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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

258: The Gaming Historian - The Retro Hour EP258

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9558 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Show notes:  

Sonic 1 protoype discovered: https://bit.ly/35DYVqc
Xbox Emulation improving: https://bit.ly/3oJMnoH
Bleem! is back as a digital game store: https://bit.ly/2LuBeKc
21 year Gameboy game: https://bit.ly/3oI8lIU
Infinity game table: https://cnet.co/3i99SoV

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, 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, BLEAM is back for the 21st century.

0:35.6

A rare Sonic 1 prototype has been found.

0:38.2

And we talked to the King of Gaming Documentaries, the Gaming Historian.

0:47.4

The Retro Hour is brought to you each week by our friends at Bitmap Books.

0:51.2

And their latest book, Game Boy, the Box Art Collection, is a celebration

0:55.5

of the best cover artwork on the Game Boy and is available now from their website, bitmapbooks.

1:00.5

com.com.

1:01.1

Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 258, your weekly dose of retro gaming

1:08.8

and technology news with me, Dan Wood.

1:10.8

You Robbie Abbott and me, Joe Fox. And a very warm welcome to this week's show. Now, hopefully, you're not too tired, Ravi. I've been working quite hard over the last couple of weeks. Yeah, I went for a mad one. I've got like five guests in a row. And this is amazing because we're not usually that far ahead,

1:28.2

are we done? Especially not at this time of year. But I think it's fair to say, I think we've hit

1:33.4

the ground running in 2021 so far. Now, of course, we've already had an episode all about

1:38.4

Sinclair with Nigel Searle. Last week, a special about the Die Hard Trilogy with Simon Pick.

1:45.3

That has got some lovely reaction.

1:47.1

And I thought we actually tried quite high in the Apple Podcast chart with that one as well.

1:51.0

Yeah, they've really been doing well.

1:52.6

And I was amazed by the reaction behind Die Hard Trilogy.

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