Dr. Robert (Bob) Novella

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1,941 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 19 Sep

Dr. Robert (Bob) Novella’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #859 - Dec 25 2021 podcast

What's going on here? matched

You're in Denver, man. matched

Four columns. matched

Oxygen. matched

So imagine a starscape, and you've got like two UFO-type ships and one rocket, and they're firing pixels at each other. matched

So you're the rocket, so you've got to kind of destroy them more than they destroy you. matched

That sounds right. matched

Well, this was released in 1971, so 50 years ago last month. matched

So over 50 years ago. matched

And it was like a futuristic console. matched

And they put it in arcades. matched

And back then, when I say they put it in an arcade, I mean an arcade that was jukeboxes and ping pong and stuff like that. matched

That's it. matched

There were no other video games. matched

This was like the first one in an arcade. matched

And now when you think of an arcade, you think it's mostly video games, right? matched

80, 90, even 100% video games. matched

So how did it do? matched

How do you think it did? matched

It did okay, but it didn't do great. matched

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