The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

We get the fascinating history of the infamous Sierra from the man who is continuing their legacy, Shawn Mills of Infamous Quests.

'Go 8 Bit' brought retro games back to mainstream television and the stage, we're joined by its creator Steve McNeil for a great nostalgic chat this week

In this episode we discuss everything from brutal Infocom text adventures, retro gaming TV and the story of "The Dark Room", the world's only live-action adventure videogame with the wonderful John Robertson.

We're joined by Bruce Everiss to get the inside story on the legendary rise and fall of Imagine Software and Codemasters in their heyday.

Our guest this week has been in Star Wars movies, and he's a retro computing and gaming geek, we catch up with the brilliant Christian Simpson aka Perifractic's Retro Recipes.

We get the inside story on the original Football Manager games with legendary developer Kevin Toms!

A laid back retro chat covering everything from importing systems from Japan, Sinclair C5s and Sharp X68000s with Neil from Retro Man Cave, Andrew Dalton and Gary Pinkett.

We get the history of the classic ToeJam & Earl with co-creator Greg Johnson and find out about their 2019 comeback.

We're joined by legendary Westwood Studios composer Frank Klepacki, chatting about Command & Conquer, Dune, Star Wars Empire at War and more!

We talk to the founder of Mean Machines and Sega legend Tony Takoushi - plus WIN a copy of his new game.

Read show notes here: https://theretrohour.com/2019/01/25/history-of-firebird-software-ep157/

We find out about life manning the phones as an early 90's Sega Game Counsellor with Tim Gadler.

We get the inside story on CU Amiga magazine with former editor Tony Horgan, from the glory days to the closure of the magazine. Tony Horgan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheTonyHorgan

How the original Xbox took on the might of the Playstation 2 with Microsoft's former Chief Xbox Officer, Robbie Bach.

It's our third annual Christmas super quiz! Paul Drury from Retro Gamer magazine and Oliver Wilmot return to try to keep their title as reigning quiz champions. How will their fare against Ravi and Joe from The Retro Hour Podcast in a battle of video game and computer knowledge?! Merry Christmas to all our loyal listeners, see you in 2019.