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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

481: Tony Warriner & Stoo Cambridge’s UrbX Warriors: A Masterpiece for the ZX Spectrum Next - The Retro Hour EP481

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9558 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

This week, we chat with two legends of the British gaming scene, Tony Warriner (Revolution Software) and Stoo Cambridge (Sensible Software),  who’ve teamed up to create UrbX Warriors, an incredible new title for the ZX Spectrum Next. 

UrbX Warriors Kickstarter: https://tinyurl.com/yvhw43et

Contents:

00:00 - The Week's Retro News Stories 
32:29 - Tony Warriner & Stoo Cambridge Interview

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Show notes

Mario 64 Trigger Found: https://tinyurl.com/52ffytrb
Metal Gear for Mega Drive: https://tinyurl.com/47fdc9uw
Microsoft Revives Edit: https://tinyurl.com/3z56yt3b
Visit 1975 Microsoft: https://tinyurl.com/58nupxu4
Sega Saturn New Fighter: https://tinyurl.com/2wpf4cxs

Transcript

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0:00.0

Coming up on this week's show, more Mario 64 secrets found three decades later.

0:06.0

A legendary classic lands on the Mega Drive.

0:08.4

And we talked with video game legends Tony Warner and Stu Cambridge about their new game for the Spectrum next.

0:28.3

And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you every Friday with our sponsor.

0:29.9

Our friends have bitten that books.

0:34.0

Now, if you love adventure games, a book I absolutely adore it. Have you seen the art of point-and-click adventures?

0:38.3

Now, this covers all the big games from the earliest examples of Sierra games going through the Lucas starts

0:43.0

adventures into stuff like Secret of Monkey Island, The Dig, full throttle, mist is in there as well,

0:48.8

Discworld Blade Runner, spanning an incredible 528 pages. You can order that right now and have a look at the rest of their

0:56.2

retro gaming collection on their website at bitmapbooks.com.

1:01.7

Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 481, your weekly dose of retro gaming

1:08.0

and technology news with me, Dan Wood. Me, Ravi Abbott.

1:11.8

And a very warm welcome to the show.

1:15.2

You know the podcast every single week is all about what's been happening in the wonderful

1:19.9

world of retro gaming and technology, bringing you up to speed on the big stories from over

1:24.4

the last week and welcoming on veterans of the industry to tell us their story

1:29.6

on an interview in the second half of the show every week and that now that we are definitely

1:34.5

into the midst of summer about as warm as it gets here in the UK. It doesn't mean full on

1:40.0

event season now and I know you guys have been all over the place over the last couple of weeks.

1:43.8

You were over in Birmingham last weekend, Joe.

1:46.2

Yeah, I was at the Birmingham Games Market.

1:48.3

That was really fun.

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