TechFan #159 - The E.T. Legend
TechFan
My Mac Productions MyMac.com Tim Robertson
3.8 • 30 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2014
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to another great podcast in the Stoplight Network. |
| 0:07.1 | Tim and David, phone home. |
| 0:25.2 | Tech fan number 159. |
| 0:27.5 | I'm Tim Robertson, joined by David Cohen. |
| 0:28.2 | Hello, David. |
| 0:28.9 | Hello. |
| 0:36.3 | So astute listeners of the podcast will realize quickly that we replaced our music, our opening theme, this week. |
| 0:37.7 | Yeah, it's permanent. |
| 0:39.0 | It's going to be like that every week. |
| 0:42.8 | Hopefully we won't get in trouble, but if we do, we do. |
| 0:48.3 | It's appropriate because I sent David a link yesterday, Saturday. |
| 0:51.0 | We're actually recording the show two days later this week. And the reason is we couldn't we couldn't do it until now. But the reason for |
| 0:57.4 | the music, David, um, an old video game Atari urban legend was, uh, it came to a close this week. |
| 1:11.2 | Yeah. Well, I guess it's, in some ways, it's not come to a close this week yeah well it's i guess it's in some ways it's not come to a close it's reopened |
| 1:15.4 | a lot of questions and |
| 1:17.5 | as with many things when you |
| 1:20.4 | start digging into the truth of something you actually |
| 1:23.4 | ending up creating more questions than you started with |
| 1:26.4 | uh... yeah this was i i think i think we talked about this a while back when they first talked about doing this. |
| 1:32.8 | So, back in the early 80s, back when you and I were really into video games for the first time round, |
| 1:39.0 | there was the Atari 2,600, and the biggest film of the summer of, summer of 83 i think was was ete but well yeah i mean |
| 1:49.8 | people people who haven't lived through this don't realize ete was like one of the first mega blockbusters |
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