Activision: The Inside Story with David Crane - The Retro Hour EP123

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 558 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Pitfall creator David Crane gives us the inside story on Activision - the world's first third-party games developer.

David Crane: http://www.dcrane.com/Home.html

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0:00.0	I can't believe it.
0:03.5	Max has asked me to move in with him.
0:05.9	I mean, you practically live with each other already, but that's great.
0:09.8	Did you hear that, Joe?
0:11.5	Yes, thanks for letting us know.
0:14.3	I see you've updated your universal credit claim.
0:17.1	Now you're going to be living together.
0:23.6	If you're telling other people about a change in your circumstances, tell us too to avoid a penalty. Search tell DWP. Hello and welcome to the
0:31.2	Retro Hour podcast episode number one, two, three. Your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology
0:36.7	news with me Dan Wood. And me, news with me, Dan, you're back.
0:38.2	And me, Ravi Abbott and Dan, you're back? Oh, it's good to be back on the show.
0:42.1	You nearly forgot the intro, didn't you? I did it. I've been off like, what, a week now,
0:45.3	and it feels like this is ancient history the last time I did a podcast. Well, the reason Dan was off
0:49.4	was because he'd lost his voice, basically. So we couldn't have him on. You'd have to hold up signs, wouldn't you?
0:54.8	Yeah, a bit like Love Actually or something.
1:09.6	Yeah, or you could have had one of those old computer synthesizers. Hello, I am Dan Wood. Yeah, that wouldn't get annoying, would it? But it is good to be bad. I did lose my voice last week. Because as you mentioned, a bit hard to do a podcast when you can't talk. You and Joe did well though.
1:10.4	Oh yeah.
1:13.4	We started off a bit iffy, but we got there.
1:14.3	Yeah, it was a good show.
1:30.1	Well, it was a bit weird to do a podcast when you can't talk. You and Joe did well though. Oh yeah. We started off a bit iffy but we got there. Yeah, it was a good show. Well, it was a bit weird for me because for the first time in this show being, I was going to say on air, on the internet in like two and a half years, I actually sat at home and listened to it and didn't know what was coming up. I listened to The Retro Hour as a listener. Oh wow. Well, you're excited. Yeah, well, it's a pretty good show this actually, if I do say so myself.
1:30.1	I'd say that, because I do say so myself.
1:32.2	Yeah. I'd say that, so wasn't on the episode, so.
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