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Hello and welcome to The Retro Hour podcast, your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology

news with me, Dan Wood. And me, Ravi Abbott.

Now, every single week, the show comes out, every Friday, available from our website,

Theretrohour.com, from iTunes, Stitcher, SoundCloud, YouTube, your favorite podcast client.

And every week, Ravi and I run through the top retro stories of the week. And then we hand over the second half of the show to a very special guest.

Yes, and the guest we have today has sent us some rather nice books. Yeah, one of which I have my hand here. Yeah, Dan's currently trying to hold because it's very heavy, hard back. I was going to say I can't hold it in one hand, actually. Yeah, you should have seen my postman's face this morning. He was standing there. Now the chat that we've got on in just a bit is there Sam Dyer

and he's from this company called Bitmap Books. And they've done like the Commonaw 64 Visual Compendium book. The Amiga one, there's a ZX Spectrum one as well. The one that I'm holding in my hand here, which is called Arcade. I'm trying to show it to a camera, even though we're like on the radio.

The book of classic arcade game artwork. Now, I will say this book, not only would it appeal to someone that loves arcade games and has got memories of that era, but I think looking at the quality of this and how gorgeous images look, anyone that just really appreciates nice looking art.

Yeah, it's really good and the kind of quality of it's really nice as well. This isn't a rubbish production Kickstarter thing. This is like a proper production publishing house for computer game. Well, Sam, I mean, he's got a design background. And he's also a massive Commodore fan. You know, he grew up with the C-64, then the Amigrad and the Tare Esti and stuff as well. So we're going to get him on and kind of get a bit of a history of his experiences, like grown up with that 8-bit and 16-bit era and also his arcade memories. I've found a bit more about the process of making these really impressive books. Yeah, the kind of passion he puts in. It's amazing. Absolutely. So Sam's going to be on the show in around 30 minutes from now. Also, we've got an event coming up at the end of this month.

Unfortunately, I'm not going to be there, but Ravi and hopefully Joe, who regularly appears on our podcast, will be there as well if you want to come along and say hi. Yeah, so this is the MGPX-16, which is the Matured gamers podcast Expo. somehow we've managed to uh flag our way in there and uh this is in nottingham at the murkir hotel which is basically in nottingham's lace market okay

so it's on july the 30th on saturday and it's between old video gaming lounge and the national video gaming

arcade. So this is in like the video gaming hub of Nottingham and you can get discounted tickets

for the video game arcade if you come. So even if you don't want to come to our event,

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