191: Electric Playground: 25 Years of Gaming Highs and Lows - The Retro Hour EP191
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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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. |
| 0:34.5 | Coming up on this week's show, GameStop are opening retro gaming cafes. |
| 0:37.5 | Connecting your modern console to a retro TV. |
| 0:41.8 | And the inside story on one of the longest running game series, we talked to Vic Lucas from Electric Playground. |
| 0:46.7 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 191. |
| 0:51.5 | Your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 0:55.1 | Me, Ravi Abbott. And me Joe Fub. And he's back. The handsomeness is back on the show. |
| 0:59.5 | How long have I been away? About, what, two weeks? Two weeks. |
| 1:02.5 | Been in Sydney Spain, you've been? |
| 1:03.7 | Yeah, I went to Spain. I ditched the show to go spend time with the wife, recharge the batteries. |
| 1:08.6 | You've got a bit of colour on your cheeks, though. Better than that usual, like, metal nightclub glow that you normally have, though. |
| 1:12.6 | What, that pale kind of, like, vampiric glow I usually have. Yeah, why have you got white makeup on your face, Joe? I'm not, it's my natural glow. No, it's just me. Nice to have you back, though, Joe. Thank you. Thanks for having me. It's good to have full crew on this week, so we've got some amazing stories to talk about. |
| 1:26.5 | And also, we're going to be covering a show that a lot of our audience |
| 1:29.5 | will probably only know from online if you live in Europe or the UK. But it was a massive show back in the day on television in Canada, in America, in Australia as well. And this is actually one of the longest running video games, kind of, you know, sources I want to say, |
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