390: Reviving the Lost Art of Video Game Manuals - The Retro Hour EP390
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
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🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's show, teletext worms is real. |
| 0:04.3 | A 90s classic finally gets a proper sequel. |
| 0:06.9 | And we taught gaming manuals in 2023 with Rowan Fox Noble. |
| 0:19.2 | And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you each and every Friday with our brilliant friends |
| 0:24.9 | and Bitmap Books. Now, coming this month, the Art of the Box. Now, this is a gorgeous |
| 0:29.6 | 564-page celebration of video game box art, featuring interviews and the work of more than 26 artists from across |
| 0:39.3 | the last four decades. You can find out more about that over the next few weeks. |
| 0:43.2 | Check out that book and the rest of their collection at bitmapbooks.com. |
| 0:47.9 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 390, your weekly dose of |
| 0:53.8 | retro gaming and technology news with me, |
| 0:56.0 | Dan Wood, me Robbie Abbott, and me Joe Parks. |
| 0:59.3 | And very nice to be joining us for this week's podcast when you've been listening since the very |
| 1:03.6 | beginning, 390 episodes ago. Wow. Or maybe you're a new listener. Welcome to the podcast. Every |
| 1:09.8 | single Friday, we celebrate classic video games, classic technology. Basically, if you know this sound, then this is the podcast for you. |
| 1:21.1 | Hello. |
| 1:21.4 | Yeah. You know, it's funny when I was looking up that, obviously that was the Nokia ringtone. |
| 1:28.9 | Weirdly, in Google, everyone refers to that as the Nokia Mozart ringtone. |
| 1:33.5 | So I thought, I mean, I'm not really into classical music at all. |
| 1:35.7 | So I thought, oh, Mozart must have made that. |
| 1:37.3 | I done a bit more digging, though. |
| 1:38.2 | It wasn't Mozart than made that song. |
| 1:39.7 | It was a Spanish composer called Francisco Tariga. |
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