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A weekly roundup of the hottest stories from the world of retro gaming and computing, voted on by you, the listener! Hosted by Neil Thomas from RMC and John Shawler from Amigos Retro Gaming.
If you find joy in making or fixing, you're already a kindred spirit with our return guest Lee of the More Fun Making It and More Fun Fixing...

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Welcome Andrew Borman, Director of Digital Preservation at The Strong...
Bring big imaginations and big keyboards as we tackle the latest Retro eXo creation, a breakthrough in modern game development for the origi...
🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Indie game dev legend Jeff Vogel of spiderwebsoftware.com joins us for...
It's taken too long to get prominent retro podcaster and archivist @KaySavetz (ANTIC, Eaten By a Grue, Internet Archive, and more) on the sh...
🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 How did we allow this to happen?! Not the guest appearance by @adrians...
Our most popular guest returns as @ReesRambles joins us to discuss the latest news surrounding the Myrient mega-archive, the legacy of opera...
🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 The legacy of Lucasfilm Games looms large this week. We take on the co...
All the fun you can squeeze into 64k or less as we look at the international sensation that was Jet Set Willy and the explosion of open-worl...

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 "Keep a copy of what's important to you." "Punish your children one da...
DJ Slope of @slopesgameroom is our guest for this week's dive into the history of shoot 'em up games of all shapes and sizes. In other depar...
🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 We're gonna need a bigger byte to hold future episodes of This Week in...
After years of uncertainty, the vast and historically significant Atari archives held by the late Curt Vendel have a new home at The Strong...
🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 We celebrate the launch of PicoIDE, the all-in-one replacement for ATA...

Australia's rich history of technological innovation gets the spotlight this week as Chris explores The State of Electronics, a channel dedi...

It's a bonanza of stand-up arcade feature stories this week. Will Basic Fun! give Arcade1Up a powerful next stage? We also remember the life...

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 In this milestone 250th episode of This Week in Retro, we celebrate th...

As per tradition, here are some of the unseen bits and out-takes from This Week In Retro in 2025. Audio only listeners, you might get more f...

In the last regular show of the year we are joined by Neil and Aaron for a bumper episode. The latest goings-on at Commodore including Commo...

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 An 80s film and game icon has a statue at long last, RAM prices are sk...

We are joined by Allan (aka Happy Coding ZX) to talk about joysticks, haunted tech and does retrobrighting damage your beloved computers and...

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 The SEGA Master System ( and Windows ) have reached 40 years old. Micr...

We are very pleased to be joined by eXo this week, creator of eXoDOS and more. He is here to talk about the launch of eXoWin9x which is a gr...

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Dave is very excited because there have been a number of new games for...

The Sound Blaster name is back with something a bit different, does it sound like a good idea? The Commodore C16 gets a new version of Green...

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 With Jason away this week we needed help and who answered the call...N...

This week in retro we discuss the return of a console we thought was dead an buried, the Intellivision. With two arcade focussed stories we...

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 How do you feel about making DOS games simpler to play? Did 1983s WarG...

A hour or so of retro computing chat including: How dare you diss the Amstrad CPC! Roger Dean talks about his work with Psygnosis. Do you re...

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 The Raspberry Pi 500 returns upgraded! Jordan Mechner posts about the...

We are joined by Andy from the Big Car and Little Car YouTube channels today to talk about Dungeons and Dragons, inverted flight controls an...

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Jason has his report and some footage from Vintage Computer Festival M...

Our first guests for quite some time are Taylor and Amy from The Taylor and Amy show. They join us to talk about BASIC, a teeny tiny replace...

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 First the floppy and now the optical, can disks survive? The Texas Ins...

The Vectrex mini and TheA1200 are two new pieces of gaming hardware that are on their way. We talk about the Commodore 128, did it make it o...

The Settlers II is finally coming to the Amiga but you'll need a beefy setup to get it running. The Spectrum has a fantastic looking platfor...

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 America Online is hanging up on its dial-up service. Hexen and Heretic...

Yes, its another show with Commodore in the title but things are happening! The original D&D megadungeon has returned...again! Do you rememb...

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Put on your party hats and prepare the party poppers for it is time to...

Issue Three of the Spectrum Next computer smashed its Kickstarter goal in mere hours, and brings some important upgrades!Just how naughty ar...

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Find out which one of us has ordered the new Commodore 64 Ultimate! Ho...

Hello and welcome to this week's look at retro computing and gaming goodness. eXoIF is a new release that contains almost 900 interactive fi...

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Back with a longer than usual show this week but we have three great t...

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 ChatGPT makes excuses as to why an Atari 2600 beat it at chess. Wing C...

Join us as we talk about the Atari ST as it turns 40 years old! The Dolphin emulator gets an update and GOG puts its cards on the table rega...

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Delve into the making of Myst and its sequels. Check out the amazing w...

Back to the 80s where everyone had a Filofax and wore power suits! Remember how some coders wanted to be rock-stars? How can you spot a fake...

We are joined by James (WhatHoSnorkers) to discuss a new video that shows how DMA Design reinvented the puzzle game, to remember the compute...

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Have you ever played an online game and found no other users? Have you...

Thank you for joining us once again for another look at some up to date news for out of date tech. Jason joins us and has selected a story a...