383: Age of Empires II and Xbox Live with Mark Terrano - The Retro Hour EP383
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2023
⏱️ 88 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's show, your help is needed to complete a 40-year-old unfinished game. |
| 0:05.7 | A next-generation GameCube memory card is here. |
| 0:08.1 | And we chat Age of Empires 2 and the founding of Xbox Live with Mark Tarano. |
| 0:18.3 | And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you every week with our wonderful mates at Bitmap Books. |
| 0:26.1 | Now, crazily, can you believe Donkey Kong 3 was released in Arcades 40 years ago this week? |
| 0:31.9 | And you can check out the side art for it and many more in their incredible book that celebrates the golden age of arcades. |
| 0:37.9 | Arcade. |
| 0:38.9 | You can buy that right now and check up the rest of their retrogaming collection. |
| 0:42.0 | Have a look at bitmapbooks.com. |
| 0:44.8 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 383, your weekly dose of retro gaming |
| 0:51.2 | and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 0:53.2 | Me Rabby Abbott and me Joe Fox. |
| 0:55.7 | And a very warm welcome to the podcast that every single Friday celebrates the classic days |
| 1:01.5 | of video games. Basically, of this sound, makes you a warm and tingley. |
| 1:16.0 | You're in the right place, yeah? |
| 1:17.5 | Yeah, yeah, especially with this week's episode. |
| 1:20.3 | Well, that's what we do on this podcast. |
| 1:21.9 | I mean, we do a little roundtable if you're a regular list. |
| 1:24.1 | You'll know how this works. |
| 1:25.0 | If you're new to it, first half of the show, |
| 1:27.1 | we bring you up to speed on what's been happening in the world of retro gaming and technology from over the last week. It's a really busy scene these days, and we appreciate everyone's busy. Everyone's got time to hang out on Twitter all week and Reddit, you know what there is on these days, and check all the blogs and Facebook pages. So we do that for you. We bring you up to speed with the headlines. And then in the second half of the podcast, |
| 1:45.9 | that is when we welcome on a very special guest. |
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