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Everyone, welcome to an episode of Retro Nuts. I am Jeremy Parish. And I am here at Tokyo Game Show 2019

in Chiba, Japan. And naturally, because I'm in Japan, I'm talking to a German colleague,

obviously, of course. German colleague, introduce yourself.

Hello, everybody. My name is Thomas Nichol. I am a journalist and I'm a game lecturer from Germany.

And I'm happy to be here on Retro Nuts.

Yeah, it's great to have you on the show. We've been, you know, we've corresponded for years and

you do great work and I know you're a fan of Retro Nuts. So it's awesome to have you on the show,

but even if it seems a little strange to be in Japan, talking to someone from Europe instead of

someone from Japan, this is just kind of, you know, like a place where people with common interests

come together to look at classic games. And this year's, this year's TGS, I haven't been here

in like four years. And it was getting kind of bleak for a while. It was all like social games and

mobile games and lots of like Chinese companies were buying out Japanese publishers and putting up

these big empty booths and it was like, what's happening? But this year there's a lot of good

stuff on the show floor. There's, you know, relevant to our interests. I like it. I really had fun

yesterday walking across the show floor. Yeah, yeah, relevant to our interests. There are a lot of

classic IPs being brought back. A lot of love for, you know, old franchises. A lot of new stuff too,

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