Q*bert - The Inside Story With Warren Davis - The Retro Hour EP84
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2017
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
We get the inside story on a true arcade classic - the legendary Q*bert from the man behind it, Warren Davis.
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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. |
| 0:21.4 | If you're telling other people about a change in your circumstances, tell us too to avoid a |
| 0:26.7 | penalty. Search tell DWP. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 84, your weekly dose of retro gaming |
| 0:36.0 | and technology news with me Dan Wood. And me, Ravi Abbott. |
| 0:39.1 | Looking a bit green tonight, Ravi. Oh, God, I'm looking a bit pale. I did the awful mistake of having a |
| 0:44.0 | cab on a Sunday at 10 at night. It's not good, guys. Trust me. Now, normally we record this show |
| 0:50.7 | on like a Monday or Tuesday. We had to cancel yesterday's recording. Yeah, yeah, because I felt so bad. But luckily our guests remained. And if we could get like a microphone to a sofa or something or a toilet today, that would be real. Yeah, I think we should actually pin the doors open in the studio and make a direct line to the toilet. Yeah, yeah. So if you hear about these chair just spin around him running off at the room, then that's what it is. |
| 1:25.4 | Hopefully we won't hear the follow-up noises from me. No, I don't think we're ever going to have a kebab again. Lesson learned. Yeah. Must that as a vegetarian. They don't look very nice. No, and the amount of food poisoning and my friend even got E. coli from a kebab. I was like, What have you been eating? |
| 1:26.3 | There are a lot of people... I've been a vegetarian since I was like seven years old. |
| 1:28.2 | A lot of people are like, oh, but you do not look at meat and be like, |
| 1:30.4 | oh, that must look amazing. from a kebab. I was like, what have you been eating? There are a lot of people, I've been a vegetarian since I was like seven years old. |
| 1:28.2 | A lot of people are like, oh, but you do not look at meat and be like, oh, that must look |
| 1:31.4 | amazing and like, oh, you know, I'm going to turn to eat your meat again. You know, I'm the opposite, dude. I was a vegetarian raised. Yeah. And I read Asterix and the wild boars in Asterix looks so succulent. |
| 1:43.7 | I was like, I've got to try that. |
| 1:45.5 | I felt like being Obalicks for a while. |
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