352: Guitar Hero & Rock Band - The History with Mike Dornbrook - The Retro Hour EP352
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2022
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Plus. we get the inside story on Harmonix Music Systems, the company who brought us the legendary party games Guitar Hero and Rock Band. How the company founders remortgaged their houses to make it happen, how they did an industry first and made a game featuring the Beatles music, and how their two leading games eventually became rivals!
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You've been playing Super Mario Bros wrong: https://bit.ly/3Tlts2h
Saucy 'lost' Sega FMV game from the '90s is found: https://bit.ly/3EmnuK3
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's show, we've got a huge announcement to tell you about. |
| 0:04.3 | Sega's saucy lost FNV game is found. |
| 0:06.9 | And we get the history of guitar hero and rock band with Mike Dornbro. |
| 0:20.3 | And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you each and every Friday with our amazing friends at Bitmap Books. |
| 0:27.1 | Now, their latest book just looks incredible. |
| 0:29.3 | Bitmap Books presents I'm Too Young to Die, the ultimate guide to first person shooters, 1992 to 2002, celebrating more than 180 games of what is now the biggest |
| 0:43.1 | gaming genre in the world. Check out the entire history of it and pre-orders begin to shift a bit |
| 0:47.8 | later this month. You can pre-order right now at bitmapbooks.com. Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 352, your weekly dose of |
| 0:59.9 | retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 1:02.5 | Me Robbie Abbott and me, Joe Fox. |
| 1:04.9 | And great to have you joining us for another hour-ish, where we take you on a journey inside |
| 1:10.3 | the world of classic video games, |
| 1:13.0 | bringing it up to speed on all the happenings in the world of retro from over the last week |
| 1:17.0 | and of course a veteran of the industry on the second half of the show for an exclusive interview. |
| 1:23.6 | And we've got an amazing one for you this week. |
| 1:25.7 | Now, we'll tell you more about that in just a bit. |
| 1:27.6 | Before we do, though, I must admit, you know, we've done this podcast for seven years. |
| 1:32.0 | It's not very often that I get nervous recording an episode of The Retro Hour now. |
| 1:36.4 | But today, we're finally ready to launch something that we've been working on pretty much nonstop |
| 1:42.6 | for at least the last year. Yeah, we've been working on this much non-stop for at least the last year. |
| 1:44.9 | Yeah, we've been working on this behind the scenes for at least a year, |
| 1:48.7 | but I think it's been in planning for about five. |
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