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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

210: Trip Hawkins: EA, Apple and 3DO Stories - The Retro Hour EP210

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9558 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Atari themed hotels: https://bit.ly/2Uy1ENo
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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 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 where you can stay in a retro gaming hotel.

0:34.8

Why Nintendo almost changed their iconic logo.

0:37.6

We get the inside story of EA and Freedio with Trip Horkin.

0:47.2

This week's show is brought to you by The Economist.

0:49.6

The Smart Guide to the Forces Changing Your World.

0:52.4

Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 210, your weekly dose of retro

0:57.7

gaming and technology news with me, Daniel Malcolm Wood.

1:00.9

Malcolm Wood, okay, with me Ravi James Abbott.

1:04.3

And me, Joseph Elliott Fox.

1:06.8

I don't know where that came from.

1:08.0

What's his middle name by?

1:09.5

Some reason Joe just mentioned that his middle name was Elliot, which I've known you for like a decade, and I didn't know that about you. Named after E.T. Yeah, I don't know. Why did I even mention that? I literally mentioned it two seconds ago. So we all just started saying what our middle name is. We all find out something that we didn't know about each other there. Welcome to this week's show. now we we are going to be joined by someone on this week's podcast, too. I'll be honest, I've wanted to have this guest on ever since we've started this show over four years ago now. Now, we are going to be joined by The Man Behind, the legendary electronic arts, Tripp Hawkins, is going to be our guest on this week's show. Now, if you can name, you know, like the biggest game companies in the world, I think, you know, even though they haven't got the best rep these days online, I must say, but EA would be up there in the top five. Yeah, EA are probably like, you know, in terms of kind of like, obviously you've got Nintendo and Sony, like making their own games and stuff, but in terms of third party developers straight away, the big ones are EA, Capcom, Namco, really. But I would say EA are probably one of the top, still are one of the biggest in the world. So it's crazy that you managed to get him on. And Tripp is, he's a really interesting guy because he actually came up with the idea of EA years before he started it. Okay. Yeah, which we'll hear about in this

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