Arcade Memories With Arcade Club's Andy Palmer - The Retro Hour EP62
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Lots of coin-op nostalgia in this week's show as chat to Andy Palmer, owner of Europe's biggest arcade - Arcade Club!
Arcade Club: http://www.arcadeclub.co.uk/
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SNES UK Promo with Craig Charles: https://youtu.be/RB5ALVUs8bU
Rik Mayall Nintendo ads: https://youtu.be/w24KR30nEsg
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Thimbleweed Park released this month: https://thimbleweedpark.com/main
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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. |
| 0:21.3 | If you're telling other people about a change in your circumstances, |
| 0:25.4 | tell us too to avoid a penalty. |
| 0:27.8 | Search Tell DWP. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 62, |
| 0:34.4 | your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 0:38.4 | And me, Ravi Abbott. And me, Joe Fox. Joe is back. I'm back again. First show of the year. |
| 0:43.5 | It's been a while. Taking a break from wedding planning? Yeah, taking a big break from wedding planning. |
| 0:47.9 | So, yeah, thanks for having me on again. You get married, what, two weeks? Two weeks tomorrow. |
| 0:53.1 | So two weeks today when the podcast comes out. Well, I'm getting married at the end of this year as well. And everyone's been saying to me, you've got to say goodbye to your video game collection now. No, not at all. We've already said, I've got, we've got a three-bedroom house and, you know, the two main rooms are as big as each other and uh i've got my whole room to games |
| 1:12.3 | and then we've got the little tiny box room and we've agreed that will be the child's bedroom when |
| 1:15.9 | that day comes like my game room then the child's bedroom |
| 1:18.9 | priority exactly you know maybe maybe things will change when you know when i see it and i'm just like |
| 1:25.8 | oh okay get a strong lock on that door yeah yeah it won't fit in the little room. Well, thank you for checking out this week's show, guys. Of course, the retro hour comes out every single Friday. We run through the big retro and technology stories of the week. And then, in the second half of the show, is when we get on, someone who's always got an interesting story to tell. Now, this could be like, |
| 1:44.5 | you know, a veteran of the video games industry, someone that was there in the old days at a legendary |
| 1:48.4 | company, or someone that is keeping the world of retro going, like the guess that we've got this |
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