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721: Episode 721 Preview: Hudson's Road to TurboGrafx-16

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Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Inspired by the host's recent deep-dive into TurboGrafx-16 and a chance encounter at Retro World Expo, this episode sees Jeremy Parish, Kurt Kalata, John Andersen, and guest Jimmy Cooney recount the wild early days of former gaming powerhouse Hudson.

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0:00.0

This week in Retronauts.

0:28.1

I am Jeremy Parrish, and this week we are kind of live-ish, if we consider this live at Retro World Expo. And we are going to talk about Hudson because I have

0:42.8

jumped into turbowworks, turbographics videos with my video project. And I've been immersed in

0:50.7

Hudson and I figured why not turn that into additional content. It's the way

0:56.0

that we live in this modern age and era. And in a bizarre coincidence, yesterday we were at the

1:03.1

on the show floor and someone came up and started chatting with me and out of nowhere,

1:09.7

I go to a lot of events and talk about the

1:12.0

history of Hudson and there's no possible way he could have known that this was the topic

1:16.5

of our podcast discussion off panel, off site. And I said, well, this was, you know, since this was

1:25.3

a divine intervention here, so please join us for our podcast.

1:30.0

So special guest who randomly wandered into the podcast.

1:33.8

It's not often I say I've invited a strange man into my hotel room, but it does happen sometimes because, you know, Faye just lines up.

1:43.0

So please introduce yourself.

1:43.9

Yeah. Hi, guys. I'm Jimmy Cooney.

1:46.4

I own a game store in the Washington, D.C. area called Dice City Games.

1:50.8

I'm a longtime collector.

1:53.2

Started with the N.S.

1:54.6

And just was immediately attracted to the beat.

1:57.2

I've spoken at MagFest, too many games,

2:03.6

and a couple other events about the history of Hudson Soft. I did a panel called 50 Years of the Bee in the Story of Hudson, and then I did a panel on the caravan shooting,

2:10.6

and the caravan in general. So the Hudson Caravan was an exciting time to be alive if you were a gamer in japan and i

2:17.7

actually think the echoes of it um we are still feeling today so i was really excited to run into

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