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Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 115, your weekly dose of retro gaming

and technology news with me, Dan Wood.

And me, Ravi Abbott.

Now, this is a show where we bring out a new episode every single Friday,

and happy good Friday if you were celebrating today.

And we just talk about classic video games that have helped shape our lives,

classic systems, consoles, computers.

The thing about it is at the moment, they seem to be coming back again. Oh, they're coming back in force, but they're coming back small, aren't they? Well, they are. Everything has got miniaturized recently. Yeah, a lot of mini systems coming through. We've got the mini-naz, the mini-snas. Oh, God, the C-64 Mini? Do you think that have a Game Boy Mini?

That would be tidy, wouldn't it? Played with cocktail sticks. And the big news, of course, over the last week, you may have seen this, even though that the Metro and stuff like that. We've known about this for a while, and it's not a product that's without its controversy. We'll talk a bit more about Atari's return in the next few minutes. Atari are back and they've been back a few times, haven't they actually? But we hope this is the final kind of really good back, but we'll see. Well, it's crazy, though, that all these companies and products are making a comeback. What I think it proves is that retro gaming just keeps getting bigger and bigger. And these brands kind of stay in people's mind. You know, once you've played that game when you were a kid and you've kind of spent that much time on it, there's a part of your brain that's dedicated to Atari or something, you know. So it really is relevant. The fan boyism never goes away. Yeah, totally. Well, you know what is insane is we keep getting approached by like mainstream media as well. Like just today there's been a new article come out about us that's featured in our local magazine, well, local newspaper here in Nottingham, the Nottingham Post. Oh yeah, and that's by Paul Jewry as well, who's a wicked journalist from retro gamer. You know, an evening newspaper here that's like read by your auntie and uncle and stuff like that who are interested in retro video games that's how mainstream it's becoming now so it is pretty crazy and one thing i love about

doing this show as well is that we get to speak to our heroes every single week now the way the

show works if you are new to it we're going to go through the retro gaming news stories in the next few

minutes and then normally around 20 25 minutes into the show,

we welcome on an industry veteran. And this week, I'm actually so excited about talking to this

gentleman we've got on this week, because he was the co-founder of a company that pretty much

shaped my childhood. Magnetic Fields? And before that, Mr. Chips, was that the guy from catchphrase? Yeah, I don't know if there's any crossover there, I'm not sure. But this week we've got Andrew Morris. Now, he founded Magnetic Fields, formerly Mr. Chip Software in 1982 with Sean Southern, who was a legendary coder. Oh, legendary, definitely. And what I got introduced to them, because I had a Commodore 16 plus 4 was at my first machine that was a bit of an underdog, but actually they released some really good games on that platform.

Well, all their games kind of pushed it to the limits. Yeah. You know, that was the whole thing about magnetic fields. They had like Lotus games and they were unbelievably fast and you could do split screen racing on them and kid chaos if

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