The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

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552: GamesMaster: Golden Joysticks and ’90s TV with...

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2026/10/10

GamesMaster legend Dominik Diamond joins us for a brand-new conversation recorded live at PLAY Expo in Blackpool. From landing the presenting job and meeting Patrick Moore just once to backstage rivalries, celebrity guests and the infamous Dave Perry fallout, Dominik shares hilarious and candid stories from the show that defined gaming TV in the ’90s. Plus, audience questions, his return to stand-up and an honest look at the pressures of overnight fame.Contents:00:00 – The Week’s Retro News

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551: Streets of Rage: Inside the Music with Yuzo...

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2026/10/02

This week we’re joined by legendary composer Yuzo Koshiro, recorded live at Retromessa in Norway, for the story behind the iconic Streets of Rage soundtracks. From the club music that inspired those unforgettable beats to getting the most out of the Mega Drive, Yuzo shares how he helped shape the sound of Sega—and reveals his role designing moves and voicing characters in Streets of Rage 2! Plus, we talk Revenge of Shinobi, Sonic and his return to Mega Drive development with Earthion.Plus, Modern

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118:01

550: Warren Spector: The Stories Behind Deus Ex and...

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) ·

2026/09/25

This week, we’re joined by legendary game designer Warren Spector to explore the stories behind Ultima, Deus Ex and Epic Mickey. From the Dungeons & Dragons session that changed his life to John Romero’s offer to make his dream game, Warren shares how he championed player freedom, why Deus Ex almost became a Command & Conquer RPG, and what working with Mickey Mouse meant to him.Paul Drury's The Arcade book: https://lnk.ua/vLieP7PVAContents:00:00 – The Week’s Retro News Stories55:50 – Yuzo

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79:28

549: Yuzo Koshiro: From ActRaiser to Smash Bros.– The...

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) ·

2026/09/18

Recorded live at Retromessa in Norway, we sit down with legendary video game composer Yuzo Koshiro for part one of our conversation, exploring his Nintendo years. From his earliest piano lessons to the orchestral sounds of ActRaiser, the infectious grooves of Super Adventure Island and the worlds of Etrian Odyssey and Super Smash Bros., Yuzo shares the stories and influences behind his music. Plus, audience questions uncover his favourite games, the origins of his YK2 alias and a contribution to

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106:03

548: Before Photoshop: How SEGA’s Sonic Artwork Was...

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) ·

2026/09/11

How do you turn a handful of pixels into one of gaming’s most recognisable characters? Recorded live at RetroMessa 2026, Dan and Joe meet illustrator Duncan Gutteridge, whose hand-painted artwork helped define Sonic’s European image during SEGA’s 16-bit glory years. Duncan recalls reimagining Sonic 2, creating artwork for Sonic 3 and Knuckles, working with airbrushes, phones and fax machines, and enjoying a level of creative freedom that would be almost unthinkable today. He also reveals the fate

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113:16

547: British Gaming Legends: Stories From an Iconic...

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) ·

2026/09/04

It's Ravi's final episode of the podcast, we give him a good send off! Plus, we bring you our Best of British panel from RetroMessa, featuring Mike Dailly (DMA Design), Glen O'Connell (Psygnosis), Duncan Gutteridge (Sega UK) and Brian Watson (DMA Design) for a panel discussion about British gaming history, iconic games and the moments that helped shape an entire era.Contents:00:00 – The Week’s Retro News Stories1:05:50 – Best of BritishPlease visit our amazing sponsors and help to support the

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100:03

546: The Making of The Suffering: Horror, Morality...

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) ·

2026/08/28

Veteran game designer Richard Rouse III joins us to revisit his journey from Bungie’s early Macintosh games to Centipede 3D and The Suffering. He reveals how the horror classic found its prison setting, blended action with psychological storytelling, and remembered players’ moral choices, plus the stories behind its lost sequel and unmade movie.Contents:00:00 – The Week’s Retro News Stories39:42 – Richard Rouse III InterviewPlease visit our amazing sponsors and help to support the show:Bitmap Books

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105:38

545: Region Locked: The Untold Story of Australian...

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) ·

2026/08/21

Australia gave the world pioneering adventures, cult classics and global hits,but much of its gaming history has been left out of the story. This week, we're joined by Region Locked creative lead Michael Refalo and veteran game designer John Passfield-co-creator of Halloween Harry, Flight of the Amazon Queen and TY the Tasmanian Tiger, to explore bedroom coding, cassette-tape publishing, The Hobbit’s groundbreaking parser, Beam Software reverse-engineering the NES, the infamous Power Glove and the

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544: Amiga Just Revealed Its Future Plans - The Retro...

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) ·

2026/08/13

This week, we’re coming to you from Amiga Kickstart in Derby, where we recorded a fascinating panel looking at what comes next for one of computing’s most iconic names. With the long-running legal battle between Hyperion Entertainment and Cloanto finally at an end, the Amiga company took to the stage to discuss the future, its plans for the platform and what this new chapter could mean for the wider Amiga community. After years of courtroom wrangling and uncertainty, could this finally be the fresh

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543: Beats of Rage: From Fan Game to OpenBOR - The...

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) ·

2026/08/07

This week, we’re joined by Roel van Mastbergen of Senile Team to discover how a homemade MS-DOS tribute to Streets of Rage exploded to around a million players, crashed two servers and evolved into OpenBOR. Roel also reveals how the project led him into Dreamcast development, the fate of Age of the Beast and what’s next with Hypno Tiles.Senile Team: https://www.senileteam.com/Zoom Platform: https://www.zoom-platform.com/Contents:00:00 – The Week’s Retro News Stories45:17 - Beats of Rage

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542: Veronica Explains: Why Old Computers Were Better...

