Retro Asylum - The UK’s No.1 Retro Gaming Podcast
268 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsThe UK's No.1 Retro Gaming Podcast. Curating gaming culture for future generations. 'World's Best Podcast' - NME Award 2016.
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Episodes
Episode 106 - Top 10 Comic Book Games
January 23, 2015 00:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBIn this latest episode Paul Monaghan and Phil Hockaday from the team don their capes and spandex to discuss what they feel are the best games based on comic books. As well as this Paul has a chat with Adam from Retro Collect who is hosting the second Video Games Market in Leeds on 7th Feb, more details can be found here http://events.retrocollect.com/ Check out our Official Retro Asylum YouTube channel for more retro discussion http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfCC9rIvCKoW3mdbuCsB7Ag Main Si...
Episode 105 - Retro Down Under
January 09, 2015 08:20 - 1 hour - 136 MBThis week Steve & Sam chat to Ozzie retro gamer and host of the Australian based Retro Domination podcast, "Daz". Meanwhile Swainy speaks to the masses in the all new segment "Ask Retro Asylum". Check out our Official Retro Asylum YouTube channel for more retro discussion http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfCC9rIvCKoW3mdbuCsB7Ag Main Site Sponsors http://www.playexpo.net For all the latest news on Play Blackpool in May 2015 keep an eye on their site. http://www.funstock.co.uk Loads of excelle...
Ep 103 - Happy 20th Birthday Playstation One/The return of the ZX Spectrum
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Ep 102 - 8 Bit Wars Special
November 28, 2014 11:09This week Dean Swain, Paul Davies, Steve Erickson and our special guest Chris O’Regan, host of Spong.com’s ‘Sausage Factory’ take sides and prepare for battle in our 8 Bit Wars Special. Paul tries to maintain order and decide which comes out top out of the Spectrum, C64 and Amstrad. Will there be 8 bit tears before bedtime?! Be sure to check out the Official Retro Asylum YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfCC9rIvCKoW3mdbuCsB7Ag Main Site Sponsors Play Expo- http://www.playexp...
Episode 101 - Play Expo Manchester 2014
November 13, 2014 21:15 - 1 hour - 92.1 MBIn this episode Paul Monaghan and Phil Hockaday sit down and discuss their weekend at Play Expo 2014 in Manchester that took place last month as well as general retro chat. Also we have a round table discussion that was recorded live from Play on the Saturday which features a well known voice... Check out our Official Retro Asylum YouTube channel for more retro discussion https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfCC9rIvCKoW3mdbuCsB7Ag November Sponsors: Play Expo - http://www.playexpo.net/ For all...
Ep 99- From Bedrooms to Billions revisited, talking the hind legs off a Donkey Kong and EGX chat.
October 16, 2014 23:08This week Paul Davies and Dean Swain get back our roots and have a big old retro gaming chat about anything and everything. This includes what to expect in our bumper 100th episode, the recent EGX event at Earl’s Court, their favourite retro multi-player games, gaming shop stories and why Dean can’t hack joystick wagglers! We grab the chance to sit down again with movie makers Anthony and Nicola Caulfield following the successful release of their movie ‘From Bedrooms to Billions’ an ode th...
Ep 98 - The History of Mastertronic
October 02, 2014 20:19 - 3 hours - 265 MBWelcome to episode 98 of the UK’s No.1 Retro Gaming Podcast. In this episode, Sam (mrsid), Steve (press play on tape) and Paul (the drisk) chat through the history of budget game kings, Mastertronic. In this third in the series or our company history podcasts, we chat about key games, milestones in the companies history and have some amazing listener contributions. If that wasn’t enough, we have even produced a History of Mastertronic PDF for you to download which includes loads more detail...
Ep 97.5 - Pickford Brothers Interview
September 25, 2014 22:00 - 1 hour - 133 MBPaul Driscoll AKA TheDrisk managed to interview legendary game developers John and Ste Pickford about their illustrious gaming history, going through such classics as Feud, Zub, Plok! to name but a few. I hope you enjoy the podcast and find it as interesting as I found it when doing it. Check Out John and Ste Plok! cartoon they are now doing, as a regular patreon of the cartoon and donating towards it, I can say it is a great cartoon and one people who love video games will really enjoy. To...
Episode 97 - Arcade Memories
September 18, 2014 08:23 - 2 hours - 201 MBIn this episode Paul Monaghan takes a walk down memory lane to discuss his arcade memories. Starting out in the 80's up to today, a lot of classic machines are discussed. Members of the team also discuss what they loved about the arcades. As well as this is an interview with Paul Bratt from Paul's Custom Cabs who makes an excellent range of custom made bartop arcade machines to order. Check out https://www.facebook.com/pauls.customcabs?fref=ts https://www.facebook.com/ABeadsCStart - for a g...
Ep 96: Rise & Fall of SNK
September 05, 2014 10:19 - 2 hours - 156 MBIn Episode 96 of the UK's Number 1 Retro Gaming Podcast, we welcome a new Co-Host Phil Hockaday aka @Last1up Phil joins Ally for a retro banter and pick up's before they move onto the show's main topic which is all about SNK and specifically the enigma of a console the Neo Geo AES. There is also a bonus interview by Paul M with the mega talented beads artist A Beads C Start. Make sure you listen to it at the end of the Podcast as A Beads C Start is running a charity competition where you co...
Ep 95 - Revival round up
August 21, 2014 21:10 - 2 hours - 174 MBWelcome to episode 95 of the UK's No.1 Retro Gaming Podcast show. This week we have a jam packed episode for you. MrSid talks about the C64 scene, Steve buys a sexy spectrum, Paul M talks cover disks and finally, we have the podcast that we recorded live from Revival earlier this month. Once again, a huge thanks to Chris and the Revival team for an awesome weekend. Any feedback, let us know on the Retro Asylum forums at www.retroasylum.com Useful show links http://www.lemon64.com http://www...
Episode 93 - The glossy magazine edition
July 25, 2014 05:14 - 1 hour - 135 MBToday we try a slightly new magazine style format with the podcast. Foggy talks about his love for the Mattell Intellivision , the console that lost out to the atari 2600 in the 1st console wars. Matt Denaris has a ramble about F1 and asks YOU to get involved ! Mrsid tells us about his Commodore 64 pickups , announces the donkey kong compition winner and reviews the game Hunter's Moon on the c64. Also music from thing on a spring on the c64 and the intellivision song from intellivision live...
Episode 92 - The History of Psygnosis
July 10, 2014 20:32 - 2 hours - 229 MBWelcome to episode 92 of the UK’s No.1 Retro Gaming Podcast. In this episode, Sam (mrsid), Steve (press play on tape) and Paul (the drisk) chat through the history of gaming powerhouse Psygnosis. This is the follow up to our History of Ocean podcast and similar to that, we chat about key games, milestones in the companies history and have some amazing listener contributions. If that wasn't enough, we have even produced a History of Psygnosis PDF for you to download which includes loads more...