350: Nostalgia Nerd's Gadgets, Gizmos & Gimmicks - The Retro Hour EP350

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 558 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

We catch up with Peter Leigh aka Nostalgia Nerd for a chat about the history of personal tech, from the N-Gage to the Newton, the Atari Lynx to the Laser pen.

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Show notes:

Silent hill 2 remake set to disappoint?: https://bit.ly/3TJr4mV
Amiga comes to Evercade: https://bit.ly/3gE9WQI
New 3D engine for Sierra games: https://bit.ly/3U7DjJT
Get a better picture from the GBA player: https://bit.ly/3SGSxnJ
Prototype Smashbros footage released: https://youtu.be/i3IOWaVDbx0

Transcript

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0:00.0	Coming up on this week's show, Amiga Games come to the Evercade.
0:04.2	Why fans are worried about the Silent Hill remake.
0:07.0	And we chat gadgets and gizmos with the nostalgia nerd.
0:15.8	And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you every week with our amazing friends at Bitmap Books.
0:21.8	Now, one book you need to check out.
0:23.7	The Art of Point and Click Adventure Games, a sumptuous 528 page hardback coffee table book,
0:31.5	packed with the very best pixel art, classic scenes and the games that define that genre.
0:36.5	And this month, they're also giving away
0:38.4	a World Cup wall chart with each order designed by legend Stu Cainbridge, and one pound of
0:44.8	it is donated to cancer research. So you can check that out on the rest of their retro gaming
0:48.3	books at bitmapbooks.com. Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 350, your weekly dose of retro gaming
0:59.0	and technology news with me, Dan Wood, me Ravi Abbott and me, Joe Fox.
1:04.1	And a very warm, or should I say, chilly welcome to our last show of October.
1:13.3	Happy Halloween Halloween boys.
1:14.3	Can't help yourself, can you, Dan?
1:16.1	Happy bonfire night.
1:18.3	Wee.
1:20.2	You know me and Joe love our Halloween games and stuff.
1:23.3	I don't know if you've been there fishing any out, Joe, ready for this weekend.
1:26.2	I'm actually, I've decided, because you know I also talk about Jack in the Dark,
1:29.1	which is at Alone in the Dark Two, small demo. That's kind of my go-to Halloween game. I've also found a list of a couple of other games I want to play. Do you remember Adam's family? Yeah. That was an incredible game. Oh, I thought you met the show in the film. I was like, yeah.
1:43.5	Now, the video game, it's kind of like a Mario kind of rip-off.
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