Retronauts Episode 282: Gaming in the Year 2000

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

In the not-too-distant past, the year 2000 used to signify the far-off future. But time makes fools of us all, and this mythical date has transformed into a distant memory, just as all years are destined to become. This week, we examine Y2K's fascinating gaming landscape, where the primitive Game Boy Color could compete with the cutting-edge PlayStation 2, immersive sims and life sims were new genres, and the Dreamcast still looked like it stood a chance. On this episode, join Bob Mackey, Jeremy Parish, USgamer's Kat Bailey, and IGN's Zachary Ryan as the crew soaks contentedly in the End of History where nothing could possiblie go wrong.

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0:12.4	Join Greg Wallace as he tucks into delicious food and drink, rave-wilding, uncovering
0:17.2	unsolved mysteries and spooky happenings, and Miranda Sawyer getting Arty on the Kencoast.
0:22.7	Get the inside track on Kenton East Sussex with Hop On Board, listen now wherever you
0:27.2	get your podcasts.
0:30.2	Retro Noughts is part of the Greenlit Podcast Network.
0:33.3	For more information, please go to Greenlitpodcasts.com.
0:37.8	This week on Retro Noughts, we turn our computers off before midnight on December 31, 1999.
1:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome to another episode of Retro Noughts.
1:08.4	I am your host for this one Bob Mackie, and today's topic is Video Games.
1:14.9	So that reference is if you're between the ages of 35 and 50, and I hope you get it.
1:28.5	Do you understand what's going on now?
1:31.3	Was that digitizer 2000?
1:32.7	No, that was Conan O'Brien.
1:34.0	Oh!
1:35.0	The future Jeremy?
1:36.0	Yes, we're talking about the future year.
1:38.1	Oh, you didn't get either cat.
1:40.2	I didn't get it.
1:41.2	No, I got the wrap.
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