Grim Fandango with Bret Mogilefsky - The Retro Hour EP140
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2018
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Bret Mogilefsky was the lead programmer on the LucasArts classic adventure Grim Fandango, we get the inside story on the game and life at Skywalker Ranch.
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| 0:00.0 | I can't believe it. |
| 0:03.6 | Max has asked me to move in with him. |
| 0:06.0 | I mean, you practically live with each other already, but that's great. |
| 0:09.9 | 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. |
| 0:23.6 | 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 |
| 0:31.1 | Retro Hour podcast episode number 140, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me |
| 0:37.2 | Dan Wood and me, Dan Wood. |
| 0:37.7 | And me, Ravi Abbott. |
| 0:38.7 | Now, first of all, we just want to say a warm welcome if you do check out this podcast every week. |
| 0:43.1 | And because I was looking through a few reviews that people have left on iTunes and the new Google Podcast Service and Facebook, |
| 0:50.5 | the amount of people on there that give us a glowing review. |
| 0:53.9 | And the comment I keep seeing |
| 0:54.8 | all the time is, I've listened to every show since episode one. Wow, that's some, that's some dedication. I don't know if I've listened to every episode. But 140. It's crazy. If you're a new listener as well, you can also look at our back catalogue and there's loads of guests. You know, we've had suggestions for some |
| 1:11.0 | people and we're like, yeah, we're already on. Yeah. So, so definitely check our back catalogue. But obviously the good thing about it is, like you said, we do have a lot of new people that have come through the door in the last couple of weeks because we're now on audio boom. We're on Spotify as well, a lot of new services. So if you have just discovered the retro hour podcast in the last couple of weeks, welcome on board. What took you so long? You finally made it though. And we just want to |
| 1:32.5 | quickly run through how this show works because we do kind of do the podcast in two halves, |
| 1:36.3 | don't we? Yeah. So the first section we do is a new section. And this is like about topics of |
| 1:42.3 | interest at the moment today. This week we're going to be talking about ROMs, |
| 1:45.6 | which is a big controversy at the moment. |
| 1:47.8 | And we're also going to be talking about some kind of old school controllers for modern consoles. |
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