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526: Galloping Ghost: The Story of America’s Biggest Arcade - The Retro Hour EP526

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) · April 10, 2026

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So plenty of perks for signing up and supporting the podcast, the retro hour.com. If you'd like to join. All right. Well, thank you for checking out the news this week. We'll update you again on what's been happening next Friday and next go to inside the world of the legendary galloping ghost arcade with our special guests. Doc Mac and Craig Bass. They're next on the retro hour podcast.

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... all the details of the retro hour.com, you also get like to the patrons hangouts as well. We do the end of each month, which is basically a massive two hour Google meet call like, well, we all know that for a couple of hours, like a virtual users group, So plenty of perks for signing up and supporting the podcast, the retro hour.com. If you'd like to join. All right. Well, thank you for checking out the news this week. We'll update you again on what's been happening next Friday and next go to inside the world of the legendary galloping ghost arcade with our special guests. Doc Mac and Craig Bass. They're next on the retro hour podcast. Now today we're going to be hearing the story of one of the most legendary arcades on the planet. ...

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... Fantastic new Castlevania style game for the Amstrad. And we get the story of the legendary Galloping Ghost arcade. And the Retro Hour podcast is brought to you every week with our good friends at Bitmap Books. And have you checked out their latest volume? So interesting. ...

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... You've heard about it for years. And you're like, yeah, this place is massive. It's like one of these legendary places. Thousands of arcades there. Absolutely huge amount. You just see the images and it's bonkers. I've seen documentaries that have already been filmed in there going around. And it's like a military effort to get all of these working. Keep them going. Some of the rarest arcades in the world there have a lot of prototypes there as well. A lot of prototypes. Yeah, which we actually cover in the…

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authored, uh, well, not authored, but illustrated by, um, a really great artist, David Rowe, who, who did the front covers for, for James Pond. You know, we've talked about it a bit over the reason you've got James Pond in your toilet a bit too quickly there. He's jumping out of the toilet. Yeah. But, um, an absolutely legendary character. That was the whole point of it. I thought it was hilarious. It was a parody robot card. Um, you know, the whole parody jokes and everybody kind of knew James Bond. So, um, I…

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over VR and stuff like this is a prime example of it. Yeah. So very cool. So you want to check that out? Um, the video at the moment is a preview, but I'll put it in this week's show notes and more stories on the way. Going to talk a bit of a James Pond news, something that I'm surprised didn't happen 30 years ago, if I'm honest. And also a legendary Commodore 64 title that is getting a follow-up. We'll talk more about that in a second. Before we do, let's take a quick moment to give a massive thank you to this…

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