Retronauts Episode 387: The Atari 8-Bit Legacy

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Retronauts East returns as Benj Edwards and Ben Elgin school Jeremy Parish about the history and greatness of Atari's 8-bit computer line, as well as its unloved console counterpart, the 5200. Art by John Pading.

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0:00.0	You're listening to RetroNots, a part of the GreenLit Podcast Network.
0:03.6	To hear more great shows, or to learn how you could become part of our consortium of
0:07.3	independently-owned podcasts, check out GreenLitPodcasts.com.
0:14.0	This week in RetroNots, I was a teenage Atari rioter or something like that.
0:42.5	Anyway, hi everyone, welcome to RetroNots episode.
0:45.8	Whoa, I didn't look it up.
0:47.4	It's got big numbers next to it.
0:48.9	It's, it would actually 800.
0:51.0	No, it's not episode 800, but if this were an 8-bit podcast, we would definitely be way
0:56.8	past the buffer overflow at this point.
0:59.3	So this is, this is episode like negative 20.
1:01.5	Okay, it's episode 389.
1:03.1	That's a lot of podcasts.
1:07.8	I am Jeremy Parrish, counting beyond 255.
1:12.7	And here also incrementing with me, we have the locals from RetroNots East.
1:19.0	Hello gentlemen.
1:20.6	Hello.
1:21.6	Let's introduce ourselves.
1:22.8	Let's see.
1:25.2	We'll go with the guy who is the star of this episode, the one who's going to be carrying
1:30.0	us all on his back, kind of like Jesus and that, you know, that poem about the footprints.
1:35.3	Exactly.
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