340: Shareware Heroes - The Retro Hour EP340

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 558 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

We chat to author Richard Moss about how the golden age of shareware subverted, shook up, and reshaped the video game industry, and kept independent game development alive.

Shareware Heroes: https://sharewareheroes.com/

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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.
0:09.8	Did you hear that joke?
0:11.5	Yes, thanks for letting us know.
0:14.2	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, one of the original survival horror games is back.
0:35.1	A live action Pac-Man movie is on the way.
0:37.4	And we get the history of shareware gaming with Orpher Richard Moss.
0:48.6	And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you each and every week with our good friends at Bitmap Books.
0:54.4	Now, something that's going to be reprinted very soon, their biggest, most ambitious
0:58.5	project to date, a guide to Japanese role-playing games, at 652 pages and 370,000 words.
1:08.0	If you're a fan of that genre, this is a must-read.
1:10.5	Reprints in June, October,
1:11.6	and you can sign up right now and check up the rest of their retro gaming books at bitmapbooks.com.
1:17.6	Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 340, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood.
1:25.6	New Robbie Abbott and me, Joe Fox.
1:28.6	And a very warm welcome to the podcast that each and every Friday celebrates the world of
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