470: GOG: Meet the Heroes Saving Your Favourite Childhood Games - The Retro Hour EP470
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
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🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
GOG Preservation Program: https://www.gog.com/en/gog-preservation-program
Contents:
00:00 - The Week's Retro News Stories
44:05 - Good Old Game Interview
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Show notes
Terminator 2D No Fate: https://tinyurl.com/2jcsa8mn
RIP Skype: https://tinyurl.com/3ahrj2cp
Lost PC game Big Brother archived online: https://tinyurl.com/33kt64td
Sonic Unleashed 360 Recomp: https://tinyurl.com/pe34prja
Bandai Namco want to license out classic IPs: https://tinyurl.com/4ez98jhn
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's show, what could be the biggest retro game of 2025 revealed? |
| 0:06.9 | Xbox 360 games are coming to the PC, and we chat with GOG about game preservation. |
| 0:27.4 | And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you each and every Friday with our amazing friends at Bitmap Books. |
| 0:30.9 | Now, have you seen the new book everyone is talking about at the moment? |
| 0:32.6 | Spotted this in The Guardian actually this week? |
| 0:39.1 | The Games of a Lifetime, the book that brings to life a look at video game history as seen through the eyes of the legend that is Julian Jazz Rignall, the celebrated game journalist and, of course, |
| 0:44.8 | editor of iconic games and mags back in the day like Zapp, CBG and Mean Machines. |
| 0:49.4 | You can find out more and order your copy right now at bitmapbooks.com. |
| 0:54.5 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 470. |
| 0:59.0 | Your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 1:02.8 | Me Ravi Abbott and me, Joe Fox. |
| 1:05.5 | And great to be joining us for our first show of March. |
| 1:09.6 | Spring is in the air, slightly lighter nights here in the UK. This is the time of year when there normally Rabi makes us feel really lame. He's happening his garden growing things. Well, I've started. Yeah, I've started getting in there. But, you know, there's a lot to do. Yeah. The time of year when, it's still cold enough to, I think, warrant sheltering inside, though, and playing some old-school games. |
| 1:29.6 | And this podcast, if you're a regular listener, you know that we celebrate all things |
| 1:33.4 | about the wonderful world of retro gaming and technology, |
| 1:36.9 | bringing it up to speed on what's been happening from over the last seven days |
| 1:39.9 | and bringing you guests onto the podcast for a chat each week. |
| 1:44.1 | Now, one thing that often comes up when we're talking about classic video games is preservation, |
| 1:50.1 | which is really important. |
| 1:51.1 | I mean, you know, those guys are big fans of games like Sonic the Hedgehog, |
| 1:54.8 | but equally, you know, we see the importance of games like Bubsy 3D and preserving them for future generations. I think it is |
| 2:01.9 | important all of these efforts that we have to make sure that these games are not only playable |
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