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
Chiptune Heaven - This Week In Retro 214
A chiptunes documentary, a top ten list of influential games that seems a bit dodgy and ten seems to be the idea age to want to go back to. We are joined by Matt from TechMadeEasy.
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Atari Shock - This Week In Retro 213
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A bit of a thing broke out about the different way the US sees gaming history. There may be a new contender for Japan's first ever …
4 Tales Of Retro Woe - This Week In Retro 212
This week we are joined by Jason Compton from The Retro Adventurers to talk about four retro projects that may have hit hard times, how the loss of one online account could cost you dearly and about …
Retro Tech Up In Smoke - This Week In Retro 211
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Is your Super Nintendo (SNES) speeding up? (yes, it is.) Windows 3 can now use modern graphics cards thanks to a new driver. What i…
The Next Episode - This Week In Retro 210
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Did you miss out on the Spectrum Next? You might get another chance! Want to see some prototype and unreleased consoles? Do you mis…
He's Back! - This Week In Retro 209
We are joined by Lee from More Fun Making It! Retro gaming and computing chat about such things as how some publishers have got things a bit wrong recently and about how Terminator 2 is getting a bra…
Y2K With A Vengeance - This Week In Retro 208
Neil and Dave love a bit of Ultima and there are two news stories related to that very series in this week's show. Can AI really be trusted to faithfully recreate classic video games for modern hardw…
Romantic Robots - This Week In Retro 207
The hidden tale of the Game Wizard for the SNES leads us to reminisce about Romantic Robot's Multiface devices. More youngsters are looking to disconnect with offline gaming. Clever people are moddin…
Top Gear’s Top Retro Racers - This Week In Retro 206
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Top Gear have published their list of 50 top racers, do we agree? 40 years ago Lucasfilm Games gave us Rescue On Fractalus. Two wee…
The Beatles Had a Text Adventure Game!? - This Week In Retro 205
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Did you know that the songs of the Beatles inspired a text adventure game? Looking at some of the worst games on the Amiga and how …
Forget About Doom - This Week In Retro 204
We are joined by MeanMachineDean this week! Putting Doom aside what are the best FPS games of the 1990s? It's bye bye Blu Ray (sort of). The launch of the Video Game History Foundation’s Digital Libr…
Hard Core MiSTer - This Week In Retro 203
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The 3DO is coming to MiSTer. Could this be the last big system before we need large FPGAs? The National Communications Museum in Me…
New FPGA Consoles - This Week In Retro 202
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Amigathon 2025 is today! Help our friends raise money by playing old games: https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDr…
How Big Is Too Big? (CRT TVs) - This Week In Retro 201
For the first episode of 2025 we take a look at some of the BBC's Tomorrows World predictions from 30 years ago. What did they get right and wrong. We talk about how video game history can be differe…
The Super Sega Saga - This Week In Retro 200
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Episode 200 is a bumper show with the return of occasional host Chris and special guest Aaron from Amigos Retro Gaming. Some of thi…
Atari STE Goes Faster - This Week In Retro 199
A clever coder has created what is surely the fastest, smoothest and most impressive racer for the Atari STE. Indiana Jones has a new game out but lets not forget the old ones. Watching people play g…
The Best Gaming Computer Of All Time - This Week In Retro 198
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What does your retro computing area look like? What is the best gaming computer of all time? How did the BBC of 1995 go about infor…
Desktop PCs Are Back! - This Week In Retro 197
The beige PC is back! What started as a joke has become reality. A Windows developer has shared some secrets on how the Win 95 installer did things behind the scenes. An article about the fall of Gam…
Half Life 2 - 20th Anniversary - This Week In Retro 196
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As Half Life 2 celebrates its 20th anniversary with a special edition we also talk about the remastered Warcraft 1,2 and 3 offering…
Look At All Those New Mega Drive Games - This Week In Retro 195
Just how do you keep track of all the new SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis games? Join us as we take a look at a website that aims to do just that. We are joined by Allan aka Happy Coding ZX who tells us al…