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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

355: Retro Goal & New Star Soccer with Simon Read - The Retro Hour EP355

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9558 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

With the World Cup being in full swing, we chat to New Star Games founder Simon Read about his journey from AMOS on the Amiga to making new retro inspired football games.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Coming up on this week's show, turn your Wii into a classic Mac.

0:04.5

Record videos on your Game Boy camera.

0:06.8

A wee chat retro football games with Simon Reed.

0:15.1

And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you each and every weekend with our amazing friends

0:22.4

at Bitmap Books. Now, obviously, we're into December now. You might be thinking about

0:26.0

retro gaming gifts for Christmas. One of their books you need to check out. I'm Too Young to Die,

0:31.5

the Ultimate Guide to First Person Shooters, a glorious 400 plus page book that is a love letter to the early years of the first person shooter.

0:41.3

You can check that out on the rest of their retro gaming books at bitmapbooks.com.

0:45.3

And with our friends at PCB way, who offer a fully featured custom PCB prototype service with low-cost, fast turnaround quality boards, and did you know

0:55.4

that they offer services like 3D printing and injection molding, and they're big supporters

0:59.8

of the retro community?

1:01.3

So get an instant quote for your project right now at PCBway.com.

1:06.5

Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 355, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood, me Robbie Abbott, and me Joe Fub.

1:18.2

And very nice to be joining us for our weekly roundup of all the big happenings in the world of retro gaming and technology, and of course, bringing you a very special guest to give us their

1:28.5

history and their time in the industry in the second half of the show as well.

1:33.0

Now, of course, this is our first podcast in December.

1:37.2

Anyone recorded this podcast while looking over at the Christmas lights twinkling on the Christmas

1:42.9

tree?

1:43.9

Not just yet.

1:45.3

My missus did get them all down from the attic today,

1:48.9

and I did come downstairs from doing some work today,

1:52.4

and she had bought, you know, like the big outdoor lights,

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