167: The History of Sierra Adventure Games with Shawn Mills - The Retro Hour EP167

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 558 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Plus/4 Mini: https://youtu.be/2PkHWLCPgNs
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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.
0:23.6	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 167, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood.
0:38.2	And me, Ravi Abbott.
0:39.3	And welcome to the first show of April.
0:42.6	It still blows my mind that went out to the fourth month of 2019 already.
0:46.4	It's crazy, isn't it?
0:47.5	Have you been fooled yet, Dan?
0:49.4	Yeah, I mean, I did get through Monday unscathed.
0:52.2	But there is always, I mean, in the technology industry,
0:54.3	there's always the traditional April Fool's jokes that do the rounds. Google always do like so many
0:59.7	every year. The one I really like this year is that they actually put a real-life working version of
1:04.7	snake into Google Maps. Oh, that's awesome. I actually didn't spot any April Fool, so maybe I have been fooled and I don't know about it.
1:12.8	You are the fool? Yeah, there you go. Well, the one I always see on the Facebook groups and people were doing it again this year in the retro selling groups. You must have seen these in the past. It's like, okay, guys, I'm moving away to Spain this weekend. my entire collection.
1:26.3	I've got N64 DD system.
1:28.2	I've got Atari Jaguar with CD-ROM.
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