240: The Games That Weren't - The Retro Hour EP240
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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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. |
| 0:34.0 | Coming up on this week's show, The Return of Turrican, kind of. |
| 0:36.5 | An iconic Sega arcade closes in Japan. And we explore games that work with Frank Gaskin. |
| 0:42.8 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 240. |
| 0:47.0 | Your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 0:51.0 | Me Ravi Abbott. |
| 0:52.0 | And me Joe Fox. |
| 0:53.5 | And a very warm welcome to our first show of September. |
| 0:57.0 | You know, I was just thinking actually normally around this time of year, we're all feeling |
| 1:00.4 | a little bit worn out because we've just had a packed summer full of retro gaming events |
| 1:05.3 | that we've normally been to all across Europe. |
| 1:07.4 | And this year, obviously, with everything that's been going on, they were all cancelled, |
| 1:11.6 | but actually we did a little bit of a virtual gaming convention over the weekend, didn't we? |
| 1:16.5 | Yeah, so we usually go to Retro Spill Messon, which is now known as Retro Messer in Norway. |
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