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511: Retro Gaming Christmas Quiz 2025 – The Retro Hour EP511

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) · December 22, 2025

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01:35:09 - 01:35:30

Okay. Well done. Okay. Right. So we now have question number four. So it's back to Dan and James. So now a little bit of arithmetic. So the number I'm looking for is the number of chaos emeralds in the first Sonic game multiplied by the number of power pellets on each maze of Pac-Man.

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... and James. Well, we were gonna get eight, so we got eight. He's also wrong. It's seven. Okay. Well done. Okay. Right. So we now have question number four. So it's back to Dan and James. So now a little bit of arithmetic. So the number I'm looking for is the number of chaos emeralds in the first Sonic game multiplied by the number of power pellets on each maze of Pac-Man. each maze of Pac-Man, the arcade original. Is this revenge for those controller? You don't know what's coming next, mate. I think this sounds like a Ravi question to be fair. ...

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... Right, he's a legendary US game designer who worked on classics like Soul Blade, Abe's Odyssey and Pac-Man World 20th Anniversary. This was me again. ...

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Luigi's mansion. Do you want to try? I'm going to say a second word dots. Um, is it, is it Pac-Man? No. Lipstick lipstick. Oh, yeah. Um, Oh, of course. It's, is it miss Pac-Man? It is miss Pac-Man. And then you get two points and that was not, that was not arduous at all, was it? Also, um, with your sheet, hold it up a bit because we might be able to see the answers. I'm guessing we can't say the name of the game. Okay. So the exit clues is right. Is that, uh, yes, of course you cannot use the name title or a…

01:06:52 - 01:07:30

point if you can tell me what comes next in the sequence. So for example, if I'd said cherry, strawberry, orange, you might, anyone there might know what is the connection, the theme of those three items? Pac-Man fruits. Right, so it's the fruit on Pac-Man. Correct. So I go, great. That's one point. And I would tell you if you got it right. Okay, so well done yesterday, the Pac-Man fruit. ...

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once a month, so I don't know, calm down if you're around. Nice plug there Ollie. My name's Paul Drury, I write for Retro Gamer Magazine and I'm also co-host of the Ted Dabney Experience Podcast and Ollie and I are usually on the receiving end of the questions but much like Pac-Man having eaten a power pellet, now the hunter becomes the hunter and we get to ask questions to these three guys who are not on their own. So Dan, Joe and Ravi have each chosen a patron to join their teams. That's a loyal and supportive…

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cuff. I really look miserable. Okay, I'm pixelated. Okay, I've got a little brown hat and I've got a green top and I've got green trousers. I tend to hold on to a rope quite a lot, especially if I want to get over like logs and scorpions. Pac-Land Pac-Man. So I've got pointy yellow ears, if I'm some kind of creature, I've got a tail, and I'm holding something in my hand. ...

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