Stuart "Ashens" Ashen Talks Terrible Old Games - The Retro Hour EP63
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
We talk terrible old games, classic consoles and retro snacks with the wonderful Stuart Ashen this week!
Ashens on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ashens
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Show notes:
cTrix hacks Vectrex to make music: https://youtu.be/V0YNUE3_t8s
cTrix Amiga video: https://youtu.be/1IKTNSux0Rc
Obsolete Technology: 40 Big Losers http://www.pcworld.com/article/169863/obsolete_tech.html
Div MCC future: https://www.thefuturewas8bit.com/index.php/divmmcfuture
7th Guest making of video: https://youtu.be/zPAZDWxpJHA
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I can't believe it. |
| 0:03.5 | Max has asked me to move in with him. |
| 0:05.9 | I mean, you practically live with each other already, but that's great. |
| 0:09.8 | Did you hear that, Joe? |
| 0:11.5 | Yes, thanks for letting us know. |
| 0:14.3 | I see you've updated your universal credit claim. |
| 0:17.1 | Now you're going to be living together. |
| 0:23.6 | If you're telling other people about a change in your circumstances, tell us too to avoid a penalty. Search tell DWP. Hello and welcome to the |
| 0:31.3 | Retro Hour podcast episode number 63, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood and And me, Ravi Abbott. Right at the start of what is going to be, the shortest weekend of the year. Oh, we're coming up to the summer. We are. Summer officially starts, well, at least here in the UK this weekend. Clots go forward early as of Sunday morning. That means lighter evenings are coming and lots of gaming shows over the summer as well. |
| 0:54.7 | Oh yeah, it's not going to be good weather, but you know, we're going to get indoors and play some games. Yeah, we don't care about the weather outside. So we'll be updating our calendar on the retro hour.com. If you want to come and check us out, hopefully going to be at Replay and Play Expo, all of those big shows that are coming up. Yeah, yeah, we've kind of got like a circuit now, haven't we? |
| 1:11.0 | Every year we kind of end up a circuit now, haven't we? |
| 1:11.0 | Every year we kind of end up going to these shows. |
| 1:13.7 | And there's some really good ones, play in Manchester, Blackpool. Amazing. Blackpool, watch out. The boys are going to be back in town. Oh, God. Cabab shops, watch out. So thank you for checking out the show this week, guys. if you are new to it, every single Friday, a little treat before the weekend. |
| 1:27.6 | Ravi and I update you on the stories that have been making the headlines in the world of |
| 1:31.1 | retro. And then, in the second half of the show, we dedicate it to a very special guest. Now, this |
| 1:37.8 | week... And in the coming week, sorry to interrupt, but we have some huge guests, |
| 1:42.2 | we've got some massive ones coming up. And it all starts today. Now, this guy, I think you could probably say, has the most famous sofa on YouTube. Yeah, the most mingingen sofa is well. He can never get rid of it, though, can you now? No, no. And it's Stuart Ashen. Yes, Stuart Ashen's on YouTube. I'm sure you know him. A comedian writer, |
| 2:02.7 | famous for eating, decades old food and living to tell the tale. I'm reviewing really old, |
| 2:08.2 | odd systems. Like, I'm talking really crap, knock-off systems, pop stations and iPhones and stuff like that. |
| 2:16.9 | And terrible games as well. |
| 2:18.2 | He even did a book on that. |
| 2:18.9 | He's got a new one coming out. And he's also the guy that helped to bring back nightmare. Yeah, nightmare. What a cool show. And that was with the original guys, wasn't it? Yeah, Tray God. They had the old set and everything. Which, we're going to get the story of the nightmare revival, if you lived that show back in the day. and you watched that special |
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