Coming up on this week's show, the Wii e-shop returns.

The coolest watch we've ever seen.

And we chat with artist Andy Croshaw, who worked on classics like Alien Hominid.

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

Now, happy birthday to the Apple Macintosh.

The Mac celebrated its 40th birthday this week.

And check out the secret history of Mac gaming.

Now, if you thought the Mac is not a gaming platform, this book tells a story

of the unlikely gaming hero that changed the industry. You can check out that book and the rest

of their retro gaming collection at bitmapbooks.com.

Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour Podcast, episode number 413. Your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood.

And me, Joe Fox.

And a very warm welcome to the podcast, of course, a show that every single Friday takes you on a nostalgic trip back to the Golden Age, as we like to call it, of video games and technology.

And, of course, brings you up to speed on all the big happenings in the world of retro from over the last seven days and brings you a veteran of the industry. On to the show in the second half to basically tell us their story. And that's what we like to do in this podcast, isn't it? Capture the history of this industry that we love so much. Capture the history, have a chat with the devs, and also just kind of

have a chat about the news as well, which is a section that I love. But, you know, just kind of hanging out, couple of mates chatting, giving our opinions on a few things. Yeah, man, eight years in as well, celebrating our birthday last week, didn't we? Which is nuts. And that also really sad that Ravi can't join us this week. I mean, he's got some family issues.

But, you know, real life does get in the way sometimes, you know, having done the show every week for eight years, like you said.

But he is going to be joining us in the second half of the podcast for the interviews. We'll talk more about that in just a moment. and hopefully be all right for the Patients Hangout

that's coming up this weekend as well

because it is the end of January,

which I don't know about you,

it feels like about,

it's like, what, is the end of January,

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