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Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 50.

Your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood. And me, Ravi Abbott. And what is actually our final normal show of 2016? Dun-da-Dun. That sounds like we're changing the format, Dan. You know, we're going to become an Atari podcast. That's it. We've had enough of all your other consoles. Now, actually, we are recording this week before Christmas.

And next week, though, on the Retro Hour, it is going to be the first, hopefully, annual, Retro Hour Super Quiz. Oh, Super Quiz, Big Christmas Quiz. This is going to be good. I'm already looking forward to this. I've started writing some of the questions already. Yeah, and we've kind of prepared the place

We're going to go for free drinks

And pre-drinks even

That's it, pre-drinks even. There's pre-drinks? Where are you? Where are they doing? I'm not offering these, no. And we've got Aaron from RGDS, formally, podcast coming over, and he's going to have a laugh. And probably he's got some Christmas chip tunes as well. He's going to be playing. And I think it's his birthday day after so, yeah, a little pretty party for Aaron. Joe's going to be joining us as well. We've got Christmas jumpers. The studio's going to be all Christmassy. We've already got the tinsel up in here. Oh yeah, it's going to be great. And then the week afterwards, we're going to have a week off. What? I know, it's shocking, but we've been doing this for 50 episodes now, constantly, every week. So between Christmas and New Year, we're going to have one off, and then we'll return back to the normal retro our schedule. Now, there are two reasons for doing this. First of all, we'll probably be drunk most of that week anyway. Yeah. And secondly, we get so many people saying, oh, I'm still catching up on your shows.

I'm up to like episode 20 now. So, like, we figure that it give you a bit of a chance to catch up over Christmas and New Year. And also, you won't be totally devoid of Ravi and Dan because we're going to have some YouTube videos and all this kind of stuff coming up. So there'll be plenty of stuff. We'll still be around.

Yeah.

And I'm sure I'll be doing a live stream

at Christmas as well,

a DJ one.

So today, this kind of stuff coming up. So there'll be plenty of stuff. We'll still be around. Yeah.

And I'm sure I'll be doing a live stream at Christmas as well, a DJ one. So today, our final guest of 2016, now we've saved this guy for episode 50 because I think this is probably one of the

most interesting interviews we've ever done. Yeah, and it's one of the most oddly structured

interviews as well. It's hilarious. It's really good. This is Mel Croucher, and this guy worked

from like programming pianos and punch cards, early military mainframes to kind of, you know,

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