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So Tina Turner may not need another hero, but we need more villains! A proper villain has to have a reason to be who he or she is or we don't want them. So meet the villains of this episode:Andrew “I'm right – damn the consequences” Ryan - Bioshock 1.Donkey “But Mario is the evil one” Kong – The Donkey Kong series.Sarah “I will bathe in your blood, but I'm the victim here” Kerrigan – Starcraft 1 and 2.Robo “He's just like Hitler” Hitler – Castle Wolfestein.Wallace “Long, intellectual rant on why all is perfect and you suck” Breen – Halflife 1 and 2.Shodan “I'm god, now you curl up and die” – System Shock 1 and 2.(Ghost/Zombie/Whatever) Pirate “The incel of piracy” LeChuck – The Monkey Island series.
People
- DJ Daemon Host, Producer He got his Commodore 64 in 1989 and his first Amiga in 1990. A huge fan of tracker music and have had a long standing dream to create a radio show playing that kind of music. In 2020, that dream came true and in december Amiga Flashback started as a podcast. It was later renamed Flashback, tracks from the past and here we are. He is also an orga for Swedish demo party Edison and a total retro nerd.
Music by Flashback, Pip Malt, Falcon of Pulse, Tdr, Noiseless, Sidewinder of Porphyria, Laxity of Vibrants, Parity Error, MeloManiac of Elements, Michael Ivanchenko, Awesome of Wild Bits, Nebularia, Mystical, Jakim, Jugi of Complex
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- tracks from the past – Show intro Flashback
- Games are often stories – and stories need heroes and villains. The boring and uninteresting are a dime a dozen and we don’t care. But in this episode, we give you seven retro game villains that have a reason to be what they are, do what they do while shoving very little remorse. Narration · 0:24
- Bacon Cookies Pip Malt
- I don’t care much for the “evil for evil’s sake”. It’s a boring a useless trope, that is fit for lesser bosses and the occasional end boss when the focus is not the evil and the villain. But a good villain has a rationale, a drive, and a motivation. Some are into greed, some are corrupted and unleash hidden flaws when life goes bad for them, some have ulterior motives and no idea as to why everyone hates them, and some would have been good if only “insert plot element here” would not have happened. So today we go under the sea, into the jungle, among the stars and into the blood drenched walls of a certain castle. And we wade through the corpses and the destroyed landscape to find the nature of evil wherever it may be. Narration · 1:03
- Her Spirits Rise Falcon of Pulse and TDR
- Would you kindly consider a bit of wisdom from yours truly: · “A man choose, but the slave of an idea has to obey”. In Bioshock you come to an underwater city built on the idea of total freedom. Narration · 1:18
- Addiction Noiseless
- If you ever played Donkey Kong, you know that mr Kong is the villain-Gorilla stealing the hero’s girlfriend and then proceeds to throw barrels at him to kill him. And the hero, Jumpman is trying to rescue his lady, named “lady”. Narration · 1:03
- in the Eyes Sidewinder of Porphyria
- In StarCraft, three races battle it out… in space. Classic premise if you ask me. It’s the humans, the huge comodo-dragon-like Zerg and some weird mage class aliens called the Protoss. Narration · 1:05
- Progressive Jodling Laxity of Vibrants
- In castle Wolfenstein you fight the nazis. This was before a thousand other games took up this plot and made it a bit boring. The end boss is – I kid you not – Robo-Hitler. It’s like regular Hitler, but now he’s a robot. Narration · 1:03
- Wish of Freedom Parity Error
- In Halflife Wallace Breen is the elusive administrator that set up the catastrophic experiment that led to earth coming under attack from an alien race. His solution is to negotiate peace with the efficiency of Neville Chamberlain. Narration · 0:53
- Hall of Hobbits mix MeloManiac of Elements
- Shodan, you were a good AI! You made the Citadel station safe and helped the workers and scientists to be as productive as they could. Then came Diego and the hacker and removed your ethical constraints. Narration · 0:51
- Morning beach Michael Ivanchenko
- Right! Some people just don’t know when to stop. Le Chuck was a fearsome pirate and once tried to date the governor of Mêlée Island, Elaine Marley. She was not amused and told him to drop dead. And that’s pretty much what happened. Narration · 1:12
- ‘Just Two’ Awesome of Wild Bits
- We have the boring and uninteresting villains that could have been something had a proper backstory or at least some reason for them been put into the game. Narration · 0:39
- Improvements Nebularia
- and thanks you for listening. Narration · 0:30
- If rivers were red Mystical
- and talks about the Discord channel. Narration · 0:20
- Party Rush Jakim
- Gates of Ixtlan Jugi of Complex
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