Gradius: We Have Options! (ft. Kiyoshi Okuma & Chris Tang)

About this episode

The episode features a discussion on the influential game Gradius with guests Kiyoshi Okuma and Chris Tang.

Just call us eggs because we are scrambled . We get double the trouble on the guest front this episode to talk about one of the most influential horizontal shoot-'em-ups of all time: Gradius! ---------- Today's Guest Information Name: Kiyoshi Okuma Bio: Game industry veteran since 1998 - 3D artist / technical artist who's worked on Gauntlet Legends (N64), World Series Baseball 2K(DC/PS2) Sims2, Darkspore(Diablo clone), and Dawngate (RTS), Strike Blazinger (PC - in progress) Twitter/X: @ohmi_kuma on X Website: Kiyoshi's Website ----- Name: Chris Tang Bio: Game Developer and eSports personality. Formerly Tengen, Atari, Capcom, BPS, etc. - now indie. Sega World Champion and Classic Tetris World Championships host and commentator. Twitter/X: @strikeharbinger on X Facebook: Chris's Facebook page Website: Chris's Website ---------- Music Attributions Intro / outro excerpts from Stream by 505, used under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License . ---------- Mentioned in this episode: Get You Some Tasty Caffeine! As a rule, we don't promote anything on the show that we can't personally vouch for. Bones Coffee has become a staple in both our households; in fact, it's the only…

People in this episode

Guests: Kiyoshi Okuma, Chris Tang

Topics covered

• Gradius
• horizontal shoot-'em-ups
• video games
• game development

Keywords

• game industry
• eSports
• 3D artist
• indie game development

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Gradius, Gauntlet Legends, N64, World Series Baseball 2K(DC/PS2, Sims2, Darkspore(Diablo, Dawngate, Strike Blazinger

Books & works: We Have Options, Stream by 505, Game Over Hell, Tales From the Backlog, Retrotopia, Fun" & Games

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