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thisweekinretro.com Podcast and Youtube Show! Hosted by Chris from 005 AGIMA, Jason from The Retro Adventurers and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles.
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So many hot topics, This Week in Retro called in special guest Neil Thomas. Look ahead to THEA1200, back at ZSNES + climb inside the computer on screen and film. Plus, the best immersive experiences, and more, on This Week in Retro episode 242!
...just what did Special Guest @visitthecave.bsky.social Neil Thomas say to earn this? Find out Saturday in This Week in Retro Episode 242!
30.10.2025 13:05 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 2This month on our Patreon: Chris, Dave, and Jason present renewed up-to-date news for out-of-date tech, because the existing once-up-to-date news about that out-of-date tech is now itself out-of-date.
260 Weeks Ago in Retro for October 2025 is now live for subscribers at patreon.com/thisweekinretro.
A zombie console awakes! Strange experiments in life after death for this Halloween episode. youtu.be/hY6ARaYCPus
Atari reanimates Intellivision's corpse, and we test saying "Sega" repeatedly to cause oversized arcade cabinets to appear in a mirror. Plus your whiz kid memories on This Week in Retro!
Sega fans super-served: two hallmark concepts get the feature story treatment, along with the stealth candidate for best video game pitchman. Plus your iconic 1980s whiz kid memories and Amiga Format (!) news coming up in Episode 241 of This Week in Retro, Saturday on YouTube and podcast feeds.
23.10.2025 18:38 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Was Dave wrong about DOS gaming and has DOSBox Pure cured him?
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Chris plans a fleet of computer museums, and Jason works hard to avoid the obvious chess reference in WarGames coverage. All this, and more, and your submissions for the best-ever free pack-ins on this week's show!
It's a long way to Western Australia. What had to travel all the way from Canada to Perth, and why, and can Chris be trusted with it?! All this including the end of DOS gatekeeping and retro museum dreams coming up in Episode 240 this Saturday!
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This week it's the high cost of (inflation-adjusted) 1980s computing, a spirited defense of the Amstrad CPC, and a look at legendary artist Roger Dean's video game work! youtu.be/gxzEHAm_Nz0
Plus the wedgetop computer preferences submitted by you, the viewers, to the TWiR subreddit!
Dave takes a break from Amstrad CPC defense to try out as a prog-pop vocalist. Also: the high cost of computing then-and-now and the celestial career of artist Roger Dean. All this, and your wedgetop picks, and more Saturday. Tell 90,125 of your closest friends: subscribe on YouTube or podcast now!
09.10.2025 17:28 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
If anyone missed the YouTuber panel at VCFMW, it's been posted online.
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Is the Rasperry Pi 500+ bringing wedgetops back? Did Jordan Mechner clear up Prince of Persia history on our subreddit? Is there such a thing as too much Infocom?
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Plus your preferred control schemes on This Week in Retro 238, available now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
"I'll take Computer Graphics for 1200."
"The answer: This technique was used to create compelling, lifelike games featuring both karate experts and scratch golfers."
This Week in Retro 238 features wedges, princes, and grues, plus your preferred controller layouts. Coming Saturday!
Hey @davevelociraptor.bsky.social (of @thisweekinretro.bsky.social fame), here's your chance to finally get into console gaming!
30.09.2025 10:59 — 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Welcome Andy from Big Car / Little Car for flight control anxiety, Baldur's Gate 2 at 25 and D&D video game history, and a questionable 1969 BBC documentary on the death of cash.
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Plus your votes on the best places in video game worlds, now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
Chris, Jason, and special guest Andy (of Little Car and Big Car on YouTube) discuss: some game franchises don't catch fire until the third installment. Does this happen in other forms of media?
All this, and more, and your answers to the Community Question of the Week, coming this Saturday!
What do Molyneux, Meier, Wright, and Carmack share with Barone, Persson, Fox, and Cherry? Is Elite the best of space gaming? Can we summarize the massive Vintage Computer Festival Midwest in 15 minutes?! Plus your retro trailblazing heroes in This Week in Retro 236, out now!
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Jason reports fresh off the weekend of Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 20, full of classic tech, This Week in Retro viewers, and distinctive hairstyles. All this and more including your nominations for the unsung heroes of retro, coming in episode 236 this Saturday!
18.09.2025 13:17 — 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
What a delightful surprise. My new blog, @stonetoolsblog.bsky.social, seems to mark a tipping point, earning a lengthy discussion of my full body of retro-related works in the latest @thisweekinretro.bsky.social
I am, apparently, "Someone you should know"🙇
#retrocomputing.
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Taylor and Amy, this week’s guests, plus a hydrating Jason!
14.09.2025 11:57 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
It's The Taylor and Amy Show featuring a couple of bald guys for Microsoft's open-source BASIC, data on microcassette, and "software deconstructionist" Christopher Drum. youtu.be/UHYscl1Ayqg
Plus KIM-1, model rockets, your arcade theme songs, and a new Question of the Week!
"Hey, Altair! Hey, IMSAI!"
It's The Taylor and Amy Show this week, Dave and Jason are just providing the backbeat of news and your Personal Theme Song views on Saturday's episode of This Week in Retro!
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Spinning media on the ropes, a re-evaluation of the Texas-sized loss leader the TI-99/4A became, and a novel use of a SID chip in a Commando coin-op machine. youtu.be/5aCa6BFo4NM
Plus your Windows 95 release memories and the newest Community Question of the Week, in This Week in Retro episode 234!
There are proper stories about the ends of eras in spinning media and a breakdown of Texas Instruments' costly 8-bit experiment, but there's also... this.
All this and more, of course, including your Windows 95 release day memories on This Week In Retro 234, available Saturday!
Don't call it a Maxi! Clarity about THEA1200 plus a new mini-Vectrex, a look back at the 30th anniversary of Microsoft going mainstream with Windows 95, and the would-be IBM/Apple killer the Commodore 128. youtu.be/-GArvyKnb1o
Plus the tech inventions you're happiest without in Episode 233!
Jason wants customized abuse. Dave wants him to lie. Will they ever see eye-to-eye?
All this and more, including your submissions of the tech inventions you're glad we no longer have to use, in Saturday's episode of This Week in Retro!
Out now! We try to say nice things about so-called terrible inventions, explore the origins and future of the sports management sim, and talk new games for Amiga and ZX Spectrum! All this plus your retro destinations in Episode 232. youtu.be/ntZKGTdD7Ss
23.08.2025 09:00 — 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1It's Spectrum Next Kickstarter roll call and--Chris had one job!
All this and more including Settlers II on Amiga, classic sports sims, and your preferred retro destinations from the Community Question of the Week in This Week in Retro 232, coming Saturday!
Come to grips with a world without America Online dialup. Remasters of Hexen and Heretic may help, or perhaps retail therapy at a local retro-minded shop. All this and more including your tabletop role-playing game preferences and an all-new Community Question of the Week! youtu.be/Tsq2IMAqKv0
16.08.2025 09:01 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Next month, thousands of modems will scream out all at once and then be silenced. But which classic computer screamed loudest?
All this and more including your tabletop role-playing game inclinations, coming this Saturday in This Week in Retro 231!
"We don't choose what is retro."
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