376: Street Fighter 2: The History and Legacy with Oliver Harper - The Retro Hour EP376
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The Retro Hour
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🗓️ 4 May 2023
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's show, play your NES online. |
| 0:03.7 | Jurassic Park turns 30. |
| 0:05.5 | And we geek out about Street Fighter 2 with Oliver Harper. |
| 0:18.9 | And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you every Friday with our amazing friends at Bitmap Books. |
| 0:24.5 | Now, one of my favorite books that they've done recently, The Secret History of Mac Gaming. |
| 0:29.6 | Check out the brand new expanded edition covering the Mac as a gaming platform. |
| 0:34.9 | Franchises like Mist, Halo, SimCity and lots more all started live on the Mac. |
| 0:39.7 | And this incredible volume, at over 480 pages long, is one of their biggest, most ambitious |
| 0:44.6 | books today. |
| 0:45.7 | You can check that out on the rest of their retro gaming books at bitmapbooks.com. |
| 0:51.2 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 376, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 1:00.1 | Me Ravi Abbott and me, Joe Fox. |
| 1:02.7 | And a very warm welcome to our first podcast of May, of course, a show that every week brings you up to speed on all the big happenings in the world of retro gaming |
| 1:10.9 | and technology from over the last week, a nice little roundtable discussion in the first half of |
| 1:16.0 | the podcast and plenty of meaty new stories to get our teeth into this week, even though I'm |
| 1:22.2 | actually a vegetarian, but you're saying that. And then second half of the podcast is when we welcome on our very special guest. Now, |
| 1:30.8 | oh my God, how much fun was chatting to Oliver Harper on this week's show, Joe? |
| 1:35.5 | Oh, man. You know what? It was, he was so fun and it was such like an energetic, you know, |
| 1:41.7 | interview because he mentions it in the interview and how when he first |
| 1:45.6 | kind of started doing his, you know, his reviews. What he's kind of famous for is his really |
| 1:49.8 | in-depth, like, retrospectives of films, but then he does it with video game franchises as well, |
| 1:54.5 | which I absolutely love. And he was saying when he first started out, he was very calm and cool |
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