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Retronauts Episode 141: Preserving future classics with Limited Run Games

Retronauts

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2018

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy speaks to Josh Fairhurst and Douglas Bogart about the Limited Run Games mission of preserving classics (and future classics) through the safety of physical media.

Transcript

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0:00.0

As we can retronauts, it's the full Monty on the run!

0:25.2

Hi everyone, it's me, Jeremy Parrish for another episode of Retronauts.

0:28.9

And that was probably an inappropriate video game reference.

0:32.8

We're not going to talk about Monty on the run.

0:34.6

Or really any of the Monty games.

0:36.6

Instead, I'm here in Gorias Apex North Carolina,

0:41.1

the peak of living, to talk to the guys at limited run games about their business.

0:47.1

And that's not actually...

0:49.1

They don't do a whole lot with old games.

0:51.5

They've done a few night trap, for example.

0:54.0

But I wanted to come down here and speak to them one

0:56.9

because they're local and it's convenient,

0:58.8

but also too because I feel that the work that they're doing

1:01.6

and bringing digital-only games into a physical form

1:06.3

is really... It's actually pretty important from a preservation standpoint.

1:10.1

And also from sort of the nostalgia angle where, you know,

1:13.6

if you remember back when you were a kid and you got your NES

1:16.6

or Sega Genesis game and you took it home from the store

1:19.6

and you opened it up and you tore off the shrink wrap

1:21.6

and you could smell the manual and flip through everything

1:24.9

and that anticipation of playing it.

1:27.4

Like, that's something you don't get when you're downloading from PSN.

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