165: From Zork to The Dark Room with John Robertson - The Retro Hour EP165

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 558 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we discuss everything from brutal Infocom text adventures, retro gaming TV and the story of "The Dark Room", the world's only live-action adventure videogame with the wonderful John Robertson.

The Dark Room: https://www.thejohnrobertson.com/thedarkroom/

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Live action Sonic not going down well: https://bit.ly/2U1Ar5B
Civitas Nihilium: https://bit.ly/2FnyRBE
Lost NES wrestling game digitised: https://bit.ly/2HxUUJz
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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 165, your weekly dose of retro gaming
0:36.1	and technology news with me Dan Wood. Me Ravi Abbott me, Joe Fox. And welcome to this week's show. Now, we did say weekly. This podcast comes out every single Friday. And the aim of it is we like to kind of let you know what's happening in the world of retro gaming, which people always think, how can there be new stuff happening in retro? There is all the time. and if you check us out you can go the retro hour dot com you can listen to us through iTunes Stitcher
1:00.1	audio boom so many different services but also you can check us on YouTube as well yeah so we're all over the place and every week
1:06.7	Ravi I and Joe Joe's often here as well when he can you know, tear himself away from his rock and roll lifestyle on the road.
1:13.1	Oh, I don't know about that.
1:13.9	And just groupies and everything. But we like to bring you up to speed in what's been happening this week. For example, I mean, retro gaming is so big at the moment. There's actually going to be a movie about Sonic the Hedgehog that's going to be out this summer. that's had a bit of a mixed reaction from what we've seen so far of it.
1:27.0	We'll talk about that in a minute.
1:28.2	And also, the last blockbuster store in the world. It's down to one. We'll talk about that in just a bit. And every week on the podcast, we bring you a special guest as well. Now, the guy we've got this week is really interesting. We met him at Play Expo in Manchester, didn't we? A couple of years ago. Yeah, I think this is the first comedian we've had on the podcast.
1:47.3	And this guy... We met him at Play Expo in Manchester, didn't we, a couple of years ago? Yeah, I think this is the first comedian we've had on the podcast.
1:47.3	And this guy is absolutely hilarious.
1:50.1	He's John Robertson, and he's basically done a game called The Dark Room.
1:53.7	So this game is based on a text adventure.
1:57.3	On stage, you have random choices.
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