The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

We talk about the golden age of arcades with Twin Galaxies' Walter Day! The games, the gamers and how accurate was the King of Kong movie? Twin Galaxies: http://www.twingalaxies.com/ Email us: show@theretrohour.com Buy Play Expo Manchester tickets: https://www.playexpomanchester.com/ Thanks to our amazing donators this week: Torstein Rodset, James Plant, Steve Piggot, Wojciech Jancz Our website: h...

Gary Penn talks to us about his early days on ZZap 64, working with David Braben on Frontier then his journey to DMA Design working on the original GTA series. Denki website: http://www.denki.co.uk/ Win Play Expo Manchester weekend passes: http://bit.ly/2jQHBcl Email us: show@theretrohour.com Thanks to our amazing donators this week: Steve Jewkes, Linus Johansson, Tom Van de Weile, Bart ter Haar O...

We talk about classics like Zool and the Lotus series with Gremlin founder Ian Stewart! Urbanscan website: http://www.urbanscan.co.uk/ Win Play Expo Manchester weekend passes: http://bit.ly/2jQHBcl Email us: show@theretrohour.com Thanks to our amazing donators this week: Graham Thompson, Brenda Stones, Damian Page, Dan Ryan Our website: http://theretrohour.com Our Facebook: http://www.facebook.com...

We're joined by Ian Livingtone CBE to talk Tomb Raider, founding Games Workshop and Fighting Fantasy. Ian Livingstone Twitter: https://twitter.com/ian_livingstone Email us: show@theretrohour.com Thanks to our amazing donators this week: Stephan Ricken, Clive Glazebrook, Steve Engledow, Benny Damsgaard Nielsen Our website: http://theretrohour.com Our Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theretrohour/...

We talk about the rebirth of the legendary Thalamus with Andy Roberts, and an inside look at some classic Commodore 64 magazines. Thalamus Digital: http://www.thalamusdigital.co.uk/ Email us: show@theretrohour.com Thanks to our amazing donators this week: Alan Bennett, Christopher Zaremba, Lauri Turjansalo, Greg Gaughan Our website: http://theretrohour.com Our Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/the...

We're joined by François Lionet, the man behind the legendary game creation tools STOS and AMOS! The history, highs and lows and his plans for a 21st century update of AMOS. Friend UP: http://friendup.cloud Click Team: http://www.clickteam.com/ Email us: show@theretrohour.com Thanks to our amazing donators this week: Simon Pilgrim, Northeast Horizons, Warren Jenkins, Colin Walker Our website: http...

The story behind one of the most controversial games ever, Vince Desi gives us an inside look at Postal. Running With Scissors website: http://runningwithscissors.com/ Email us: show@theretrohour.com Thanks to our amazing donators this week: James Weiner, Carl Parkes, Mathew Martin, Raymond Montalban Our website: http://theretrohour.com Our Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theretrohour/ Our Twitt...

We get the inside story on a true arcade classic - the legendary Q*bert from the man behind it, Warren Davis. Email us: show@theretrohour.com Thanks to our amazing donators this week: Holy Cheever Church Records, Stelios Kalogreadeas, Konstantinos Daskalakis, Darren Coles Our website: http://theretrohour.com Our Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theretrohour/ Our Twitter: http://twitter.com/retroh...

Cult Sega Mega CD FMV horror game Night Trap is being re-released and remastered for its 25th anniversary. We get the story on how it happened and why it deserved to reach a new audience with the man behind it, Tyler Hogle. Night Trap 25th Anniversary: http://www.nighttrap25.com Email us: show@theretrohour.com Thanks to our amazing donators this week: Christopher Foulds, Naweed Iftkhar, Wiktor Zar...

We talk about the Commodore 64 in 2017 with Joerg "Nafcom" Droege, the creator of long running C64 diskmag Scene World. Scene World: https://sceneworld.org/ Email us: show@theretrohour.com Thanks to our amazing donators this week: Timothy Blanks, Johnathan Kaye, Philip Bailey, George Toohey Our website: http://theretrohour.com Our Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theretrohour/ Our Twitter: http:/...

Hello you! Larry Bundy Jnr AKA Guru Larry is our special guest this week! We talk classic gaming TV, industry scandals and fact hunting. Guru Larry on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/LarryBundyJr Email us: show@theretrohour.com Thanks to our amazing donators this week: RoblewellnUk, John Dijkman, G Liddon, Anthony Clarke Our website: http://theretrohour.com Our Facebook: http://www.facebook....

We get the story of the movie licencing kings Ocean Software from former director Gary Bracey. How they landed the big film licences, the highs and lows, and games like Robocop, Platoon and Batman The Movie. Thanks to Retro Unlim for recording this week's interview: http://retrounlim.com/ Email us: show@theretrohour.com Thanks to our amazing donators this week: Magnus Esbjorner, Adam Hinde, Christ...

On the weekend of PLAY Expo Blackpool, we're joined by the man behind the UK's biggest retro gaming events and retailer Console Passion, Andy Brown! Play EXPO Blackpool website: https://www.playexpoblackpool.com/ Thanks to our amazing donators this week: Steve Ruston, Andrew S Baster, Henrik Andersson, Nigel Clark. Our website: http://theretrohour.com Our Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theretro...

