202: 1980s Home Computer Wars - The Retro Hour EP202
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2019
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Playstation is 25: https://bit.ly/2LHgJXN
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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, |
| 0:31.7 | the PlayStation is 25. |
| 0:34.3 | Breathing new life into old games. |
| 0:36.4 | And the man who was closest to Jack Tremille tells us about the launch of the Commodore 64. |
| 0:44.5 | This week's show is brought to you by future publishing, the brand behind the biggest names in gaming magazines. |
| 0:51.4 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 202, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood, me Ravi Abbott and me Joe Farmer. |
| 1:01.2 | And a very warm welcome to this week's show. Now this is actually our final normal show of 20... |
| 1:07.6 | Well, if you can call this podcast a normal. It's our last one that's going to be typical format of the year. |
| 1:11.9 | Yeah, because we do |
| 1:12.8 | like a reflection show next week |
| 1:14.6 | and then we've got dun-tun the Christmas quiz. Oh gosh, have you all been knuckling down, lads? That's the thing. I mean, for people that are new to the podcast because, you know, we've had quite a lot of new listeners coming over the last couple of months. |
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