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<v Speaker 1>Quest.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell's show podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Jackie. Well, what were kids do? They have no idea about?

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<v Speaker 3>When you wanted to walk through for a game hints

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<v Speaker 3>and tips, you had to call an Nintendo hot lone.

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<v Speaker 1>I want to get like cheat cost stuff.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, the particular game I was playing was Game Boys

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<v Speaker 3>Pokemon YEP, and I couldn't get through the dark cave

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<v Speaker 3>with the diglets and I had to call this line and.

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<v Speaker 1>For was it one of those sort of premium lines.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, because I didn't even get to the point where

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<v Speaker 3>they gave me the walkthrough because I got told off

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<v Speaker 3>my parents for calling their hot r But Nintendo would

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<v Speaker 3>have a hot line that you can call and ask

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<v Speaker 3>a specialist about games.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, these days you'll just watch what is it on Twitch?

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<v Speaker 4>They're on with all their cheat codes and YouTube. They've

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<v Speaker 4>got all these hacks. The other thing that I I

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<v Speaker 4>was bore of my kids the other day with this

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<v Speaker 4>is like years ago, before texting and mobile phones and

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<v Speaker 4>everything like that, you simply go around to your friend's

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<v Speaker 4>house just to see if they were in. You'd have

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<v Speaker 4>to knock on the door, as nobody else'd buy their

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<v Speaker 4>mum or Dad, and they might not be in. If

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<v Speaker 4>they weren't in, there was that walk of shame when

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<v Speaker 4>you had to then get the bus home or that.

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<v Speaker 4>So kids the data that would ever have any idea,

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<v Speaker 4>there's no whatsapping or anything like that. You had to

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<v Speaker 4>go around somebody's house and walk out whether or not

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<v Speaker 4>they're coming out to play. All right, let's tack some

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<v Speaker 4>calls then about what will kids today have no idea about?

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<v Speaker 4>On Facebook page? The terrifying excitement of a girl giving

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<v Speaker 4>you her house number to ask you out. Radio Mike,

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<v Speaker 4>who I believe is a friend of yours, paying one

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<v Speaker 4>dollar sixty nine for a track on iTunes.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I found an old eyeball the other day. I said,

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<v Speaker 1>that's so much money trapped in that fee. I mean

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<v Speaker 1>so much money now going to stream.

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<v Speaker 4>It for like ten bucks a month or whatever it

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<v Speaker 4>is on Spotify multiplayer meant sitting beside your brother playing

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<v Speaker 4>Super Mario Brothers on the snares and then starting a

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<v Speaker 4>full on brawl. That's from mer Joe waiting for computer

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<v Speaker 4>games to load off the cassette tape, then realizing it

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<v Speaker 4>fell because the volume was wrong. Servo attendance, Christian. I

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<v Speaker 4>remember in Australia when there were a tendency used to

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<v Speaker 4>fill up your car for you.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh, I only say that as an American thing in

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<v Speaker 3>American movies.

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<v Speaker 4>Yep, that's from Nick. Now, Peter, what would kids today

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<v Speaker 4>have no idea about.

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<v Speaker 5>No idea about the classic wall phone, the landline with

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<v Speaker 5>the extended cord. I'd be talking to my girlfriend and

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<v Speaker 5>I wanted to tell I love her, and I'd go

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<v Speaker 5>into the cupboard and shut the door so now and

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<v Speaker 5>us could hear it, and I'd say, I love you.

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<v Speaker 1>This is how we used to be. This is love

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<v Speaker 1>in the eighties. I was the same as you.

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<v Speaker 4>My dad wouldn't step to the long cord, so I

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<v Speaker 4>actually drag the phone into the understairs cupboard, shut myself

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<v Speaker 4>in the dock and go love you.

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<v Speaker 3>Terrifying.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, it was illicit love in the eighties.

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<v Speaker 4>You'll like hiding on that phone and then you were

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<v Speaker 4>your sister would yell at you You've been on too long.

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<v Speaker 1>Peter.

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<v Speaker 4>Were also only allowed to make calls to friends in

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<v Speaker 4>the evening when it was half priced.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh look, that was about the case.

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<v Speaker 5>And I'd tell you whenever the landline would ring, it'd

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<v Speaker 5>be like now the phone's ringing. Who is it?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, the world's calling.

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<v Speaker 4>Who's come through the land with a message for us

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<v Speaker 4>to that special line through earth? Peter, thank you very much,

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<v Speaker 4>you call mate, that's calling the show.

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<v Speaker 5>Thanks guys, Ryan, Yah.

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to show. And what would kiss today?

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<v Speaker 3>Have no idea about the way to tell if your

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<v Speaker 3>friends were home, there would be a pile of bikes

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<v Speaker 3>out in the front of their house.

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<v Speaker 4>You are all just dumped on top of each other

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<v Speaker 4>and there was like an orgy of bikes there. Definitely, Ryan,

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<v Speaker 4>thank you very much. Chicolle's got a peete. We well,

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<v Speaker 4>kids today have no idea about.

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<v Speaker 2>Ah, the magic and wonder of a cassette tape.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, there.

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<v Speaker 4>Were enough very flimsy tenants, you weren't they spoiling it

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<v Speaker 4>with that pencil and then we get chewed up in

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<v Speaker 4>the tape.

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<v Speaker 2>Deck putting a bit of sticky tape over the tab

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<v Speaker 2>so you could record over a recorded tape, and the

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<v Speaker 2>elation of actually fast forwarding is stopping right at the

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<v Speaker 2>beginning of the track.

