511: Retro Gaming Christmas Quiz 2025 – The Retro Hour EP511
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
This year, Paul Drury and Oliver Wilmot are taking on hosting duties, armed with festive cheer and plenty of tricky questions. Meanwhile, Dan, Ravi and Joe have each drafted in some of our wonderful Patrons to join their teams, because what’s Christmas without a bit of friendly competition and chaos?
Expect laughs, questionable answers, retro knowledge put to the test, and the all-important bragging rights as everyone battles it out to be crowned this year’s Retro Hour Christmas Super Quiz champions.
So grab a mince pie, pour yourself something festive, and settle in for a proper Christmas treat with the Retro Hour gang.
Merry Christmas to all our amazing listeners, we'll see you in 2026!
Paul Drury co-hosts The Ted Dabney Experience podcast – interviews with the leading lights and supporting cast of the Golden Age of Arcades: https://www.teddabneyexperience.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Now, just before we hop into this year's Christmas quiz, I wanted to take just a quick moment to give a massive thank you to our headline sponsor throughout 2025 and I'm pleased to say continuing into the new year as well, our amazing friends at Bitmap Books. |
| 0:14.1 | Now, maybe you want to treat yourself to a present over Christmas. |
| 0:17.7 | Check out that incredible new title, Trigger Happy, a visual celebration of controllers. |
| 0:23.9 | Weighing in at 396 pages. This book looks at some of the best controllers of all time and |
| 0:30.5 | some that, if we're honest, we'd probably rather forget. Co-authored by legendary games journalist |
| 0:35.5 | Steve Jarrett. You can check it out and order your copy right now |
| 0:38.1 | and see the rest of their retro gaming collection at bitmapbooks.com. |
| 0:42.2 | Right then, on with this year's Christmas quiz. |
| 0:53.1 | Have you ever wondered which of the retro hour crew actually knows most about video games? |
| 0:59.0 | Well, now's your chance to find out in this special edition of the Retro Hour Christmas Quiz. |
| 1:09.6 | Hello, welcome. My name is Ollie. I'm back. I do a quiz at the Dice Cup in Nottingham once a month, so I don't know. Come down if you're around. |
| 1:20.1 | Nice plug there, Ollie. My name's Paul Drury. I write for Retro Gamer magazine, and I'm also co-host of the Ted Dabney Experience podcast. |
| 1:27.3 | And Ollie and I are usually on the-host of the Ted Dabney Experience Podcasts. |
| 1:27.7 | And Ollie and I are usually on the receiving end of the questions, but much like Pac-Man, |
| 1:33.9 | having eaten a power pellet, now the hunted becomes the hunter. |
| 1:38.6 | And we get to ask questions to these three guys who are not on their own. |
| 1:43.5 | So Dan, Joe and Ravi have each chosen |
| 1:46.4 | a Patreon to join their teams. That's a loyal and supportive listener of their podcast. I wonder |
| 1:53.3 | if there'll be Patreon Saints or Sinners, Ollie. Let's go for some of the rules, okay? |
| 2:02.6 | Okay, so here we go. |
| 2:03.6 | Now I'm reading, I've been instructed to read this out by Dan, who is the Overlord Quizmaster. |
| 2:09.6 | Okay. |
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