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!

"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!

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!

...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This month on our Patreon: Chris, Dave, and Jason present renewed up-to-date news for out-of-date tech, because the existing once-up-to-date news about that out-of-date tech is now itself out-of-date. 260 Weeks Ago in Retro for October 2025 is now live for subscribers at patreon.com/thisweekinretro.

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.

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!

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

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!

If anyone missed the YouTuber panel at VCFMW, it's been posted online. youtu.be/VMSxlRK7lY0?...

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!

"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!

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!

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! 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!

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. youtu.be/UHYscl1Ayqg?...

Taylor and Amy, this week’s guests, plus a hydrating Jason!

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! @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!

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

It'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

Next 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." www.patreon.com/posts/136394...

Travel to faraway lands like Greyhawk and the late 90s in TWiR 230! youtu.be/sxDRtU2Lowg The future of computer phones, without Apple or Samsung! The original Dungeons and Dragons mega-module, and three claimants to Commodore glory including a look at the all-new theC64 Mini modern games bundle.

We discuss theC64 Mini Special Edition. Is it a good way to obtain a bunch of 21st century titles in a convenient, playable package? Or is it completely surplus to requirements? It's Games 'n' Boxes, all this and more including your Amiga memories, coming this Saturday in This Week in Retro 230!

Of course This Week in Retro 229 leads with the 40th anniversary of the Amiga's launch! youtu.be/AUVKewiBlPE Plus we talk recent retro events and a guide to future nerdfests as the Retro Directory relaunches. All this and more, including answers to firing up a Spectrum Next on a rainy day.

Someone's a liar about his recent whereabouts... This Week in Retro 229, coming this Saturday! Get subscribed on YouTube or a podcast player! (Why not both?!)

This SaTWiRday at youtu.be/Il3fTI20slM we take on: Issue Three of the Spectrum Next computer, smashing its Kickstarter goal in mere hours! Can naughty pre-loaded consoles get you into trouble? And the tale of the "missing Apple", the Mark Twain-edition Apple IIGS.

Which is more official: the Commodore 64 Ultimate, or the Spectrum Next's C64 mode? We're trying to work it out! This Week in Retro 228, coming this Saturday!

Happy 40th to the legend that is the Amiga computer. #amiga #retro #nostalgia #tech

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In Episode 227, find out which TWiR host ordered the new Commodore 64 Ultimate, how tech affected the 1980s job market, and how a new SNES Doom port addresses loose ends, plus your Psygnosis memories in the Community Question of the Week! youtu.be/5deJQu37664 This Week in Retro #227 available now.

Turn back the clock with us to the jobs market of 1980 on Saturday's episode of This Week in Retro, and find out who you really gotta watch with the merchandise... TWiR #227 drops tomorrow! Subscribe now on YouTube or your podcast player of choice.

Vocal warmups! They're a thing... for some.

Time for TWiR, games and gaming card goodness this week. eXoIF, a new retro gaming collection with hundreds of text adventures, PC upgrade cards making big noises, and a retrospective of the owl game publisher. All this and more in This Week in Retro Episode 226! youtu.be/MUtxKUkJaXk

An outtake-teaser for Episode 226, as it turns out Chris is still adjusting to the conventions of the Apple Macintosh Ecosystem. Full episode Saturday!

Ben, Jason & @davevelociraptor.bsky.social of This Week in Retro take on the robots! CPC/Spectrum/C64 Souls of Darkon, then whodunnit tension in Epyx's The Robots of Dawn for Apple and C64, based (ish) on the Asimov novel. Episode 29 of The Retro Adventurers, on your favorite podcast platform now.

I had this scheduled to run last week, long before @thisweekinretro.bsky.social This Week In Retro asked "which classic magazine would you like to come back", so this is my submission @davevelociraptor.bsky.social youtu.be/Z3ymrWu3Egs

"That is not dead which can eternal lie..." TWiR is back on the air this week as a Top Gear legend takes on a classic arcade racer, a publishing era ends with the final Format magazine, and we go in-depth on Commodore Corporation BV acquisition news. youtu.be/Rrn3DX3QkkQ

...so, what shall we talk about this week? Some of the hosts dealt really well with the lead story. Others have 30 years of baggage. This Week in Retro, returning to normal service with Episode 225 this Saturday!