479: Psygnosis, G-Police & Writing FPS History with Stuart Maine - The Retro Hour EP479
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Contents:
00:00 - The Week's Retro News Stories
37:15 - Stuart Maine Interview
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Sega opens first shop: https://tinyurl.com/44mb6amr
Sega HQ relocating: https://tinyurl.com/38eyzs3t
New Vectrex shooter from Alan Wake dev: https://tinyurl.com/buup3kwp
WavePhoenix revives classic controller: https://tinyurl.com/ra7a8y9c
Fan remake of Altered Beast: https://tinyurl.com/5n8kn8rs
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's show, Sega is opening new physical shops. |
| 0:04.9 | An amazing new shooter for the Vect Tracks. |
| 0:07.2 | And we're joined by game designer and author Stuart Main. |
| 0:14.6 | And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you every Friday with our sponsor, our friends, a bitmap books. |
| 0:24.4 | Now, today we're going to be talking all about their amazing new book that lands this month. |
| 0:28.3 | You can get it from the 21st of May called Hurt Me Plenty, the Ultimate Guide to First Person Shooters. |
| 0:34.6 | Now, this is the follow-up to their last book. |
| 0:36.7 | I'm too young to die. And this details of the |
| 0:38.8 | years, 2003 to 2010, covering some absolute blockbusters. When that journal went into the big |
| 0:45.9 | budget games, Caller Duty, Doom 3, Half-Life 2, and lots more as well. You'll hear more about that |
| 0:50.8 | later on on this week's show, but you can check it out in the rest of their retrogaming |
| 0:53.8 | collection at bitmapbooks.com. |
| 0:57.2 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 479, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 1:06.2 | Me Ravi Abbott and me, me Joe Fox. |
| 1:08.7 | And a very warm welcome to the show, the podcast. |
| 1:11.3 | It comes out every single Friday. |
| 1:12.9 | And, of course, brings you up to speed on all the big happenings in the wonderful |
| 1:16.7 | world of retro gaming and technology from over the last seven days and brings you veterans |
| 1:21.7 | of the industry onto the show for an interview in the second half. |
| 1:27.0 | And I hope your boys had a good week. |
| 1:29.0 | I must have been going out really old school this week. |
| 1:31.5 | Actually, we've been there playing around with my mega 65. |
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