515: "We Felt Like Part of the Beatles" - Rock Band with Sean Baptiste - The Retro Hour EP515
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
What makes a truly great gaming community? Sean Baptiste, who helped grow Harmonix’s forum from a dozen diehards to hundreds of thousands of fans, shares what it really takes. From the secret struggles behind QA on Karaoke Revolution, to rocking out with the stars at the Grammys, Sean reflects on how fan feedback shaped Rock Band, how social media changed the game, and why authentic engagement still matters more than ever.
Contents:
00:00 - The Week's Retro News Stories
52:18 - Sean Baptiste Interview
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Show notes
Dan's Escapist Column: https://tinyurl.com/35srz7e8
Mario 64 Dreamcast Port Impresses: https://tinyurl.com/chayc96w
Combo Portable TV Demo: https://tinyurl.com/mp5fy7ck
Lost PS2-Style RPG Revealed: https://tinyurl.com/4rb98wfn
Commodore Drive Turned PC: https://youtu.be/6loDwvG4CP8
7-Day Dark Souls Demake: https://tinyurl.com/2sp2bc57
Yie Ar Kung-Fu Genesis Port: https://tinyurl.com/yc7y5pmx
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's show, Mario lands on the dreamcast. |
| 0:04.3 | A new possible TV made for retro gaming. |
| 0:07.2 | And WeChat rock band with Sean Baptiste. |
| 0:18.6 | And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you every Friday with our sponsor, our amazing friends, |
| 0:23.4 | a bitmap books. |
| 0:24.2 | Now, one of their books that dropped just in the last few months. |
| 0:27.3 | If you haven't checked this out, you definitely need to. |
| 0:29.4 | The Games of a Lifetime brought to you by legendary games journalist Julian Jazz Wrignell. |
| 0:36.3 | Now, he's been a journalist and worked in the industry for a |
| 0:38.5 | coming up on five decades. And this book is all about that journey, but it isn't an autobiography. |
| 0:44.3 | It's not an encyclopedia of the best games. It's basically a journey through to him, |
| 0:49.1 | what are the most important gaming events and experiences during that time. From Pong to the 8 and 16-bit |
| 0:54.0 | computer revolutions, the European consoles, across the millennium, all the way to the modern age as well. If you haven't checked it out, have a look at it, and the rest of their retrogaming collection, you can find it at bitmapbooks.com. And with our friends at replay events. Now, they're bringing back the UK's biggest retro games market to Leeds in just a couple of |
| 1:12.4 | weeks time on Sunday the 8th of February. It's going to be happening at the Royal Armouries Museum, |
| 1:17.5 | a massive venue that's going to be filled with nothing but video games and merchandise. |
| 1:22.6 | Thousands of gamers and fellow collectors eager to find a bargain. Doors open at 10.30am |
| 1:27.0 | and you can get your tickets |
| 1:28.2 | right now at leadsgamingmarket.com. Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode |
| 1:35.5 | number 515, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. Me Ravi Abbott |
| 1:41.7 | and me Joe Fox. And a very well welcome to this week's show, the podcast that lands every single Friday. |
| 1:47.5 | And that brings you up to speed on all the big stories from the wonderful world of retro |
| 1:50.7 | gaming and technology and welcomes the veterans of the industry onto the show for an |
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