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Mads and Chris return to game club action and take a deep dive into the Sensible Software classic, Wizball. They also catch up on what they've been up to and make a special announcement about the fut…

The RA gang are joined by some very special guests to engage in mortal combat once more in the first ever 8 Bit Wars Christmas Edition. Who will be the glorious victor?

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Dean Swain talk's to arcade collector Alex Crowley about the opening of the Arcade Archive Musuem and what we can expect to play when we visit.

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In this episode Chris and Mads don their football jerseys and try to save the world cup from alien interference in Soccer Kid for the Amiga.

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Dean, Chris & Steve get nostalgic once again about the 1990's and this time look at 90's TV and reveal what they got up to on their nights out. Plus, Steve ventures to Blackpool for Play Expo 2022!

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In an bizzare experiment that goes horribly wrong, Matt & Steve swap voices with Mads & Chris whilst trying to pick some Commodore 64 games for the November Games Club shortlist.

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In this episode our resident RPG experts, Mads and Chris, give the chant on the Black Isle 1999 classic, Planescape: Torment.

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In this episode Chris and Mads are back to try to find some gems amongst an ocean of stones as they pick a shortlist of Amiga platformers for our game club game for October 2022.

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Steve Erickson, Chris Worthington and Dean Swain get nostalgic for the decade that gave us virtual pets, pagers and the Sony PlayStation. It's the 1990's!

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In this episode we learn the sad truth about Mads’ lacklustre gaming skills as we dive into PlayStation 2 “classic” Devil May Cry.

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Mads and Chris talk to Dean Mortlock and Paul Monaghan of Sega Powered and Daniel Crocker of WAVE Game Studios about the latest issue of Sega Powered magazine. They also announce the shortlist for th…

Chris Worthington talk's to former RA host Paul Monaghan about FTL's Atari ST classic Dungeon Master as part of the RA Game's Club plus Dean Swain chat's to Chris Wilkins about the forthcoming Crash …

Chris and Mads shock the world with their lack of love and knowledge about 1 vs 1 fighting games. They are willing to learn though, so here's the shortlist of fighting games for the June 2022 game cl…

Dean, Steve, Mads, Chris & Matt (yes, the entire team) look back at some of their favourite games from the Manchester based software giant of the 1980's.

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Why Hate Boris? Which Hover Bike? No, it's got to be Welsh Hairy Bloke! Join Dean, Chris, and Mads as they explore the wonderful ZX Spectrum puzzle game that is W*H*B.

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We finish ‘em! Or, we try to at the very least. Hear how far Dean, Steve and Mads got in their quest to finish some childhood favourites. Matt also pops in to review the A500 Mini.

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Mads and Chris pull rank and cover the seminal 1993 LucasArts adventure, Day of the Tentacle. Featuring contributions from the Retro Asylum Discord community, this long awaited look at one of the all…

Dean joins Mads & Chris for the April Game Club 2022 shortlist in which the guys look and choose isometric games on the ZX Spectrum.

Dougie Do! for the ZX Spectrum Next can be found at https://robgm…

A yank and a Dane sits down to record an episode of the U.K.'s number 1 retro gaming show. Patreon supporter Mark and RA host Mads dress up as a princess and a raccoon to get through Pocky & Rocky on…

Mads and Chris are joined by their co-hosts on the Playthrough podcast, Jim Middleton and Andy Gilmour to present a special episode on The Secret of Monkey Island.

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