238: Text Adventure Games: History and Rebirth - The Retro Hour EP238

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 558 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Show notes:

AstroPede Sega Lost game: https://bit.ly/3l10cOb
Internet Exporer is dead: https://bit.ly/2CJ2EHZ
Demons ate my neighbours: https://bit.ly/3l50m7s
Open AI text adventure GPT-3: https://bit.ly/3l0d9YG
AtBoy: https://bit.ly/3hfpnKv

Transcript

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0:01.0	Potential.
0:02.0	Potential can sometimes feel daunting, scary.
0:07.0	But today's the day you decide to act on it with a higher technical qualification.
0:13.0	Designed with employers, it will give you the skills you need to land the job you want,
0:18.0	because today is your day.
0:24.5	When anything is possible, if you make it happen.
0:26.6	It all starts with skills.
0:28.3	See how you can get started.
0:29.9	Search skills for life.
0:33.8	Coming up on this week's show, we say goodbye to Internet Explorer.
0:35.8	A lost Sega game has been found. And we chat text adventure history with Chris Ainsley.
0:43.3	This week's episode is brought to you by Beer 52, the world's most popular craft beer Discovery Club.
0:49.7	Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 238, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood.
0:58.1	Me Ravi Abbott.
0:59.1	And me, Joe Fox.
1:00.4	And welcome to this week's show.
1:02.6	That best bit of the week, I think, just before the weekend when we get to geek out for an hour or so about our favorite topic, retro video games.
1:10.2	And I don't know about you got, this
1:11.0	really is the highlight of the week for me doing this. I haven't got really much to look forward
1:14.9	to at the moment. So this is my week. I love the enthusiasm from Ravi. Yeah. For me, I absolutely
1:23.9	love doing the show. Absolutely love it. And you know what else I absolutely love doing, Dan?
1:27.9	I absolutely love doing our Patreon hangouts. Yes. Oh, yeah. But this weekend? Yes. So I just wanted to get that out there because I know last time we kind of mentioned it like a few days before and we only had a couple of people on there. So get on there. It's this. Is it this Sunday? This coming Sunday, I see.
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