351: Infocom: The Inside Story with Mike Dornbrook - The Retro Hour EP351
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
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🗓️ 4 November 2022
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's show, one of the biggest FPS games ever arrives on the spectrum. |
| 0:06.1 | A game that defined a generation comes to the switch. |
| 0:09.2 | And we go inside Infocom with Mike Dornbrook. |
| 0:28.5 | And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you each and every Friday with our amazing pals at Bitmap Books. |
| 0:30.2 | Now you need to check out their brand new book. |
| 0:33.4 | Just landed, pre-orders to begin on November 14th. |
| 0:45.6 | I'm Too Young to Die, the ultimate guide to first-person shooters, covering that incredible genre from 1992 to 2002 and celebrating more than 180 games. |
| 0:51.5 | We'll tell you more about that in just a bit, and you can check out the rest of their retro gaming collection at bitmapbooks.com. |
| 0:54.5 | And with our friends at PCB way. |
| 0:55.7 | Now, you know PCB way. |
| 0:59.3 | They offer a fully featured custom PCB prototype service. |
| 1:01.9 | They have low-cost, fast turnaround quality boards, |
| 1:05.7 | and they offer services like 3D printing and injection molding, and they're huge supporters of the retro community. |
| 1:09.0 | So you can get an instant quote for your project right now at PCBway.com. |
| 1:14.6 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 351, your weekly dose of retro gaming |
| 1:21.4 | and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 1:23.5 | Me Ravi Abbott and me Joe Fox. |
| 1:26.0 | And a very warm welcome to our first show of November. Clocks have changed to you in the UK. Even though we're recording this at like half-nine, it feels so late. Don't you think? Oh my God. I thought it was like 11 o'clock. It's been a long night. It's been a long day. You know, I didn't even notice because all the modern devices just change the clocks automatically. So you kind of just switched into a time zone. Apart from, you've always got that one clock in your house, which is like, for me, you know, windable. Yeah, it's the cook o'clock for me. Talking about devices that did it, my Amiga 1200, I noticed change your time automatically the other day. I've got a little, must have tool in there. Oh wow. I think the time automatically. So pretty impressed with that. But I mean, obviously we're now into November. There's darker nights here. And a good time to, you know, snuggle in, get the heating on. If you can afford it in your part of the world, we can't hear. And just play some classic video games. And this show celebrates all of that. |
| 2:18.0 | I mean, everything from the Commodore 64 to the Sinclair Spectrum, |
| 2:21.4 | the Sega Mega Drive to the Super Nintendo, the N64 to the PS1, all of that. |
| 2:27.0 | And actually, sometimes we go really old school. |
| 2:30.0 | Like in this week's show, now, it's not very often that we get guests on where we think |
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