206: Flight of The Amazon Queen & TY The Tasmanian Tiger - The Retro Hour EP206
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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| 0:25.3 | It all starts with skills. See how you can get started. Search skills for life. Coming up on this |
| 0:31.0 | week's show, Royal Mail goes retro. New online enabled gaming cabinets. And we talked to Australian Video Games pioneer John Hasfield. |
| 0:40.6 | This week's show is brought to you by future publishing, the name behind your favourite gaming magazines. |
| 0:46.1 | And The Economist, a smart guide to the forces changing your world. |
| 0:52.0 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 206, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 1:00.2 | Me Ravi Abbott and me Joe Faw. |
| 1:01.8 | And a very warm welcome to this week's show. |
| 1:03.7 | Now, this of course is a podcast where we like to call it, I mean, we are all still fans of modern video games. |
| 1:08.7 | We just got to get that out there. |
| 1:09.8 | But we like to cover what we call the golden age of video games. The retro age. The retro games. You think about this. I mean, the amount of stuff that we've covered on the show over the four years that we've been doing this now, thinking back to, you know, where the video games industry came from, stuff like Pong back in the day in the late 70s. And now it's the biggest form of entertainment |
| 1:28.8 | in the world, even bigger than Hollywood, even bigger than music. And every week on the show, |
| 1:33.8 | we like to explore and get down and dirty and bring you the stories behind the companies |
| 1:38.6 | and the people who actually made this massive global industry what it is today. |
| 1:42.4 | And I think that word's correct global. |
| 1:44.8 | Yeah. Because if you think about it, we've got places like Japan that really innovated with |
| 1:49.4 | video games. The American industry is totally different to the European industry. And also, |
| 1:55.0 | there's Australia and New Zealand. And today, we actually have Australia's premier video games |
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