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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

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Your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news and interviews with industry veterans.

New episodes released every Friday!

536 - 533: cyber.cafe: The 90s TV Show That Exposed the Internet's Wild Side - The Retro Hour EP533

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Your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news and interviews with industry veterans.

New episodes released every Friday!

Episodes

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533: cyber.cafe: The 90s TV Show That Exposed the Internet's Wild Side - The Retro Hour EP533

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Fri, 29 May 2026

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532: Elite Systems: Inside the 80s Arcade Conversion Powerhouse - The Retro Hour EP532

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Fri, 22 May 2026

534-

531: Inside Psygnosis: WipEout, PlayStation and the Rave Generation - The Retro Hour EP531

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Fri, 15 May 2026

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530: Inside Gargoyle Games: Stuart Cox on Light Force, Scooby-Doo and ThunderCats - The Retro Hour EP530

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Fri, 08 May 2026

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529: Nightdive, Stardock and the Business of Saving Classic Games: Larry Kuperman - The Retro Hour EP529

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Fri, 01 May 2026

531-

528: The Man Behind the Atari Jaguar: John Mathieson- The Retro Hour EP528

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Thu, 23 Apr 2026

530-

527: The Untold Story of the Amstrad Scene PD Libraries, Magazines and More - The Retro Hour EP527

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Thu, 16 Apr 2026

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526: Galloping Ghost: The Story of America’s Biggest Arcade - The Retro Hour EP526

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Fri, 10 Apr 2026

528-

525: 9/9/99: What Really Happened on Dreamcast Launch Day - The Retro Hour EP525

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Fri, 03 Apr 2026

527-

524: Confessions of a Pirate BBS SysOp: The Arcadia Story - The Retro Hour EP524

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Fri, 27 Mar 2026

526-

523: What It Was REALLY Like Working at Sony PlayStation in the 90s - The Retro Hour EP523

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Fri, 20 Mar 2026

525-

522: The Untold Story of TDK Mediactive: Nintendo, Star Wars & More - The Retro Hour EP522

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Fri, 13 Mar 2026

524-

521: The Story Behind the Vectrex Mini - The Retro Hour EP521

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Fri, 06 Mar 2026

523-

520: The Graphics of Core Design - The Retro Hour EP520

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Fri, 27 Feb 2026

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519: Three Red Lights: The Wild Story of IGN’s Xbox 360 Podcast - The Retro Hour EP519

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Fri, 20 Feb 2026

521-

518: GameShark: The Rise, Fall & Return with Todd Hayes – The Retro Hour EP518

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Fri, 13 Feb 2026

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517: From Zzap!64 to Thalamus: How a C64 Legend Came Back - The Retro Hour EP517

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Fri, 06 Feb 2026

519-

516: Celebrating the Best (and Worst) Video Game Controllers - The Retro Hour EP516

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Fri, 30 Jan 2026

518-

515: "We Felt Like Part of the Beatles" - Rock Band with Sean Baptiste - The Retro Hour EP515

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Fri, 23 Jan 2026

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514: Fatboy Slim and the Atari ST: How a 1980s Computer Made Chart History – The Retro Hour Podcast EP514

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Fri, 16 Jan 2026

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513: Terminator 2D No Fate: The Inside Story – The Retro Hour Podcast EP513

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Fri, 09 Jan 2026

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512: The Top 5 Tech & Gaming Innovations of 1994-2024 - The Retro Hour 512

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Mon, 05 Jan 2026

514-

511: Retro Gaming Christmas Quiz 2025 – The Retro Hour EP511

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Mon, 22 Dec 2025

513-

510: “We Hid Gabe Newell in Our Game!” – Powerhoof - Making Retro Point & Click Adventures – The Retro Hour Podcast EP510

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Fri, 12 Dec 2025

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509: “This Shouldn’t Be Possible on an Amiga 500!” – H0ffman - Demoscene and Game Ports – The Retro Hour Podcast EP509

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Fri, 05 Dec 2025

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508: "The 3DO M2 demo was mind-blowing... we were dying to ship it!" – Michael Devine (Former 3DO VP of Sales) – The Retro Hour Podcast EP508

