I can't believe it.

Max has asked me to move in with him.

I mean, you practically live with each other already, but that's great.

Did you hear that, Joe?

Yes, thanks for letting us know.

I see you've updated your universal credit claim.

Now you're going to be living together.

If you're telling other people about a change in your circumstances, tell us too to avoid a penalty. Search tell DWP. Hello and welcome to the

retro hour episode number 37, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me Danwood.

And me, Ravi Abbott. Now, if you are new to the show, we come out every single Friday. Ravi and I go through the big stories that have been making the world of retro and tech throughout the week. And then the second half of the show, that's where things really get exciting. We have on a special guest, someone who's really noteworthy in the history of video game development. and to be fair, I don't think they come much bigger than the guy we've got on this week. Yeah, I spoke to him and I don't know how he agreed to come on this show. You know, it's Scott Miller, who was the founder of Apogee and Free D realms. This is crazy. You pulled out the big guns on this week's show, really, haven't you?

So, I mean, you're looking at the games that he's been involved in. It pretty much reads like a who's-who's list of those genre-defining games of like the late 80s and the 90s, even stuff like Wolfenstein 3D. Yeah, I remember playing on my mum's PC and being blown away on that. Well, you can even trace, you know, every game these days as an FPS.

That was really the granddaddy of the first-person shooter genre, wasn't it really?

Yeah, and that... my mum's PC and being blown away on that. Well, you can even trace, you know, every game these days as an FPS.

That was really the granddaddy of the first-person shooter genre, wasn't it really? Yeah, and then a lot of innovation and development that happened with Duke Newcomb. Yeah. And, oh God, Duke Newcomb forever, dare I say. Yeah, we are going to get the story of the painful development of Duke Newcomb forever and what you thought of the game when it eventually came out.

And also a really exciting new title that he's working on today,

which is called Rad Rogers. Yeah, if you've ever played Rough and Tumble on the Amiga or Jazz Jack Rabbit or even Conquers, then this game's going to appeal to you. It's a very cheeky return to those old-school kind of platforms, isn't it? Definitely, yeah. Watch the trailer.

You might have to have some parental guidance on that. Strictly 18 and over only. So Scott's going to be on the retro hour in around 20 minutes from now. Seriously hang around for this one. I think this is one of our best interviews we've ever done. Really excited for this. Now, we're just going to say a huge thank you as well to the fantastic Christopher Folds, who's made a very generous donation to the retro hour this week. Yeah, a reoccurring donation, Dan. I don't know you could do that. I don't know you could do that either, but yeah, basically he's contributed to the show every month, which is awesome, Chris. Thank you so much. Press him it wrong. just in case you have we we have alerted him to that now. Obviously, we have mentioned that we have got a little tip jar on the website, the Retro Hour.com. If you ever want to make a little donation, it all goes into the running cost of the show. And also, we're going to give something back this week as well. Yeah, we're going to do our first giveaway, and this is thanks to Bitmap Brooks.

Now, this is Sam Dyer, who we had on a couple of months ago. He's a guy that does his really, really attractive visual compendium books. Yeah, and, you know, these were the, we were calling them the coffee table kind of gaming books that you could have all these beautiful zoomed-in, pixelated images. They have, what do they have done? They've got interviews and...

Oh, there's all sorts. Well, I mean, gaming books that you could have all these beautiful zoomed in pixelated images they have what

do they have done they've got interviews and oh there's all sorts well i mean the book that we're

giving away now um thank you so much to sam and the team at bibbat books have actually given us

two copies of the expanded edition this is 476 pages it's a hard bag of the Commodore 64 visual compendium. I must admit, I had to

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