220: Micro Men: The British Home Computer Wars - The Retro Hour EP220
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2020
⏱️ 66 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 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, why your granddad might want to come out of retirement. |
| 0:35.0 | Rumours of the next big Resident Evil remake. |
| 0:37.2 | And the story of the |
| 0:38.4 | British Home Computer Wars with Tony Sain. |
| 0:44.0 | This week's show is brought to you by Retro Gamer, the Essential Guide to Classic Games. |
| 0:50.5 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 220, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 0:58.7 | Me Ravi Abbott and me Joe Fox. |
| 1:01.2 | And can I just say how much I miss you guys? |
| 1:04.1 | I can't believe I haven't seen you for like two weeks now because again, we are recording this week's show, of course, remotely. |
| 1:09.9 | I think it went all right last week, though, judging by the reaction. Yeah, some people seem to really like it. And, you know, they said Joe was a slightly bit echoy. Yeah, I've tried to sort that. So I've moved from the kitchen to the spare room, which does mean I've sat on the floor right now behind the couch, but hopefully that will help. The things you do for this podcast, Joe. Absolutely. My back's in bits. We did have people commenting going, yeah, all sounding good guys, but you know, how big is Joe's kitchen? It sounds cavernous. You've actually moved into the west wing of your house. Yeah, exactly. Can I just say, it is a big kitchen, but it's because it's a kitchen diner. |
| 1:46.3 | It's because you're a rocker, they think you're like Ozzy Osbourne and this kind of huge. |
| 1:51.4 | He's actually on a Lilo in his swimming pool at the moment. |
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