478: Why The Demo Scene Is Now a Cultural Treasure - The Retro Hour EP478
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
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🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Contents:
00:00 - The Week's Retro News Stories
39:49 - Tobias Kopka Interview
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Show notes
Wii Homebrew Channel closes: https://tinyurl.com/yy32spc4
Frontier Force: https://tinyurl.com/53uy5u54
Breakspace Spectrum magazine – Issue 1 released: https://breakspace.itch.io/issue-1
Toys R Us – the movie: https://tinyurl.com/48trvmhm
Linecraft for Pico-8: https://tinyurl.com/5cbyrynu
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on this week's show bad news for wee home brew fans a new spectrum magazine launches |
| 0:07.0 | and we chat about the culture of the demo scene with tobias cocker and the retro hour podcast |
| 0:19.4 | is brought to you every friday with our amazing friends of Bitmap Books. |
| 0:23.2 | Now, recently on the show, we've been talking about unreleased games over the last few weeks. |
| 0:27.9 | And there is a book that they released recently called The Games That Weren't. |
| 0:31.5 | There is in stock right now on their website covering more than 40 years of video games that sadly never saw the light of day for a variety of reasons. |
| 0:41.2 | And this book actually shines a light on those. |
| 0:44.0 | Now, loads of legendary titles in here, dating from 1975, right up to the PlayStation 4, |
| 0:49.3 | including screenshots, the stories of what happened as well, |
| 0:52.0 | and interviews with the authors of these games |
| 0:54.5 | that never made it to market. Weighing in at 644 pages, you can check it out in the rest |
| 0:59.4 | of their retro gaming collection at bitmapbooks.com. And with our friends at PCB Way. Now, |
| 1:07.0 | PCBWay, massive supporters of the retro community, and they offer fully featured custom PCB prototyping, low-cost, fast turnaround quality boards, and if you're looking for services like 3D printing and injection molding, they've got you covered. |
| 1:22.2 | And also check out the shared project section on their website to see what people are doing in the retro community |
| 1:27.6 | with PCB way and get an instant quote right now at PCBway.com. |
| 1:33.4 | Hello and welcome to the retro hour podcast episode number 478, your weekly dose of retro gaming |
| 1:39.9 | and technology news with me Dan Wood. |
| 1:42.3 | We're Ravi Abbott and and me, Joe Fox. |
| 1:44.5 | And a very warm welcome to this week's show, the podcast that comes out every single Friday |
| 1:48.2 | and celebrates all the wonderfulness about the world of retro gaming and technology. |
| 1:53.7 | We're bringing up to speed on what's been happening in the world of retro from over the last week. |
| 1:58.1 | And I think definitely a highlight of this podcast. |
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