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Retronauts Vol. IV Episode 44: PlayStation's 20 and a Moment of Silence

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Retronauts

Technology, Leisure, Games, Video Games

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2015

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Retronauts vet and Sony enthusiast/employee Shane Bettenhausen joins us to discuss the 20th anniversary of the PS1 launch in America. (This episode is running before its intended September time slot due to the tragic news that breaks midway through.)

Transcript

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as we can return odds.

0:30.6

Hi everyone and welcome to yet another fabulous episode of RetroNots, the official

0:36.1

old podcast for official old people. I am this week's host Jeremy Parish and with me

0:41.2

this week to talk about such things as the PlayStation's 20th anniversary, we have such luminaries as

0:48.0

Bob Mackie also old. And coming here representing Sony, though not officially speaking for Sony,

0:54.8

why are you so tied up and being as old? Why are we old? Why are we ancient? We're not old, Jeremy,

0:59.6

we're new and exciting. Hmm, sure. Who are you? I'm Shane Benheasant. Shane does not accept

1:06.5

his age, the rest of us do. It's fine. It's okay. You don't have to. Okay, this is an old podcast

1:12.4

for old people, but you can tell yourself that you're young. You're young and hard, Jeremy, we all are.

1:19.0

Yes, anyway, so I guess the question to ask yourself is where were you when the shuttle

1:23.7

challenger blew up? Actually, you're even going to go there. It's kind of a depressing day,

1:27.6

but it was a snow day. It was, you know, January 1986, and I was at home eating cereal. I don't know,

1:31.8

I was in Texas. We didn't have the snow day. It was a snow day. I was at home eating cereal. It was

1:34.7

really depressing. Watching it. I was at the launch pad. Don't tell anybody. Wow. Hey,

1:40.7

where are you even born? I was born. I was born. I was born. You're like one year old. I was born

1:44.4

82. Come on, give me some credit. I'll say in 1986, did any of us have any idea that

1:48.2

Sony would one day enter the home console race? Probably not. Uh, Sony. I didn't even know who they

1:53.6

were. I did. We had a Sony TV at my house. Oh, okay. We didn't because we weren't rich.

1:58.4

Neither were we. We started getting from a place of privilege. We had one good electronic. I think

2:03.2

our story was like a zenith or something. I was going to say zenith was my team. Yeah, we had a lot

2:06.6

of zenith. Yeah, quiz are unlike their name. They were not the same. Right?

2:10.3

Admiral Craig. Anyway, so I just scored on zenith and you guys missed it.

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