Folks, I have dreamed a dream, and now that dream is gone from me, because it has come true.  At this year’s Penny Arcade Expo, I answered the call of one Jeremy Parish, host of 1UP.com’s Retronauts, and recorded a short audio segment with him for the podcast.  As a fan of Retronauts from the beginning, it’s quite a thrill to have participated in what I consider the best retro-gaming podcast in the universe’s world.  No amount of awkward silences and “Um” uttering could stop me from my dogged pursuit of talking about Bethesda Softwork’s original The Terminator PC game.  Don’t tell Jeremy, but this game was actually published in 1991, a full 4 years after the year I mentioned on the show.  Shhhhhh…

BONUS:

This episode also includes an awesome interview with one of the developers of the failed Star Trek adventure game, The Secret of Vulcan’s Fury.

Every once in a while, I take a scroll through the Xbox Live Indie Games section to see if anything catches my eye. Sifting through the eclectic menagerie of the Indie Games section of the Xbox Marketplace can sometimes be a dangerous proposition. With nothing more than some cursory box-art and/or an obtuse, paltry description, you’re taking your hard earned time into your own hands looking for entertainment here. When one does come across a diamond in the rough, however, the difficulty of the hunt makes the resultant reward that much sweeter.

It was the lovingly rendered, pixellated money bag on the cover of Bailout! that piqued my interest. From it’s chirpy rag-time music, to it’s Atari 2600 graphics and KABOOM! inspired gameplay, I just love this game. There not much too it really, but it only costs a dollar. It beats the time I accidentally spent a dollar on Barf & Beer.

Since it’s impossible to download screenshots from the Xbox.com site and no video exists, here is a crappy video capture of my monitor:

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnngggggggggggggg!  That was awful.  You’d think Microsoft would want these games to be as promotable as possible, but I suppose they leave it all up to the designers. Jerks.