The Retro Hour - Episode 7 (The Bitmap Brothers - Mike Montgomery)

We're joined by Mike Montgomery from The Bitmap Brothers this week! Why should he have cancelled Chaos Engine 2 and how serious was the rivalry with Sensible Software?

Show notes: Growing The 8 Bit Generation documentary released: http://www.8bitgeneration.com/ Project dream funding themselves: http://bit.ly/1OjXzxH Play Windows 3.x games in your browser: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrarywin3games
Amiga Future magazine: http://www.amigafuture.de/ MineCraft Boris Johnson: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2016-01/19/london-games-festival-announced
Bitmap Brothers CD32 collection: http://www.indieretronews.com/2016/02/the-bitmap-brothers-collection-amiga.html Sinclair Vega Portable console: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-sinclair-zx-spectrum-vega-plus-console#/
Coleco Chamelon public preview: http://toyland.gizmodo.com/colecos-chameleon-is-a-retro-gaming-console-every-80s-k-1759157058
Board games making comeback: http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/monopoly-cards-against-humanity-lead-gaming-comeback-1-4030840 Sonic The Movie: http://bit.ly/1TqMem9
Amiga Tennis Champs returns: http://toucharcade.com/2016/02/08/tennis-champs-returns-trailer/
Take video games seriously: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/15/naomi-alderman-take-video-games-seriously