31 - Syndicate

Entry posted by Shinto in Episode Show Notes February 18, 2023

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Set your cybernetic sights on world domination in Syndicate! Get a handle on the controls, concoct an unofficial overlay, peruse reviews from around the world, and question the ESRB rating in this episode about Bullfrog's cyberpunk classic.

Oh, yeah, and check out several previously-undisclosed cheat codes.

Also included is feedback from RJ, the Lost Dragon, PFG 9000, tripled79, MightyFrog, cubanismo, Kyle, Louis, and Bobby Tribble! Woohoo!

All that plus storytime involving out-of-context Atari, and nerds makin' noise in the computer lab.

Show Notes

General Links

Forums

Game Links

Developer, Distributor, and Development

Sean Cooper interview from Gamasutra
The Making of Syndicate from Retro Gamer magazine
Sean Cooper on Syndicate from IncGamers (via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine)
Flood
The Digital Antiquarian on Bullfrog after Populous

Gameplay & Graphics Notes

Custom Overlay by EmOneGarand
Shinto's overlay (600dpi)

Cheat Codes

Company Name	What It Does
ROB A BANK	100M in money
WATCH THE CLOCK	Speed up time (1 day in 10 seconds)*
NUK THEM	Unlock all regions*
TO THE TOP	Combines ROB A BANK and NUK THEM*
COOPER TEAM NOT	Unlock all regions, full weapons/research, 100M in money, 16 fully-upgraded agents
ALANS TEAM NOT	Unlock all regions, full weapons/research, 100M in money, 8 fully-upgraded agents
ALAN2 NOT	Unlock all regions, full weapons/research, default money, 16 fully-upgraded agents
ALANS CITIES	All but 10 regions conquered
CREDITS CHECK1	End of game (all agents lost) upon finishing the next mission
CREDITS CHECK2	End of game (all states conquered) upon finishing the next mission
CREDITS CHECK3	End of game (mission failed) upon finishing the next mission
CREDITS CHECK4	End of game (mission completed) upon finishing the next mission
DO IT AGAIN	Repeat mission with previously obtained items? Couldn't get this to work.

* Already present on AtariAge

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Jaguar Promo Magazine high-quality scan at RetroMags!
From "Best Games..." ad, GamePro magazine
From Ultimate Future Games magazine

Reviews

Electronic Gaming Monthly (April, 1995)
GamePro (March, 1995)
VideoGames: The Ultimate Gaming Magazine (April, 1995)
GamePlayers (April, 1995)
Computer and Video Games (January, 1995)
Next Generation (April, 1995)
Atari World (April, 1995)
ST Magazine (May, 1995) (French)
Player One: page 1 and page 2 (May, 1995) (French)
Atari Inside (April, 1995) (German)
ST Computer (May, 1995) (German)
Video Games (May, 1995) (German)
Man!ac (May, 1995) (German)
Atari Explorer Online (February, 1995)
GameZero (May, 1995)
The Video Game Critic
The Atari Times

Ports

TV/Movie/Game/Music/Book References

Huey Lewis and the News: I Want a New Drug
Yeah, if you could come in on Saturday... that would be great
Gamesters of Triskelion (from Star Trek)
Xenomorphs
Jelly of the Month Club (from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation)

Vendors

Video61

Podcast references

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
DOOM episode (trading for my mom's 486, in the storytime)

Misc. Stuff

Packard Bell Legend 316SX (my first PC)
PCem (highly-specific PC emulator)

Listener Feedback

Storytime

Christmas episode
Omni Magazine
Omni Magazine, January 1991, pp 98-99 (with my context-challenged excerpt added in on the right)
Chris Roberts
From the Earth to the Moon
Apollo 15
Omni Magazine, January 1991, pp 84
Tandy 1000 SX
Spacewar for DOS
Tank Wars for DOS
Tank Wars longplay

Next up: Rayman!

KEEP ON THINKING

Edited February 18, 2023 by Shinto
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Posted March 15, 2021

I was indeed listening, but I didn't stop at the items you mentioned. They bring less a smile to my face than an ordinately insane grin.

I've been wanting to submit my Jag origin story, which originated in summer 1994 when a friend sold me his system, Cybermorph, and Tempest 2000 because he was tired of waiting for games. Howbeit, my duties as owner/operator of weekly newspaper make me feel my keyboard pounding should be directed elsewhere, although I will definitely be submitting something at some point.

(Your podcast store host is so Byzantine that I felt quite Constantinopled attempting to find items. Maybe that's good so I didn't go too nutso. [My wife denied my geek rights by declaring Jaguar shower curtains verboten.])

Thanks; I listened to entire podcast catalog in three weeks last fall and have since been revisiting episodes.