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A Trip Down Memory Card Lane

A Trip Down Memory Card Lane

Di: David Kassin and Robert Kassin
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A Trip Down Memory Card Lane is a weekly video game history podcast that tells one story per episode, guided by the current week in gaming history. Hosted by brothers David Kassin and Robert Kassin, the show explores the stories behind the games we grew up with. It looks at the creative risks, technical limitations, business realities, and human decisions that shaped what players ultimately experienced. It’s a show for anyone who likes knowing how things were made, why certain paths were chosen, and what those moments can tell us about the industry as a whole. If that sounds like you, come take a thoughtful trip down Memory Card Lane with us each week.Copyright 2026 Fantascienza Mondiale
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  • Ep.307 – The World That Argued Back: Alternate Reality - The City and the Contract That Broke Its Creator

    Ep.307 – The World That Argued Back: Alternate Reality - The City and the Contract That Broke Its Creator
    Jul 16 2026
    In 1985, Datasoft released Alternate Reality: The City, an Atari 8-bit role playing game built almost entirely by one self-taught programmer working out of a shack in the Hawaiian backwoods. In this episode, we explore how Philip Price talked his way from a stolen tic tac toe login into a career reverse engineering hardware with no manuals to guide him. We trace how he envisioned an entire interconnected series exploring captivity and free will, and how a single publishing contract quietly dismantled that vision piece by piece. Our conversation also digs into the technical feats packed into 48 kilobytes of memory, and the public dispute over who really killed the series before it could finish. Join us as we step through the portal, survive the streets of Xebec's Demise, and reckon with the cost of building something too ambitious for the industry that published it, on today's trip down Memory Card Lane.

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    1 ora
  • Ep.306 – No Rainbow, No Gender, No Sequel: The Stubborn Vision Behind NiGHTS into Dreams

    Ep.306 – No Rainbow, No Gender, No Sequel: The Stubborn Vision Behind NiGHTS into Dreams
    Jul 9 2026
    In 1996, NiGHTS into Dreams asked players to fly through somebody else's dreams instead of walking through their own story, and it became one of the strangest, most singular experiences the Sega Saturn ever produced. In this episode, we trace how Yuji Naka's original idea about chasing rainbows became a dream world instead, and why Sonic Team resisted building the game in 3D until the story demanded it. We break down the psychology behind NiGHTS' genderless design, drawing on the real research of Carl Jung, and the long trial and error process behind the Saturn's own analog controller, including the day Steven Spielberg got his hands on an early prototype before almost anyone else did. Our conversation also covers the game's reception, its unusually short runtime for the era, and Yuji Naka's decades long refusal to ever make a true sequel. Join us as we chase rainbows that never existed and dreams that belong to everyone, on today's trip down Memory Card Lane.

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    1 ora e 1 min
  • Ep.305 – Three Wishes: How the Game Genie Took on Nintendo and Won

    Ep.305 – Three Wishes: How the Game Genie Took on Nintendo and Won
    Jul 2 2026
    In 1990, a fifty-dollar plastic cartridge called the Game Genie arrived in North America and immediately became the most controversial accessory in gaming. David and Rob trace the story from a cold shoulder at a Las Vegas trade show, through the makeshift development kit that cracked Nintendo's security, to the federal court case that established what players are allowed to do with games they own. Join them as they explore how the Darling Brothers took on the most powerful company in gaming and won, on today's trip down Memory Card Lane.

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    57 min
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