Retronauts Vol. III Episode 13: The Golden Age of the Arcade
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🗓️ 6 January 2014
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
We enter the new year by talking about -- what else? -- very old years. IGN's Sam Claiborn joins Jeremy, Bob, and Ray for a discussion of the golden era of the American arcade. Digressions abound!
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| 0:00.0 | This weekend, RetroNots, we take David Bowie to the arcades and talk about the golden years. |
| 0:05.8 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to RetroNots episode 13. I am this week's Ersatz host, Jeremy |
| 0:33.6 | Parrish. And with me, as usual, we have, I'm Ray Barnholds. Hello. And the illustrious. I'm |
| 0:40.6 | Bob Mackie, I guess I'm illustrious now. And the scintillating Samuel Claiborne. See, I even |
| 0:45.4 | got the, the colliteration. I should be the bombastic, Bob Mackie, you're going for that ravishing |
| 0:52.2 | Ray Barnholds. I was going to say radical, radical Ray Barnholds. That's cool. Yeah. Thank you. Anyway, |
| 0:58.2 | Sam is joining us. He's from IGN. He does neat things. More importantly, I have 14 giant refrigerator |
| 1:04.6 | size arcade games in my house. How do you do that? Where do you live? I've worked them into the |
| 1:09.6 | house. You know, some of the living room. And get this. Jeremy's been there. Yeah. He's also |
| 1:13.6 | amazing thing is he lives in a normal San Francisco apartment with a wife. And yet somehow, not only does |
| 1:19.5 | he have a ton of arcade cabinets, he also has a pretty like roomy living room where you can |
| 1:24.3 | just sort of chill and hang out. Yeah. Sam's a masterpiece. But seriously, I'm running out of room. |
| 1:29.6 | Yeah. But if anybody out there has a mouse trap, I'll buy it from you. Catch right now. Actually, |
| 1:33.6 | I'm going down the street after this. There's a couple of pinball machines. There's a Goregar |
| 1:37.8 | and a middle guard. Doesn't that talk? Yeah, it's a first talk game. Well, I haven't even heard of |
| 1:42.2 | Gugin Jarvis program the voice in it. And he did Defender and stuff, which we'll |
| 1:47.0 | sure we'll talk about. But right down the street, there's a guy with a couple of pinball machines |
| 1:50.0 | and old time arcade games that I'm going to go check out. So when you walk into that arcade room, |
| 1:53.3 | can you just feel the static electricity changing your DNA in some way when you're |
| 1:56.4 | fire before? Okay. That's another problem that could happen. So yeah, even though this episode |
| 2:02.8 | is coming to your ears in something like December or January, my god, I don't even know how far |
| 2:08.1 | in advance is the weather outside is frightful. And this podcast will be delightful. But I'm a little |
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