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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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00:23:15 - 00:23:59

going to call this the super easy round, but I changed my mind. Please. I'm calling it, it's called, well, obviously. So, I'm actually, I'm going to use my bad acting to mock you if you get any of these questions wrong. And Robinson style. So, Dan's team, right. So, question one, name the armadillo in psycho pinball for the Mega Drive and DOS. James has got this one. No. Army. What's that? You are thinking. I see how he's thinking there.

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... Johnson from San Andreas. CJ, yeah. It's all stuff, actually. There you go. At the end of that round, Sam, how's that affected the scoreboard? So, Dan and James are on seven, going to call this the super easy round, but I changed my mind. Please. I'm calling it, it's called, well, obviously. So, I'm actually, I'm going to use my bad acting to mock you if you get any of these questions wrong. And Robinson style. So, Dan's team, right. So, question one, name the armadillo in psycho pinball for the Mega Drive and DOS. James has got this one. No. Army. What's that? You are thinking. I see how he's thinking there. you know it, Tommy, I've got a good guess. Yeah, well, I'm going to mock all of them if they get anything wrong. I think you go with your guess. Is it psycho, the armadillo? ...

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00:23:26 - 00:24:39

it's called, well, obviously. So, I'm actually, I'm going to use my bad acting to mock you if you get any of these questions wrong. And Robinson style. So, Dan's team, right. So, question one, name the armadillo in psycho pinball for the Mega Drive and DOS. James has got this one. No. Army. What's that? You are thinking. I see how he's thinking there. ...

01:05:36 - 01:06:08

exciting, I promise. Well, Paul's always a regular there doing the talks, so absolutely worth going along just to check those out. But there's loads more as well. You've got massive traders there as well. We can get some bargains to have to pay those ridiculous postage costs and eBay fees. The arcade section in there as well. Honestly, you can spend all day in there. Pinball machines, consoles and computer set up as well. And the competitive gaming area as well, which is normally where we lose Joe. Normally most…

00:32:59 - 00:33:33

zombies and it's in a game called zombies. So nice one. I'm glad I didn't have to brutally mock you for that one. On to next question on to the next team. Joe's team. So question eight, which 80s glam metal band from Hollywood have a Mega Drive pinball game themed after them called crewball? I know it, Tommy. Do you know it? You say you can go over it. Uh, partly crew. That is correct. Nice one. You got it. Anyone think that Joe knows something about kind of hair metal? It's got the haircut for it. Yeah. Any,…

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