I can't believe it.

Max has asked me to move in with him.

I mean, you practically live with each other already, but that's great.

Did you hear that, Joe?

Yes, thanks for letting us know.

I see you've updated your universal credit claim.

Now you're going to be living together.

If you're telling other people about a change in your circumstances,

tell us too to avoid a penalty.

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Coming up on this week's show, a rare Sega arcade cabinet is found abandoned.

The new Mortal Kombat movie trailer has landed.

And we reminisce about the BBC Micro with the creator of Frack, Nick Pelling.

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I haven't been drinking during the day, just to reassure you guys if I sound a lot bit slurry. That sounds like something somebody would say who's been drinking in the day to come up. Good afternoon. Well, I did finish at 2pm today. What else are you going to do in the afternoon? apart from play retro video games

they go get it back on topic

now this is a show where each week we reminisce about classic video games. We take you behind the scenes and get the stories of the people that made them, the people that made our childhoods essentially, which is one of the reasons I love doing this show. And that was always the aim. You know, often we get interviewed by people and they're like, you know, why did you start doing this podcast? For me, it was really to find out these stories from the guests that we get each week. Yeah, there's nothing better than getting it from the horse's mouth and, you know, kind of getting all these stories and also finding out the truth, because a lot of the time we check out Wikipedia and stuff, and it's all a bit inaccurate. So actually getting the guys to talk is really fantastic. And this week, you know, we've got someone who's really great. This is Nick Pelling, and he was a BBC Micro developer and the creator of Frack. Yeah, I mean, Frack was a really impressive game on the BBC Micro. I had that, like, you know, proper arcade feel to it as well.

And actually, Frack's just been re-released on Steam.

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