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) ·

2026/07/31

This week, we’re joined by Veronica from the brilliant YouTube channel Veronica Explains for a journey through a lifetime of tinkering with technology. Veronica shares stories of growing up in a family of programmers, exploring the early Internet through Prodigy and GeoCities, inheriting a 50-year-old COBOL codebase, her love of the Commodore 64 and Amiga, the lost art of the computer manual, and why older computers often encouraged us to understand, repair and truly own the technology we

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541: Colin McRae, Batman & AstroBurn: From Games to...

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) ·

2026/07/24

This week's guest is Haz Dulull whose career has taken him from creating FMV and cinematics for games like Colin McRae Rally and Battalion Wars, to working on blockbuster films including The Dark Knight, Prince of Persia and The Chronicles of Narnia. He's returned to his gaming roots with his colourful new SNES style shoot ‘em up, AstroBurn. Astroburn: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3810660/Astro_Burn/Built to Fail: The Inside Story of Blockbuster's Inevitable Bust:

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540: Netflix DIDN’T Kill Blockbuster — Here’s What...

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2026/07/17

This week, we’re joined by former Blockbuster franchisee Alan Payne, author of Built to Fail, for the inside story of the video & game rental giant’s spectacular collapse. Alan reveals why Netflix and streaming weren’t really to blame, how Blockbuster disastrously mishandled the switch from VHS to DVD, and why decisions such as scrapping late fees helped destroy the business from within. We also revisit the glory days of Friday-night rentals, Blockbuster’s video game business, Game Rush, the

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539: OctaMED, Amigas and Dark 80s Music - The Retro...

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) ·

2026/07/10

Synth musician, performer and self-described “bleakwave” artist Paulee Alex Bow joins us. We explore dark ’80s music and an love for the Commodore Amiga. Paulee reveals how OctaMED became the heart of a modern hardware-synth setup, why original machines can't be replaced, and what it takes to perform live with two Amigas in tow. We also hear about the Arcade Dreams soundtrack, haunted synths, Amiga MIDI, car-boot retro discoveries and why the Amiga community can sometimes feel almost

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114:51

538: Commodore 64: The Birth of a Cultural Icon -...

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) ·

2026/07/03

This week, we’re joined by legendary documentary makers Ant and Nic Caulfield, the team behind From Bedrooms to Billions, The Amiga Years and The Rubber-Keyed Wonder, as they return to celebrate one of the most iconic home computers ever made: the Commodore 64. Commodore 64: The Birth of a Cultural Icon on Kickstarter: https://lnk.ua/TRJ0cmHX1Contents:00:00 – The Week’s Retro News Stories56:23 – Commodore 64 Documentary InterviewPlease visit our amazing sponsors and help to support the show:Bitmap

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537: The Man Who Made Lemmings Work On Atari ST: DMA...

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) ·

2026/06/26

This week we’re joined by Brian Watson, formerly of DMA Design who worked on the Atari ST version of Lemmings 1 and 2, and porting it to the Atari Lynx. He later worked for Iguana Entertainment, Acclaim, working on Turok, N64 audio drivers and clever memory systems used across dozens of games. Brian shares brilliant stories from the trenches of 16-bit and 32-bit development, the challenge of making ambitious games work on limited hardware, and what it was really like behind the scenes at DMA and

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110:07

536: The 7th Guest: The Inside Story with Trilobyte's...

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) ·

2026/06/18

Rob Landeros joins us to share the incredible story behind Trilobyte and The 7th Guest, from discovering the Amiga and working at Cinemaware and Virgin, to teaming up with Graeme Devine and helping ignite the CD-ROM revolution with one of the most iconic FMV horror puzzlers of the 1990s. The 7th Guest Remake: https://the7thguestremake.com/Diddly on Kickstarter: https://lnk.ua/9XeHAcgxMContents:00:00 – The Week’s Retro News Stories47:15 - The 7th Guest InterviewPlease visit our amazing sponsors and

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535: The Game That Took 37 Years to Finish: Ocean...

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) ·

2026/06/11

This week we’re joined by veteran programmer Colin Porch, whose career took him through some of the biggest names in British gaming history, including Imagine, Software Projects and Ocean Software. Colin shares stories of Imagine’s dramatic collapse, converting arcade hits like Dragon’s Lair, Operation Wolf and Gryzor to home micros, the infamous lost Parasol Stars C64 port, and the technical wizardry behind bringing Head Over Heels to the Commodore 64, Atari ST and Amiga. Plus, we hear the

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534: How Games Like Wipeout and Tony Hawk Changed the...

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) ·

2026/06/05

This week we’re joined by video game music expert Matt Ombler, head of music and gaming partnerships at Laced, to explore the incredible world of game soundtracks, from Sonic on the Mega Drive and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater shaping a generation’s music taste, to Wipeout, Halo 2, retro sound chips, vinyl reissues and the growing importance of preserving game music history. Matt also shares stories from his journalism days interviewing legends like Nile Rodgers and Nobuo Uematsu, plus how he helped bring

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533: cyber.cafe: The 90s TV Show That Exposed the...

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast) ·

2026/05/29

This week, we’re joined by Wingham Rowan, creator and host of the pioneering ’90s ITV show cyber.cafe. Long before YouTube, Twitch, Tinder and social media, cyber.cafe explored the strange, funny and sometimes shocking human stories emerging from the early internet, from chat room romances and online communities to JenniCam, alien abductees, moral panics, bizarre websites and late-night web culture. Wingham shares brilliant behind-the-scenes stories from making one of the UK’s first TV shows to

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