Roast Mortem Cast
Dead men tell no tales. So we do it for them.
Displaying all 3 Episode of Roast Mortem Cast with the tag “gaming”.
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225 - Hiroshi Yamauchi : Nintendo's Willy Wonka Hates You
March 24th, 2022 | 2 hrs 40 mins
1980s, 1990s, business, classic games, comedy, drinking, gaming, gaming history, history, japanese history, mario, monopoly, nintendo, playstation, podcast, retro games, video games, wealth
The boys from the Drink a Beer Play a Game Podcast join us for a roast of the Nintendo's grumpy, egotistical president Hiroshi Yamauchi. The meteoric rise of Nintendo Frankensteined the video game industry back to life in the 1980’s with Yamauchi at the helm. He manically micromanaged his team, the all while NEVER PLAYING A VIDEO GAME IN HIS LIFE
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204 - Richard the Lionheart: The English* Crusader King
October 21st, 2021 | 1 hr 42 mins
battle, british history, comedy, crusade, drinking, england, france, gaming, gay, history, holy land, middle east, military history, monarchy, podcast, royals, swords, video games, warfare, warrior
We continue our trip down the Plantagenet line of royal sucksession, with Richard the Lionheart. This anal rapist, fought his way onto the English thronewith the help of his butt-buddy Philip II of France. Before heading off to the 3rd Crusade in the Holy Land committing war crimes and political disasters in his wake. Plus we take a dive into the REAL Order of the Assassins.
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22 - Jack Tramiel: Video Game Dangus
April 4th, 2018 | 1 hr 38 mins
70s, 8 bit, 80s, atari, business, comedy, commodore, computer, darth vader, gaming, history, nintendo, pax, pax east, pc, podcast, video game history, video game industry, video games
This businessman left his big brown skid mark on the video game industry in the 70s & 80s. His iron fist, cut-throat management of Commodore and Atari gave him Darth Vader like status amongst programmers & gamers alike. Big old diarrhea boy!