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Coming up on this week's show, the GTA Trilogy reboot reviews are in and they're not good.

Duke Newcomb gets the craziest spin-off we've ever seen and we talk agony of Rear and Outcast

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the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 302, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news

with me, Dan Wood, me Robbie Abbott,

and me Joe Fox. And a very warm welcome to the podcast that every Friday takes you behind

the scenes on classic video games, a nice healthy dollop of nostalgia on each week's show as well.

And also we talk about new stuff that's been happening in the world of retro gaming

and technology because that's the thing about this show. Obviously, we reminisce a lot, but it's not all

about stuff that happened 20, 30 years ago. Because it is a legit subgenre of gaming now, retro.

And in fact, we've seen so many re-releases of classic games. Of course, a big one that we need to

talk about in just a minute is the Grand Theft Auto trilogy that we've been hyped about on this show for. How long? Oh, God, years, because Ravi's been following it for absolutely years as well, haven't you, mate? Yeah, yeah. And I think you're right. You know, a lot of titles are kind of, they're looking back, aren't they? And they're kind of running out of ideas, maybe. I've just said it's like Hollywood. They're running out of ideas. So they can't go back. But it turns out, I mean, something that you think would be the simplest thing to do ever. You know, get a 20-year-old game up and run and get it looking nice again. Turns out it may be a little bit more challenging than we anticipated.

So we'll talk about the reviews that have come in for the trilogy.

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