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:
We get the history of the legendary BBC Micro, the Acorn Archimedes and the chip that changed the world, the ARM processor with Steve Furber.
We get some retro game bargain hunting tips, gaming store memories and stories of meeting gaming industry legends with Gamer Girl TheGebs24.
We're joined by EA founder Trip Hawkins to get the inside story on Electronic Arts, working with Steve Jobs at Apple and how he tried to re-invent console gaming with the 3DO.
Ahead of the launch of his new book 'Fact Hunt', we get more fascinating, funny and downright bizarre facts about classic video games from Guru Larry Bundy Jr!
We get the inside story on the music of Tomb Raider 1-3 and bringing into the live arena with Core Design legend Nathan McCree.
We chat all things retro with Gadget Show legend Jason Bradbury, his love of the Sinclair C5, collecting rare systems and why the 80s was the best decade ever!
We get the story of classics like Flight of the Amazon Queen, Halloween Harry and TY The Tasmanian Tiger. Plus, getting spurned by EA and working with Apogee with Aussie gaming legend John Passfield.
We chat about unreleased consoles like the Sega Saturn 2, the Dreamcast Pace Box and the Action 52 with author and Youtuber, Kieren Hawken.
It's our annual retro gaming Christmas super quiz! Paul Drury from Retro Gamer magazine and Oliver Wilmot challenge Dan, Ravi, Joe and Rare legend David Wise to a battle of nostalgic wits. Merry Christmas to all our amazing listeners, see you in 2020.
We look back on an amazing year in retro, with Charlie Brooker, Retro Man Cave, Shaun Southern and lots more of our favourite guests of 2019.
We get the inside story on launching the Commodore 64 and Vic 20, how Commodore inadvertently created the NES and working with Jack Tramiel from Commodore legend Michael Tomczyk.
We're joined by Jez and Tim from the legendary Utah Saints about making music on the Atari ST, launching the Philips CD-i and winning a GamesMaster golden joystick.
We're joined by the amazing Charlie Brooker to get the inside story on Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, co-founding CeX and the time he got a major PC magazine pulled from newsagent shelves!
We're joined by Playstation legend Shahid Ahmad about his 30 year plus history, working on games like Chimera for Firebird, porting Jet Set Willy to the C64 and why the Amiga is best machine ever!
We get the history of Tomb Raider 1 and 2 from Heather Gibson, one of the major level designers, artists and the original voice of Lara Croft!