431: Orbital: Paul Hartnoll on Rave Culture & Video Game Music - The Retro Hour EP431
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The Retro Hour
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🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 99 minutes
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00:00 - The Week's Retro News Stories
42:48 - Paul Hartnoll Interview
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Apple's Unreleased iPod Tetris Clone Has Been Discovered: https://youtu.be/q0c6SOP4CCo
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's show, the longest-running console war is over. |
| 0:05.5 | One of the oldest instant messengers is finally closing. |
| 0:08.2 | And we chat to Orbital legend Paul Hartnall. |
| 0:19.5 | And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you each and every Friday with our sponsor and, of course, great friends, a bitmap books. |
| 0:26.4 | Now, have you seen the book that everyone is talking about recently? |
| 0:29.4 | N64, a visual compendium, which tells a story of the console that changed the gaming world. |
| 0:36.3 | And, of course, covers all the big titles, more than 150 that define the N64. And of course covers all the big titles, |
| 0:38.2 | more than 150 that define the N-64. |
| 0:41.0 | They're all in there, Super Mario 64, Golden I-O-7, |
| 0:44.3 | O'quina of Time, Banjo-Kazooey, and lots more. |
| 0:46.7 | Have a look at that and check out the rest of their retrogaming collection |
| 0:49.4 | at bitmapbooks.com. |
| 0:53.3 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 431, your weekly dose of retro gaming |
| 0:59.6 | and technology news with me Dan Wood, me Ravi Abbott, and me Joe Fax. |
| 1:04.5 | And great to be joining us for the podcast that every single Friday, just a bit of a time |
| 1:09.1 | out from the world, isn't it? |
| 1:10.6 | You know, we take time off working hard and all the stresses of life to enjoy our favourite hobby. |
| 1:16.8 | A bit of an escape, Dan. That is it, the wonderful world of retro video games. So that's what we do every single Friday. |
| 1:23.3 | Bringing you up to speed on all the big happenings in the world of retro from over the last week. |
| 1:26.9 | And of course, bringing you a very special guest on the show as well. |
| 1:30.9 | Now, speaking about things that we do outside of retro gaming, you know, all us three are big music fans, aren't we? |
| 1:37.6 | Oh, yeah, yeah. I love to DJ. I love to dance, well, badly. |
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