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Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of RetroOTS Pocket number 21.

My name is Ray Barnhalter, host for this week, as I was last week with me in the room today

our Bob Mackie. Hello. Our special guest, Michael Rapara's. Hello. Who is a writer about games

much like we are, but also the host of the podcast, Did You Game Apocalypse? This is true.

Part of the Laser Time Network, our friends over there as well, so we're still bringing them in.

We're still more like the technical ones. And of course, on the line Jeremy Parish.

You're distant friend from Far Away. You're not distant in our hearts.

Oh. Oh. Got him.

Okay. So today on the show, cavemen and video games, they go together like...

they go together quite often. Well, at least they used to. Like nuts and gum.

Yeah, together or less. And you know, like cartoons such as, you know, the flinstones

or comic strips like BC and stuff, we've had classic games about cavemen like Bonk's adventure,

cavemen games. And today's subject, which is the Joe and Mack series from Data East.

I guess I inspired Bob to play this yesterday because we're just live streaming it.

Yeah. For our Retro channel. That's fun.

Sorry. Twitch.tv Retro Nost果. You can check out anything we've streamed so far if you want to.

And Michael has mentioned me before the show that you was playing it as well. So you guys probably

have more immediate firsthand experience than I do. But I thought this was just a quirky little

series to talk about for this show. There's not many games to it, but...

And there's more games than you'd think. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly.

And I mean, let's just jump right into it. So again, Joe and Mack, a caveman game started as an

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