The National Video Game Arcade - The Retro Hour EP99
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2017
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
We get the story of the UK's first National Video Game Arcade with plenty of Jeff Minter and Matthew Smith love.
The National Video Game Arcade: https://www.thenva.com/
All Your Bass: https://www.thenva.com/allyourbass
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I can't believe it. |
| 0:03.5 | Max has asked me to move in with him. |
| 0:05.9 | I mean, you practically live with each other already, but that's great. |
| 0:09.8 | Did you hear that, Joe? |
| 0:11.5 | Yes, thanks for letting us know. |
| 0:14.3 | I see you've updated your universal credit claim. |
| 0:17.1 | Now you're going to be living together. |
| 0:23.6 | 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 |
| 0:31.2 | Retro Hour podcast episode number 99. Wow. Your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology |
| 0:36.9 | news with me, Dan Wood. |
| 0:38.1 | And me, Ravi Abbott. |
| 0:39.2 | And not only is this our first show of December, what? |
| 0:43.4 | But also, our last show in double digits. |
| 0:46.4 | Oh yes, we're going to triple digits. |
| 0:48.8 | Oh my God. |
| 0:49.5 | Next, I can't believe we've done almost 100 episodes of this podcast. |
| 0:52.8 | It's absolutely crazy, but we'll save the |
| 0:55.1 | celebrations till next week when we have our very, very special guest on. Now, I don't want to |
| 0:59.1 | give away too much. I've kind of hinted at this over the last couple of weeks, but I think that next |
| 1:04.2 | week, we are possibly joined by the biggest guest we've ever had on this show. Totally. And, you know, |
| 1:10.6 | this guy's influenced so many |
| 1:12.1 | people and been involved in so many different computers and systems. Don't give away too much. |
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