We get the full story of 'the worst video game ever', E.T on the Atari 2600 in the second part of our interview with the legendary Howard Scott Warshaw! Plus, win a pair of Play EXPO Blackpool tickets. Howard's website: http://hswarshaw.com/ Thanks to our amazing donators this week: Frederick Burbidge, Jason Landridge, Bret Pritchard, Jonathan Parry, Chris Baker. Win a pair of Play EXPO weekend pa...

We're joined by Atari legend Howard Scott Warshaw in the first of a two part special. We talk about classics like Yarr's Revenge, Raiders of the Lost Ark and the 'worst game ever' E.T on the 2600! Howard's website: http://hswarshaw.com/wordpress/ Thanks to our amazing donators this week: Barry Jack, Chris Cowland, Paul Edwards, Przemyslaw Duchnicki Win a copy of Amiga/C64 Forever 7: http://www.the...

We talk about making new Mega Drive games in 2017 with Matt Philips, the creator of new game Tanglewood. Tanglewood website: http://tanglewoodgame.com/index.html Thanks to our amazing donators this week: Poul Gadving, Efraim Juntunen, James Alston, Arnt-Ove Todnem Our website: http://theretrohour.com Our Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theretrohour/ Our Twitter: http://twitter.com/retrohouruk Sh...

We talk to the arcade master Eugene Jarvis about Defender, Robotron, Smash TV and more early arcade memories! Raw Thrills website: http://rawthrills.com/ Thanks to our amazing donators this week: Steve from Wavem Studios, Darren Coles, Mikael Norrgard, Martin Williams Our website: http://theretrohour.com Our Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theretrohour/ Our Twitter: http://twitter.com/retrohouru...

We’re joined by legendary Commodore 64 game musician Rob Hubbard, the man behind the music for International Karate, Commando, Monty on The Run and many more! Thanks to our amazing donators this week: Eric Nelson, Liam Clancy, William Bateman, Leigh Bestford Our website: http://theretrohour.com Our Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theretrohour/ Our Twitter: http://twitter.com/retrohouruk Show not...

We chat to the team behind the UK's biggest retro computing and gaming museum, the Centre For Computing History in Cambridge. http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/ Thanks to our amazing donators this week: RockerRoller, Liam Clancy, William Bateman, Leigh Bestford Our website: http://theretrohour.com Our Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theretrohour/ Our Twitter: http://twitter.com/retrohouruk Show...

We're joined by Amiga legend Dave Haynie, former Commodore chief engineer. We talk about the highs, the lows and the cancelled future plans for the Amiga. The Deathbed Vigil Video: https://youtu.be/BaTjwo1ywcI Thanks to our amazing donators this week: Gus Douboulidis, Andrew Webb, Retro Pluggers, Neil Mansell Our website: http://theretrohour.com Our Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theretrohour/...

We get the highs and lows of Atari UK with former marketing manager Darryl Still. From the ST glory days to defending the Jaguar, and hanging out with Fatboy Slim and Chesney Hawkes! Kiss LTD website: http://www.kiss-ltd.co.uk/ Thanks to our amazing donators this week: David Stepvenson, Scott Julian, Eric Nelson, Colin Reid Our website: http://theretrohour.com Our Facebook: http://www.facebook.com...

After 70 episodes of the show, we turn the spotlight onto ourselves. What are Dan, Ravi and Joe's favourite retro systems, games and memories? Thanks to our amazing donators this week: Craig Ruddell, Andreas Sauer, Michael Conklin, Christopher Hull Our website: http://theretrohour.com Our Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theretrohour/ Our Twitter: http://twitter.com/retrohouruk Show notes: Vodaph...

We reminisce about BBS, Geocities and the earliest days of the Web with Internet Archive's Jason Scott. The Internet Archive: http://archive.org Textfiles.com : http://textfiles.com Thanks to our amazing donators this week: Paul Harrington, Michael Keith, Lars Boddum, Paul Edwards Our website: http://theretrohour.com Our Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/theretrohour/ Our Twitter: http://twitter.c...

Hiding anti-Lotus 123 easter eggs in Excel, Windows 95 and why Bill Gates thought the Xbox was an insult with Microsoft's former game publishing VP, Ed Fries! Ed's website: https://edfries.wordpress.com/ Thanks to our amazing donators this week: Gareth McKee, Robinson Technologies, Gothic Charm, VFX Vault LTD and Simon Pilgrim Vote for us in the British Podcast Awards: http://theretrohour.com/vote...

Brian Moriarty gives us the inside story on Infocom, LucasArts and Loom - will it ever get an official sequel or modern update? Plus some amazing stories of celebs at the Skywalker Ranch! Brian's Website: http://ludix.com/moriarty/ Thanks to our amazing donators this week: Todd Sarney, Ross Burnett, Imran Chowdhry, Colin Walker Vote for us in the British Podcast Awards: http://theretrohour.com/vot...