150: Australian Retro 2D Adventures & Nostalgia Nerd - The Retro Hour EP150
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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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. |
| 0:21.3 | 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. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 150. Your weekly dose of retro gaming |
| 0:36.4 | and technology news with me Dan Wood and me Ravi Abbott. Another landmark 150. Your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. And me, Ravi Abbott. Oh, another landmark, 150 episodes of this podcast. It's crazy. We've been coming in here for 150 weeks. And I'm still not sick to death of the sight of you just yet, really. Well, you only see the top of my head. Exactly. It's time behind the monitor if I don't know look at it. But no, we do love doing this podcast. |
| 0:54.8 | And I thought it might be a good opportunity, actually, because we've, you know, you mentioned the other week that we've entered a new category in iTunes. We're top 10 in the video games chart, which was amazing. Yeah, we've moved out of the tech news into the category where we belong, I think, video games, actually. And also we're on audio boom now as well. |
| 1:10.7 | The stats actually, you know, I think we've pretty much doubled our audience in about three months, which, you know, we doubled it from the year before, so that's crazy how quickly the show's growing. But I thought it might be a good opportunity to kind of do a bit of a welcome to people that may have just stumbled across the podcast recently, because we've been lifelong fans of video games, haven't we? |
| 1:28.0 | Totally, yeah. |
| 1:29.1 | My whole youth, and I still spend every day kind of looking up stuff and playing on them. |
| 1:33.5 | I know I should grow up, but I won't. |
| 1:35.3 | We never will. |
| 1:36.4 | Boys in our Toys. |
| 1:37.9 | Well, we actually got a little tweet through in the week from Sean. |
| 1:40.2 | And he said, you know, Dan and Ravi, you always start your interviews by asking your |
| 1:43.5 | interviewees, what's your first computer gaming experience? |
| 1:46.6 | I've never heard yours. What is it? |
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