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All right, so for this segment of the show, we've got an old friend of mine who I don't think has

actually been on RetroNots before. No, I feel like I was from one episode, but I don't remember what

episode it was. It's possible it might have been a while back, but maybe you called in

while two one of Bob's episodes. That might have been something you did. I don't know, it kind

of blurs together because we've podcasted together so many times, but just not in the RetroNots

brand. But wait, who are you? Introduce yourself. Hello, I am Mike Williams. I'm reviews editor

over at US Gammer, where I used to work with one Jeremy Parish. And technically I used to work

there. Yeah, it was a whole thing. And you're still keeping the home virus burning along with

Kat and Nadia, so that's great. Yeah, yeah, no, it's a lot of fun, even though as reviews editor,

I move from game to game to game. So it's a it's a constant treadmill of fun.

Yeah, but you seem like someone who enjoys kind of bouncing around to different games. Like,

I get the impression that you have kind of like a few games that you sort of return to and kind of

commit to for the long term, but you've always struck me as someone who really enjoys, you know,

jumping into what's next and tackling it. Yeah, that that's pretty much true. So my my home games

tend to be the MMOs, World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy 14 and currently division two. But yeah,

I like like seeing what's new and seeing how things are changing and how genres are evolving over

the over time and just it's fun seeing what the new harnesses. But that is not the point of

retro knots. The point of retro is to talk about old things, but I've pulled you onto this episode

so that we can talk about the origins of one of your favorite franchises. If I'm not mistaken, like

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