Coming up on this week's show are classic games becoming endangered.

The crap games competition is on.

And we talk bringing Konami Games to the West with Jeremy Blousey.

And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you each and every Friday with our wonderful mates at Bitmap Books.

Now, one of their books absolutely worth checking out and getting a reprint very soon is a guide to Japanese role-playing games.

Their biggest book to date weighing in at over 650 pages.

We'll tell you more about that in just a bit, but you can check out that and the rest

of their retro gaming collection at bitmapbooks.com.

Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 386, your weekly dose of retro

gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood.

You're Ravi Abbott and me Joe Fox.

And a very warm welcome to the podcast that each and every Friday takes you on a nostalgic trip back to the classic age of video games and technology. Basically, if you're old enough to know what this sound means, this is a podcast for you. You love that. What if Jonah is what that means. Yeah, it's MSN, isn't it? But the nudge, there's the nudge as well.

This is definitely your new gimmick.

Is this three weeks in a row now? I mean, I'm enjoying it. I want to see how fire you can take this. Yeah, I'll run out of sounds eventually. but yeah it's that's what we do on the podcast that we take you back bring my memories like that

and of course video games are definitely a very big part of what this podcast does even though

we cover technology as well and That's what we do on the podcast that we take you back. Bring my memories like that. And, of course, video games are definitely a very big part of what this podcast does,

even though we cover technology as well. And I think it's fair to say that we probably don't. I mean, we're probably a bit guilty of maybe not giving Japanese games quite as much coverage on this podcast, mainly because it's actually quite hard to get guests from Japan on the podcast because of, you know, language barriers and, you know, time differences as well.

But today we're actually going to be going inside. It's actually quite hard to get guests from Japan on the podcast because of, you know, language barriers and time differences as well.

But today we're actually going to be going inside one of the biggest Japanese companies for video games.

Of course, the legendary Konami.

Now, this is really interesting.

Actually, Jeremy Blaustein, who is one of the guys who's responsible for bringing some of these legendary Konami titles over to the West.

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