483: Last Action Hero to Chronicles of Riddick: Cos Lazouras Tells All - The Retro Hour EP483
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
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🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Contents:
00:00 - The Week's Retro News Stories
32:47 - Cos Lazouras Interview
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The Bagman for Mega Drive: https://tinyurl.com/8scuchxj
Game Boy Camera Manager: https://tinyurl.com/5n78v92s
Atari ST turns 40: https://tinyurl.com/mwbzf2v2
Azaran Island: https://tinyurl.com/msphwu2h
New Contra arcade: https://youtu.be/5FX6HJl9uZ8
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's show, the Atari ST turns 40. |
| 0:04.9 | Organize your Game Boy Pictures. |
| 0:06.9 | We go inside the world of Chronicles of Riddick with Cos Lazarus. |
| 0:18.7 | And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you each and every Friday. |
| 0:22.9 | Thanks to our wonderful sponsor, Bitmap Books. |
| 0:25.8 | Now, one of their books actually has just landed. |
| 0:28.4 | Have you heard of Hurt Me Plenty? |
| 0:30.4 | The Ultimate Guide to First Person Shooters, 2003 to 2010? |
| 0:36.1 | Now, this is the follow-up to their massive book, I'm Too Young to Die, |
| 0:39.5 | and celebrates the Blockbuster era of the FPS with more than 220 PC console handheld and |
| 0:47.1 | arcade games listed in here and weighing in at a massive 464 pages. And of course, |
| 0:53.3 | printed to their usual incredible standards if you love your |
| 0:56.1 | FPS games definitely check it out and the rest of their retro gaming collection at bitmapbooks.com |
| 1:01.3 | Hello and welcome to the retro hour podcast episode number 483 your weekly dose of |
| 1:08.7 | retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 1:11.6 | Me, Ravi Abbott. |
| 1:12.6 | And a very warm welcome to the show. |
| 1:15.8 | The podcast that comes out every single Friday. |
| 1:17.7 | And of course brings you up to speed on all the goings on in the wonderful world of retro gaming and technology from over the last week and brings you veterans of the industry. |
| 1:27.3 | On to the podcast each week for a bit of a chat about their career and the incredible games that they worked on. We have got an amazing guest on the way this week. Obviously, now we are into June. High summer here in the UK. I know you've been doing a bit of a late spring cleaning, Ravi, clearing out all your own, your old monitors and everything before you bought even more. |
| 1:44.7 | Yeah, it's just like broken stuff. And then as soon as you want to try and get rid of retro systems, then someone's like, oh, you're into old computers, aren't you? And you're suddenly inundated with even more. So, yeah, I think I'm just going to give up. Yeah, some people might have seen the picture on our Facebook page, have you done at the dump with all those old CRTs piled high and, God, I was so desperate. |
| 2:05.5 | But before everybody goes crazy, they weren't my CRTs. I was taking photos of CRTs in that horrific storage room that, you know, people put all their monitors in a place to die and it's just like you want to dive in and grab everything, but the council people will be like, no, get him. Heartbreaking, yeah, that is. That caused a bit of reaction on our Facebook during the week. So, so I haven't joined us on the social. It's definitely worth jumping on there. It was a bit of a giggle. Now, this week, I didn't mention we have got another incredible guest. We're going to be going inside the world of, well, some really interesting |
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