This Week in Retro
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News From Kay To Zee - This Week In Retro 262
It's taken too long to get prominent retro podcaster and archivist @KaySavetz (ANTIC, Eaten By a Grue, Internet Archive, and more) on the show! On this bonus-sized episode Kay joins Dave and Jason as we take a deeper look at 1990s nostalgia
Plug In All The Joysticks - This Week In Retro 261
🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 How did we allow this to happen?! Not the guest appearance by @adriansdigitalbasement , but rather the proliferation of competing controller standards which has finally b
New Old Games - This Week In Retro 260
Our most popular guest returns as @ReesRambles joins us to discuss the latest news surrounding the Myrient mega-archive, the legacy of operating system pioneer Digital Research, and some long-overdue game ports including one from the Sincla
Retro Certifications and Turbo Scooter - This Week In Retro 259
🛠 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 controversial conclusions surrounding the global "Adventure Game Aptitude Test," which challenged game
Epic Adventures In 64K - This Week in Retro 258
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-world adventure gaming in 1984. There's even a fully-realised Quake-style FPS available for modern PCs t
Remember The CD-i? - This Week In Retro 257
🛠 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 day." With these bullet points (provided by special guest @RonsCompVids ) in mind, we take a critical
The History Of Shoot 'Em Ups - This Week In Retro 256
DJ Slope of @slopesgameroom (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UC455p7ts9lh8IWi5zuf_8tQ) is our guest for this week's dive into the history of shoot 'em up games of all shapes and sizes. In other departments we examine the claim that 1996
The Last 8-Bit Episode - This Week In Retro 255
🛠 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 Retro, but the end of the 8-bit era leads off with an exploration of the innovative SCUMM adventure
Preserving Atari’s Legacy - This Week In Retro 254
After years of uncertainty, the vast and historically significant Atari archives held by the late Curt Vendel have a new home at The Strong National Museum of Play. We hear from Atari chroniclers Kay Savetz and Martin Goldberg about the sig
PicoIDE Has Arrived! - This Week In Retro 253
🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 We celebrate the launch of PicoIDE, the all-in-one replacement for ATAPI CD-ROM and IDE hard drives by welcoming creator Ian Scott (polpo) to the show! Ian personally gui
Australia’s Computing History - This Week In Retro 252
Australia's rich history of technological innovation gets the spotlight this week as Chris explores The State of Electronics, a channel dedicated to computing Down Under. Jason looks through the history of Leader Board golf and a comprehens
Long Live Home Arcade Gaming! - This Week In Retro 251
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 and career of Sega legend David Rosen and look at the latest in miniature cabinets from My Arcade i
Still a Racing Show - This Week In Retro 250
🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 In this milestone 250th episode of This Week in Retro, we celebrate that the more things change, the more they stay the same. A revival of Geoff Crammond's Stunt Car Race
2025 Unseen Bits - This Week In Retro
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 from this by heading over to the video version on YouTube! Thanks for watching, your support continue
Commodores Under the Christmas Tree - This Week In Retro 249
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 Commodore 64 Ultimates under the tree and reciprocal trademark challenges, a collection of things to do o
RAM Prices Skyrocketing (In the 1990s) - This Week In Retro 248
🛠 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 sky high and not for the first time and the BBC took a look at how CGI was used in the film Tron. 00:0
Let’s Talk About Joysticks - This Week In Retro 247
We are joined by Allan (aka Happy Coding ZX) to talk about joysticks, haunted tech and does retrobrighting damage your beloved computers and consoles? Visit FVResearch.com for all things FujiNet! Emulate devices such as disk drives, printer
SEGA Master System Hits 40 - This Week In Retro 246
🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 The SEGA Master System ( and Windows ) have reached 40 years old. Microsoft has made Zork open source. We remember the work of Rebecca Heineman. 00:00 - Show Opening 01:3
eXoWin9x Is Here - This Week In Retro 245
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 growing collection of Win 9x games that have been cleverly packaged to run on modern systems. You can
New CPC Games - Heavy Metal Computing - 1980s Space Shooters - This Week In Retro 244
🛠 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 Amstrad CPC recently. Jason has been watching a very large and heavy hard drive spinning up. Ch
A Blast From The Past - This Week In Retro 243
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 Beret and did you enjoy MODtober? Pixel Addict. I never can get enough. Pixel Addict. Never can giv
Get Ready For THEA1200 - This Week In Retro 242
🛠 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...Neil! The THEA1200 has been announced, an interview with the creator of a 1997 SNES emulator is reall
A Zombie Console Awakes - This Week In Retro 241
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 feel old as Space Harrier turns 40 and we remember the fantastic ways that the arcade would try to i
Were We Wrong About DOS Gaming? - This Week In Retro 240
🛠 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 WarGames represent the tech of the day correctly? Are you tired of having to go to a retro museum? What
The High Cost Of Computing - This Week In Retro 239
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 really think computers were cheaper in the 8-bit era? It would be just wonderful if you could head ove
The Pi500+ Looks Yummy - This Week In Retro 238
🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 The Raspberry Pi 500 returns upgraded! Jordan Mechner posts about the many Prince Of Persia ports. All of Infocom all in one place. All of this plus more retro computing
Which Way Is Up? - This Week In Retro 237
We are joined by Andy from the Big Car and Little Car YouTube channels today to talk about Dungeons and Dragons, inverted flight controls and how the BBC predicted that computer banking would spell the end for cash. Check out the latest iss
Massive Vintage Computer Festival - This Week In Retro 236
🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Jason has his report and some footage from Vintage Computer Festival Midwest (VCFMW). Chris is looking at the evolution of Elite and Dave asks a confusing question about
Commodore Datasette But Tiny - This Week In Retro 235
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 replacement for the Commodore Datasette and a chap called Christopher Drum who has recently started a blog
SID Tunes Better Than Arcade? - This Week In Retro 234
🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 First the floppy and now the optical, can disks survive? The Texas Instruments TI99, did it ever stand a chance? Can arcade Commando be improved with the Commodore 64 SID
