Mega Amp Creator on Clone Consoles and FPGA | The Game Show

Yeah, let's get going.

Uh, gonna start on a little bit of a somber note.

Uh, Richard Gray, who is better known to everybody in the gaming community as Levelord, has passed away this past Monday.

Um, Levelord is probably best known for designing just some incredibly inventive levels and, and some real cheeky Easter eggs that you needed, like, level editors or cheats to find in many, many genre-defining first-person shooters of the '90s and early 2000s.

Um, you probably best know his work from Duke Nukem 3D or Blood.

Uh, but he also did, uh, some level packs for Quake, and one of the, uh, all-time greats for Quake III Arena.

Um, if you've played a, if you've played a, a first-person shooter in the last 30 years, a lot of the tropes, a lot of the, the design, uh, elements, things like that, Levelord created a lot of those things.

Uh, and so the... you still see him in a lot of game design to this day in those type of games.

So, uh, just the heart goes out to him and his family.

Um, you know, condolences and, and we lost one of the, the real great titans of, uh, early game design from a, you know, modern standpoint, if you will.

So just sucks to see that.

Yep, always, always sucks to lose one of our, our folks, especially when it's a longtime person.

Yeah.

So it's a bummer.

Yeah.

Definitely a bummer.

Uh, next.

[Musical alert] The US government to begin targeting Anbernic handhelds and other emulation machines that come with preloaded emulators and games due to them being, quote-unquote, "notorious markets." So, uh, I, I'm sure everything will be fine coming from this.

Uh, as somebody that owns an Anbernic handheld, those things are awesome.

Um, like, like, it's just incredible what you can fit on a chip and even, like, a small handheld these days.

You know, uh, yeah, the, the stuff that comes on it is just, you know, I would say almost...

I, I would say throwaway.

But, like, man, it's really, it, it kinda chaps me just a little bit to see them start to go after some of these...

Uh, you know, honestly, I w- they're clone consoles i- in some respect.

I mean, Ace, have you used one of those, or have you, have you played with any of the Anbernics or any of the, the like, uh-