I can't believe it.

Max has asked me to move in with him.

I mean, you practically live with each other already, but that's great.

Did you hear that, Joe?

Yes, thanks for letting us know.

I see you've updated your universal credit claim.

Now you're going to be living together.

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 Retro Hour podcast episode number 25, your weekly dose of retro gaming

and technology news with me, a rather stuffy Dan Wood. And a rather hay fevery, Ravi, ever. Oh, we clawing our eyes out this week. Yeah, I was just walking across to the studio and, God, my eyes were streaming. So much hay fever. The time of day we record this show, it's that half past seven in the evening and, like, yeah, all the pollen's falling from the sky. So, yeah. You might we might sound a bit bunged up today now every week on the show ravi and i talk about the big technology

and retro gaming stories and then in the second half of the show we have a special guest on

now this week i think it's fair to say this guy could possibly be the most influential guess that

we've had on the show so far yeah this is

richard bartle professor richard bartle and he's the inventor of online gaming basically he's started

multi-user dungeons which were kind of you know the text adventures like zork and stuff like that

this was a way that they could all play on a computer network together. He was a creator of the virtual world. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. This guy essentially invented online communities really, didn't they? Yeah, yeah. And the kind of idea of it being free and open. It's going to be a really interesting interview guys. And kind of obviously going forward today, you know, you wouldn't have MMO RPGs without the work that he did back in the late 70s.

Yeah, not at all.

We'd all be sitting there playing co-op games.

You know, we wouldn't be in these giant virtual worlds.

So Richard Bartle on the show in about half an hour from now.

And thank you so much for all your votes on the podcast awards that we were up for. We did come close. Yeah, close. But well done. It's a retro asylum. It did go to a worthy winner, I've got to say. Congratulations for the guys. And if you're checking out Retro Asylum, look on their YouTube video at the moment on their channel because they're doing every single CD-32 game Oh really? A review of everyone so I'm not

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