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<v Speaker 1>It was a fine art. It was a fine art.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, if you did that, people would steer in wonder.

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<v Speaker 2>You were a legend. It was great, But yeah, you

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<v Speaker 2>could have also the drama of having to try and

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<v Speaker 2>pull the tape out, or listening to a song that

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<v Speaker 2>slowed right down in the middle because you heard it

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<v Speaker 2>too much, but that it was fantastic.

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<v Speaker 4>There was the other thing that if you left on

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<v Speaker 4>the dashboard in the heat and it got all mounted,

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<v Speaker 4>that was the end of that album. I'm not in

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<v Speaker 4>the ocean in the car, all right, Pete, thank you

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<v Speaker 4>very much. Christian overhead projectors and transparencies in school classrooms,

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<v Speaker 4>do you remember the OHP, that loud noise that used

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<v Speaker 4>to make as well? And they used to have that

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<v Speaker 4>piece of paper where they wouldn't want you reading ahead

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<v Speaker 4>or too much the lesson.

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<v Speaker 1>They were to get really protective about that cover that over.

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<v Speaker 3>They would block out the Christians.

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<v Speaker 4>Coming, all the good stuff's yet to come.

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<v Speaker 3>I feel like they always put that transparent piece of

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<v Speaker 3>paper down the wrong way first and then had to

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<v Speaker 3>flip it over.

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<v Speaker 1>Every lesson we're talking about.

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<v Speaker 4>What were kids these days have no idea about cars

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<v Speaker 4>without air conditioning or power steering. Yeah, pain by check

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<v Speaker 4>feels like a real old school thing now, doesn't it.

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<v Speaker 1>Christian.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm not saying I did this, but connecting your friends

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<v Speaker 4>vcr to yours, to illegally copy movie, paying twenty five

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<v Speaker 4>cents per text, creating ring tones, pushing corresponding numbers.

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<v Speaker 3>Remember in text when we was paying for every text

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<v Speaker 3>and you had one hundred and sixty characters and you'd

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<v Speaker 3>start backspace, backspace, What can I lose? So this is

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<v Speaker 3>on the cost of one text now too.

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<v Speaker 4>Tapping out phone number on a rotary dial phone using

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<v Speaker 4>the button and the cradle, if your parents had put

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<v Speaker 4>a lock in it. My dad did put a lock

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<v Speaker 4>on it. Kids would have no idea about handing an

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<v Speaker 4>assignment on floppy disk, hearing the pips on a payphone.

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<v Speaker 4>Christian when the Christmas countdown to number one was a

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<v Speaker 4>really really big thing about who it's going to be

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<v Speaker 4>this year.

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<v Speaker 1>And then Romperum. I remember Romperum. They used to say

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<v Speaker 1>grace before the kids had their snacks. They were to.

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<v Speaker 4>Say this God is great, God is good, and let

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<v Speaker 4>us thank him for our food. As a kid, it

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<v Speaker 4>bothered me installed us that good and food do not rhyme.

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<v Speaker 3>Only on paper. Looks right, yeah, sound right?

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you Carol.

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<v Speaker 4>All right, let's go back to what kids today would

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<v Speaker 4>have no idea about.

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<v Speaker 6>Tim Yeah, I'm the guy that people rang up if

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<v Speaker 6>they got stuck on a video game. I'm the guy.

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<v Speaker 1>So who did you work for?

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<v Speaker 6>I worked, but it was my first job, my very

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<v Speaker 6>first job I had, and I always say I picked

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<v Speaker 6>way too early.

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<v Speaker 3>I found it incredible. So I used to call the

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<v Speaker 3>Nintendo hotline in time before Internet, when you couldn't get

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<v Speaker 3>tips or walk throughs. I called the Nintendo hot line

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<v Speaker 3>to a guy who knew essentially every part of every game.

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<v Speaker 3>How did you know so much about the games?

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<v Speaker 6>We basically played them? So we in our hotline we

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<v Speaker 6>had two huge cupboards full of games.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my god?

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<v Speaker 6>What was Basically you came into work, you cracked them.

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<v Speaker 6>So there was four main guys and I was one

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<v Speaker 6>of them, and we were all called Sega masters at

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<v Speaker 6>the time.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I remember masters. I remember we had a game

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<v Speaker 4>some of my friends. Do you remember wonder Boy?

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<v Speaker 6>Oh yeah, yeah, wonderful game.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, wonderful game. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>I can never very far on that, which I'd called

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<v Speaker 4>you if you about you about then, Tim.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, we could have. But ironically, the most common game

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<v Speaker 6>we ever got called up about was a game called

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<v Speaker 6>that Alex Kidd in Miracle World, and it was like

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<v Speaker 6>every second call was about this game. And the first

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<v Speaker 6>thing they'd say is I'm stuck in a room and say,

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<v Speaker 6>all right, we're just given the sequence and we'd say

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<v Speaker 6>some wave moon starts, some moon waves, fish starfish, and

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<v Speaker 6>they were the symbols. But they had the war cave

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<v Speaker 6>up to finish the game.

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<v Speaker 3>It sounds like a song off Rump Room.

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<v Speaker 1>Was a different kind of song.

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<v Speaker 6>We all have nightmares about that room because we can

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<v Speaker 6>still remember the scenon.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, lovely to chat, Tim, Thank you very much to

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<v Speaker 1>give us a call.

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