The Retro Hour - Episode 23 (Lotus 2 and Top Gear with Barry Leitch)
The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
The Retro Hour
4.9 • 558 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2016
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
How did the theme music to Lotus 2 on the Amiga come in a dream, and why is Top Gear on the SNES the biggest thing in Brazil? We chat to Barry Leitch this week!
Barry's website: http://www.barryleitch.com/
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Show notes:
Real life Pong table: http://bit.ly/1ZDTlsC
Nuclear weapons still use floppy disks: http://bit.ly/1VjJdG7
Old computers are art: http://bit.ly/1VoDZc0
Man makes own new VHS releases: http://bit.ly/1U4ThDU
Super Mario Maker proposal: http://bit.ly/1U4ThDU
Xenon 2 : Megablast coming to the Atari Jaguar: http://bit.ly/1WIbqrs
Walker Amiga CD32 download: http://bit.ly/1OgkVvm
Redbull 20 things Amiga: http://win.gs/1ImNhjX
Ready Player One avatar competition: http://win.gs/1ImNhjX
Slow Scan TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5JbddEC2aE
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. |
| 0:21.3 | If you're telling other people about a change in your circumstances, |
| 0:25.4 | tell us too to avoid a penalty. |
| 0:27.8 | Search Tell DWP. |
| 0:30.1 | You're listening to the Retro Hour, episode 23, |
| 0:33.6 | your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me Ravi Abbott. And me, Dan Wood. And we've got some amazing guests this week, Dan. Yeah, now if you're new to the show, the way it works, is we've come out every single Friday, available from our website, The Retro Hour.com. Ravi and I recap the big retro stories of the week, and then we hand over to a special guest. And this guy, Barry Leach, is just an amazing musician, to the point that Rihanna's |
| 0:57.2 | nick in his tunes at the moment. |
| 0:59.3 | That is crazy. |
| 1:00.5 | Now, this is something that's been going on in pop music quite a lot over the last couple |
| 1:04.6 | of years. |
| 1:05.1 | Like certain producers have been kind of stealing samples from old, you know, 8 and 16 bit computer |
| 1:09.2 | games. |
| 1:09.4 | Yeah, so we're going to have a little comparison with one of Barry's tunes, and he's also doing some stuff at the Skywalker Ranch at the moment. That's crazy, isn't it? Yeah. You know, I know we have a lot of old Amiga heads listen to our show. He's a guy that did Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, the music, on that at the beginning. Just an anthem. An absolute banger. |
| 1:28.7 | Probably my favourite all-time Amiga mode, Lotus 2 intro. Yeah, definitely. So Barry's going to be on in the next half an hour. We'll chat to him all about music, all his memories, and find out what he's up to these days coming up in just a bit on the retro hour. Before that, though, straight into this week's stories. and this is always kind of cool |
| 1:43.7 | when you see video games |
| 1:45.4 | getting made into real life objects. |
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