Potential.

Potential can sometimes feel daunting, scary.

But today's the day you decide to act on it, with a higher technical qualification.

Designed with employers, it will give you the skills you need to land the job you want,

because today is your day.

When anything is possible, if you make it happen.

It all starts with skills.

See how you can get started.

Search skills for life.

Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 48, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. And me, Ravi Abbott. And here we are. Into the first episode of December. God, we've been doing it this long. We haven't missed one, Dan. I know the show nearly an entire year old. Oh, God. And are you feeling festive yet? Yeah, I've been getting my presents and I've been getting frozen going out. So, yeah watching Frozen the movie then. Oh, no, no. You don't love the type, brother. God. No, I've actually played Olaf on stage once. I got pulled into a charity event and they were like, Your Olaf. I was like, I don't know what Olaf does. I've never seen this. He lied.

So we aren't going to be talking about, I mean, you know, for me, being a kid, it was always the time when you got new consoles and new computers and stuff like that. So in a bit we are going to be talking about some of our favourite games to play at Christmas time, which, you know, now we're into the festive season. Yeah, yeah. And, you know, there's kind of games that you always feel a bit traditional with. And, you know, it's always nice to play at Christmas.

Exactly. Yeah. The only time you're And, you know, there's kind of games that you always feel a bit traditional with. And, you know, it's always nice to play at Christmas.

Exactly, yeah. The only time you hear you play some games, isn't it?

Yeah, yeah, true.

So we'll talk more about that in just a minute.

And of course, every week on the retro hour,

we bring you a guest who is an absolute legend

in the world of video games.

And this week, we're talking core design,

Bubber and Sticks, Rick Dangerous,

a guy who wrote his first video game when he was at school. Yeah, and, you know, a lot of the games he did kind of have influenced other games, like Rick Dangerous. A lot of people say that's Lara's dad. Yeah, yeah. So, you know. Well, core design, it was Derby, it was all around here, wasn't it? And actually, he used to work in a video game shop in the 80s.

So there's actually a really interesting bit coming up where he talks about what it was like to have a Saturday job in a video game shop in the 80s. And we are talking about Simon Phipps. Yeah, Simon Phipps of Bugba and Sticks. Exactly. So he's going to be coming on the retro hour in around 20 minutes from now.

...