360: 90's Video Game Shop Memories & Sega Classics - The Retro Hour EP360
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2023
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's show, the hottest social media platform comes to MS DOS, |
| 0:05.6 | a PS3 emulator that can boot every game. |
| 0:08.3 | And updating your favourite games with James Schall. |
| 0:19.9 | And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you every week with our wonderful friends at Bitmap Books. |
| 0:25.4 | Now, quick question, have you got a favourite King of Fighters character? |
| 0:29.5 | You can check them all out in their book, The King of Fighters, The Ultimate History, |
| 0:34.0 | officially endorsed by SNK, this amazing 544-page book, reveals the history of this |
| 0:41.0 | much-loved fighter. |
| 0:42.7 | You can check that out on the rest of their retro gaming books at bitmapbooks.com. |
| 0:48.2 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 360. |
| 0:54.1 | Your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. Our podcast, episode number 360. |
| 0:57.9 | Your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 0:59.3 | Me Ravi Abbott. |
| 1:00.4 | And me, Joe Fox. |
| 1:10.3 | And a very warm welcome to the podcast that every single Friday takes you on a nostalgic trip back in time to the golden age of video games. And of course, |
| 1:14.5 | brings you up to speed on all the current happenings in the world of retro and brings you a very special guest on for an interview each week as well. Now, a quick reminder to myself |
| 1:19.4 | here, Joe, I'm actually going to edit in the Xbox 360 startup sound. Just into the intro |
| 1:24.5 | there, because you asked me to do that and I forgot to download it. I thought we're going to miss a trick if we don't put the the 360 noise in there, a start-up noise or something. But that's the one. But is 360 retro? Because we're covering the PS3. Oh, God. Of course it is. Of course it is. But it's a weird console, isn't it? Like 360, what an odd name that was like. I think of extreme stories. Of course it is. But it's a weird console, isn't it? Like, 360, what an odd name that was like. |
| 1:46.6 | Was it because of extreme sports or something? I don't know. We always thought, like, I don't, I don't know where this came from. |
| 1:53.0 | But I remember me and my friends saying because it was an all around console because it could play DVDs and all this. |
| 1:58.4 | But so could have, like the generation before could do that. I don't know where that came from. You know, people used to put like 2000 in front of names. Maybe the Xbox 2000 would have been cooler. Yeah, maybe. It's weird, isn't it? Because, yeah, you're right. And particularly from the mid-90s onwards, everything was like 2K or 2000 to appear like next century. |
| 2:19.3 | To me, like seeing 2000 in front of something, |
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