Game & Gadget Podcast #24 – The Death of 3D, Mastodon Rise, Joys of Plex and More…

Game & Gadget Podcast - Pixel Refresh

I am joined by Tony Warriner who is one of the founders of Revolution Software as we discuss more gaming, gadgets and technology both retro and modern.

Topics include:

• What technology did Santa bring us in 2022?
• Remembering dedicated sound cards
• The loss of the headphone port on phones and tablets
• The 486 CPU TURBO mode switch
• Swapping through multiple floppy disks in games
• Broken Sword 3 and the 3D engine
• James’ Christmas Eve process or bringing out retro tech before the new stuff comes along
• Tony still loves his ‘portable’ Steam Deck
• Missing a Sony portable gaming device
• Sony trying to rule the world with countless storage formats they created
• 3D televisions and cinema and its failure
• Modern VR and the Metaverse
• Mastodon and its recent success
• The hunt for alternative social media services
• Movie and TV subscriptions services, we lost the leave cable / satellite dream
• The joys of Plex

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