This weekend, RetroNots, go East, young man.

Hi everyone and welcome to RetroNots episode, I want to say 87 or if you want to call it

RetroNots East episode 1, you can do that. I'm Jeremy Parrish and this is the first episode of RetroNots East, which is the new little splinter faction of the splinter cell of RetroNots.

As part of our Patreon funding, we put a goal that said if we can get to a certain point, then we will go weekly and we will add some new show concepts to the schedule.

One of them was a recording set in where I live as opposed to me having to fly to San Francisco to record, which gets kind of expensive and I can't do that every week.

So instead we're recording here in Raleigh, North Carolina and I have some native video game experts on hand. So why don't you guys introduce yourselves.

I am Ben Jedwards, I'm a freelance journalist and I've known Jeremy for a long time. We work together.

Yeah, you contributed to one up back when I was there, laboring under the banner of Ziff Davis.

Yeah.

Yeah, and you are now.

I am a still a journalist, I write for fast company PC World PC Mag, the Atlantic sometimes I focus on history of games and computers.

And you have a personal site too, don't you?

Yeah, vintage computing.com.

Yeah, so I've run since 2005.

I used to do like what the scan of the week, but the rest of the week, yeah, for 10 years every Monday.

I guess in the age of Tumblr, there's not really much space for that.

Yeah, yeah, probably became obsolete about five years ago.

But you still post there quite a bit.

Yeah, I do. It's kicking up a notch now because I did the Patreon thing too.

Right, yeah, you want to talk about that?

Yeah, sure.

You can promote yourself here or not.

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