The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)
Summary: Your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news and interviews with industry veterans. New episodes released every Friday!
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Podcasts:
Peter Scott ported some of the best games to the BBC Micro including SimCity, and worked on hit TV shows like GamesMaster and The Big Breakfast alongside Zig & Zag!
We chat to Marcus Lindblom who brought Mother 2 to the western audience as Earthbound, and get some stories about his time at Nintendo during the glory days of the SNES.
We talk to the legendary Chris Crawford about his roots in Mainframe gaming, his time at Atari and founding the Computer Game Developers Conference (GDC).
We catch up with Dominik Diamond about his new GamesMaster book and is he involved in the TV reboot? Plus, cloning the C64 and more with Robin Harbron from the wonderful 8-Bit Show And Tell.
We chat to developer Robin Jubber about developing games on the Vectrex in 2021, and his past work on games like Malice, Rat Attack and more!
We get some amazing stories from the glory days of Ocean Software with Bill Harbison who worked on classics like Robocop, Batman The Movie, Chase H.Q and Jurassic Park.
We chat to the amazing Pete Cannon about producing Jungle and Hip-Hop music on the Amiga today, the tools he uses and his history.
We get some amazing stories of life at Bullfrog and working on classics like PowerMonger, Populous, Syndicate and Magic Carpet with Alex Trowers.
We're joined by Nick Pelling who worked on classics like The X-Files, Ghostbusters II, Duke Nukem 3D and the BBC Micro classic, Frak!
We get the inside story on the legendary Maxis Software and games like SimCity, SimCity 2000, SimAnt and the original Sims with Justin McCormick.
We catch up with award-winning game designer Brenda Romero about her time at Sir-tech and the legendary Wizardry series!
We get the inside story on the legendary Turrican games and their return in 2021 with Factor 5 founder Julian Eggebrecht.
We catch up with the amazing Oliver Twins to get the story on Wonderful Dizzy, is it the LAST EVER Dizzy game?!
We chat to drum and bass legend DJ Aphrodite who helped shape the genre and had top 40 hits, all produced on the Commodore Amiga. We hear about his set up and why he still uses the Amiga in his productions today.
We chat to Norman Caruso from The Gaming Historian, a fantastic Youtube documentary series all about the history of video games.
