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podcast episode number 52 your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood.

And me, Ravi Abbott. And happy new year. Yeah, happy new year. Are you still nursing that hangover, don't you? Well, from Christmas? Yeah. I think I would be nursing a hangover for like three months, I think. Have you got any resolutions this year? Oh, well, you know what? Actually, I'm doing dry January now. Okay. So I did Drake Tobol in there a couple of months ago.

After that, though, I don't know about you.

Everything I tend to do. Well, you know what? Actually, I'm doing dry January now. Okay. So I did dry October in there a couple of months ago.

After that, though, I don't know about you, everything I tend to do as a new year's resolution tends to fall by the wayside. Yeah. Pretty much. Two days. Well, I'm thinking this year, okay, maybe not go to the gym. That's one of my news resolutions. excellent yeah sleep more yeah eat more junk food drink my alcohol i'll stick to all then that'll be

fine yeah maybe it'll work. Waste all my money on video games, even more. Yeah. How's your Christmas anyway? You have a nice one? Oh yeah, yeah. It's good. Got plenty of nice things and I'm just feeling a bit poddy at the moment. Aren't we all? So I hope you guys had amazing Christmases and welcome to our first show of 2017. Totally. What year it's going to be as well. Yeah, and what a guest we've got today. We were saying, weren't we? Who's going to be on our first show of 2017? Because we want to hit the ground running, wanting to start this year with a bang. Well, it's 2017 and we've got the head of Team 17. Yeah, it's Martin Brown. And, you know,

this guy took the company from the smallest kind of routes as a public domain company to having

the Worms franchise to being one of the world's most recognized software houses.

I think of the Team 17 games I used to play, obviously Worms, Worms D.C.

Project X. Alien breed. Yeah, all of those. Super Stardust. Super Frog. There's so many. I mean, you know, I think in terms of like those kind of mid-90s real quality games that came out on the Amiga. I mean, you know, Team 17, Worms is like on every franchise, isn't it? I think it was ported to 32 different systems. It's an insane amount of popularity it had. It's probably Worms, Lemmings and Doom. That are the three games that are on everything, isn't it? Yeah, definitely. Martin is our first guest. Martin Brown from Team 17 is going to be on the retro hour in around 20 minutes from now.

And we're going to keep this quality going all the way through this year as well.

Totally. And we're going to be running a competition as well.

Now we are. Now, do you remember a guess we had on last summer?

A couple of famous guys who were known for a certain quite popular video games character from the UK.

Yeah, two guests, actually.

It was, all right? A pair of twins, and they're the Oliver twins. They've just released a great book. What's it called? They have. Now, this is the story of the Oliver Twins. Let's Go Dizzy. You've got it in your hands there. Have it. Listen, listen. Oh, nice and fresh. The quality book, doesn't it?

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