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I touched on this thought but didn't expand on it during the episode. As a kid, visiting McDonald's seemed like a dining experience. Of course we went through the drive-thru but it seems like maybe 50% of the time, we dined it. I literally can't remember the last time my family actually dined inside...

I never remember to update this.

Last night I played 2020's Grid Pix on the C64 using the MiSTer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbip-7_Bg

When I worked at Pizza Hut my boss told me a large pizza cost about $1.80 to make, and $1 of that was cheese. Every pizza place had their own measuring systems (Mazzio's used bowls and scales, while Pizza Hut used a dummy-proof system of colored cups) and all of them were pretty strict about "f...

I've watched a few of them on YouTube. There are a lot of McDonald's, Burger King, and Pizza Hut ones that people have uploaded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLm36MpPSeM

For what it's worth, Robin did most/all the coding on the C64 all-in-one joystick (Jeri Ellsworth did the hardware). I actually got rid of a bunch of old Commodore books not too long ago. They were all old "learn BASIC" or "how to program" books I'd picked up over the years. I ch...

Yeah, good timing -- Robin made that video two days ago! I know you said you are behind on your podcasts, but Robin (the guy who made that video) and his friend Darren do the podcast "Growing up 80s" that I've mentioned on my show. The good news is that they only do one podcast a month and...

The hardest thing to quantify when it comes to gaming is "a feeling." I don't have the technical knowledge or vocabulary to fully convey why one system feels better than another. Maybe the MiSTer scrolls a little more smoothly, or maybe the refresh rate or resolution is a little more accur...

Sprite Castle Plays Star Wars and Return of the Jedi (C64)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfzsNMr8wu8

I don't have any PDFs of In-Tune. Because I printed it as a tabloid-size paper, I've never had a scanner that would let me scan it in. I've considered taking digital pictures of each page and doing it that way but never tried it.

I forgot to keep updating this thread. Last night's stream was a lot of fun.

Sprite Castle Plays Tetris Attack (SNES)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8xeptnWhlQ

Your very own episode. Merry Christmas.

Just to clarify, this is a podcast that my partner Sean recorded with Vic Sage. I am not on it.

Sprite Castle Plays Donkey Kong Jr. (Commodore 64)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXJuIv-NnDA

Something I didn't cover on the podcast (I always forget something) is that there are other thriving malls here in the OKC area. Penn Square Mall and Quail Springs Mall are still doing great. Both are located near "more affluent" sides of town. Penn has both an Apple store and (until it re...

The most interesting this about this episode for me was talking to my parents about Crossroads Mall. My dad said that when he moved to Oklahoma in 1967, he had to go get car insurance. He called some place and they said they were located at Shephard Mall. My dad said he did not know what the word &q...

After re-reading this thread, I'm completely baffled as to where the Crossroads Mall reference came from. Were we talking about malls in a different thread? Reading back, I sound like a complete crazy man. I must've been multitasking at the time.

Hah! Well, you never know!

Sounds like a good You Don't Know Flack topic, unless you already did that. Here's my issue at the moment. I'm 100% positive I've talked about Crossroads Mall on the show before, but I can't figure out which episode it was on, or to what depth. I don't see any episodes with "mall" in the ...

I saw Weird Al live with a friend in the mid 00s, with Mason in Kansas City, with Susan and Mason in Oklahoma City, and all four of us in Tulsa. Weird Al has mastered the stage show. He has a dozen costume changes that go along with the songs, and has large screens that show multimedia clips to fill...

Thanks, Obi. There's a combination of things -- inferior sound and graphics, disk loading times, and a shallow pool of questions -- that combine to make these games passable, but not great. It's too bad for them they did not buy into the "Bic Razor" business model. They could have sold the...

Okay, I got a Twitch channel up and running, so the new episodes of Sprite Castle Plays will be Twitch streams, which will look identical to the old videos with the addition of a chatbox off to the side.

Sprite Castle Plays VideoKid (Steam(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xesdGdPemkE

This week I did something different and played Rogue for the IBM PC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2wEUXT1bnA

Sprite Castle Plays Pitfall!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBogi4L_ME0

Sprite Castle Plays Friday the 13th
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GYI-q-shjY

This week's video is Gremlins.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcNzt4BHfsI