370: Making Retro Dungeon Crawlers & Adventures with Wormwood Studios - The Retro Hour EP370
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
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🗓️ 24 March 2023
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's show, a lost Super Mario world level has been discovered. |
| 0:05.0 | We chat to nostalgia nerd about his new arcade bar, and we go inside the world of dungeon crawlers with Vic Flew. |
| 0:17.0 | And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you each and every Friday with our great friends at Bitmap Books. |
| 0:23.1 | Now, one of their books we highly recommend. |
| 0:24.9 | The unofficial Snez Pixel book, celebrating Nintendo's fabulous 16-bit machine, boasting lavish design, hundreds of screen grabs and cutouts as well, a real celebration of the Super Nintendo. |
| 0:37.8 | So you can check that out on the rest of their retro gaming collection at bitmapbooks.com. |
| 0:43.0 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 370, your weekly dose of |
| 0:48.6 | retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 0:51.2 | Me Ravi Abbott and me Joe Fox. |
| 0:53.5 | And very nice to have you joining us for the podcast that each and every Friday winds back |
| 0:58.1 | the clock and takes you back to the good old days and video games. |
| 1:01.7 | And of course brings you an interview on the show each week with someone really interesting, |
| 1:05.2 | a veteran of the industry, somebody who's doing really interesting things in the retro space |
| 1:09.0 | right now. |
| 1:09.8 | And we bring you up to speed on everything, all the big headlines from the world of retro gaming and technology from over the last seven days. Now, I don't know about you guys, but I'm thinking about my kind of gaming habits. Now, I must admit, I am a bit partial to like a modern AAA game. You know, I'll play the HALOs and the Call of Duties and stuff like that. But I'm not playing on my old retro systems, generally there's a really good middle ground. And I'm thinking of games that, you know, I've been playing over the last kind of decade. I mean, you know, games like Shovel Knight and Fez and even stuff like Super Meat Boy, this kind of industry that's popped up, these kind of independent indie retro games. |
| 1:46.1 | Such a big market right now, isn't it? |
| 1:47.8 | Yeah, I love kind of when people revisit older titles, |
| 1:52.2 | but then they kind of add a modern twist, |
| 1:54.0 | or they kind of update it. |
| 1:55.8 | And I love it when it's, you know, a lot of the original developers as well. |
| 1:59.5 | Or they're kind of referencing stuff from the past. |
| 2:02.4 | One that I've been looking at is pioneers of Pagonia, |
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