468: What Really Killed Commodore? UK MD Kelly Sumner Tells All - The Retro Hour EP468
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Contents:
00:00 - The Week's Retro News Stories
43:35 - Kelly Sumner Interview
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's show are Gen Z falling in love with retro gaming. |
| 0:05.0 | A legendary Sega franchise is back. |
| 0:08.0 | And we have an exclusive chat with the former Commodore managing director, Kelly Sumner. And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you each and every Friday with our sponsor, |
| 0:30.0 | our good friends, a bitmap books. |
| 0:31.5 | And of course, this week's podcast, definitely one for the Amiga heads. |
| 0:35.0 | Have you seen their amazing book, Commodore Amiga, |
| 0:38.1 | a visual compendium? A real celebration of the titles that defined the Amiga. From the early |
| 0:44.5 | days of Defender of the Crown, Barbarian, Marble Madness, and then through Rainbow Islands, |
| 0:49.2 | all the big titles we loved, speedball, worms, cannon fodder in there as well, spanning more |
| 0:53.8 | than 420 pages. |
| 0:56.3 | A must have for fans of the Amiga. |
| 0:58.6 | You can check that out and the rest of their retrogaming collection at bitmapbooks.com. |
| 1:04.3 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 468, your weekly dose of |
| 1:10.1 | retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan |
| 1:12.4 | Wood, me, Ravi Abbott, and me Joe Fox. And great to be joining us for the podcast that every |
| 1:17.8 | single Friday takes you on a nostalgic journey back to the golden age of video games and technology. |
| 1:23.8 | And of course, brings you up to speed with all the big happenings from the wonderful world of |
| 1:27.4 | retro from over the last seven days and brings you veterans of the industry onto the podcast for a chat on every single show. |
| 1:36.8 | Nice to have Joe Fox back as well. |
| 1:38.8 | I heard a little rumor that you were sitting in the Bahamas. |
| 1:41.8 | He had a lottery win last week. |
| 1:43.1 | Have you spent up there? |
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