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 inside story on the classic Tex Murphy games, and the process of making early FMV titles with developer Aaron Conners.
We chat to former Sega Power editor Dean Mortlock, writer Paul Monaghan and Amiga Addict's Ian Griffiths about their new retro magazines and why we'll soon see an Amiga mag back in WHSmith!
We chat to author David L Craddock who is behind the most comprehensive history of the legendary Mortal Kombat games. We hear some incredible behind-the-scenes details of what made those early games so special.
We chat to competitive gaming legend Chris Tang who was a winner in both Nintendo's World Championship and Sega's "Rock the Rock" tournaments, then worked for Capcom and Tengen as a designer!
We chat to the wonderful Lani Minella who is the voice of some of our favourite video games including Duke Nukem, Mortal Kombat, Sonic Adventure, Unreal Tournament and lots more!
We catch up with Psygnosis legend Ian Grieve to hear some more incredible inside stories from the company that brought us Lemmings, Wipeout, Colony Wars and lots more.
We're joined by industry veteran Rod Cousens to hear some amazing stories from his time as vice president of Activision, the rise and fall of Acclaim Entertainment and the early days of the British micro-computer games scene.
We get some amazing inside SEGA stories with the former man-at-the-top, CEO of SEGA Europe and Virgin Games, Nick Alexander.
We get some amazing stories from Peter Clarke who was an in-house musician at Ocean Software in the 80s, working on classics like Bubble Bobble and Head Over Heels alongside Martin Galway. He's about to release a new SID remix album featuring other C64 legends.
Our first guest of 2022 is the wonderful Sean from Action Retro. He makes services that let your retro computers surf the modern Internet, and we reminisce about classic Mac gaming.
Join us for a BUMPER look back at the best retro gaming news stories of 2021 and some of our favourite industry veterans who have joined us on the podcast this year!
It's our annual retro gaming Christmas super quiz! Listen as Paul Drury from Retro Gamer, quiz extraordinaire Oliver Wilmot, Neil from RMC and Mark from Mark Fixes Stuff challenge Ravi and Joe to a battle of nostalgic wits.
Jan Beta runs a fantastic Youtube channel dedicated to retro computer and console retorations and repairs, we get some essential tips from him on keeping your retro systems in top condition!
We go behind the scenes at Sega during the troubled 1990s with former Sega of America Producer Mark Subotnick, with some never-before-told stories of the misteps that lead to them exiting the console business.
We look back at the forgotten history of gaming on the classic Apple Macintosh, the huge franchises that started on the platform and how it changed the industry, with award winning author Richard Moss.