Digital Foundry Retro

DF Developer Interview: Randy Linden, creator of Doom SNES, Bleem, Dragon's Lair Amiga and Quake GBA (7x23)

Air date: Jun 28, 2022

Randy Linden is a bonafide industry legend and trailblazer in the arts of video game development. From his early starts calling programmers on the phone at age 11, join us as we sit down to catalog Randy's entire career as he time and time again proved the impossible possible, from his incredible work porting Dragon's Lair to the Amiga, shocking the world by creating a fully functional version of Doom for Super Nintendo, and developing the controversial and highly influential Bleem! PlayStation emulator. This is one of the greatest stories you'll ever hear in video games, so buckle and up and enjoy this comprehensive career deep dive!