485: Psygnosis to PSN: Phil Gaskell on Shaping Sony’s Early Playstation Era - The Retro Hour EP485
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
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🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Contents:
00:00 - The Week's Retro News Stories
36:41 - Phil Gaskell Interview
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Atari beats ChatGPT: https://tinyurl.com/54pr4bxw
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's show, the Atari 2,600 beats modern AI. |
| 0:06.1 | How to Save Your Broken PlayStation. |
| 0:08.4 | A wee-chat Sony and Waterhog with Phil Gaskill. |
| 0:26.7 | And the Retro Owl podcast is brought to you each and every Friday with our sponsor, |
| 0:28.3 | our great friends, Bitmap Books. |
| 0:30.5 | Now, have you seen their latest volume? |
| 0:34.9 | Hurt Me Plenty, the ultimate guide to first-person shooters, covering the years 2003 to 2010 2010 the blockbuster era of FPS games covering |
| 0:42.0 | all the massive games we'll remember from that era half-life two doom three call of duties in there as |
| 0:47.0 | well and weighing in at more than 460 pages a real love letter to first person shooters you can check |
| 0:53.2 | it out in the rest of their retro gaming collection collection at bitmapbooks.com. And with our friends at PCB Way. Now, PCB way, an |
| 1:00.8 | incredible company who offer fully featured custom PCB prototyping, low-cost, fast turnaround quality |
| 1:07.6 | boards, and they do services like 3D printing and injection molding. |
| 1:11.5 | So maybe you're working on a retro project over the summer. |
| 1:14.8 | Check them out. |
| 1:15.2 | Also have a look at their shared project section as well on their website. |
| 1:18.1 | Again, instant quote for yours at PCBway.com. |
| 1:22.7 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 485, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 1:31.6 | Me, Ravi Abbott and me, Joe Falk. |
| 1:34.0 | And a great time to be joining us for the podcast that every single Friday celebrates everything about the wonderful world of retro gaming and technology and brings you more veterans of the industry onto the podcast for a chat about their career on an interview in the second half of the show. |
| 1:50.7 | Speaking of which as well, you may have noticed something a little bit different about the |
| 1:53.6 | interview that we did last week. There was a video version a bit out there, Ravi. |
| 1:58.3 | We've actually upgraded and got a video camera. |
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