ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
A PODCAST FOR ARCADE LOVERS. From the owners of 100+ arcade and pinball cabinets, and the proprietors of a real-life arcade comes PODOUKEN, a brand new podcast that takes a deep dive into the world of video arcade games, and explores the history, story, strategy, art, music, restoration, preservation and fun of arcade games.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
biweekly
Average audio length:
119 minutes
English
United States
174 episodes
since Sept. 28, 2019
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Ever wanted to end a dinner conversation suddenly? Is the boy band's choreography not meeting the door fee charged? Did someone heat up tuna in the work microwave again?! All are valid scenarios where there's just one option - flip the table and leave. We talk about the arcade game that lets you li…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
If Hayao Miyazaki agreed to make an arcade game we doubt it would fit better in his world than this one. We continue the Peripherals Y'alls miniseries with Namco's exertainment calorie burner, Prop Cycle. Was Prop Cycle the first arcade game that tricked kids into healthy gaming? Is the Namco Syste…
Did you know that if you finish
Typing this entire block of lines
That you will be completely
Dateless for the rest of your life?
The Peripherals Y'alls miniseries starts with the best undead Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing simulator in the entire arcade - Sega's Typing of the Dead! Is the bullet …
Time to bring the Vector Victor miniseries in for a landing so please fasten your seatbelts and place your tray tables in the upright position as we descend into an Arcade Obscura. Rob brings us the first game to ever come out in the arcade after previously coming out on the home console. Jarrod br…
Remember, the Force will be with you, always. The vector series continues with one of the best arcades to ever do it - Atari's Star Wars. What very Star Trek name did Star Wars originally go by before Atari gained the license from Lucasfilm? How did a focus group give us one of the top arcade grail…
Welcome to.....NOT Podouken, but Rankdouken. The internet's dumbest named ranking thing. In this episode, we take a listener request to rank......Fruits!
Rankdouken is normally a YouTube exclusive show, be sure to check out our channel for more video contant such as Listener questions, and occ…
Hell is empty, and all the devils are here. Any good miniseries must include the best game of that genre, so let's discuss Dave Theurer's gorgeous vector Atari game, Tempest. If Tempest was a steak what cut would it be? Why does this episode leave Rob breathless? Was the Cranberries Doors and Windo…
Have fun storming the castle! We circle back with Cinematronics to see what they cooked up to compete with Atari's Asteroids - the beautiful vector classic Star Castle. Did this game's life begin as a game about the beginning of life? How did Atari's failure to port this Star Castle lead to one of …
Atari treads new ground with their first terrestrial vector arcade offering, Battlezone! Was this the first game with true military applications? How did constant complaining lead to getting credited in one of the best arcade games made? What genius idea did Pastblaster's wife have to witness the G…
Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor? In 1977 arcades lit up with a new vibrant and high-resolution display that brought a dead video game publisher back to life. This was the vector monitor and it did more than just connect the dots, it dropped jaws and led to some of the most memorable arcade …
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