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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

Centre For Computing History Interview - The Retro Hour EP73

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9558 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

We chat to the team behind the UK's biggest retro computing and gaming museum, the Centre For Computing History in Cambridge.

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/

Thanks to our amazing donators this week: RockerRoller, Liam Clancy, William Bateman, Leigh Bestford

Our website: http://theretrohour.com Our Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theretrohour/ Our Twitter: http://twitter.com/retrohouruk

Show notes:

New Micro Machines game: http://bit.ly/2rM33lC
Man born with no eyes loves gaming: http://bit.ly/2qcg0ju
10 way to breathe new life into old consoles: http://bit.ly/2qHtHs1
Project Rap Rabbit: http://bit.ly/2swnUWF

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, tell us too to avoid a

0:26.7

penalty. Search tell DWP.

0:30.0

Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 73, your weekly dose of retro gaming

0:36.1

and technology news with me, Dan Wood.

0:38.0

And me, Ravi Abbott.

0:39.1

Now, this show is all about classic gaming.

0:42.1

It's about old school video games.

0:43.7

It's about computers and systems from back in the day.

0:46.1

But this week, you're smelling rather retro, Ravi.

0:49.1

Oh, I've got Lynx Africa on.

0:52.2

I didn't even know you could still get Lynx Africa.

0:54.2

Oh, I kind of saw it in the shop shop and, you know, Alan Partridge, just kind of thought, Africa, yeah. Let me see the, I want to see the can pass it over. There you go. Is it taking you back? Is this one of those cans where it's got like the amount that a full cans got compressed? Yeah, yeah. It's like a little tiny compressed, Links Africa kind of style. It never seems as much, though, does it?

1:13.8

No.

1:14.1

I'm a little spray here. Oh, the studio. Takes me back to like 1995. A kind of hair gel and under 18s disco. Yeah, Ben Sherman shirt on. Cheers. Well, it's nice to know that you keep every part of your life retro-Aravi. Yeah, yeah, I'm just rocking it old school. Now, if you are a new listener to the podcast, welcome along, judging by the iTunes chart. I think we're number three last week. Yeah, yeah, fantastic. Thank you so much. And a lot of people kind of think that the iTunes chart is the number of listens. and it's not number of listeners that you're getting. So if we're hiring that chart, it means we're getting more people and the podcast is growing so it's great. Yeah, new people are coming through the door all the time and obviously you can help us with that as well. You know, every like thumb up that we get on a YouTube video, every comment,

2:01.4

every review that we get on iTunes, which, you know, this is why these are so important, because it helps us rise up the chart and then obviously the show grows, it reaches out to new people and the retro hour just keeps getting bigger and bigger, which is, you know, really, really appreciated. So please do keep your comments, your thumbs up and your reviews and ratings and all that coming in. And of course, another way that you can support the retro at our podcast

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