The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)26 Sep 2025

499: "Nintendo Made Us Cut the Bikini Girls from Duke Nukem 64" - Eurocom's Kev Harrison - The Retro Hour EP499

This week we chat with designer Kev Harrison, whose career began at Eurocom working on Duke Nukem 64 and Duke Nukem: Zero Hour. Kev shares what it was like adapting Duke’s outrageous world for Nintendo, from cutting bikini girls to sneaking in Simpsons gags, as well as why his team saw Duke as a tongue-in-cheek Bruce Campbell figure while publishers insisted he was a deadly serious hero. We also cover his years bringing Bond, Star Wars, Predator and Hellboy to consoles, packed with stories from one of the UK’s busiest studios of the late 90s and 2000s.

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Contents:

00:00 - The Week's Retro News Stories
43:47 - Kev Harrison Interview

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Show notes

Sega Recreates Blast Processing Ad to Take on Mario Kart: https://youtu.be/CYOfP1a7xjc
Lost Scooby Doo Computer Cartoon May Be Resurrected: https://tinyurl.com/yeu64w28
Mute Crimson: https://tinyurl.com/5d9b7xf8
Vampire Apollo A6000: https://a6000.net/
Golden Axe Ported to the Atari 2600: https://tinyurl.com/4dfy5dsw

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