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And I'm Ravi. And before we get into this year's retro, our annual Christmas super quiz,

this is our last episode of 2018. Oh, it's so awesome. What a good year. And we just want to take a quick minute before we get into the quiz. Just to say a big thank you to the people who make the Retro Hour podcast possible have allowed us to do this all throughout 2018 and into 2019 as well. And they are our loyal donators. Now, this week we just want to say A big thank you to Lawrence Benion. Falco. Nigel Wilkinson.

An Anand. and they are our loyal donators. Now, this week we just want to say a big thank you to Lawrence Benion.

Falco.

Nigel Wilkinson and Andrew P. Jones.

Who all made donations into the running of the show.

And if you'd like to do that and help us out, run the show into 2019.

All you've got to do is nip onto our website at the Retrohour.com.

And we also just want to take a quick moment to give a big thank you to the

economist as well. Now, the economists have been a really big supporter of our podcast over the last couple of months. And the thing is, before we started reading The Economist, I think just by the name, because it's been going so long, 170 years. The Economist has been out now. It's, you know, very well established. But by the name, I assumed it was going to be all about, like, the economy and finance and that kind of thing. But actually it's bang on target for our podcast

because there is lots of technology and video games articles in here, too. Now, we've been reading about one called Petronia. It's kind of all about serious video games. It's like new genre that's coming around. I mean, there's one they're talking about here called the fiscal ship, where players get to try and cut America's public debt while meeting national goals.

So essentially get to play the president, really.

Yeah, it's really strange, because if you remember Papers, please, that was a really popular indie game.

And it was kind of based around being an immigration officer in a kind of eastern

block soviet style so getting it put into these positions that you'd never usually be in can

actually be really fun if you think about a lot of the games like the early ones you'd have stuff like

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