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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

371: Homeworld Co-Creator Rob Cunningham - The Retro Hour EP371

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9558 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

We get the inside story on the development of legendary sci-fi strategy game Homeworld. Co-creator Rob Cunningham shares some memories from the early days, and a sneak preview of the upcoming Homeworld 3.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Coming up on this week's show, MSX and Neo Geo Games could be coming to your Switch.

0:05.5

A new Rogue-like game coming to the Mega Drive.

0:07.7

And we chat to Rob Cunningham of Relic, all about Homeworld.

0:18.0

And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you every week with our amazing friends at Bitmap Books.

0:24.0

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0:39.4

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1:07.9

Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 371, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood, me Rabby Abbott, and me Joe Fox.

1:18.9

And a very warm welcome to this week's show, a final one of March, well into 2023 now, and so much happening in the world of retro gaming and technology to bring

1:28.6

you up to speed on. That's what we do on this show. Every single Friday, a brand new episode drops,

1:33.3

and it is fair to say this show is a, it's a show of two halves, isn't it? We update you on what's

1:37.9

been happening in the world of retro and then the second half of the podcast. This is a bit we

1:42.6

really look forward to when we welcome on

1:44.6

a veteran of the industry to give us basically their life and career story. Yeah, and this

1:51.3

week we've got Rob Cunningham and Rob worked on the series Homeworld. Now, Homeworld is one of those

1:58.6

titles. You need to think about 1997, which was the time period that it started to develop,

2:04.8

ended up coming out in 1999.

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