Episode 16: Thunder Castle

Happy New Year! In this episode, we review the Mattel / INTV Corp. release of Thunder Castle. We interview the designers and programmers of the game, Connie Goldman and David Warhol. We also have a listener interview with Australian Intellivision enthusiast Harmik Khoronian. And there’s plenty of Feedback, News, George and the Odyssey 2 in this one too.

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0:00:00 – Turn on the tube TV insert Thunder Castle and go!
0:00:21 – The Intellivisionaries Theme by Paul ‘Nurmix’ Nurminen
0:01:43 – Welcome / Thanks
0:18:43 – George on Ten Pence Arcade
0:19:07 – Feedback
0:27:43 – Intellivision II TV commercial
0:28:12 – Feedback (continued)
0:30:22 – The Odyssey 2 / Intellivision IV speaks?
0:30:53 – Feedback (continued more)
0:33:33 – Mac or PC?
0:34:02 – Feedback (continued more still)
0:36:01 – Montana!
0:36:23 – Feedback (continued even more than before)
0:37:39 – Rhode Island!
0:37:57 – Feedback (geez, finish it already!)
0:51:12 – George on Atari 2600 GBG / Ferg
0:52:20 – Naberhood promo
0:53:24 – News
0:56:05 – Magnavox Odyssey TV commercial
0:56:55 – News (continued)
0:57:23 – The Odyssey 2 & Yadranka
0:57:47 – News (continued – here we go again)
1:00:50 – Clever, that!
1:01:54 – Arbor Day!
1:02:25 – News (oh brother)
1:18:13 – Dave Akers promo
1:18:31 – N.I.M.O.S.T.A.P.R.T.
1:23:09 – Listener Interview: Harmik Khoronian (part 1)
2:02:51 – Myer TV commercial
2:03:51 – Listener Interview: Harmik Khoronian (part 2)
2:35:31 – Intellivision TV commercial (Australia)
2:36:28 – Listener Interview: Harmik Khoronian (part 3)
2:37:16 – Thunder Castle ‘Deep Dive’ Game Review (part 1)
3:12:25 – Interview: David Warhol & Connie Goldman
4:20:23 – Intellivision Flashback TV commercial (edit)
4:22:06 – Alex On Intellivision: Thunder Castle
4:25:15 – Thunder Castle ‘Deep Dive’ Game Review (part 2)
4:37:44 – Wrap Up / “Treasured” by Paul ‘Nurmix’ Nurminen
4:41:45 – Outtakes (Inty chiptune: “Best Part Of Creation” by Gunnar Gaubatzen)*

* Intellivision music player by Arnauld Chevallier

Links mentioned in the show:

Intellivision Lives entry for Thunder Castle
http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/games/credits/intv0.shtml

Intvfunhouse entry for Thunder Castle
http://www.intvfunhouse.com/games/thun.php

Video Game Critic entry for Thunder Castle
http://videogamecritic.com/inteltz.htm#rev1523

AtariAge thread on the birth of Christmas Carol
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/233821-birth-of-christmas-carol/

Intybasic hit version 1.0
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/232063-intybasic-compiler-v10-crunchy-tasty/#entry3118394

2014 Game of the Year voting
http://atariage.com/forums/topic/233803-game-of-the-year-2014/

Vision-dapters
http://home.comcast.net/~tjhafner/Vision-daptor.htm

FPGA Intellivision
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqClryx_ipw

7800 Game by Game Podcast Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Atari-7800-Game-By-Game-Podcast/428826077271603

The SNES Podcast Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/thesnespodcast