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Microsoft Calls Time On Xbox 360 - This Week In Retro 179

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This Week in Retro

This Week in Retro

Күн бұрын

The BBC went to visit DMA in Dundee. Microsoft is shutting the Xbox 360 store, has it had its time? With the recent video detailing the making of Syndicate by Bullfrog we wonder if that was the first game where you played as the bad guy?
All this and your Community Question Of The Week answers plus other retro computing and gaming news in brief.
Visit pixel.addict.media/ for your copy of Pixel Addict magazine. The current issue is an Elite special but don't miss the look at the Valiant Turtle and the restoration of an Amstrad PC1640.
00:00 - Show Opening
08:45 - BBC At DMA For GTA
Story Link: • GRAND THEFT AUTO 1996 ...
Keith Chegwin At Ocean: • Keith Chegwin at Ocean...
23:36 - 360 Retirement
Story Link: / xbox_360_store_closes_...
34:45 - Dave's Housekeeping - News links found below
42:42 - Crime Pays?
Story Link: • The Making of Syndicat...
53:17 - Community Question of the Week
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This Week in Retro is a weekly roundup of the hottest stories from the world of retro gaming and computing, voted on by you, the listener! Hosted by Neil from RMC and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles.
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@jamesmacintosh4009
@jamesmacintosh4009 27 күн бұрын
To me TWIR is truly the start of the weekend !
@dustintaub
@dustintaub 26 күн бұрын
"Street Fighter, a lot of those fights were unlicensed." This got me, lol.
@acertainshape
@acertainshape 25 күн бұрын
Auditioning for the role of chief engineer of the USS Enterprise, James Doohan did several different accents. Producer Gene Roddenberry asked which he preferred, and Doohan replied, "If you want an engineer, in my experience the best engineers are Scotsmen."
@GenerationPixel
@GenerationPixel 26 күн бұрын
The Xbox 360 was only discontinued in 2016, but by Neil's maths, that's a good decade and a half ago 😉
@definedphotography
@definedphotography 26 күн бұрын
yep, "released in 2005" ... and "23 + a bit years old" in 2024 🤔🤔
@buggerlugz6753
@buggerlugz6753 7 күн бұрын
because its a far better console than the modern generations.
@yaktaur
@yaktaur 27 күн бұрын
Xbox 360 out in 2005 is 19 years ago, not 23 :)
@John.B.Jenkins
@John.B.Jenkins 27 күн бұрын
That's not what Terrence Howard says
@endwigast5212
@endwigast5212 26 күн бұрын
Neil is on crack.
@andrewmiller2904
@andrewmiller2904 26 күн бұрын
They're filming this in the future, ffs.
@comradeinternet467
@comradeinternet467 26 күн бұрын
Squirrel With A Gun looks like a very fun experience.
@PC49_lives
@PC49_lives 27 күн бұрын
I inherited my aunties 360. She was playing console games well into her 70s and probably 80s. I bought some games in second hand shops for it but it broke after about a year. So ended up buying a second hand 360 from Cex. Still have it connected to the TV! All this talk of ending the 360 makes me want to play all those Lego games again 😄
@JestersDeadUK
@JestersDeadUK 26 күн бұрын
The 360 is an incredible machine!
@user-hr5di5fg8b
@user-hr5di5fg8b 25 күн бұрын
Really should mention this podcast on your cave channel as well i didn't know this podcast exist for a good year after subscribing to the cave channel.
@djm9937
@djm9937 27 күн бұрын
Parental leave. I love the sound of that. I'm sure i speak for all that you are going to be the best dad.
@williamfalconer4289
@williamfalconer4289 26 күн бұрын
The IBM factory was in an area known as "Spango Valley". The name always makes me have a little chuckle.
@chriscrossan8034
@chriscrossan8034 27 күн бұрын
Drug Wars was a classic.
@HappyCodingZX
@HappyCodingZX 27 күн бұрын
Two early examples of crime games are 'Mugsy', a fairly limited but still quite fun organised crime game, as well as 'They Stole a Million' a game very much ahead of its time which has an interesting back story - the game was eventually remade on the PC, and the guys who created this eventually became part of Rockstar and helped to develop the 'heist' elements of GTA V.
@korallenkaiser
@korallenkaiser 26 күн бұрын
Is there a more modern version of "They stole a million" besides "the Clou"? Loved to play it on my Schneider CPC 464
@HappyCodingZX
@HappyCodingZX 26 күн бұрын
@@korallenkaiser yes, there is a sequel to the Clou called 'The Sting' which came out in 2001.
@korallenkaiser
@korallenkaiser 26 күн бұрын
@@HappyCodingZX thanks man
@user-hr5di5fg8b
@user-hr5di5fg8b 25 күн бұрын
Need pics of the catdio once done
@bobrogers4019
@bobrogers4019 26 күн бұрын
Great Terry Wogan impression at 0.30.
@zachhancock2692
@zachhancock2692 25 күн бұрын
I have an Xbox 360 that i honestly play more than my Series X. It is too bad the store is closing but it was quite good of MS to keep it alive as long as they have, not to mention the awesome amount of backwards compatibility. I will always have great memories of playing Halo 3, Project Gotham Racing 4, Minecraft and Gears of War 3 with my daughter before teenagerdom hit.
@antoin1888
@antoin1888 26 күн бұрын
Gaelic football??!! I think the Irish might have something to say about that!
@malcolmhutchison
@malcolmhutchison 26 күн бұрын
DMA is the reason the first Computer Games Degree was created at Abertay
@malcolmhutchison
@malcolmhutchison 26 күн бұрын
In Elite you have the option being bad from the start
@stevehorne5536
@stevehorne5536 27 күн бұрын
Hoots mon!
@learningtoride1714
@learningtoride1714 26 күн бұрын
