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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

Doom, Wolfenstein 3D and Quake: The Inside Story With John Romero - The Retro Hour EP55

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9558 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Doom, Wolfenstein 3D and Quake: the inside story of the biggest video games ever with John Romero! Plus, our report from Amiga Ireland, an amazing new Amiga show.

John Romero's website: http://rome.ro/

Thanks to our amazing donators: David McLachlan, Andrew M Marsh, Stephen Leary, Daniel Willars
Our website: http://theretrohour.com Our Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theretrohour/ Our Twitter: http://twitter.com/retrohouruk

Show notes:

AtomProjekt Wolfenstein 3D mod: http://bit.ly/2jYi8Kg
Dooom on Macbook Pro Touchbar: http://bit.ly/2gabBfS
OpenEMU for MacOS: http://openemu.org/
Atari classic gaming on your wrist?: http://bit.ly/2kAntKL

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 55,

0:34.5

your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Danwood.

0:38.3

And me, Ravi Abbott.

0:39.4

You're looking a bit tired, Ravi.

0:40.6

Oh, I'm shattered. I've just been travelling from Ireland. Well, I went to Ireland and back.

0:45.9

Oh, that Guinness? Yeah. Oh, it's lovely Guinness in Ireland, you know, much nicer than in the UK.

0:50.8

So you've been out there, you did four days in Ireland in the end for the first

0:55.6

Amiga Island show. Yeah. And this was really good fun. There was like, you know, 50 guys and we all

1:02.1

had a great drink. We had a good time. And I'd like to thank Jarluff and all the Irish Amiga users.

1:08.2

And they're based at Amiga user.i, which is their new website. And I'm and I'm going to be going next year. So every year this should be a little annual thing, Amiga Island. I've got to make it out there next year. Ravi actually uploaded a video. You took a bit of footage there as well. It starts with them blasting ice off the plane. Yeah. Oh God, it was four in the morning when I left.

1:29.6

But it's a really quick flight over to Ireland.

1:46.0

It's only just half an hour. Really? That's nuts. And then you got whipped in the sensible soccer at tournament? Oh, yeah, God, I was awful. But it was such a good time. There was David Pleasance there. There was Trevor Dickinson. but I also did something extra, extra special for the retro hour afterwards.

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