The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

Shaun McClure gives us the inside story on what it was REALLY like - sleeping under desks when salaries couldn't be paid, destroying priceless computers and working on huge games for Atari, Ocean, Gremlin, Alternative Software and more.

We catch up with Stuart Ashen (Ashens) and Elliot Coll from The Retro Future to reminisce about the best and worst of handheld consoles.

Home arcade ports were always the holy grail back in the day, we reminisce about the times when Pac-Man, Mortal Kombat and other coin-op classics invaded the living room with author David L Craddock.

Fired by Sega, lied to by Atari, we talk to the man who launched the Sega Mega Drive, tried to turnaround Atari's fortunes and started the handheld gaming market, the amazing Michael Katz is this week's guest.

We get the story behind classics like Rampage, Xenophobe, General Chaos, Spy Hunter and more with the incredible Brian Colin, CEO of Game Refuge Inc.

Spurned by Apple, ending in tragedy, General Magic invented the smartphone in 1994! We get the story of the company who saw the future too soon.

Electric Playground has been covering the hottest new games and systems since 1995, we talk to the show creator Vic Lucas about the highs and lows of the last 25 years of gaming.

We talk to the man who brought Doom to the SNES, Dragon's Lair to the Amiga and Playstation games to the PC and Dreamcast with Bleem, Randy Linden.

In 1999 Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater shook the world when it sold 9 million copies and changed the skateboarding scene forever. We get the inside story with main producer, Ralph D'Amato.

We reminisce and debate about classic games and systems, was the MegaDrive better than the SNES, has retro peaked, was Rise of The Robots really that bad? And more, with the guys from the amazing Arcade Attack podcast.

Steve Jarratt has worked on some of the biggest video games magazines ever, we get his memories of Edge, Official Playstation Magazine, Amiga Format, ZZap!64 and more.

We get some nostalgic happy gaming memories with Johnny Millennium from the Happy Console Gamer on Youtube.

The Commodore 64 and Rob Hubbard will be appearing on The One Show on BBC 1, we catch up with Chris Abott from 8-Bit Symphony and we answer YOUR retro questions!

The inside story on classics like Lotus Turbo Challenge, Supercars, Kikstart 2 with Shaun Southern, and we talk Metal Slug history with Bitmap Books' Sam Dyer.

Mastertronic ruled the UK's budget game scene in the 1980s, we get the inside story on their spectacular rise and fall with former employee Anthony Guter.