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 chat to veteran video game artist and co-founder of Art and Magic, Franck Sauer who worked on classics like Agony for Psygnosis, Unreal for Ubi Soft and Outcase for Infogrames.
We're joined by Nicola & Anthony Caulfield, the makers of the From Bedrooms To Billions trilogy to chat about their love for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and their new movie which aims to be the definitive documentary on the system
Some of our favourite guests return to help us celebrate the BIG episode 300 with a Retro Roundtable! Plus, we hear from YOU.
We chat to veteran games designer Robb Rinard to get the story of Motocross Madness 1 and 2, ATV Offroad Fury and classics like The Hive and Air Havoc Controller.
We're joined by the legendary Dino Dini to hear the highs and lows of his amazing career working on football classics like Kick Off, Kick Off 2, Goal and Player Manager.
We chat to veteran games developer Joe Bonar to get some stories of games like Mortal Kombat II, Alien 3, Golden Axe and lots more from inside Acclaim and Probe Software.
We get nostalgic with our special guest Pat Contri AKA Pat The Nes Punk, for a chat about his amazing Youtube channel, books, and the changing retro gaming scene.
We're joined by the man behind the incredible Terrible Fire project, Stephen Leary to talk about his amazing open source Amiga accelerator cards, cloning the MSX and his new project to restore classic arcade machines.
Dimitris from Modern Vintage Gamer joins us to talk about his game development background, updating classics like Shantae and the new 2021 remaster of Quake!
Jeff Johannigman had his first game published by Atari, before moving to Electronic Arts, co-founded the Game Developers' Conference, and worked as a programmer, designer, and producer on games for Microprose, Origin, Broderbund and more!
We're joined by author Steven Kent who has covered the games industry since the early 90s, and had a front-row seat at some of the biggest console launches and companies. He's recently followed up his 2001 book The Ultimate History of Video Games.
We're joined by RPG legend Neal Hallford to get the inside story on the making of classics like Planet's Edge, Betrayal at Krondor and Dungeon Siege
We chat to the amazing Tracy Fullerton about her work on MTV's webRIOT, the first interactive TV show to sync online and TV together, developing early online games for MSN and much more.
We chat to the wonderful Gary Antcliffe for an in-depth chat about his time at Core Design working on the classic adventure game, Universe. Plus, his early days in the British 8-bit games industry.
We're joined by the host of Explaining Computers, Chris Barnatt for a fantastically nostalgic chat about 8-bit computers, forgotten operating systems, obsolete storage mediums and we examine what retro will be like in the future.