500: "No One Had Storyboarded Games Before - So I Did!" - Atari Legend Roger Hector - The Retro Hour EP500
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
Thanks for all your messages of support, here's to 500 more episodes!
Contents:
00:00 - The Week's Retro News Stories
44:12 - Roger Hector Interview
1:29:01 - Listener Messages
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Show notes
Raspberry Pi 500+: https://tinyurl.com/3xzyzbku
Lost Sega 1970s Game Blueprints Found: https://tinyurl.com/43wm6drf
Imagine’s Infamous ‘Megagame’ Revived: https://tinyurl.com/3xzyzbku
Wizordum Retro FPS Hits Consoles: https://tinyurl.com/2t7urusc
Silent Hill Game Boy Remake: https://tinyurl.com/4bxk5jhp
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's show, a new high-end Rosemary Pye arrives. |
| 0:04.0 | Arcade quality games on your Commodore 64. |
| 0:07.1 | And a creepy new d-mate lands on the Game Boy. |
| 0:16.9 | And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you each and every week with our sponsor, our good friends, a bitmap books. |
| 0:22.8 | Now, of course, today on the show, to celebrate Episode 500, a lot of Atari talk on this week's podcast. |
| 0:28.1 | One of their books, you should definitely check out. |
| 0:30.0 | Atari 2,600 and 7800, a visual compendium. |
| 0:35.8 | Celebrating the systems that really started the home gaming industry, |
| 0:39.0 | covering some of their most iconic titles, |
| 0:40.8 | asteroids, space invaders, |
| 0:42.7 | Pac-Man Defender, Jouse Pitball, |
| 0:44.8 | weighing in more than 520 pages. |
| 0:47.8 | Have a look at it and the rest of their retrogaming collection |
| 0:50.0 | at bitmapbooks.com. |
| 0:52.8 | And with our good friends at PCBway. |
| 0:55.5 | Now, I'm sure you know all about PCB way. |
| 0:57.7 | Huge supporters of the retro community. |
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| 1:06.0 | and they offer services like 3D printing and injection molding. |
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