Nightdive, Stardock and the Business of Saving Classic Games: Larry Kuperman - The Retro Hour EP529

Podcast: The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) · The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

Opublikowano: 2026-05-01

This week, we’re joined by Larry Kuperman, former VP of Business Development at Nightdive Studios, former Business Development Manager at GameStop, Stardock veteran, and co-founder of the IGDA Ann Arbor Chapter. Larry shares incredible stories from the business side of games, from discovering Wolfenstein 3D on a mighty 486, selling custom PCs in the ’90s, and Stardock’s early digital distribution gamble, to GameStop’s attempt to compete with Steam and Nightdive’s mission to bring classics like Turok, System Shock, Star Wars: Dark Forces and more back to life. We also dig into DRM, lost source code, game preservati...