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Welcome everybody, this is RetroNots, your favorite podcast about old things, specifically

video games. My name is Ray Barnholt and with me in the studio today are Bob Mackey. Hello everybody,

our special guest Matt Leone. Hello. Welcome back. Thank you. And of course on the line Jeremy

Parish. This is Jeremy Parish. I'm saying you're on the line. You're on the hook. I am on the line.

This is it for you. Wait, sorry. We should go off to a Captain D's or something to be fried.

Oh yes. This is a sick of bass fishing episode. No Matt, although I wish it was,

if I had my druthers, actually, this week we're talking about all sorts of old video game media

magazines and websites and all that good stuff. So not a particular game or game series or a genre

or a developer, just a full-on nostalgia blast from all of us here. And Matt, I got in a pinch,

we were going to have another guest, but I got Matt because, you know, he is one of the guys who

knows a lot about this sort of thing. As we all do, really, I mean, we all read magazines and websites

and things. Matt, in particular, besides having his own little publication, which you may talk about,

is also just a guy who tracks a lot of people and editors from the past and present.

Is that right, Matt? Thank you for admitting I was your second choice. Sure. I mean, yeah,

you know a lot of these people because we worked with a lot of these people, but even before that,

I was kind of hooked. I couldn't go to bookstore without spending time in the magazine, right? Yeah.

So it's good to have you. And actually, you're only the second choice because this is actually a

backer requested episode from one Daniel Turner. He had a specific guest in mind that didn't work out.

Right. So apologies to him, but nonetheless, he has, he brought this up to us as a kickstarter backer.

And I thought, well, you know, that's great. And it's a lot to talk about so much, in fact, that,

you know, we don't really have a set structure, I think. I think, you know, as we talk about these things,

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