This Week in Retro

Neil and Dave love a bit of Ultima and there are two news stories related to that very series in this week's show. Can AI really be trusted to faithfully recreate classic video games for modern hardwa...

1 Mars 202559min

The hidden tale of the Game Wizard for the SNES leads us to reminisce about Romantic Robot's Multiface devices. More youngsters are looking to disconnect with offline gaming. Clever people are modding...

22 Feb 20251h 3min

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Top Gear have published their list of 50 top racers, do we agree? 40 years ago Lucasfilm Games gave us Rescue On Fractalus. Two we...

15 Feb 20251h 4min

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Did you know that the songs of the Beatles inspired a text adventure game? Looking at some of the worst games on the Amiga and how...

8 Feb 20251h

We are joined by MeanMachineDean this week! Putting Doom aside what are the best FPS games of the 1990s? It's bye bye Blu Ray (sort of). The launch of the Video Game History Foundation’s Digital Libra...

1 Feb 20251h 12min

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 The 3DO is coming to MiSTer. Could this be the last big system before we need large FPGAs? The National Communications Museum in M...

25 Jan 20251h 7min

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Amigathon 2025 is today! Help our friends raise money by playing old games: https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorD...

18 Jan 20251h 10min

For the first episode of 2025 we take a look at some of the BBC's Tomorrows World predictions from 30 years ago. What did they get right and wrong. We talk about how video game history can be differen...

11 Jan 202557min