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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

137: Andrew Hewson - Hints & Tips for Videogame Pioneers - The Retro Hour EP137

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9558 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Famous for games like Uridium, Cybernoid, Pinball Fantasies and many more - we chat to Andrew Hewson, the founder of Hewson Consultants and 21st Century Entertainment!

Hewson Consultants: http://www.hewsonconsultants.com/

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I can't believe it.

0:03.5

Max has asked me to move in with him.

0:05.9

I mean, you practically live with each other already, but that's great.

0:09.8

Did you hear that, Joe?

0:11.5

Yes, thanks for letting us know.

0:14.3

I see you've updated your universal credit claim.

0:17.1

Now you're going to be living together.

0:23.6

If you're telling other people about a change in your circumstances, tell us too to avoid a penalty. Search tell DWP. Hello and welcome to the

0:31.1

retro hour podcast episode number 137, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me

0:37.4

Dan Wood and me, Dan Wood.

0:37.9

And me, Ravi Abbott.

0:39.0

Now, every week on this podcast, we do bring you a special guest on the show.

0:43.3

Some were saying this to me over the weekend.

0:44.7

The thing that I really like about your podcast is, the fact that you kind of document gaming history.

0:50.0

And we are preserving these people's stories for future generations, I suppose, aren't we?

0:54.6

Yeah, and kind of talking to generations, the guests we've got today, the guests are absolutely

0:59.3

fantastic. So we've got Rob Hooson, who now runs Hui Games, which is a kind of tribute to

1:05.7

Husson consultants, which was his father's company. Now, we've had Rob on the podcast before, but he was talking about his new revival and the new kind of Houthan. We wanted to know about the old stuff. So we've got Andrew on this panel, and it's fantastic we get all stories about all the old school games that he used to do. Name some titles, Dan. Eurydium. Everyone remembers that game from Houston Consultants? Cybernoid.

1:28.0

Oh yes.

1:29.0

Pinball fantasies and pinball dreams, if you remember. They had the whole kind of pinball genre locked down, didn't they? Well, that was after Houston, wasn't it? When, Houston went under in 91, then he set up 21st Century Entertainment. That was his next company. very interesting guy with such a big background in British gaming.

1:46.3

I mean, he had a column in Sinclair user that a lot of people remember in the 80s.

1:49.8

Also wrote a book called Hints and Tips for the ZX80,

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