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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

402: The Italian Amiga Demo Scene & Darkage Software - The Retro Hour EP402

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9558 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

In week's show, dive deep into the 1990s Italian Amiga scene with Paolo D'Urso. From his days as a demo coder and cloning Super Mario 64 with the late Amiga classic 'Tales of Heaven', to the publication of 'Passione Amiga' magazine. Now, Paolo's reigniting his Amiga passion, collaborating with his childhood hero and music maestro, Allister Brimble, on a new game and reviving those iconic Amiga parties. 

Darkage Software: https://www.darkagesoftware.it/

Contents:

00:00 - The Week's Retro News Stories
37:05 - Paolo D'Urso Interview

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Show notes:

Cold Case - New Sega Saturn Horror Game: https://tinyurl.com/yc6rwsjp
Give Your Game Gear An Audio Boost: https://tinyurl.com/38vptj57
Voyager Probe Computers Patched: https://tinyurl.com/7p4bk2t6
Anbernic - New Handheld: https://tinyurl.com/ax7sw5nk
Night Slashers - Getting A Remake: https://youtu.be/QTPaUOMAiSE

Transcript

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0:00.0

Coming up on this week's show, give your game gear an audio boost.

0:04.4

The hottest new horror game to hit the Sega Saturn.

0:06.7

And we explore the Italian Amiga demo scene with Paolo Doersone.

0:14.7

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

0:22.7

Now, have you seen their latest book from ants to zombies, six decades of video game horror?

0:30.2

A showcase of horror gaming from the 1970s right up until the modern day across across 70 different hardware platforms from the Zex spectrum

0:38.8

to the Xbox Series X. And you can buy that right now and check up the rest of their retro gaming

0:43.8

collection at bitmapbooks.com.

0:47.6

Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 402, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan

0:55.9

Wood.

0:56.3

Me Ravi Abbott and me Joe Fox.

0:58.6

And a very warm welcome to the show.

1:00.5

The podcast that every single Friday takes you back to the classic days of video games.

1:05.5

That could be the 1970s sitting down in front of your telly, playing your Atari 2,600,

1:10.8

maybe the 80s, all those

1:12.3

lovely Saturdays spent on your Commodore 64, maybe the 90s in front of your PlayStation 1,

1:17.6

maybe the early 2000s sitting there in front of the fire, playing your GameCube.

1:21.6

All those memories flooding back.

1:22.9

And of course, we'll bring you up to speed on everything that's been happening in the

1:25.8

world of retro from over the last seven days, And we bring you a very special guest in the second half of the show. And of course,

1:33.0

it is the first podcast of November. You guys got your comfies on, you warm clothes. You know what? I

1:40.1

didn't actually know you were going to ask that, but I actually have a orange blanket

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