Atari UK: The Rise and Fall with Darryl Still - The Retro Hour EP71
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2017
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
We get the highs and lows of Atari UK with former marketing manager Darryl Still. From the ST glory days to defending the Jaguar, and hanging out with Fatboy Slim and Chesney Hawkes!
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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 71, |
| 0:34.4 | your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me Dan Wood. And me Ravi Abbott. And normal service is resumed this week. Yes, we actually have a guest. Now, if you haven't heard last week's show, yeah, I know some people do kind of bounce around the episodes, or maybe you're new to the show, and at which case we'll explain what we do in just a minute. But last week, we actually decided to not have a guest and just have one hour |
| 0:55.2 | of us guys. And I think it's fair to say, it actually went down quite well. Yeah, there were some really kind tweets and people were just saying, you know, it was hilarious. So bang on. Unintentionally. So thanks very much for your support on that guys. And, you know, I think it will be something we do again at some point in the future. |
| 1:10.9 | Rabby just had an idea then that maybe we should uh invite you know you guys to ask us |
| 1:14.8 | some questions that we can maybe ask somebody tweeted this and i was like that's a really smart idea |
| 1:19.2 | yeah so we could get some really awkward ones done yeah ask us anything no hell's bad |
| 1:24.0 | retro hour unplugged i'm sure we'll do that at some point in the future. |
| 1:27.8 | But this week, normal service is resumed, and that means we've got a veteran of the video games industry who is going to join us in the second half of the show. Now, it's fair to say, you know, we've had some pretty big names on the Retro Hour podcast over the last 18 months that we've been doing this show. Tom Kalinsky, who was the CEO of Sega. |
| 1:47.0 | Oh yeah, we've been doing this show. Tom Kalinsky, |
| 1:44.8 | who was the CEO of Sega. Oh yeah, we've had John Romero as well. |
| 1:49.0 | Guy behind Doom, obviously, in Wolfenstein 3D. Lord British, who was behind Ultima, |
| 1:53.9 | those legendary games, Scott Adams. Yeah. And the thing is, we've not had anybody from Atari. |
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