480: Diablo, StarCraft & Comix Zone: Stieg Hedlund Reveals All - The Retro Hour EP480
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Contents:
00:00 - The Week's Retro News Stories
42:26 - Stieg Hedlund Interview
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Show notes
Ecco The Dolphin Remastered: https://tinyurl.com/37hdwzw3
Lost Lynx game is revived: https://tinyurl.com/58nav3y3
Fallout 1 and 2 Lost Source Code Found: https://tinyurl.com/297mzhec
Batman on the Sinclair QL: https://tinyurl.com/2wttffa4
Bubsy The Purrfect Collection: https://tinyurl.com/5n98dbxy
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's show, a Mega Drive classic is getting a sequel. |
| 0:05.1 | A lost Atari Links game is being revived. |
| 0:07.7 | And we talk Blizzard with designer Steig Headlin. |
| 0:15.4 | And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you each and every Friday with our friends at Bitmap Books. |
| 0:22.8 | Now, of course, today we're going to be talking about role-playing games. |
| 0:26.0 | And have you seen their amazing book, The C-R-PG book, a guide to Computer Role-Playing Games, the Expanded Edition? |
| 0:34.6 | Now, this covers more than 450 games. from 1975 up to the modern day. All the |
| 0:40.5 | classics are in there that we know and love, Ultima, Wizardry, Fallout, Mass Effect, all |
| 0:44.8 | brought to life with vibrant, incredible in-game images and spread over a huge 684 pages. You can |
| 0:51.9 | check it out in the rest of their retro gaming collection at bitmapbooks.com. |
| 0:56.3 | And with our friends at PCB way. Now maybe you're working on something over the summer |
| 1:00.6 | and you need a custom PCB making. They've got your cupboard, low-cost, fast turnaround quality |
| 1:06.8 | boards and they do services like 3D printing and injection molding and you know about PCB way |
| 1:11.7 | massive supporters of the retro community have a look at their shared project section on their |
| 1:16.0 | website to get some ideas and get an instant quote right now at pcb way dot com hello and welcome |
| 1:24.4 | to the retro hour podcast episode number 480 your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 1:32.2 | Me Ravi Abbott and me Joe Fox. |
| 1:34.5 | And great to be joining us for our little get-together before the weekend every Friday, basically a bit of an excuse for us nerds to get together and completely geek out about our favourite subject, the wonderful |
| 1:45.7 | world of retro gaming and technology. |
| 1:48.6 | Bringing you up to speed on what's been happening, all the big stories that have been making |
| 1:51.6 | the headlines over the last week and bringing you more veterans every week onto the |
| 1:56.8 | podcast for an interview in the second half of the show. |
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