Coming up on this week's show, more news on the Dragon's Lair movie.

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And we take a look inside EA sports games with Happy Keller.

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quote at PCBway.com. Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 353, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood.

Me Ravi Abbott and me, Joe Fox.

And a very warm welcome to this week's show, the podcast every single Friday.

We pump it out over the information superhighway straight into your brain or your phone or your smart speaker at least.

Actually, I did have someone the other day asking now, can I listen to the retro hour on my A word?

A word? What's an A word? I won't say because it'll trigger those cylindrical objects.

Oh, okay. I thought it was a rare like MP3 player from the 90s or something. Always in retro your head, Ravi, isn't it? I love it. But yeah, if you have got a smart speaker, all you have to do is ask it, play the retro our podcast. And that should work. So dead easy way to listen to it in the kitchen while you're doing the pots or whatever. Now, it has been a bit of a crazy week. And before we get into all the news that's been going on this week. And we talk about our incredible guests that we've got.

Can we just pause for a second and just say a huge thank you to the people who've made us 57% of the way there on our book launch Kickstarter that we launched last Friday? Now, I don't know about you guys, we knew that we were launching this at a really difficult time, but I mean, we thought, you know, when we're looking at the ups and downs of it, we've been doing this for a year, the cost of paper, the cost of everything keeps going up, and it could be even more in six months' time. So we thought, now or never, and we're like, well, you know, is it going to happen? But the fact that people have pretty much got us over halfway there in just a week is

absolutely mind-blowing.

Yeah, we're absolutely unthankful.

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