The best year in gaming - 1997!

About this episode

Adrian explores the significant events in gaming from the year 1997.

Adrian picks out another year for a deep dive and it's three years short of the millennium, 1997! Some big things happened, take our word for it and listen to this podcast! Read our interview with the guys from Running with Scissors: https://www.arcadeattack.co.uk/vince-desi-mike-jaret/ The podcast is now WEEKLY! Want to help us keep going, access our extra "Beyond the Pod" epsiodes and increase our AA Retro Hunters budget? Become a Patreon of ours for only $4/£3 per month. Find out more at: https://www.patreon.com/arcadeattack For our back catalogue of podcasts, blogs, reviews and written interviews please check our website at: https://www.arcadeattack.co.uk/ And for all our links including social media and merchandise, please check out our linktree page: https://linktr.ee/Arcade_attack All copyrighted material contained within this podcast is the property of their respective rights owners and their use here is protected under ‘fair use’ for the purposes of comment or critique.

People in this episode

Host: Adrian

Topics covered

• 1997 gaming
• retrospective
• video games
• gaming history
• podcast

Keywords

• 1997
• gaming
• retrospective
• video games
• podcast
• Running with Scissors
• Arcade Attack

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Running with Scissors, Arcade Attack, Patreon

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