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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

265: Bullfrog with Alex Trowers - The Retro Hour EP265

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9558 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 released: https://bit.ly/3bWfsrW
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Transcript

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0:00.0

I can't believe it.

0:03.6

Max has asked me to move in with him.

0:06.0

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

0:09.9

Did you hear that, Joe?

0:11.5

Yes, thanks for letting us know.

0:14.3

I see you've updated your universal credit claim.

0:17.1

Now you're going to be living together.

0:21.3

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

0:25.4

tell us too to avoid a penalty.

0:27.8

Search Tell DWP.

0:30.0

Coming up on this week's show,

0:31.6

we're Nintendo planning the Switch back in 2006.

0:34.9

Pac-Man joins the Mile High Club,

0:36.6

and we go Inside Bullfrog with Alex Trowers.

0:45.2

The Retro Hour podcast is brought to you each week with our incredible friends at the

0:49.6

amazing Bitmap Books.

0:50.9

And keep listening if you're a fan of the Sega Master System.

0:54.1

And check them out right

0:54.8

now at bitmapbooks.com.com. Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 265, your

1:03.4

weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me Dan Wood, me Ravi Abbott and me Joe Fox.

1:09.5

And welcome to this week's show where we take a bit of time out of modern life. I mean, you're thinking about what's been going on. I'm on a week off at the moment, but still, there's things to do around the house. We're going to take the dog out every day. Joe's just finished a big supermarket trip for about two hours. I've been talking to the cat. They're the highlights of our week.

1:28.0

No, the highlight of our week is getting together and talking about retro games for an hour. That's the highlight of my week, really. Not going bloody shopping in ASDA. Definitely. Reminiscing about those days when all you had to worry about in life was which game you're going to rent from blog poster this weekend. That's what this show is about. And of course, we take you behind the scenes of those games that you grew up playing as well with a special

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