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Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 88. Your weekly dose of retro gaming

and technology news with me Dan Wood.. And me, Ravi Abbott.

It does actually feel a little bit weird because we're in the studio during the day. It's bright.

What's going on? It's usually dark outside. Yeah, normally we do the show like on a weekday evening.

Today, though, it's a Saturday afternoon, glorious sunshine outside. And let's be fair, for us to

completely change up our routine, for us to completely change our

routine, it had to be for a very special reason. Oh, and this is for a very, very special guest.

We've got Ian Livingston, OBE, and this guy is just amazing. All the kind of geek things that I did

when I was a kid are down to him games workshop i spent a lot of time in

their store kind of playing with miniatures and painting stuff and also you know we've spent a lot

time playing with lara craft and still kind of do she's still your obsession today

absolutely everybody knows it ian livingstone o b e now ian's actually so we record this show in

nottingham and obviously

games workshop, you know, headquarters here in Nottingham. Yeah, he's patron of the National Video Game Arcade as well, so he's very involved with those guys. And he's actually in town today, so he's going to be coming in the studio to do this live with us, not over the phone, not on Skype, nothing like that. Yeah, he's doing a little story smash writing kind of gameplay event at the moment at the local libraries, which is cool because he's into his adventure games and all of that. Well, you know, this is going to be one for, you know, every guess that we talk to who's got a history of like adventure games, they all started with like D&D and, you know. Tabletop gaming and stuff

like that, yeah. And then, and then computers came around and they're like, oh, we can make this digital. Yeah. So this is going to be such an interesting one. Definitely hang around for it. Ian Livingston is this week's special guest on the Retro Hour podcast in around 20 minutes from now. Now, of course, we couldn't come in and do this show every week without the people who find it in their hearts to make a little donation into the running of the Retro Hour podcast every week. Now, we do have a little tip jar on our website. And the thing about it is, I mean, it's not a... It doesn't have to be a recurring donation. It's not a patron. It's nothing like that, not a crowd funder. It is literally a tip jar. We put a couple of quid in, a couple of euros, a couple of dollars, and it all goes back into the running of this show and lets us come in here and do this every week. Yeah, it's just like a little pot and we can also do Bitcoin donations as well. So many currencies. as we have. PayPal, Bitcoin. You find all those links on the front page of our website, the Retro Hour.com. And then, if you do make a donation, you find your way into the Retro Hour Hall of Fame. Very prestigious. Now, this week, we want to say thank you so much to Stefan Ricken. Clive Glazebrook. Steve Engeldao. And Benny Damsgard-Nielsen, who all made donations into the running of The Retro Hour podcast. Thank you so much, really does mean the world to us, and you can do the same. What you've got to do is head to our website, the Retro Hour.com. Now, let's get into this week's news stories. This is pretty amazing. Will you find of Resident Evil back in the day? Oh, I absolutely love Resident Evil. That and Silent Hill, with the games, it really got me scared. Actually, Darkseed got me incredibly scared before that. Yeah. But kind of, you know, for zombies, this one was really good. I think for me it was Alone in the Dark and then Resident Evil, but with two games, really, you know, the first kind of proper horror games. Yeah, and you're just like, oh, my brother had it, you know, he did a PlayStation 1 and we'd sit there with like the lights off, you know, playing at like 10, 11 at night and, you know, you'd walk around the corner and like a lot of jumps in that game, wasn't the? Yeah, yeah, totally. Well, obviously back then, though, I mean, Resident Evil was kind of a system seller for the PlayStation. You know, a lot of people moved away from like snares and Mega Drive,

bought a PlayStation just to... Well, obviously back then, though, I mean, Resident Evil was kind of a system seller for the PlayStation.

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