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podcast episode number 11 your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me, Dan Wood.

And me, Ravi Abbott.

And despite what Ravi asked me to do, I'm not going to do the introduction to the show in the episode number in the style of an old speech synthesizer. A robot stuck in a loop like, one, one, one, one. That's how we should have done it. My throat is far too sore to do that. I think everyone's coming down like colds and flus at the moment, like dropping like flies.

I'm snowing. What's going on? colds and flus at the moment, like dropping like flies.

I'm snowing. What's going on? It's just been crazy with the weather recently. I've been trapped indoors, you know, I'm kind of building a man cave at the moment. Yeah, well, here in the UK, we've had this thing called The Beast from the East that's really cold weather that's come over from like Siberia and Russia and I've even seen that.

A lot of Europe's been affected by it.

There was snow in Rome I saw on Twitter the other day.

It's not right. really cold weather that's come over from like Siberia and Russia and I've even seen that a lot of Europe's been affected by it

there was snow in Rome I saw on Twitter the other day it's not right is it for this time of year you know my missus said though she goes if that happened in the olden days you know Romans used to wear toogas wouldn't they be freezing I was like you thought that a bit too much but I think a lot of people had been spending quite a bit of time indoors this week in this part of the world.

You've been building up your new room then.

Is this going to be like a dedicated computer and console kind of room then? Yeah, so I've kind of seen on YouTube all these people have really cool kind of places that they do their videos. And I used to do videos years ago. I was very early channel. But we're looking at that. What year did you start on YouTube? I think it, oh God, it was 2008. Yeah, yeah. But was a very early channel. And I was thinking... What year did you start on YouTube?

I think, oh God, it was 2008. Yeah, yeah. But no, you before that. 2006, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah. I started in now way, yeah. Yeah, yeah, 2006. So I'm maybe one of the earliest YouTube Amiga channels. But I'm going to kind of start putting my old game systems in there. I'm going to have a VR set up in there

and it's just going to be so I could sit down

and get stuff done really. I'm going to kind of start putting my old game systems in there. I'm going to have a VR set up in there.

And it's just going to be so I could sit down and get stuff done really. Because unless you've got a space and all your systems are all over, they're stuck in cupboards. Oh God, you have to pull it all out, set it all up and it just takes so long, doesn't it? Well, I'm the same. I've got this, like, one room that when I moved into my current place about eight years ago,

everything got to fit in there comfortably, but I'm sure that, like, games consoles and computers breed at night when we're not around. Like, suddenly I haven't got any room. Or you get drunk and go on eBay. That's probably more like it, to be fair. I'll go to retro gaming shows,

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