Coming up on this week's show, the Xbox 360 online store is to close, but it's not all bad news.

A massive new Sega kart racer arrives.

And we go inside the world of each and every Friday with our wonderful

mates of Bitmap Books.

Now, their latest volume, everyone is loving this at the moment.

N64, a visual compendium, containing over 150 titles that defined the Nintendo

64. They're all in there. Super Mario 64, Golden 9-O-7, Legend of Zell, Ocarina of Time, Banjo

Kazooey. So if you want to get hold of your copy and check up the rest of their retro gaming

collection, have a look right now on their website at bitmapbooks.com. Hello and welcome to the

Retro Hour podcast, episode number 427, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news

with me, Dan Wood. Me Ravi Abbott and me Joe Fox. And very nice to be joining us for the

podcast that every single Friday celebrates everything about the golden age of video games.

Reminishing about classic consoles, classic computers, and of course, bringing you right up to speed on all the big happenings from the world of retro from over the last seven days.

And as we record this on Thursday evening, glorious sunshine outside the window.

Anyone got their milky white legs out yet?

I almost did.

I had to go to the post office the other day to post some books out, funny enough, to some Patreon.

And I almost kept my shorts on because I was just wearing, like, jogging shorts around the house.

And I was like, no, I will put my jeans on on it's not quite warm enough yet what was that awful phrase uh are your

is your beach body ready or something like beach bod ready sun's out guns out and all that's it one yeah

i think ravi was walking around town toppis earlier that right no I did one guy. Like, this always happens in England. Like, as soon as there's a tiny bit of sudden, someone whips their top off and walks around, like, and yeah, I did see one guy in town. But you know what, guys? Normally over somewhere I'm hunched up indoors playing video games. That's what the United States podcast is about. We're in a sweaty arcade somewhere. And actually today, talking of the arcade, we've got an incredible guest. An interview that you guys did a couple of weeks ago, must admit, I was right in the throes of the man flu when you did this interview. So I was good and I couldn't be on it, but listening back, my God, what a guest. So today we're going to be joined by Sam Dicker. Now, talking about the arcade, he worked at Williams back in the day.

Yeah, so Sam was absolutely amazing because he worked at Williams and, you know, he has his

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