This Week in Retro
Get up to speed with the hottest news in the world of retro gaming and computing. Submit your own stories and upvote your favourites at r/ThisWeekinRetro. Hosted by Chris from 005 AGIMA, Jason from The Retro Adventurers and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles.
A relaxed and light hearted chat on the subjects that YOU choose on our Reddit page. With the occasional special guest and a Community Question Of The Week where you get to have your say and share stories.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 58 minutes
- Episodes
- 235
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
SID Tunes Better Than Arcade? - This Week In Retro 234
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First the floppy and now the optical, can disks survive? The Texas Instruments TI99, did it ever stand a chance? Can arcade Comma…
Setting TheA1200 Record Straight & Win 95 Is 30 - This Week In Retro 233
The Vectrex mini and TheA1200 are two new pieces of gaming hardware that are on their way. We talk about the Commodore 128, did it make it onto your radar back in the day? 30 years ago Microsoft made…
The Best of Tech’s Worst & New Retro Games - This Week In Retro 232
The Settlers II is finally coming to the Amiga but you'll need a beefy setup to get it running. The Spectrum has a fantastic looking platformer called Cubix which appears to get the Spectrum doing th…
AOL Hangs Up - This Week In Retro 231
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America Online is hanging up on its dial-up service. Hexen and Heretic are remastered. We talk retro retail stores big and small. P…
Three-Commodore Salute! - This Week In Retro 230
Yes, its another show with Commodore in the title but things are happening! The original D&D megadungeon has returned...again! Do you remember the creation of the computer phone? Let the BBC remind y…
The Commodore Amiga Turns 40 - This Week In Retro 229
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Put on your party hats and prepare the party poppers for it is time to celebrate the Amiga's 40th Anniversary. We take a look at so…
The Next Spectrum Next - This Week In Retro 228
Issue Three of the Spectrum Next computer smashed its Kickstarter goal in mere hours, and brings some important upgrades!Just how naughty are pre-loaded consoles and can they get you into trouble? Se…
Keeping Up With A Commodore! - This Week In Retro 227
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Find out which one of us has ordered the new Commodore 64 Ultimate! How did people feel about technology changing the job market in…
Retro Upgrade Updates and Remembering Psygnosis - This Week In Retro 226
Hello and welcome to this week's look at retro computing and gaming goodness. eXoIF is a new release that contains almost 900 interactive fiction titles, Jason is pretty excited about it. Dave takes …
Who Owns Commodore & Outrunning The Stig - This Week In Retro 225
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Back with a longer than usual show this week but we have three great topics to get into. Can Commodore really be saved? The last "f…
Check and Mate! - This Week In Retro 224
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ChatGPT makes excuses as to why an Atari 2600 beat it at chess. Wing Commander gets a neat update to stop it getting ahead of itsel…
Happy Birthday ATARI ST - This Week In Retro 223
Join us as we talk about the Atari ST as it turns 40 years old! The Dolphin emulator gets an update and GOG puts its cards on the table regarding game preservation.
All this and a cat attack plus you…
Star Wars: X-Wing Gets An Upgrade - This Week In Retro 222
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Delve into the making of Myst and its sequels. Check out the amazing work on revamping X-Wing. Are you fan of PDAs? It is time for …
Hot Tubs & Car Phones - This Week In Retro 221
Back to the 80s where everyone had a Filofax and wore power suits! Remember how some coders wanted to be rock-stars? How can you spot a fake coding book and a certain pinball game has made a return. …
Half A Century Of Type-Ins - This Week In Retro 220
We are joined by James (WhatHoSnorkers) to discuss a new video that shows how DMA Design reinvented the puzzle game, to remember the computerised Raleigh Vektar, and how it seems that 50 years have n…
Video Games Aren’t Real, They Can’t Hurt You! - This Week In Retro 219
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Have you ever played an online game and found no other users? Have you ever wanted to get to know Sinistar better? Have you no clue…
Was 2000 The Best Year For Gaming? - This Week In Retro 218
Thank you for joining us once again for another look at some up to date news for out of date tech. Jason joins us and has selected a story about distraction free computing using DOS. Chris returns an…
Outrun On The Big Telly - This Week In Retro 217
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Outrun is getting a movie, an Australian arcade is closing its doors and can you get Windows 3.1 to run on a Game Boy?
They starte…
Super Fast Win 98 Install - This Week In Retro 216
Bill Gates predicted the online future way back in 1993, how much did he get right? Was the first 3D game made in 1992? And what if you could install Windows 98 is just a couple of minutes? Clint fro…
16-Bit Demakes & OS Updates - This Week In Retro 215
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Jason from The Retro Adventurers joins us again today and tells us all about three new OS updates. Neil has a couple of demakes for…