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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

139: The Atari Jaguar with Bill Rehbock - The Retro Hour EP139

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9558 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The inside story on the Atari Jaguar and Falcon 030 as we take a look at Atari's later days with ex-employee Bill Rehbock.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I can't believe it.

0:03.6

Max has asked me to move in with him.

0:06.0

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

0:09.9

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

0:31.2

Retro Hour podcast episode number 139, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me Dan Wood and me Ravi Abbott.

0:39.5

And hello, if you are listening on Spotify.

0:44.3

We're finally on there.

0:46.0

Finally listed on Spotify. This is fantastic news.

0:49.2

So you can get us on multiple devices on all networks now.

0:54.1

I didn't have a guy last week. You know, when I play the sound effect, he goes, your show's turning into Steve Wright in the afternoon. But I mean, Spotify is something that we've been trying to get on for probably about two years now. Yeah, because it was a kind of curated list, so they picked the podcast, which is really nice of them to consider us yeah and it's got yeah they do they

1:12.6

they kind of look at podcasts that are going to fit into the rest of their catalog and what's going to complement them and we've really got a bigger part of new provider audio boom for helping us get on there as well now we did say this on last week's show um i know people dip in and out of episodes but you do need to change your RSS feeds if you need to do it manually. Or if you listen on SoundCloud at the moment,

1:30.1

you start using Audio Boom, so I think there was still about like 3,000 people. Listen on SoundCloud last weekend. If you listen on iTunes or Google Play or most apps, it should change over on its own, but, you know, the show is hosted now on Audio Boom, and we're going to face SoundCloud out in the the next couple of months yeah and we're going to repeat this a lot because not everybody listens to every episode so they'll be like oh why has it disappeared by December when we come off soundclad I want like two people to be listening on there not like not like 3,000 so uh yeah we'll put all that information if you need to change your rSS feeds like I said for most people your people, your apps will do it. Your mobile apps will all do it automatically. You know, we're working with those at the moment. But if you need the feeds manually, all you've got to do is head to our website of the retro hour.com. Now, what a show we've got this week. A topic that actually is very close to my heart, but not really something that we've covered on this podcast,

2:18.2

a lot actually quite amazingly.

2:19.8

Yeah, so we're talking to Bill Rebock, and Bill is, like, fantastic.

2:24.7

He worked for Atari, and his kind of job was hunting down the games for the Jaguar.

2:29.7

Yeah.

2:29.9

So, you know, he got Doom, which was just an amazing port, an alien- vs Predator. But then he also went on to work with the new one. Yeah. You know, and... What is a new one then for people that might not know? Well, the new one was a DVD kind of gaming system, and a lot of Atari X staffers joined there and tried to make this new universal DVD format that you could play games on. So we're going to cover that and we're going to cover stuff like the legendary Atari Falcon. Yeah, because I mean, you know, a lot of people think of me and you as Amiga fanboys, which admittedly we are. But I mean, the Atari Jaguar is the only concept I collect for. I'm an Amiga fanboy, but when I saw a Falcon and the video playback

3:08.2

on that, I knew, I knew that that was better than the Amiga-1200's video playback. So you couldn't

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