The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

Live from Retromessa in Norway

Plus, Amiga Bill joins us for the news!

The Best of British featuring DMA Design, Psygnosis and Sega UK

We chat with veteran game designer Richard Rouse III

Australia’s forgotten gaming pioneers finally get their story told

Amiga's announcements from Kickstart in Derby

The story of the legendary Beats of Rage

We’re joined by Veronica from the brilliant YouTube channel Veronica Explains

Haz Dulull: From Pixels to Hollywood

The Inside Story of Blockbuster's Inevitable Bust

Paulee Alex Bow makes bleakwave with OctaMED, Amigas and retro synths.

We catch up with documentary makers Ant and Nic Caulfield

Inside DMA Design with Brian Watson

The story of The 7th Guest

The story of Head Over Heels 2: Return To Blacktooth

Plus, this week's biggest retro gaming stories.

Inside stories from the 90s Internet with Wingham Rowan

With Elite Systems co-founder Steve Wilcox

With former PR manager Glen O’Connell

Inside Gargoyle Games, one of Britain’s most inventive 8-bit studios

The former Nightdive Studios legend joins us

Tales of the Konix Multisystem, Atari Jaguar, Nuon and more!

As we celebrate the Amstrad CPC's anniversary

Doc Mack and Craig Bass talk Galloping Ghost and Ghostlord.

Inside the store behind Dreamcast launch day.

The story of the 90s biggest Amiga pirate BBS

Alex Sulman’s journey from Spectrum kid to AAA designer

With former CEO Vincent Bitetti

We chat with David Oghia, the man behind the upcoming Vectrex Mini

We chat with Core Design animator Billy Allison

The story of IGN's legendary Three Red Lights Podcast

We get the story of the legendary GameShark

We catch up with Andy Robert of the legendary Thalamus Software

Inside the history of video game controllers with author Christian Wenk

We go inside the world of Rock Band with Sean Baptiste

We're joined by Norman Cook AKA Fatboy Slim

The making of the amazing Terminator 2D: No Fate

We look back on 30 years of tech innovations

The toughest retro gaming quiz ever?!

Powerhoof’s David Lloyd joins us to talk their retro inspired point-and-click adventures

We catch up with legendary demo-scener and game porting wizard, h0ffman!

We're joined by Michael Devine, former VP of Sales at The 3DO Company

We chat with emulation legend, eXo

We catch up with the awesome cntrl-alt-rees

We chat with Atari legend Matt Householder

The story of the legendary Space Quest with Sierra legend Mark Crowe

We chat with Erik Simon, co-founder of the legendary Thalion Software

Jason Compton gives us the story of Amiga Report magazine

We chat with former Sega Technical Institute Director Roger Hector

We celebrate epsidoe 500 with an Atari legend!

We go inside the world of British game studio Eurocom

We go inside the world of Omega 6

We welcome Nintendo legend Takaya Imamura

We catch up with legendary C64 composer Jeroen Tel

We celebrate the Indie retro gaming scene

We chat to legendary video game music composer, Richard Jacques

This week we are joined by award-winning experimental designer, educator and game maker Alex Johansson of ALYO Games.

We chat with Andy Davidson, the creator of the legendary game Worms.

We get the story of the classic Croc: Legend of the Gobbos.

We chat with Rob Smith: the mad‑scientist of the retro scene, game dev, Youtuber and the man behind the awesome Retro Directory.

This week, we go behind the scenes of ’90s game testing

This week, we’re joined by John from the YouTube channel RetroBytes - a creator who dives into the obscure corners of computing history

We chat to Darren Melbourne and Mark Greenshields to hear the story of Enigma Variations.

SNES dev Allen Anderson shares tales of hacking, Rock n’ Roll Racing, Game Genie, and the lost Saturn game Propaganda.

We hear some amazing stories from Psygnosis, the early days of the Playstation and chaos at Gizmondo!

We chat with former Amiga Technologies president Petro Tyschtschenko

We chat with Cos Lazouras, a true veteran with over three decades in the games industry.

We chat to the lead designer of Medal of Honor

We're joined by Tony Warriner and Stoo Cambridge to hear about their amazing new collaboration

We hear Stieg Hedlund’s epic journey through Comix Zone, The Ooze, and Diablo

We chat with game designer and author Stu Maine

We’re joined by Tobias Kopka—aka Melkor of Haujobb—as we explore the importance of the demo scene.

We’re joined by legendary game developer American McGee

Celebrating 40 years of the Commodore Amiga with the original team

From 3DO to Unreal Tournament with Neil Haldar

This week, we catch up with Richard Moss and welcome first-time guest Connor O’Keane, the creative minds behind TerrorBytes.

We’re joined by YouTuber Kari Lawler, who’s breathing new life into vintage systems

We chat to the guys from Badger Punch Games

We chat with co-creator of The Elder Scrolls, VJ Lakshman

The GOG Preservation Program makes games live forever

In part two of our epic interview with Kelly Sumner, we move beyond Commodore and into his time at GameTek and Take-Two Interactive.

In the first part of our epic two part interview, we sit down with Kelly Sumner, former Managing Director of Commodore UK

We catch up with legendary games journalist Julian 'Jaz' Rignall

We chat to Harvey Smith, the legendary designer behind Deus Ex, System Shock, and Area 51

A nostalgic chat with Youtuber, Rose Tinted Spectrum

Paul Carruthers reveals how he brought Mortal Kombat to the Mega Drive—solo!

Eugene Sandulenko of ScummVM joins us to explore preserving gaming history, tackling challenges, and breathing new life into retro classics

Jez San OBE shares the stories behind Star Fox, Croc, and the SuperFX chip

As we take an extended break for Christmas, we're treating everyone to a FREE bonus episode of our Patron's only podcast, The Retro Hour After Hours.

It's our favourite episode of the year, we let our hair down and find out who will be crowned this year's Retro Hour Christmas Super Quiz champions!

Join us as we look back on an amazing year in Retro!

We catch up with video game music legend Allister Brimble

Inside the cult classic with creator Adrian Stephens

We go inside the world of Amiga multimedia

We get the story of classics like Chuck Rock and Rick Dangerous 2 with former Core Design coder Chris Long!

Kevin Kilstrom gives us the story of the FPS classic, Blood

Chris Blok of Blast Galaxy Amsterdam shares the secrets behind Europe’s largest arcade collection and the revival of retro gaming!

We get the inside story of the 'browser wars' with former Netscape manager Tara Hernandez

We get the inside story on the classic football platformer, Soccer Kid