256: Sinclair - The Inside Story with Nigel Searle - The Retro Hour EP256
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2021
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Workboy Lost Game Boy addon: https://bit.ly/2LgEsAI
DOSBox Pure: https://bit.ly/3hxlkdH
The Simpsons Bug Squad: https://bit.ly/3rK8XiW
Raspberry Pi full movies from floppy disk: https://bit.ly/3rSDo6X
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, I'm one of their biggest fans. I've got all the vinyl. First saw them at a tiny little place in Camden. |
| 0:07.0 | Then as festival headliners a few years back, now that was special. So there's no chance I'd miss their world tour. |
| 0:15.2 | In London, Lisbon and LA, good thing I've been saving. From down the road to across the globe, |
| 0:22.2 | saving gets you there. |
| 0:23.7 | Join the millions of people already saving with NS&I. |
| 0:27.3 | Visit NS&I.com. |
| 0:30.0 | Coming up on this week's show, |
| 0:31.7 | how the Game Boy was nearly turned into a PDA. |
| 0:35.1 | A Lost Simpson's Dreamcast game has been revealed. |
| 0:37.8 | We get the inside story of Sinclair with former MD Nigel Searle. |
| 0:47.3 | This week's show is brought to you by Bitmap Books. |
| 0:50.0 | Keep listening for details for their incredible new Game Boy book. |
| 0:53.4 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 256, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 1:02.1 | Me Ravi Abbott. |
| 1:03.2 | And me, Joe Fox. |
| 1:04.4 | And welcome to our first show of 2021. |
| 1:09.7 | The only way is up. I feel like we should set fireworks off or something now. |
| 1:14.3 | I know. We should use our like roadcasters just to do like the applause and stuff like that. |
| 1:19.4 | It's like, yeah. I'll mix them in. I'll mix them in in post. It's fine. Go for it. Oh man, |
| 1:24.6 | what a crazy. Yeah. It's, it's good for it to be, it's a good feeling knowing it's 20-21 now, a really good feeling, just knowing that that's behind us. But you know what? It's, it's been a good year for us for the podcast and that's thanks to everybody. But really, Ravi is right. The only way is up. We've got a wicked guest this week, haven't we, Ravi? We have. But before we mention that, I just want to say something that I'm not sure if you guys realise. This is actually our fifth birthday as well, this show. Oh, is it? My God, really? Five years old. We started, yeah, 1st of January. 2016 was our first show. So, yeah, five years that we've been doing this podcast now. |
| 2:02.6 | Oh, wow. I did not know that. It feels like a lifetime. |
| 2:06.2 | No, it doesn't feel like five years. But like you said, we have got an incredible guest to |
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