325: Sierra Adventures and Tsunami Media FMV Games with Ken Allen - The Retro Hour EP325

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 558 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

We chat to Sierra legend Ken Allen about his time working on classics like the Quest games, moving into the FMV CD-ROM era at Tsunami media and developing the abandoned Psygnosis catalogue for the Playstation 2.

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0:30.1	Coming up on this week's show, how to build your own internet time machine. A new Lego games
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0:39.4	for Sierra, Interplay and Midway. Ken Allen.
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1:20.4	Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 325, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood.
1:29.0	Me Ravi Abbott and me Joe Fox.
1:31.6	And a very warm welcome to our first episode in May, 2022, Fly and by.
1:37.8	And we've got another amazing show.
1:39.4	We're going to bring you up to speed on everything that's been happening in the world of retro gaming and tech over the last seven days. Of course, an incredible guest in the second half of the show. And Ravi Abbot, who is now back
1:49.7	in a glorious high definition audio, I'm hoping with not too much of that New York attitude.
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