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Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 747, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood.

Me, Ravi Abbott, and me Joe Fox.

And great to be joining us for our first podcast of April 2025 flying by,

and they're creeping scarily close to the big episode 500.

I'm noticing as these numbers shoot up each week.

If we just ignore it, it would have happened. I can't believe we're getting close to 500. It's absolutely mental. You know what makes me laugh about it? Dan will go, let's not make a big deal out of it. Like, you know when we're coming up to a big number? Because then it puts pressure on us to make sure that we do something big. And then literally like 30 episodes before, Dan would be like, oh, it's episode 500 coming. We thrive under pressure, Joe. It's a radio presenter inside him. You know, you got to help, you know, add that teaser in that. Well, that is coming up end of the year. I think we figured that it's going to be around October time. So we'll definitely do something fun to celebrate. Fox, that's a big deal, I think, isn't it? 500 episodes of this show. But before we get there, let's not get ahead of ourselves. We have got a podcast to record this week. And on this week's show, I'm going to be talking about Joe's favourite subject. Can hear the excitement in his voice?

Horror games. Now, it's kind of a part two, this interview because going back to start last year, we had Dan Richardson on the podcast. Now, Dan reached out to us back then,

and he said, I'm working on what is going to be like the ultimate history of the horror game genre, where they, what turned out to be a five-part documentary series called Terabytes.

Now, going forward into this year, they're actually out there for people to see at least the first couple of episodes are, and they're just finishing up the final three.

But you actually got a sneak glimpse at the first couple of episodes, and you were blown away

by the quality of this.

And actually, I did say to the guys in the interview that, you know, I know what a big fan

you are of horror games.

And if this got your endorsement, then this must be damn good.

Yeah, man.

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