Retronauts Episode 100: The advent of CD-ROM gaming

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2017

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

For our 100th full episode since our crowdfunded relaunch, we complete a long-overdue Kickstarter obligation by inviting backer Daniel Hawks to join us in a discussion of the early days and notable landmarks of CD-ROM gaming.

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0:21.8	This week on RetroNots, we get CD. CD-ROM, that is.
0:30.0	Music
0:47.4	Hi everyone and welcome to an episode of RetroNots.
0:51.0	I don't know if this is actually going to be a full RetroNots or a RetroNots micro.
0:54.8	We're going to kind of play it by ear and I would say at the end you'll be surprised,
0:59.2	but we're going to be the ones who are surprised. You will already know because you will have
1:02.5	downloaded this from the internet and it will clearly be demarcated.
1:07.5	I guess that kind of takes the mystery out of everything, but at least we can all have fun together.
1:11.6	Right? That's what it's all about.
1:13.5	Anyway, this is a special episode of RetroNots because this is completing one of our long-standing,
1:20.3	maybe our final Kickstarter obligation. We have a guest here who paid four years ago
1:27.6	to be a co-host on the show and finally managed to make it all work out.
1:32.0	I'm glad we're having this conversation in a hotel room and not in court.
1:37.0	So yes, why don't you introduce yourself and explain why you're so tardy?
1:42.1	Hi, my name is Daniel Hawks. I am a retro gaming enthusiast. Those are my
1:49.1	only qualifications to be on this show. That in like $250. I think it was 300.
1:54.7	300 man. We were in March. It's been four years, so the big has been running.
2:05.2	Yeah, we're at Midwest Gaming Classic and this was just an opportune place for us to meet and
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