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Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 499.

Your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood.

Me Ravi Abbott and me Joe Fox. And a very warm welcome to this week's show. I can't believe it is the last time. An episode number is going to start with a four. Last one of the 400s, boys. Next week, 500 episodes of this podcast. I don't know how we've made it. I don't know if we've all haven't killed each other in 500 episodes. It's going to virtually now. Yeah. We're not in the same. I've just been plotting the whole time. I'm waiting for the 500 to come, and then my plan will come to fruition. You can unleash you next week. Yeah, thank you so much as well for all your good luck and congratulations messages. I didn't mention last week that we basically We'll have a bit of a party, don't we? because we think it's worth celebrating 500 episodes of the show. So we want you to get involved. Now, we've had some great messages so far. So if you'd like to leave us one, we're going to play as many as we can on next week's podcast. It could be maybe a memory of the show. We've had a few of those. A few people have talked about their favorite guests. And a lot of people have just left us, you know, basically congratulations messages. It can be short or long as you want. But we do have a little page on our website where you can leave an audio message, really simple from there. You have to sign up or anything. Do it from your phone. Or you can leave us a video message on there as well, link to our Discord, which is probably the easiest place to do that. So you've got a couple of days, because we're actually going to be doing episode 500 this Sunday. So please get your messages in. All the details on the front page of the Retrohour.com. A little button you click there and get your message. Get your voice heard on episode 500 of the show.

Now, I'm actually going to be recording episode 500 a bit earlier than we normally do because

we're going to be doing a live stream of the episode for our patrons on Sunday night.

Yeah, so we usually do a patrons hang out where we decided why not record the 500 episode

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