I can't believe it.

Max has asked me to move in with him.

I mean, you practically live with each other already, but that's great.

Did you hear that, Joe?

Yes, thanks for letting us know.

I see you've updated your universal credit claim.

Now you're going to be living together.

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 Retro Hour podcast episode number 45, your weekly dose of retro gaming

and technology news with me Dan Wood. Me Ravi Abbott and And me Joe Fox. Welcome back, Joe. I'm back again. You've been doing a lot of interesting shopping recently, I take it? Yeah, I've been shopping for a futon for a very special day for us, for us all. For a romantic. A retro hour futon. Yeah, retro hour of futon. Keep your eyes peeled. This is kind of a bit of tradition. Ravi and I started this last year doing a let's play video at Christmas and we thought now we did the podcast. It's going to be a retro hour crew doing it this year. Yeah, hoping to do it in my new games room at my house. Show that up a little bit. We just realised we've got nowhere to sit. Yeah, I realise it's like, I've got a beanbag, so I've got to get a futon or something, so, you know, that's the dream at the moment. And we'd just like to mention Paul Kitching as well, who's joined the team on our graphics guy. Yeah, Paul's a guy who's done our logo and stuff, like, and you know, the intro to, if you're watching this on YouTube, the animated intro at the beginning you did when we first launched yeah you don't want to see mine it would be like Microsoft paint so we're very good we've got Paul going all the way back I did the first logo for the retro do you remember that yeah that didn't look great yeah actually was on soundclad the other day and thought should I go back and like retroactively changed them all to like the later logo but Yeah, it couldn't be't be bothered, but. So welcome to the team Paul officially, though, so that means hopefully more graphics and stuff now. Yeah, yeah. Now, of course, the show would not be possible without your very generous support as well. Some amazing donations through the website, theretrahour.com this week, including Tim Dalman. Garan Tungate. Michael Wynne, and Yosef Vamoci. And there's a couple of names we recognise there. Garin is from RGDS podcast. Yeah, we were on one of their episodes, weren't we? Yeah, we're Garin, yeah. We were. Lovely guy. And we really appreciate all your donations, guys. Obviously, anything you put into the show, All goes back into the running. Let's continue

doing this. Let's Joe buy futons for YouTube videos. And if you want to make a donation, all you

got to do is click on the PayPal link on the front page of the Retro Hour.com. Now, I imagine a lot of

people may have read this week's show description and been slightly confused when they saw that

we had Paul Hollywood on the show. Yeah, no, we're not doing the bake-off. Joe was looking forward to some cakes. I was like, oh, you know what? I'm going to ask him how to make the perfect cherry bakeball. Now, this is Paul Hollywood, the guy behind legendary games like TFX, Epic, Robocop 3. He worked for Sony as well. You need a launch title for the

PS3. This guy's got, you know, decades of video game production behind him and even started back on the

you know, the Sinklai Spectrum in his early days. Yeah. And he was even doing like, his flight

simulators was so cool and so like advanced that the military were using them for application as well. So, you know, this guy's really cutting edge. Much more exciting than Cherry Bakewells. Yeah. But this is going to be really interesting, you know, pretty much tracing the history of video games through the 80s and the 90s up to the current day. He's working in virtual reality now as well, isn't he? Oh, yeah, and some, you know, massive VR projects

and Facebook are jealous of.

Yeah, absolutely. It's pretty big. Paul Hollywood is going to be on the retro hour in about half an hour from now. Let's get into this week's new stories then, and every time you're on, we talk about a virtual fighter for some reason. I just don't know. I just don't know what it is.

You know, maybe virtual fighter's drawn to me.

I'm drawn to virtual fighter.

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