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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

168: U.S Gold and Virgin Games with Tim Chaney - The Retro Hour EP168

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9558 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2019

⏱️ 75 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.

0:21.3

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 168, your weekly dose of retro

0:35.7

gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood.

0:38.2

And me, Ravi Abbott.

0:39.3

And welcome to this week's show. Now, today we've got so much that we need to cram into this

0:44.8

one hour-ish that this podcast is going to last this week.

0:48.4

Not only are we going to cover one company that changed the face of British video games

0:53.4

back in the day, not just two, but in fact

0:55.6

three huge companies with our guests this week, Tim Cheney. Now, one of them is the company that

1:02.8

was responsible for bringing, do you remember those really glamorous games that we'd hear about

1:07.2

in America, stuff like, you know, summer games and winter games and arcade, stuff like, you know, guntlet and Outrun.

1:13.6

Today we're going to be talking about US gold.

1:16.2

They were the all-American software company, weren't they?

1:19.0

They kind of bought the stuff over, converted it for our home systems and got that wider market.

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