412: Curious Video Game Machines - Rare and Unusual Consoles & Computers - The Retro Hour EP412
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
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🗓️ 19 January 2024
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Curious Video Game Machines on Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/mtt9nuf8
Contents:
00:00 - The Week's Retro News Stories
52:28 - Lewis Packwood Interview
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Show notes:
BBC Toast Commodore Episode: http://tinyurl.com/7mpx7v3b
Atari 400 mini: http://tinyurl.com/5b4e9jm4
Rocket Knight Adventures Resparked: http://tinyurl.com/yj2akk7p
Turbo Outrun ported to Commodore Plus/4: http://tinyurl.com/yc2pdh48
Atari Game Station: http://tinyurl.com/43v9smvx
The Casio Loopy gets a flash cart: https://youtu.be/dMUZkTdj_GA
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's show, the Atari 400 gets to the mini-treatment. |
| 0:05.0 | Konami announced some big re-releases. |
| 0:07.2 | And we go inside the world of obscure consoles and computers with Lewis Packwood. |
| 0:27.5 | And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you each and every Friday with our incredible friends at Bitmap Books. |
| 0:30.2 | Now, one of their books, you absolutely need to check out. |
| 0:34.5 | Super Nintendo slash Super Famicom, a visual compendium. |
| 0:38.5 | Now, this pays homage to one of the greatest consoles ever made, and incredible library of games and the people who brought these amazing ideas to life. So if you're |
| 0:42.6 | fan of Nintendo's 16-bitWonder, check that book out on the rest of their retro gaming |
| 0:46.8 | collection at bitmapbooks.com. And with our lovely friends at PCB way. Now, you know PCB way, |
| 0:54.0 | they offer fully featured custom PCB prototyping. Lowcast. And with our lovely friends at PCB way. Now, you know PCB way. |
| 0:59.8 | They offer fully featured custom PCB prototyping, low-cost, fast turnaround quality boards, |
| 1:03.6 | and they offer services like 3D printing and injection molding. |
| 1:07.2 | And you know that PCB way are huge supporters of the retro community. So get an instant quote right now on their website at PCB way.com. |
| 1:14.6 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 412, your weekly dose of retro gaming |
| 1:20.8 | and technology news with me, Dan Wood. Me Ravi Abbott and me Joe Fox. |
| 1:25.6 | And very nice to be joining us for another episode where we |
| 1:29.0 | get to geek out for an hour-ish, actually around 90 minutes normally, but you know, that doesn't |
| 1:34.0 | sound as catchy for a podcast title. When we talk about classic video games, technology, bringing |
| 1:38.5 | you up to speed on all the big happenings in the world of retro from over the last seven days |
| 1:42.5 | and of course bring you an incredible guest in the second half of the show as well. And we just love doing this podcast. I mean, that's the thing about us guys. I mean, for people that might be new to the show, you know, we never claim to be like experts on this kind of thing, do we? All we are is guys that love video games. You're like hanging out and talking about it. Yeah, and we've done it for quite a long time now. |
| 2:05.6 | Over eight years of doing this podcast every single week. So if you have just found us recently, |
| 2:09.5 | because I'm not want to, you know, blur, and Trumpet or anything, but even sharing a few stats with us recently, Ravi, we've kind of hit 2024 running, really, haven't we, in terms of, |
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