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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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remake which has been fascinating to kind of understand how they're going to figure that that one out um even back in our old data files that we edited here and 20 years ago whatever it was um but yeah no i i got all three and then i worked on god or ascension which was the sequel to god of all three the sort of origin story of of creators if you like um while i was at santa monica well what about diablo free as well then because i know you did some stuff uh was that with the online capabilities of it and um yeah i jumped over to blizzard after there was a layoff at sony santa monica on on a new project called dark side that never made it unfortunately um so i've been at that point i've been with sony for like 17 years all told you know 11 years in the uk and it's almost just over six years in the us um and so blizzard came up as an opportunity it it felt like a little bit of a square peg round hole for me because i'd played diablo i'd

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... to really sell the ps3 um it was again lots got cut but lots made it into the into the final disc and were you involved with the remasters at all that no i didn't work on the remaster that was remake which has been fascinating to kind of understand how they're going to figure that that one out um even back in our old data files that we edited here and 20 years ago whatever it was um but yeah no i i got all three and then i worked on god or ascension which was the sequel to god of all three the sort of origin story of of creators if you like um while i was at santa monica well what about diablo free as well then because i know you did some stuff uh was that with the online capabilities of it and um yeah i jumped over to blizzard after there was a layoff at sony santa monica on on a new project called dark side that never made it unfortunately um so i've been at that point i've been with sony for like 17 years all told you know 11 years in the uk and it's almost just over six years in the us um and so blizzard came up as an opportunity it it felt like a little bit of a square peg round hole for me because i'd played diablo i'd you know an rpg gamer um and so i went for the interview kind of you know i was excited it was you know great franchise to work on and i was kind of excited about the opportunity of kind of like i did with sony santa monica right going somewhere and seeing if i'm any good right ...

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