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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

LOOM: The Inside Story With Brian Moriarty - The Retro Hour EP67

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9558 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2017

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Brian Moriarty gives us the inside story on Infocom, LucasArts and Loom - will it ever get an official sequel or modern update? Plus some amazing stories of celebs at the Skywalker Ranch!

Brian's Website: http://ludix.com/moriarty/

Thanks to our amazing donators this week: Todd Sarney, Ross Burnett, Imran Chowdhry, Colin Walker

Vote for us in the British Podcast Awards: http://theretrohour.com/vote

Our website: http://theretrohour.com Our Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theretrohour/ Our Twitter: http://twitter.com/retrohouruk

Show notes:

Thimbleweed Park: https://thimbleweedpark.com/
Nintendo kill the NES Mini: http://bit.ly/2p1ixRl
Crystal Kingdom Dizzy ported to Spectrum: http://bit.ly/2plxbTW
News report on the arcade scene of 1982: http://bit.ly/2obbtSd

Transcript

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0:00.0

I can't believe it.

0:03.5

Max has asked me to move in with him.

0:05.9

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

0:09.8

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.

0:21.3

If you're telling other people about a change in your circumstances,

0:25.4

tell us too to avoid a penalty.

0:27.8

Search tell DWP.

0:30.0

Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 67,

0:34.6

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

0:38.4

And me, Ravi Abbott.

0:39.5

Now, just before we get into this week's show and we talk about what we've got coming up,

0:43.4

we just want to take a couple of seconds just a quick time out to show the people who

0:47.8

support this show week in, week out, a little bit of love.

0:50.7

Totally, because you know, you donate us, you're amazing because your help us get to events, your help us do the subscription for the SoundCloud, and to get amazing guests. Obviously doing this show week in, week out, we do have costs, website subscriptions, all of that kind of thing. And it's thanks to people who take the time and find it in their hearts to click on our website, the retro hour.com, on that little PayPal link and donate a couple of quid into the cause. I mean, we love doing this show anyway, but it is kind of nice if we don't have to pay for the entire thing out of our own pockets, I've got to say. So making the Retro Hour Hall of Fame this week, we want to say a massive thank you to Todd Sarnie, Ross Burnett, Imran Chowdry and Colin Walker who've all made donations to the running of the show this week

1:30.7

if you'd like to do the same, all you've got to do is click that PayPal link at the Retrohour.com. Now, we have got an amazing show lined up this week. Whether you listen to the show every week, whether you're a supporter, maybe you're a new listener. The way we do it is Ravi and I run through all the big headlines that have been making the world of retro. And then in the second half of the show,

1:48.5

we welcome on a veteran of the video games industry. And this week, if you love adventure games,

1:55.1

do not turn off this show. Oh my God, no, because at the moment we know Fimble Weeb Park is

1:59.9

doing massively well, and there's

2:01.9

an absolute classic called Loom, which is from Lucas Arts, and we have the guy who created Loom.

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