349: Civilization and Railroad Tycoon with Bruce Shelley - The Retro Hour EP349
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2022
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's show, How to Never Lose a Retrofile again. |
| 0:04.6 | Played a Resident Evil text adventure. |
| 0:06.8 | And we chat with Bruce Shelley about railroad tycoon, civilization and age of empires. |
| 0:27.1 | And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you each and every weekend with our good mates at Bitmap Books. |
| 0:28.7 | Now, you may have heard that the Commodore 64 celebrated its 40th birthday recently. |
| 0:33.8 | And one of their books you need to check out, reprints a due next month of Commodore 64, a visual compendium. |
| 0:40.5 | Discover the massive library of games that made the Commodore 64 into the most popular home computer of the 1980s. |
| 0:47.6 | Check that out on the rest of their retro gaming books at bitmapbooks.com. |
| 0:52.2 | And with our amazing friends at PCB way. |
| 0:55.1 | Now, they offer a fully featured custom PCB prototype service |
| 0:59.0 | with low-cost, fast turnaround quality boards, |
| 1:01.8 | and they offer additional services, |
| 1:04.1 | including 3D printing, injection molding, |
| 1:06.4 | and their massive supporters of the retro community. |
| 1:08.8 | So you can get an instant quote for your project right now at |
| 1:11.9 | PCBway.com. Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number three, four nine, your |
| 1:20.1 | weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood, me Rabbi Abbott, and me Joe Fubbs. |
| 1:26.3 | And fantastic to have you joining us for another |
| 1:28.7 | hour-ish of completely nerding out about all things retro, reminiscing about the golden age |
| 1:35.5 | of video games, and of course, bringing the up to speed on all the happenings in the world of |
| 1:39.7 | retro from over the last seven days. And hopefully Ravi and I are not sounding too hoarse this week after a rather eventful weekend |
| 1:48.7 | in Germany where we're out there for Amiga 37 that I've got to say I think was the best |
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