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Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 28, your weekly dose of retro gaming

and technology news with me Dan Wood. And me, Ravi Abbott. Now, every Friday, the show comes out, available from our website, the retro hour.com. SoundCloud, Stitcher, and iTunes as well. We just realised, actually, one of the many iTunes comments recently. No, no, yeah, we're kind of stuck at 22, so please, any reviews you can, we'll be appreciated. Yeah, they're always really useful. And any feedback you've got, of course, we're on SoundCloud. The comments on there are always interesting too. Now, if you're regularly listening, you'll know the way the show works. Ravi and I chat about the big retro stories of the week first and then second half of the show. We hand over to someone who's got a really interesting history in the world of video games. This week, I think, this is probably the first guy who's worked in graphics that we've had on the show. Yeah, yeah, we've had a lot of musicians, but now we're kind of getting some artists. And this guy's amazing, John Kirschor, he basically did a lot of the stuff that I thought should have been an Amiga, like Z-Steel soldiers, Syndicate Wars, all the later games that were early PlayStation ones. So this guy's all about 2D to 3D, you know, FMVs, all this kind of early 3D development. Well, he started on the Amiga in 88 as well, he was didn't he and he worked for some you know massive studios

and companies bitmaps he worked with their bullfrogh at graph gold he worked on games like fire and ice on the Amiga virocop as well first time we've talked about peter mollanoe we've talked about bullfrog and we've talked about calf gold so this is a great episode yeah so anyone that kind of you know love gaming in the late 80s to late 90s.

This is one for you.

You can love this week's episode.

John Cushing, It's a great episode. Yeah, so anyone that kind of, you know, love gaming in the late 80s to late 90s, this is one for you. You can love this week's episode. John Kershaw on The Retro Hour in about half an hour from now. Now, there is a special event coming up at the end of this month. Yes, it's a mature podcast, Gamer's Expo. Are we mature? Yeah, well, immature. But you're probably wondering why we're advertising this, but we're going to be there.

Well, I'm going to be there. So come down if you're in Nottingham. It's at the Mirkel Hotel. And, oh, let me just check the date. I think it's on the 30th, isn't it, July? Yeah, yeah. It's actually the weekend. I'm at my friend's wedding.

I'd love to come down to this show, because it's on the... Well, the show comes out on Friday, so it's two weeks. If you can make it along to Nottingham, Ravi's actually been invited along to be on the panel. I think they're doing some kind of recording a podcast down there. Yeah, they're going to be doing a live one. But if you come down, you can also get tickets discount tickets for the national

video game arcade which is a massive area they've got like hdc vibe you can put on custom games

and uh fruit ninja it's great and of course we've got the uh the video games lounge it's just over

the road too yeah yeah so you can pop in and play games it's like a whole game corner. So if you just want to come down for the afternoon or evening and just

have a drink at a play, I'll be there. Yeah, drinks are all on Ravi. Is that right? No.

So if you want to make it long, it's coming upon their July 30th and that all the details

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