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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

189: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater: The Inside Story with Ralph D'Amato - The Retro Hour EP189

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9558 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

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Show notes:

Micropose tease return: https://bit.ly/2m2nb1p
Ultra-rare NES-era Konami games discovered: https://bit.ly/2lAXQLM
Disney classic games collection: https://bit.ly/2lFwq7G
Intel adds 'retro scaling' to graphics drivers: https://bit.ly/2kvEeIE
SEGA's Yu Suzuki would like to revisit Out Run And Virtua Fighter: https://bit.ly/2lFwxQE


Transcript

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0:01.0

Potential.

0:02.0

Potential can sometimes feel daunting, scary.

0:07.0

But today's the day you decide to act on it with a higher technical qualification.

0:13.0

Designed with employers, it will give you the skills you need to land the job you want,

0:18.0

because today is your day.

0:24.5

When anything is possible, if you make it happen.

0:26.6

It all starts with skills.

0:28.3

See how you can get started.

0:29.9

Search skills for life.

0:31.6

Coming up on this week's show,

0:34.6

some ultra-rek Konami games have been found.

0:37.0

A huge company from the past is reborn.

0:38.9

And we get the inside story on the biggest skateboarding game ever. This week's show is brought to you by The Economist,

0:45.6

The Smart Guide to the Forces Changing Your World, and Beer 52, the world's most popular

0:50.4

craft beer discovery club. Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 189

0:58.6

your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me Dan Wood

1:02.4

and me Ravi Abbott and just us too this week

1:05.3

oh you're your sack Joe what's going on

1:07.9

he's away in sunny Spain at the moment now the thing the thing I thought, you know, Joe, obviously,

1:11.7

he spends most of his time in sleazy rock clubs in the middle of the night. He needs to get a bit of sunshine, a bit of vitamin B every now and then. Oh, yeah. He's away for a couple of weeks, but look, we've got an absolutely blinding couple of shows on the way over the next week or two. And I just want to say a big thank you because we've had loads of tweets over the last week

1:28.2

if you are new to the Retro Out of our podcast.

1:30.6

Now last week, we did our first ever crossover podcast episode with the amazing lads from Arcade Attack. The amount of tweets we've had from their listeners going, I hadn't heard the Retro Hour before and I've just come on board this week. It's pretty incredible. It's a great way to kind of inform each it. And also, I'd love to inform the listeners that now the retro hour is actually searchable within Google. So you can search even just retro podcast and we pop up and you can press play straight away. Straight from Google. That blew my mind when you showed me that the other day. So if you are new to the podcast, welcome on board. If you're one of our listeners who've, You know, we get people who've listened to every single show for like nearly four years now. We really appreciate that. Welcome to this week's podcast. We've got a really good one coming up. Now, today we're going to be talking about a legendary sports game. And we did say in the opening then, the biggest skateboarding game ever. Yeah, this is the Tony Hawk skater series,

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