496: "The SID Chip Was My First Love” - Jeroen Tel: Maniacs of Noise - The Retro Hour EP496
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Contents:
00:00 - The Week's Retro News Stories
43:56 - Jeroen Tel Interview
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Show notes
LAN Party Adventures: https://tinyurl.com/h3kuyevt
Xbox 360 Softmod Is Coming: https://youtu.be/0gRHubim8DI
Llamasoft & Activision Evercade Collections: https://tinyurl.com/4fpcjtzb
Analogue 3D Updates: https://tinyurl.com/3hzc9mky
M64: https://tinyurl.com/yxea37te
JRPGs Getting Pulled Off Switch Store: https://tinyurl.com/yc4kruea
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's show, a great time to be an N64 fan. |
| 0:03.8 | A new soft mod comes to the Xbox 360. |
| 0:06.3 | And we catch up with maniacs of noise legend, Jerome. |
| 0:09.4 | And the Retro Our Podcasts. |
| 0:19.6 | And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you each and every Friday with our friends, |
| 0:24.4 | our sponsor, a Bitmap Books. |
| 0:26.4 | Now, of course, today we chat to Jerome Tell on the podcast, who of course was famous on the Commodore 64. |
| 0:31.1 | If you're a big C-64 fan, one of their books, you need to check out. |
| 0:34.1 | Coming back soon at Bitmapbooks.com, Commodore 64, a visual compendium, |
| 0:39.8 | celebrating a journey of the Commodore 64's varied and colorful gaming library, |
| 0:45.4 | including all the classics you remember the early days like Jupiter, |
| 0:48.5 | Lander and Beachhead, through to Drop Zone, Impossible Mission, |
| 0:51.6 | Elite Eurydium, Las Ninja, weighing in at more than 500 pages. |
| 0:55.2 | If you love the C-64, check it out right now at bitmapbooks.com. |
| 1:01.6 | And with our friends at replay events who are bringing back at the UK's most popular retro gaming event. |
| 1:08.0 | Play Expo back for 2025 on the weekend of the 4th and 5th of October, |
| 1:13.2 | back in Blackpool. Now, what can you expect from Play Expo? Traders, arcade cabinets, computers, |
| 1:18.8 | consoles, loads of light-minded people there as well. And of course, the talks already confirmed |
| 1:23.7 | RJ Michael and Matt Household. You can keep an eye on that and get your tickets right now |
| 1:28.9 | to beat the UK's biggest retro gaming expo. PlayExpo Blackpool.com and I'll put that in this week's |
| 1:34.4 | show notes. |
| 1:39.9 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 496, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
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