177: Commodore Vic 20 Story with Neil Harris - The Retro Hour EP 177
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
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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, |
| 0:25.4 | tell us too to avoid a penalty. |
| 0:27.8 | Search Tell DWP. |
| 0:30.0 | Coming up on this week's episode of the Retro Hour podcast, |
| 0:33.1 | how you can experience your N64 games in Glorious HD. |
| 0:38.3 | Play Mario on your Amiga. |
| 0:40.4 | And we get the lowdown on the Commodore VIC-20 from Neil Harris, one of the original launch team. |
| 0:49.5 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 177, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood, and me Ravi Abbott. |
| 0:58.8 | And welcome to this week's show. |
| 1:00.8 | Now, we are going to be talking about a system that even though, you know, we've talked about Commodore a lot on this podcast. |
| 1:07.0 | You know, the Amiga, we've talked about a lot of the Commodore 64 as well. |
| 1:10.1 | But there is really one machine by Commodore that was, you know, their first real big hit, I guess. It was the first machine to reach one million units sold. And that was the Commodore VIC-20. Yes, yes, the VIC-20 is mentioned by a lot of our guests, but we really haven't done much focusing on it, so I think this is going to be a really good app. |
| 1:45.6 | Now, remember we had Scott Adams on talking about those text adventures that he made on the VIC-20, and he's a big fan of that machine. I mean, I think at one stage, the entire top five of the VIC-20 sales chart, even though it was a graphical system were those Scott Adams adventure games. And do you remember William Shatner, Captain Kirk was in the TV adverts for him as well? So this week we are going to be joined by a really interesting guy called Neil Harris, |
| 1:47.6 | who was not only, remember William Shatner, Captain Kirk was in the TV adverts for him as well. So this week we are |
| 1:44.8 | going to be joined by a really interesting guy called Neil Harris, who was not only one of the |
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