The best crime game on the Amstrad CPC was They Stole A Million where you had to put together a team and then go on a criminal job.
@jockelevalampi5127
@jockelevalampi5127 25 күн бұрын
Would Cinemawares "King of Chicago" (1986) count? You play a gangster and you run a mob empire.
@ThisWeekinRetro
@ThisWeekinRetro 24 күн бұрын
Yes!
@brostenen
@brostenen 26 күн бұрын
I tried to attach a credit card to my 360 account on my 360. It gave me an error. And the 360 shop through web browser is not working anymore..... They have basically shut it down half a month ago.
@cjh0751
@cjh0751 27 күн бұрын
Xbox 360 and Xbox One are the last generation where the full game is on the disk. You can't say that for Series X as their disks are only a gateway to download the game from their servers. No servers = no game with only a case to remind you that you don't own the game.
@espressomatic
@espressomatic 26 күн бұрын
It was a choice, but possible to play evil in Ultima IV. But besides that, I'd say Pac-Man. Poor little ghosts.
@chriswalsh3149
@chriswalsh3149 27 күн бұрын
Anyone else never fully connect the weird intros to the actual story they are referencing? I am also fine with that...
@duncanstyles133
@duncanstyles133 26 күн бұрын
Yes.
@ScratchedWinter
@ScratchedWinter 27 күн бұрын
@10:28 hes mad about the football isnt he?
@espressomatic
@espressomatic 26 күн бұрын
Thanks to jailbreaking, every Nintendo system is safe to offline and perpetual play - Wii, Wii-U even online. Switch eventually Online without Nintendo. Every Playstation up to PS4 Pro, same, but online only for LAN games. XBOX tops out at 360, also online with LAN patch. The last game I put 40 hours into was Zelda for the Wii in 2006. Back in the day however, Ultima IV, Ultima V, Bard's Tale series, Stunt Car Racer multiplayer, etc.
@RavenShinyThings
@RavenShinyThings 26 күн бұрын
Nintendo switch keeps physical with smaller patches for now. Ps outrun pc patch is amazing.refelects stunning, aa no jaggies, 240 FPS stable , no pop in
@mcborge1
@mcborge1 26 күн бұрын
Dave, you missed Irn bru off your list.
@ThisWeekinRetro
@ThisWeekinRetro 25 күн бұрын
He got interrupted. Here is the full list: Tar mac roads, the pedal bicycle, the pneumatic tyre, tubular steel, the falkirk wheel, coal gas lighting, the stirling heat engine, carbon brushes for dynamos, clerk cycle gas engine, wave powered electricity generator, the first passenger steamboat, the first iron hulled steamship, the first practical screw propeller, the hot blast oven, the steam hammer, wire rope, cordite, hollow pipe drainage, the Scotch plough, the mechanical reaping machine, the telephone, print stereotyping, roller printing, the adhesive stamp, the postmark, universal standard time, radio, the BBC, the teleprinter, RADAR, the ATM, Encyclopedia Britannica, gospel music, logarithms, modern economics, modern sociology, hypnotism, tropical medicine, modern geology, electromagnetism, saturn’s rings, proxima centauri, latent heat, the incandescent light bulb, the kelvin unit of temperature, criminal fingerprinting, the noble gasses, the first cloned mammal, tractor beams, Australian rules football, curling gaelic handball, cycling, golf, ice hockey, shinty, rugby sevens, football, the robot olympics,, the piano footpedal, the kaleidoscope, the waterproof macintosh, the modern lawnmower, the lucifer friction match, the self filling pen, cotton reel thread, lime cordial, the electric clock, Bovil, Irn-bru, the carronade cannon, the ferguson rifle, the lee bolt system, the ghillie suit, the percussion cap, the boys brigade, the bank of england, the bank of france, colour photography, anaesthesia, saline drop, the hypodermic syringe, electrocardiography, staph, insulin, penicillin, x-ray cinematography, haldane effect, radiation therapy unit, transplant rejection, oxygen therapy, the first effective tuberculosis treatment, first bea blockers, modern asthma therapy, chainsaw, the television, the refrigerator, the flush toilet the vacuum flask, and triple distilled Irish whiskey. - Dunc
@mcborge1
@mcborge1 25 күн бұрын
@@ThisWeekinRetro That's one looong list. 😄
@Seftdelmer
@Seftdelmer 26 күн бұрын
I'm English, but hat's off to the quality and productivity of Scottish engineers, including the most famous - scotty of the USS Enterprise.
@jasonsdodd
@jasonsdodd 26 күн бұрын
i couldn't afford to play dragon's lair but i did watch others play it for quite a few hours. when i finally played it was very meh.
@waltrautengels816
@waltrautengels816 15 күн бұрын
2005 - 2024= 19 NOT 23 Years! Never do Math live!!!!
@Chris_Adams1
@Chris_Adams1 27 күн бұрын
Dave should have honked like a goose in his description of the Untitled Goose Game.
@LinuxCity79
@LinuxCity79 27 күн бұрын
you know it's saturday morning when a TWIR lands. got my coffee and a breakfast sandwich
@david-spliso1928
@david-spliso1928 27 күн бұрын
Because there are so many inventions from Scotland that of course must make them British inventions 😋
@Robeight
@Robeight 27 күн бұрын
If i can't play the games i bought from the store, then they need to refund me.,
@tenminutetokyo2643
@tenminutetokyo2643 27 күн бұрын
Nooooooooooooo…………..
@iestyndavies7287
@iestyndavies7287 21 күн бұрын
Ok, help this aged brain out. I’ve not connected my 360 to the net for a long time. Can I still update my firmware by logging in at the moment? I still need the final ‘backwards compatible’ update to allow the full back catalogue. Is that still something I’m able to do before the servers are stopped?
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