142: Simon The Sorcerer with Mike Woodroffe - The Retro Hour EP142
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
It's Adventure Month and we talk to founder of AdventureSoft Mike Woodroffe about classics like Elvira, Waxworks and Simon The Sorcerer.
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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. |
| 0:21.4 | If you're telling other people about a change in your circumstances, tell us too to avoid a |
| 0:26.7 | penalty. Search tell DWP. |
| 0:30.1 | We're in the middle of Adventure Month here at the Retro Hour podcast where all this month we |
| 0:34.2 | are celebrating the art of point and click adventure games, |
| 0:38.1 | the new wonderful book from our friends at Bitmap Books, which is out right now. |
| 0:42.0 | Now, we're going to tell you more about it in the next 15 minutes, |
| 0:44.3 | but check out theretrohour.com right now to get a look at it and get your hands on a copy, |
| 0:48.9 | either by winning or buying it now. |
| 0:50.9 | Hello, and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 142, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. And me, Ravi Abbott. Can I be honest with you, I've never been so pleased to be in here doing the podcast. Gets me away from Moving House for an hour. Oh God. They say that's like one of the hardest things you can do in your life moving house. |
| 1:11.1 | I've done it about 11 times because, you know, my job takes me all over the country, but it never gets an easier. No, and Dan's without internet. What's you going to do? I know, so this show gets uploaded really early, probably at like midnight. It's because when the show comes out on Friday, that is a day that I'm actually moving out into my new place. and I've got no internet for the weekend, so I'm already breaking out in a cold sweat. |
| 1:29.5 | Well, we've also been no internet for the weekend. |
| 1:29.3 | So I'm already breaking out and I cold sweat. |
| 1:46.2 | Well, we've also been having fun on the internet. I've been live streaming, which is a kind of a first for the retro hour, isn't it? You've been playing games. Well, yeah, I was playing police quest, but I was playing really badly. You can check the live stream on the Facebook page, also Twitter and on YouTube. |
| 1:46.2 | But it's about two hours long. I was playing really badly. You could check the live stream on the Facebook page, also Twitter and on YouTube. |
| 1:50.8 | But it's about two hours long, and I didn't know Police Quest was so dramatic. |
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