176: The History of The Vectrex - The Retro Hour EP176

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 558 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Show notes:

Colossus new revelations: https://bit.ly/2wHRZ9D
Back in 1995: https://bit.ly/2K4P1Vl
Arcade Club opens in Leeds: https://www.arcadeclub.co.uk/leeds/
Vectrex Mini: https://bit.ly/2XyVdrW

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	Coming up on this week's episode of the Retro Hour podcast, how you can travel back to 1995.
0:36.4	New revelations about the machine that helped win the Second World War.
0:40.1	And we'll be joined by Chris Romero to get the story of the legendary Vectrex console.
0:49.8	Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 176, your weekly dose of retro gaming
0:56.2	and technology news with me Dan Wood and me Ravi Abbott.
0:59.2	I know Joe this week because he's exploring game shops in Japan.
1:02.5	I've been watching, giving it a nice, his Instagram feed.
1:04.9	Looks like he might already have.
1:06.5	Probably more than his weight allowance on the plane back will allow by the looks of it.
1:10.8	He's going to be ripping cartridges out of the boxes at the airport, trying to fit them all in. Stuff them in his trousers and his pants and everything. So this week, just me and you're avie, but, you know, what a show we've got lined up. I mean, you may have noticed something a little bit different at the start of this week's podcast there. Oh my God, we've changed the intro tune, but, you know, we've wanted to have an intro tune of our own for such a long time, like a custom one, because we've used one from a game trailer before. Copy right? Yeah. So it's really good to have our own, and we've actually got this one composed by Mike Clark as well. Now, Mike Clark, we had him on one of our early episodes, didn't we? Yeah, for Cynosis.
1:45.0	Yeah, I mean, he worked for Cynosis for years. And games like Bill's Tomato game that I loved on the Amiga back in the day, Microcosm, Globdule, Lemmings, too, the tribes did music on that as well. A bit later on stuff like Wip Out 64, Wip Out 3, Destruction, Derby Raw. So, I mean, you know, legendary composer, and we often see him at shows.
2:02.4	I mean, we're hanging out at the bar withby, Raw. So, I mean, you know, legendary composer,
2:00.9	and we often see him at shows.
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