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:
Brazil is like an alternative universe where new Sega consoles and games are still on sale and popular. We catch up with the CEO of the company responsible for it, Stefano Arnaldo of Tectoy
We get the untold story of the dawn of cyberculture and on-line gaming on the greatest computer network you've never heard of, PLATO with Brian Dear.
We get the inside story on the legendary Rare with an all-star panel - David Doak (GoldenEye), Chris Marlow & Shawn Pile(Conkers Bad Fur Day, David Wise (Donkey Kong Country series) and Kevin Bayliss (Battle Toads/Killer Instinct)
We get the development history of Rare's most adult game, 'Conker's Bad Fur Day' with Chris Marlow and Shawn Pile.
We get some amazing inside stories from Gremlin, Disney Interactive and EA with Chris Shrigley, who worked on classics like Bounder, Masters of the Universe and Batman Returns on the Mega CD.
The Commodore Vic 20 was the first home computer to sell 1 million units and shaped a generation, we get the inside story on its development and history with former Vic Commando team member Neil Harris
We get the amazing history and the lowdown on the current Vectrex scene with Chris Romero a.k.a. "Vectrexer".
We're joined by Bill Winters and Anthony Becker, the team behind popular Amiga-based Youtube channel The Guru Meditation to talk about rare hardware collecting, user groups and meeting their heroes.
We get the story of classic games like Cool Spot, Jungle Book, Aladdin and Abe's Oddysee with Virgin Games legend William Anderson.
James 'Purple' Hampton worked at Lucas Film Games in their golden era on games like Monkey Island, before developing for the Atari Jaguar on titles like Alien VS Predator.
Our BIGGEST episode ever with 3 guests - Jake Habgood gives us the history of Hogs of War, Matthew Smith at the Jet Set Willy 35th anniversary and a breakthrough in retrobriting with Christian Simpson!
We're joined by Brian Provinciano the man behind Retro City Rampage and Shakedown: Hawaii - a parody of retro games and '80s and '90s pop culture, as well as Grand Theft Auto.
We talk to the man behind the hugely successful book (and soon to be TV series) 'Console Wars'. How Sega took on Nintendo, their internal fights and chatting games with Seth Rogen.
Metal Jesus is a long-haired rocker dude who runs a popular YouTube channel dedicated to Retro Gaming. He joins us for a nostalgic chat about collectings, rare pickups and his time working at Sierra.
Sex, Drugs and Video Games - We get the story of the 90's at Virgin when the video games industry was truly rock n' roll with Tim Chaney, plus his time at U.S Gold and Commodore UK.