The Upper Memory Block Podcast

Attention Blockers!

It’s time for episode 35, where we talk about the 1993 Simtex 4X strategy game, Master of Orion.

Before that, news time:

Bethesda announces the Elder Scrolls Anthology containing all Elder Scrolls games from Arena to Skyrim: Dragonborn.

John Carmack joins Oculus VR as CTO. He is not leaving id however his work at Oculus will take priority.

The history of Sierra Online film project I mentioned in a previous show did not fund. However the film will still be made.

Finally, Precinct, Jim Walls’ new game has cancelled its Kickstarter before it ended and is now adopting a tiered funding structure. Instead of trying to raise 500,000 dollars they are trying to raise 25,000 dollars to build a prototype.

We then get into Master of Orion where we run through all the usual suspects plus some great emails from listeners.

Buy Master of Orion 1 & 2 on GoG:
http://www.gog.com/game/master_of_orion_1_2

Buy Master of Orion 3 on GoG:
http://www.gog.com/game/master_of_orion_3

Next time, I’ll be covering the 1991 Psygnosis puzzle platformer, Lemmings.

Stream the show live:

Direct download:
http://umbcast.com/podcast/035-UMBCast-Master-of-Orion.mp3