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Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 42,

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

Dan Wood. And me, Ravi Abbott. Having a welcome break from Mac Hell today, Ravi. Oh, God, it's been awful. I'm trying to get my G5 going and these dual layer DVDs and everything in different formats of USB sticks. I've been in a Mac nightmare. You can take a little breather now for the next half an hour. Relief.

So if you haven't checked out the show before, maybe you're a new listener to the retro hour. We have them coming in all the time. The way the show works is every single Friday we come out. We run through the big stories that have been making it in the headlines of the world of retro and tech throughout the week. And then, for the second half an hour of the show, we hand over to a very special guest.

Oh God, and the guests half an hour of the show, we hand over to a very special guest.

Oh, God. And the guests we have this week is just one for you 8-bit fans, but also your 16-bit fans as well.

Well, this is Rob Hewson. He is the CEO of the recently reformed Houston consultants and the son of Andrew, who set the company up back in the day,

you know, the Commonwealth 64 and Spectrum Days. And then after that, 21st century entertainment, pinball dreams, fantasy. Massive Brits off company, isn't it? Oh, absolutely. And even, you know, going back to the 8th, there's Eurydium, cybernoid, all those classic games. And all those pinball games. How cool were those? Obviously he was there, you know, his dad running the company.

He was a kid that grew up in this era.

He must have been the coolest kid in school.

Totally, yeah. those pinball games. How cool were those? Obviously he was there, you know, his dad running the company, he was a kid that grew up in

this era. He must have been the coolest kid in school. Totally. And, you know, we mentioned him last week at Play Expo where he bumped into him, so now he's on the show. It's great. Houston are back and they've got a new game coming out, which will definitely appeal to retroheads. So we're going to talk more about that.

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