257: Die Hard Trilogy & C64 Arcade Ports - The Retro Hour EP257
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Die Hard Trilogy, Making of: https://youtu.be/HVgokAf416Q
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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. |
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| 0:30.0 | Coming up on this week's show, a new game for the least successful console ever. |
| 0:35.6 | A cheap solution for upscaling your Amiga. |
| 0:38.1 | And we get the inside story on Die Hard Trilogy with Simon Pick. |
| 0:47.9 | The Retro Hour podcast is brought to you each week by our incredible friends at Bitmap Books. |
| 0:52.7 | And if you're a fan of the Game Boy, |
| 0:59.7 | look out for their amazing new Game Boy, the Box Art Collection, coming very soon from their website, |
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| 1:09.0 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 257, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 1:11.3 | Me Ravi Abbott and me, Joe Fox. |
| 1:13.9 | And a very warm welcome to our weekly retro gaming geek out session |
| 1:18.5 | where we reminisce about the golden age of video games. |
| 1:21.5 | And we bring you a veteran of the industry as a guest on the show each week. |
| 1:26.9 | Now, today we're going to cover so much |
| 1:29.3 | with our guests this week. We're going to be joined by Simon Pick, who he did a load of stuff, |
| 1:34.0 | including he was kind of the guy who was known originally as the king of doing Commodore 64 |
| 1:39.4 | arcade conversions, wasn't he? Yeah, so, you know, UC64 fans are really going to love this. |
| 1:45.8 | He did Silkworm, work with that team, Gradius, Shinobi, Narc, pretty big titles. |
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