154: How Xbox Took on The Playstation with Microsoft's Robbie Bach - The Retro Hour EP154
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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| 0:30.1 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 154. Your weekly dose of retro gaming |
| 0:36.2 | and technology news with me Dan Wood and me Ravi Abbott. And happy new year. Yes, it's 2019. I'm going to have to get used to writing that down now because it's the first time I've been using it really. Well, never mind writing that down. I'm getting used to what day the week we're on. Yeah. Have you been the same over like Christmas? Every day is like, what day are we on again? Yeah, yeah. It's changed to normal weekdays from like boxing day and New Year's Eve and all of this stuff. Yeah, it was just dates before, wasn't it? So something just tell me apparently it's Friday tomorrow. So I thought we'd better do a new episode of the podcast. Oh yeah. New year, new episode, new guest as well. Yeah, I mean, what a year we've got coming up in 2019. Now, it's really |
| 1:11.6 | weird because even though we only took one week off, we did record a bunch of shows before you went to America. So we kind of haven't done this for a while. Yeah, yeah, this is like the first time since I've been back and I'm slowly putting videos onto my YouTube channel, so there's going to me some great content. |
| 1:27.9 | But I'd like to thank Antic podcast, |
| 1:30.2 | who I met out there. |
| 1:31.0 | They're an Atari. I'm slowly putting videos onto my YouTube channel, so there's going to be some great content. |
| 1:27.9 | But I'd like to thank Antic podcast, who I met out there. |
| 1:31.0 | They're an Atari podcast and the Handy Links podcast as well. |
| 1:35.1 | So there's another Atari one. |
| 1:36.6 | And as you know in America, they love Atari, IBM and all of that stuff. |
| 1:40.7 | So it's great to see all those machines. |
| 1:43.0 | And the guys at the Vintage Computer |
| 1:45.1 | Festival East were really nice. And of course, Adam Spring, who hosted me whilst I was out there. |
| 1:50.0 | So you went out there for like three weeks before Christmas. And I did see a couple of pictures |
| 1:54.0 | that you posted of like kind of been in this massive warehouse surrounded by all these old computers. |
| 1:59.0 | Yeah. So we had a kind of, Adam has very good contacts. |
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