152: The Best of 2018 In Retro - The Retro Hour EP152
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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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 |
| 0:31.1 | Retro Hour podcast episode number 153. Your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me Dan Wood.. Be Ravi Abbott. And me, Joe Farr. Who is back again. We've got it on every week now in the run-up to Christmas Joe. What a little Christmas present this is? I'm not next week as well. I've told you, I'm studying. I'm keeping it fresh and keeping it in my mind. I've got to know everything. I've got to be ultimate book of knowledge for video games for next week. He's just sitting there looking over our shoulder. What's that article about? What are you reading there? What games have you been playing, boys? Because next week is, of course, the biggest one of the year, the one that we always look forward to. You guys, admittedly, with a bit of nervous anticipation. The retro hour annual Christmas super quiz is going to be back next week |
| 1:12.3 | oh it's so much fun you know we've had listeners say that they listen along with the quiz |
| 1:17.2 | yeah kind of answer and they probably beat us yeah absolutely yeah now you know i don't have |
| 1:22.2 | rub it in guys but you have lost two years in a row yeah um paul drury and ollie wilmot are coming |
| 1:26.9 | back next week. |
| 1:27.6 | Now, we did actually talk about the possibility of swapping the teams up a little bit to make it a bit fairer. Paul and Ollie were outraged at that suggestion, so we're not going to do that. Well, we've got a guy from Retro Gamer there, and we've got a guy who runs his own video game quiz. Yeah. But then again we have the two guys who actually host |
| 1:45.6 | One of the world's biggest retro game in podcasts |
| 1:47.4 | Absolutely, you know guy who runs his own video game quiz. Yeah. But then again, we have the two guys who actually host one of the world's biggest retro gaming podcasts. Absolutely. So on home turf this year. We need a win, boys. I'll just get... I'll just get Joe to scream some metal at them if they... They've released. Like that Apex Twin Video where the hair all just goes back. So the Retro Hour Super Quiz is coming up next week. |
| 2:19.6 | I'm really working on the questions while you boys. It's taking it easy. Rest up for the next week. And in fact, today, I don't want to taxi too much. I thought we'd have a little look back on what an incredible year 2018 has been. I do want a couple of little stats? Oh, yeah, totally. Okay. 51 episodes of the retro hour podcast released in 2018 My God |
| 2:20.5 | 54 Do you want a couple of little stats? Oh, yeah, totally. Okay. 51 episodes of the retro hour podcast released in 2018. |
| 2:19.9 | My God. |
| 2:21.0 | 54.5 hours of podcasting we've done. |
| 2:24.7 | We ran over slightly. |
| 2:26.5 | 11 events we've attended in the last 12 months. |
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