Video Game Rock & Roll Years: My Life in Pixels - The Retro Hour EP197

Episode 197,   Nov 01, 2019, 01:22 AM

Shaun McClure gives us the inside story on what it was REALLY like - sleeping under desks when salaries couldn't be paid, destroying priceless computers and working on huge games for Atari, Ocean, Gremlin, Alternative Software and more.

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A Compendium of Atari 8-bit Games - Volume One: https://amzn.to/2N7BA7L
Dentist buys $1million holy grail retro games: https://wapo.st/34ik469
archive.org add 2,500 MS DOS games: https://bit.ly/2JAJbJC RIP Yahoo groups: https://engt.co/2C6kSyV
Bubble Bobble 4: https://bit.ly/2NAtxzk
NHS Gaming clinic: https://bit.ly/3205dvT
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