195: Arcade Perfect: The Best and Worst Home Arcade Ports - The Retro Hour EP195
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2019
⏱️ 68 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 |
| 0:22.8 | 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 show, |
| 0:31.8 | Remax of House of the Dead and Golden I-O-7, |
| 0:35.0 | how Amstrad rejected Bill Gates, |
| 0:37.4 | and we talk home arcade ports with author David Craddock. |
| 0:43.4 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 195. |
| 0:48.3 | Your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 0:51.8 | Me Ravi Abbott. |
| 0:52.8 | And me Joe Fox. |
| 0:53.6 | And aren't we sounding healthy? Considering we were at Amiga Germany last weekend, Ravi. Well, we're actually going to fly off. We're just recording this ahead. That is how prepared we are for. It's said to be a large weekend. Now, if you're listening to this and you were there, I'm sure you've seen the videos of vlogs. You've probably seen the embarrassing dancers, yeah. Probably mainly by me. If you did come along, I hope you had a wonderful time. We did think it wise maybe to get two shows in the bag before we went, so we are recording this in advance. So if you did come along to Amiga Germany and we met you there, I'm sure it was lovely to meet you. But if you haven't come along to see the retro hour live at any point in 2019, we were thinking the other day how many events we've done and how many different countries. I mean, we started the year in Ireland. And then I went to Poland, pixel heaven, retro Spill Messon in Norway, a couple of play expos at the start of the summer too. We did obviously the event in Nottingham last weekend. We've been all over. Yeah, it's crazy. When you put it like that, I can't think that we've been to this many events, but actually we're doing one in your old stomping ground, which is in the countryside. So this is going to be the first kind of rural event that we've done. Yeah, now this is going to be happening in the lovely little town of Thursk in North Yorkshire. And this is a really cool event, |
| 2:03.1 | actually. I think it's the first one they've done. Yeah, now this is going to be happening in the lovely little town of Thirsk in North Yorkshire. |
| 2:01.5 | And this is a really cool event, actually. I think it's the first one they've done. |
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