Nolan Bushnell - The Father of Video Games - The Retro Hour EP100
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2017
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
We're joined by the father of the video games industry, Nolan Bushnell is our special guest for episode 100!
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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 100. |
| 0:35.6 | Woo! |
| 0:35.9 | Look at this! |
| 0:55.3 | Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Popping champagne. I give us a very strong coffee tonight. I'm going to drive home later. Yeah, no champagne, really. I'm Dan Wood. I'm Ravi Abbott and I'm Joe Fox. Of course, we had to get the full crew in tonight because we are celebrating the big 100. The retro hour goes triple digits. |
| 0:56.7 | I didn't think we're mate, double. |
| 0:58.1 | Madness. |
| 1:01.4 | I'm going to lay off the sound effects board in just a moment. |
| 1:05.1 | But in this course of celebration, I mean, this show, obviously we've got quite a lot of celebrating coming up because we've got Christmas episode coming up. |
| 1:08.2 | Then we've got our second birthday. |
| 1:09.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.9 | Straight after that too. |
| 1:10.7 | And, of course, episode 100. Now, I have kind of been teasing over the last couple of weeks that we had someone very special lined up for our 100th episode. And it was a bit touch and go because this person is quite hard to get hold of. Oh, we were very nervous in the studio, weren't we? And you managed to get this recorded last week. So after, yeah, a couple of delays, we finally made it, if you read the episode title, I'm sure you know it is by now. We've got, I think it's fair to say, the father of video games. Totally. You know, he's just worked for so many companies that have been just amazingly pioneering in video games. And this guy's got ideas just flowing constantly. Yeah, I mean, he hasn't slowed down at all. No. We are talking about Nolan Bushnell. Founder of Atari, guy behind the first ever coin-operated video game. Yeah, he kind of helped hand-build the first pawn machine. And it's just, I never thought we'd get to this stage that we're talking to the pioneers of video games. |
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