This Week in Retro
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Podcast and Youtube Show! Hosted by Chris from 005 AGIMA, Jason from The Retro Adventurers and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles.
Podcast and Youtube Show! Hosted by Chris from 005 AGIMA, Jason from The Retro Adventurers and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles.
Amstrad turn at Sonic: Dave covers that and other new games for the CPC. youtu.be/twOymB1LHOc
We get into heavy metal computing with minicomputers and mainframes, and a roundup of space shooters of the early 1980s. All this plus your preferred creative outlets, on This Week in Retro episode 244!
We get into heavy metal computing with minicomputers and mainframes, and a roundup of space shooters of the early 1980s. All this plus your preferred creative outlets, on This Week in Retro episode 244!
November 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Amstrad turn at Sonic: Dave covers that and other new games for the CPC. youtu.be/twOymB1LHOc
We get into heavy metal computing with minicomputers and mainframes, and a roundup of space shooters of the early 1980s. All this plus your preferred creative outlets, on This Week in Retro episode 244!
We get into heavy metal computing with minicomputers and mainframes, and a roundup of space shooters of the early 1980s. All this plus your preferred creative outlets, on This Week in Retro episode 244!
It's the kind of scrolling that–well, surely you know the kind. No, it's not that kind of scrolling. Nor that one neither.
Look, someone please just tell us what kind of scrolling it is and enjoy spaceflight, bulky computing, Amstrad CPC ports and more, when This Week in Retro 244 arrives Saturday!
Look, someone please just tell us what kind of scrolling it is and enjoy spaceflight, bulky computing, Amstrad CPC ports and more, when This Week in Retro 244 arrives Saturday!
November 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
It's the kind of scrolling that–well, surely you know the kind. No, it's not that kind of scrolling. Nor that one neither.
Look, someone please just tell us what kind of scrolling it is and enjoy spaceflight, bulky computing, Amstrad CPC ports and more, when This Week in Retro 244 arrives Saturday!
Look, someone please just tell us what kind of scrolling it is and enjoy spaceflight, bulky computing, Amstrad CPC ports and more, when This Week in Retro 244 arrives Saturday!
Sound Blaster is back, this time with magnets.
youtu.be/i8BrBLmCrVQ
Is a MOD tracker story an Amiga story? And the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 get a new look thanks to a brand-new version of Green Beret for the former. Plus your pack-in selections for THEA1200 and more on This Week in Retro episode 243!
youtu.be/i8BrBLmCrVQ
Is a MOD tracker story an Amiga story? And the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 get a new look thanks to a brand-new version of Green Beret for the former. Plus your pack-in selections for THEA1200 and more on This Week in Retro episode 243!
November 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Sound Blaster is back, this time with magnets.
youtu.be/i8BrBLmCrVQ
Is a MOD tracker story an Amiga story? And the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 get a new look thanks to a brand-new version of Green Beret for the former. Plus your pack-in selections for THEA1200 and more on This Week in Retro episode 243!
youtu.be/i8BrBLmCrVQ
Is a MOD tracker story an Amiga story? And the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 get a new look thanks to a brand-new version of Green Beret for the former. Plus your pack-in selections for THEA1200 and more on This Week in Retro episode 243!
"Address in the show notes!"
Will a classic reverse-psychology strategy reap major rewards for one This Week in Retro host? Lots of audio hardware and format discussion, a fun scroller for a misunderstood machine, and your picks for THEA1200 greatness, coming this Saturday!
Will a classic reverse-psychology strategy reap major rewards for one This Week in Retro host? Lots of audio hardware and format discussion, a fun scroller for a misunderstood machine, and your picks for THEA1200 greatness, coming this Saturday!
November 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"Address in the show notes!"
Will a classic reverse-psychology strategy reap major rewards for one This Week in Retro host? Lots of audio hardware and format discussion, a fun scroller for a misunderstood machine, and your picks for THEA1200 greatness, coming this Saturday!
Will a classic reverse-psychology strategy reap major rewards for one This Week in Retro host? Lots of audio hardware and format discussion, a fun scroller for a misunderstood machine, and your picks for THEA1200 greatness, coming this Saturday!
Paging @visitthecave.bsky.social! youtu.be/6rm-IXPll98
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!
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!
November 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Paging @visitthecave.bsky.social! youtu.be/6rm-IXPll98
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!
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!
October 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
...just what did Special Guest @visitthecave.bsky.social Neil Thomas say to earn this? Find out Saturday in This Week in Retro Episode 242!
This 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.
260 Weeks Ago in Retro for October 2025 is now live for subscribers at patreon.com/thisweekinretro.
October 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This 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.
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!
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!
October 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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!
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.
October 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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.
Was Dave wrong about DOS gaming and has DOSBox Pure cured him?
youtu.be/VO_SZPhuCIU
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!
youtu.be/VO_SZPhuCIU
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!
October 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Was Dave wrong about DOS gaming and has DOSBox Pure cured him?
youtu.be/VO_SZPhuCIU
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!
youtu.be/VO_SZPhuCIU
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!
CPE 1704 TKS
CPE 1704 TKS
October 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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!
CPE 1704 TKS
CPE 1704 TKS
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!
Plus the wedgetop computer preferences submitted by you, the viewers, to the TWiR subreddit!
October 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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!
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!
October 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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!
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?
youtu.be/eOPYzQ0we9g
Plus your preferred control schemes on This Week in Retro 238, available now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
youtu.be/eOPYzQ0we9g
Plus your preferred control schemes on This Week in Retro 238, available now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
October 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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?
youtu.be/eOPYzQ0we9g
Plus your preferred control schemes on This Week in Retro 238, available now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
youtu.be/eOPYzQ0we9g
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!
"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!
October 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
"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!
"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!
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.
youtu.be/DEXYuq_hZeE
Plus your votes on the best places in video game worlds, now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
youtu.be/DEXYuq_hZeE
Plus your votes on the best places in video game worlds, now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
September 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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.
youtu.be/DEXYuq_hZeE
Plus your votes on the best places in video game worlds, now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
youtu.be/DEXYuq_hZeE
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!
All this, and more, and your answers to the Community Question of the Week, coming this Saturday!
September 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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!
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!
youtu.be/T8DPa5_j9Cg
youtu.be/T8DPa5_j9Cg
September 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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!
youtu.be/T8DPa5_j9Cg
youtu.be/T8DPa5_j9Cg
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!
September 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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!
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!
Plus KIM-1, model rockets, your arcade theme songs, and a new Question of the Week!
September 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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!
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!
@tayloramyshow.bsky.social
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!
@tayloramyshow.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"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!
@tayloramyshow.bsky.social
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!
@tayloramyshow.bsky.social
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!
Plus your Windows 95 release memories and the newest Community Question of the Week, in This Week in Retro episode 234!
September 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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!
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!
All this and more, of course, including your Windows 95 release day memories on This Week In Retro 234, available Saturday!
September 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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!
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!
Plus the tech inventions you're happiest without in Episode 233!
August 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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!
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!
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!
August 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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!
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!