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Fri, 28 Nov 2025

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507: "A Single MP3 is Bigger Than the NES Library!" – eXo on Emulation, BBS Days & Saving DOS Classics – The Retro Hour Podcast EP507

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Fri, 21 Nov 2025

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506: “Atari’s Actually Doing Things RIGHT?!” – Ctrl-Alt-Rees - The Retro Hour Podcast EP506

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Fri, 14 Nov 2025

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505: “I Presented the Amiga Chipset to Atari… and Everyone Freaked Out!” - Atari's Matt Householder - The Retro Hour Podcast EP505

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Fri, 07 Nov 2025

507-

504: “I’d Never Even Seen a Computer Until I Worked at Sierra!” – Mark Crowe on Space Quest - The Retro Hour Podcast EP504

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Fri, 31 Oct 2025

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503: “The Demo Scene Taught Us to Do the Impossible” – Erik Simon of Thalion - The Retro Hour EP503

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Fri, 24 Oct 2025

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502: “From Modems to Headlines” – Jason Compton on the Amiga Report Revolution - The Retro Hour EP502

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Thu, 16 Oct 2025

504-

501: “Michael Jackson Just Said ‘Okay, I’ll Do It All’” – SEGA's Roger Hector Tells the Inside Story of Sonic 3

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Fri, 10 Oct 2025

503-

500: "No One Had Storyboarded Games Before - So I Did!" - Atari Legend Roger Hector - The Retro Hour EP500

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Fri, 03 Oct 2025

502-

499: "Nintendo Made Us Cut the Bikini Girls from Duke Nukem 64" - Eurocom's Kev Harrison - The Retro Hour EP499

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Fri, 26 Sep 2025

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498: “Arcade Lessons, Nintendo Secrets, and Omega 6” – Takaya Imamura & Junji Seki - The Retro Hour EP498

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Fri, 19 Sep 2025

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497: “We Wanted Ocarina’s Opposite - That’s Why Majora’s Mask Got So Dark” - Takaya Imamura Interview - The Retro Hour EP497

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Fri, 12 Sep 2025

499-

496: "The SID Chip Was My First Love” - Jeroen Tel: Maniacs of Noise - The Retro Hour EP496

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Fri, 05 Sep 2025

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495: PS1 Demo Discs, Bedroom Coders and FMV Revival - Indie Games That Changed The World - The Retro Hour EP495

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Thu, 28 Aug 2025

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494: “Sonic R’s Soundtrack Has a Life of Its Own” - Richard Jacques, The Sound of 90s SEGA - The Retro Hour EP494

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Thu, 21 Aug 2025

496-

493: “Flash Games Should Never Have Died” – Alex Johansson, Experimental Game Maker - The Retro Hour EP493

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Thu, 14 Aug 2025

495-

492: “My Teacher Said I Wasn’t That Good” – The Story of Worms with Andy Davidson - The Retro Hour EP492

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Fri, 08 Aug 2025

494-

491: Croc Was Meant to Be Yoshi - Then It All Changed! - Matt Porter, Argonaut Programmer - The Retro Hour EP491

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Fri, 01 Aug 2025

493-

490: "I Only Found Out My Game Was in a Magazine Years Later" Rob Smith, Retro Inventor - The Retro Hour EP490

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Fri, 25 Jul 2025

492-

489: “Don’t Press OK – It Will Destroy Your PC!”: QA Testing at Virgin with Dave Isherwood - The Retro Hour EP489

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Fri, 18 Jul 2025

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488: "My Spectrum Caught Fire on Boxing Day!" - RetroBytes - The Retro Hour EP488

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Fri, 11 Jul 2025

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487: “We Cold-Called Nintendo After a Few Ciders” The Story of Enigma Variations - The Retro Hour EP487

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Thu, 03 Jul 2025

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486: He Cracked Games at 14, Then Made Game Genie and Rock n’ Roll Racing - The Retro Hour EP486

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Fri, 27 Jun 2025

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485: Psygnosis to PSN: Phil Gaskell on Shaping Sony’s Early Playstation Era - The Retro Hour EP485

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Fri, 20 Jun 2025

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484: The Man Who Tried To Save the Amiga: Petro Tyschtschenko - The Retro Hour EP484

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Fri, 13 Jun 2025

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