Carmageddon & Lawnmower Man with Fergus McNeill - The Retro Hour EP53
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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This week, we're joined by Fergus McNeill as we talk developing Carmageddon, making the Lawnmower Man game and working with Terry Pratchett!
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Transcript
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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 53, |
| 0:34.7 | your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me Dan Wood. And me, Ravi Abbott. And our second episode of 2017. And I just want to say, by the way, thank you for your new listeners of the Retro Hour. Yeah, we've been getting loads of tweets and loads of kind of Facebook messages from new people. Thanks so much. Now, if you want you to the show, first of all, welcome. Where have you been for the last year? |
| 0:55.3 | Get caught up. 52 episodes to listen to you guys. There's quite a lot, isn't it, to get through? But the way the show works is that Ravi and I run through the big tech and retro stories of the week. And then the second half of the show, and you know, we work so hard to get these guests on the show. I think it's fair to say every week we bring |
| 1:11.7 | you a legend of the video games and computer industry. Yeah, and this week we've got someone who's |
| 1:16.8 | amazing. It's Fergus McNeil. Now, this guy started doing text adventures, getting onto stuff with |
| 1:22.9 | Terry Pratchett. You know, he did the first disc-willed text game. And then he went into stuff |
| 1:27.4 | like Carmageddon. So this is a completely kind of, Pratchett, you know, he did the first disc-wheel text game. And then he went into stuff like |
| 1:27.6 | Carmageddon. So this is a completely kind of mixed interview, and it's really interesting. It's so, I mean, talking about Carmageddon, I remember, you know, that was banned, wasn't it? It was talked about, well, the House of Lords and stuff. Yeah, yeah, a very controversial game that was. |
| 1:42.5 | It was, |
| 1:42.9 | even more so than GTA, |
| 1:44.1 | I think, |
| 1:44.3 | in the late 90s, |
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