477: American McGee - From Doom to Dark Wonderland - The Retro Hour EP477
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
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🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Contents:
00:00 - The Week's Retro News Stories
35:28 - American McGee Interview
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on this week's show run classic windows on your game boy youtube turns 20 and we chat |
| 0:08.0 | with it software legend american mcgay and the retro hour podcast is brought to you each and every Friday with our amazing friends of Bitmap Books. |
| 0:24.7 | And of course, today, American McGee's a guest talking lots about classic FPS games. |
| 0:29.3 | And have you seen their book, I'm Too Young to Die, the Ultimate Guide to First Person Shooters, covering the Golden golden era 1992 to 2002. |
| 0:40.6 | All the big ones are in there, Doom, Quake, Half-Life, |
| 0:43.7 | some that you probably forgotten as well, |
| 0:45.1 | and some that maybe flew under the radar, |
| 0:47.5 | weighing in at more than 420 pages. |
| 0:50.8 | If you're a fan of FPS games, |
| 0:52.2 | check this out and the rest of their retro gaming collection |
| 0:54.3 | at bitmapbooks.com. |
| 0:57.8 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 477, your weekly dose of retro gaming |
| 1:04.4 | and technology news with me, Dan Wood, me Ravi Abbott, and me Joe Fox. |
| 1:09.3 | And it great to be joining us for the podcast that every Friday, of course, brings you up to speed on all the big happenings in the wonderful world of retro gaming and technology and brings you veterans of the industry onto the show for an interview in the second half. |
| 1:23.7 | And we have got a legendary guest on this week's show. |
| 1:26.7 | More about that in just a minute |
| 1:27.6 | nice to have full crew back though welcome back joe i'm back baby you are nice of bill to cover |
| 1:34.4 | last week as well did you ever listen yes i did um he was amazing um and he put a sweet comment on |
| 1:40.0 | facebook yes um to say it was an honor to cover but it was an absolute honour to have Bill cover for me, |
| 1:45.6 | which kind of blew my mind because I was like, oh, Bill's massive. |
| 1:49.2 | Like, you know. |
| 1:50.1 | A very amiga heavy episode, Joe, so you didn't miss out on much. |
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