547: British Gaming Legends: Stories From an Iconic Era – The Retro Hour EP547
It's Ravi's final episode of the podcast, we give him a good send off! Plus, we bring you our Best of British panel from RetroMessa, featuri...
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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
Your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news and interviews with industry veterans. New episodes released every Friday!
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20 of 518 episodes546: The Making of The Suffering: Horror, Morality and Games That Remember – The Retro Hour EP546
Veteran game designer Richard Rouse III joins us to revisit his journey from Bungie’s early Macintosh games to Centipede 3D and The Sufferin...
545: Region Locked: The Untold Story of Australian Video Games – The Retro Hour EP545
Australia gave the world pioneering adventures, cult classics and global hits,but much of its gaming history has been left out of the story....
544: Amiga Just Revealed Its Future Plans - The Retro Hour EP544
This week, we’re coming to you from Amiga Kickstart in Derby, where we recorded a fascinating panel looking at what comes next for one of co...
543: Beats of Rage: From Fan Game to OpenBOR - The Retro Hour EP543
This week, we’re joined by Roel van Mastbergen of Senile Team to discover how a homemade MS-DOS tribute to Streets of Rage exploded to aroun...
542: Veronica Explains: Why Old Computers Were Better at Teaching Us – The Retro Hour EP542
This week, we’re joined by Veronica from the brilliant YouTube channel Veronica Explains for a journey through a lifetime of tinkering with...
541: Colin McRae, Batman & AstroBurn: From Games to Hollywood… and Back - The Retro Hour EP541
This week's guest is Haz Dulull whose career has taken him from creating FMV and cinematics for games like Colin McRae Rally and Battalion W...
540: Netflix DIDN’T Kill Blockbuster — Here’s What Really Happened - The Retro Hour EP540
This week, we’re joined by former Blockbuster franchisee Alan Payne, author of Built to Fail, for the inside story of the video & game renta...
539: OctaMED, Amigas and Dark 80s Music - The Retro Hour EP539
Synth musician, performer and self-described “bleakwave” artist Paulee Alex Bow joins us. We explore dark ’80s music and an love for the Com...
538: Commodore 64: The Birth of a Cultural Icon - The Retro Hour EP538
This week, we’re joined by legendary documentary makers Ant and Nic Caulfield, the team behind From Bedrooms to Billions, The Amiga Years an...
537: The Man Who Made Lemmings Work On Atari ST: DMA Design's Brian Watson - The Retro Hour EP537
This week we’re joined by Brian Watson, formerly of DMA Design who worked on the Atari ST version of Lemmings 1 and 2, and porting it to the...
536: The 7th Guest: The Inside Story with Trilobyte's Rob Landeros - The Retro Hour EP536
Rob Landeros joins us to share the incredible story behind Trilobyte and The 7th Guest, from discovering the Amiga and working at Cinemaware...
535: The Game That Took 37 Years to Finish: Ocean Software's Colin Porch - The Retro Hour EP535
This week we’re joined by veteran programmer Colin Porch, whose career took him through some of the biggest names in British gaming history,...
534: How Games Like Wipeout and Tony Hawk Changed the Music Industry - The Retro Hour EP534
This week we’re joined by video game music expert Matt Ombler, head of music and gaming partnerships at Laced, to explore the incredible wor...
533: cyber.cafe: The 90s TV Show That Exposed the Internet's Wild Side - The Retro Hour EP533
This week, we’re joined by Wingham Rowan, creator and host of the pioneering ’90s ITV show cyber.cafe . Long before YouTube, Twitch, Tinder...
532: Elite Systems: Inside the 80s Arcade Conversion Powerhouse - The Retro Hour EP532
This week, we’re joined by Elite Systems co-founder Steve Wilcox for a journey through one of the most important names in British gaming his...
531: Inside Psygnosis: WipEout, PlayStation and the Rave Generation - The Retro Hour EP531
Inside Psygnosis: WipEout, PlayStation and the Rave Generation - The Retro Hour EP531 This week we’re joined by former Psygnosis PR manager...
530: Inside Gargoyle Games: Stuart Cox on Light Force, Scooby-Doo and ThunderCats - The Retro Hour EP530
This week, we’re joined by Stuart Cox, artist at the legendary Midland studio Gargoyle Games, for a brilliant trip through the golden age of...
529: Nightdive, Stardock and the Business of Saving Classic Games: Larry Kuperman - The Retro Hour EP529
This week, we’re joined by Larry Kuperman, former VP of Business Development at Nightdive Studios, former Business Development Manager at Ga...
528: The Man Behind the Atari Jaguar: John Mathieson- The Retro Hour EP528
This week, we’re joined by John Mathieson, the hardware designer best known as the father of the Atari Jaguar. John takes us through an extr...