357: The Best of 2022 in Retro Gaming - The Retro Hour EP357
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Have a very Merry Christmas and we'll see you next week for the Christmas quiz!
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Show notes:
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The Story of The XBox with Co-Creator Kevin Bachus - The Retro Hour EP347: https://bit.ly/3PDy8jF
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Bringing Metal Gear Solid & Oddworld to the PC - The Retro Hour EP343: https://bit.ly/3BE2q03
Road Rash creator Randy Breen - The Retro Hour EP331: https://bit.ly/3UWjGo5
Shadow of The Beast & Driver with Martin Edmonson - The Retro Hour EP338: https://bit.ly/3UWjLIp
The Simpson's Hit & Run: The Making of with John Melchior - The Retro Hour EP330: https://bit.ly/3BGE3P7
Civilization and Railroad Tycoon with Bruce Shelley - The Retro Hour EP349: https://bit.ly/3Pxf9Yb
Activision and Acclaim: Inside Stories with Rod Cousens - The Retro Hour EP311: https://bit.ly/3PxtKCO
The Voice of Duke Nukem: Jon St John - The Retro Hour EP328: https://bit.ly/3uW799m
Manic Miner to Command & Conquer with Steve Wetherill - The Retro Hour EP322: https://bit.ly/3FVdM1X
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's show, we look back on the best of 2022. |
| 0:10.3 | And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you every Friday with our amazing friends at Bitmap Books. |
| 0:15.9 | Now, one of their books you need to check out. |
| 0:17.8 | We'll tell you more about this in just a bit. |
| 0:19.5 | I'm Too Young to Die, The Ultimate guide to first person shooters, 1992 to 2002, covering the early experimental |
| 0:28.4 | years of the genre that went on to rule video games. We'll tell you more about that in just a bit, |
| 0:33.9 | and you can check it out right now and the rest of their retro gaming books at bitmapbooks.com. |
| 0:38.9 | And with our friends at PCB way who offer a fully featured custom PCB prototype service |
| 0:44.3 | and they have low-cost fast turnaround quality boards and they do services like 3D printing |
| 0:49.6 | and injection molding and they're massive supporters of the retro community. |
| 0:54.0 | So if you're working on a project over Christmas, you can get an instant quote right now |
| 0:57.7 | at PCB way.com. |
| 1:00.9 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 357, your weekly dose of retro gaming |
| 1:07.5 | and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 1:09.3 | Me Ravi Abbott and me Joe Fox. |
| 1:11.8 | And great to be joining us for our end of year wrap-up show. |
| 1:16.9 | And it still blows my mind. |
| 1:18.3 | I'm looking out my window now at my frost-covered street. |
| 1:22.5 | I think it's currently like minus three degrees outside at the moment. |
| 1:25.5 | So that means we've made it to the end of the end of the year. |
| 1:29.1 | And this is the episode that we do every year, definitely not the filler episode. |
| 1:33.3 | It's the one that looks back on all the best bits and celebrates the incredible |
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