18:22 Reload under Crossfire
• 19:14 Are we fighting the Wizard of Wor or not?
• 20:03 Remembering Bosconian
• 20:24 Greeting Vanguard
• 21:18 Tutankham, still great
• 21:45 Frenzy, beyond Berzerk
• 22:03 Robotron 2084
• 28:06 The Synapse Software Hour: Shamus
• 28:55 A Rescue from Stern
• 31:09 Lost Tomb raider
• 34:12 Rats of the Maze
• 38:27 From rats to Snipes
• 44:04 Sinistar: hot mining action
• 44:54 The Synapse Software Hour: Zeppelin
• 48:50 The Synapse Software Hour: Shamus Case 2
• 49:38 The Synapse Software Hour: Necromancer
• 51:32 The Synapse Software Hour: Synassembler???
• 51:59 A Dandy Thesis of Terror
• 58:27 More of almost the same: Time Pilot 84, Grobda, Draconian
• 59:20 Gauntlet… not that one.
• 1:03:48 Gauntlet, that one
• 1:11:17 Battle City infrastructure
• 1:12:12 Gauntlet 2, now with dragons
• 1:13:06 You have the Alien Syndrome
• 1:13:42 A Druid without trees
• 1:14:51 Druid's Enlightenment
• 1:17:54 Demon Stalkers from down under
• 1:18:35 Atari's Vindicators
• 1:19:35 Gauntlet, now on NES
• 1:20:07 The Dark Chambers of Dandy
• 1:20:59 Let's watch Smash TV
• 1:25:52 The Catacomb of id
• 1:31:40 Wrap-up