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523: What It Was REALLY Like Working at Sony PlayStation in the 90s - The Retro Hour EP523

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) · March 20, 2026

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at least one pound into ridge racer every single day for about six months i loved that game so much they had the full scale one down at the trocadero just down at you know just down at lesser square um and it was just everything to me i just loved that game so much and then one day i was in my hometown of cambridge and there was a little video game store there a little import video game store it was big import gamer you know with the mega driver my mega driver was imported i input i had a super nintendo at the time i was a u.s one i was importing a lot of games i was all about the import didn't like the slowdown and filthy pal we used to call it right the slowdown you know it was all that ncsc in 60 frames um and i walked past the window and there was a an amiga cbm monitor running a playstation with ridge racer and i stopped in my tracks and i read all the magazines i knew the playstation was coming and i i think i'd sort of ignored it because i was like doesn't matter i'm buying a satin and i saw ridge racer and in that moment i

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... london uh with my dad at a kind of a print print place and it was right across the street from hamleys and in hamleys was the sega zone in the on the ground floor the basement that had an arcade at least one pound into ridge racer every single day for about six months i loved that game so much they had the full scale one down at the trocadero just down at you know just down at lesser square um and it was just everything to me i just loved that game so much and then one day i was in my hometown of cambridge and there was a little video game store there a little import video game store it was big import gamer you know with the mega driver my mega driver was imported i input i had a super nintendo at the time i was a u.s one i was importing a lot of games i was all about the import didn't like the slowdown and filthy pal we used to call it right the slowdown you know it was all that ncsc in 60 frames um and i walked past the window and there was a an amiga cbm monitor running a playstation with ridge racer and i stopped in my tracks and i read all the magazines i knew the playstation was coming and i i think i'd sort of ignored it because i was like doesn't matter i'm buying a satin and i saw ridge racer and in that moment i playstation that's it i just think it's my game of you know it's the my absolute most loved game and the fact that i could play at home again okay perfect right bringing it home was just ...

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