My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away. Fuck cancer. Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...

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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!

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!

This month on our Patreon: Chris, Dave, and Jason present renewed up-to-date news for out-of-date tech, because the existing once-up-to-date news about that out-of-date tech is now itself out-of-date. 260 Weeks Ago in Retro for October 2025 is now live for subscribers at patreon.com/thisweekinretro.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

Peak Atari ST!

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!

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

Let's play "Chaos Strikes Back" Episode 10 on the Atari ST #AtariST #retrogaming #Atari ... youtu.be/4XnZo9A90Ok

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

"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

@mdf200.bsky.social I'm sure people have tagged you on this so many times it's annoying the crap out of you. So I'm just doing it to be a prick

...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!

The hosts used Producer's Holiday time to record answers to TWiRler questions. Very serious matters were settled... and then there was this. patreon.com/thisweekinretro for more.

The first segment of Level 9's Knight Orc, and the Infidel parody Inhumane by Andrew Plotkin, plus tons of news and correspondence in episode 27 of The Retro Adventurers. On all podcast platforms or visit retroadventurers.com

A very POHS (Producer's HOliday Saturday) morning to you, TWiRlerverse! No episode today, we'll be back to normal service next week. The hosts used the off-week to dig through some childhood photos while working on a Q&A video... (Here's a hint: neither of them has hair anymore)

Arthur insists on cuddles all of the time

Can anyone help identify the font used on this Spectrum based key caps set ?

Producer's Holiday week means no teaser, alas. Instead journey in The Internet Time Machine to 2022's Episode 75: * Guest-host Dave! * An early doubled "all-this-and-more"! * No Community Question of the Week for Reasons! www.youtube.com/watch?v=31ys...

A wry take on Infocom's Infidel helped set Andrew Plotkin on the course to become one of the major tastemakers in interactive fiction. We discuss Inhumane, the Inform language, IFTF, and much more on Episode 28 of The Retro Adventurers. Available on all podcast platforms or retroadventurers.com

ChatGPT makes excuses, Wing Commander gets updated and there's an Atari Earthquake, but why has Chris forbidden the term "Fake Australian"? And your top Atari ST memories on this week's show. youtu.be/0erTSO9qR9c

Join Dave, Chris, and Jason as we observe the Atari ST's 40th birthday. Also featured: a cat attacks, a Dolphin evolves, and GOG stocks the larder with preserves! (actually games.) And, of course, the top obsolete computer skills submitted in our Community Question of the Week.

Own it, rent it, or OWN it own it? An excerpt from our story on preservation. All this and more coming up on Saturday's This Week in Retro, Episode 223! Subscribe now on YouTube or your podcast platform of choice.

Here’s my (later than sort of planned) video on the Retrofest event held in Swindon/organised by @shortcircuit.org.uk Follow me as I take some janky video footage of old tech 😅 and marvel at this great event and exhibitors. #retrocomputing #retrofest youtu.be/YLqbKywPXfg

This SaTWiRday enjoy a serious revamp of X-Wing, the Making of Myst, and get out your stylus and remember your PDA etiquette. All this and more awaits! youtu.be/PS7vLKkCv4U (and check out that thumbnail rendered in Imagine!)

New video! I'd not played this one before, but was pleasantly surprised by this solid shooter. #AtariST youtu.be/GoebIkXFUmc?...

This SaTWiRday we bring you hot tubs, car phones, and the rockstar coders of the 1980s, along with pinball revival and and a passel of fraud in book form. All this and more awaits! youtu.be/iULSx6IDyCs

TWiR is listener-powered with news curated from our subreddit, r/thisweekinretro. And we are listener-supported! In June the hosts will answer patron questions in a Patreon-exclusive video. Demand answers from Dave, Jason, and Chris! www.patreon.com/posts/patron...

SaTWiRday! 50 years of type ins! 80s BMX! Lemmings! All this and more featuring special guest @whathosnorkers.bsky.social!

Johnny wants to play Beneath A Steel Sky

Podcast time! This week I have More Fun talking to @davevelociraptor.bsky.social from This Week In Retro. This is episode 10 and Dave has promised to come back for the next milestone 100th episode to see if our predictions come true.

TWiR time! Back to 1980! Sinistar! Empty games! All this and more on this week's show!

Metal Gear for the MegaDrive is out now. Go grab it and get you're retro stealth on! h0ffman.itch.io/metal-gear-md

I got a new cat! Meet Arthur. He is a Russian Blue and he is 14 weeks old. He arrived yesterday and has already decided to become ungovernable! I have more photos if you'd like but he won't pose for one!

It's SaTWiRday! Anti-piracy piracy? Let's all meet up in the year 2000. Go anti-social with your writing! All this and more on this week's show!

😭Neil's last show😭Yes really Neil is leaving and this is the final show for him. Special guests. Outrun, Windows Gameboy and Aussie arcades. All this and more on this week's show!

Win 98 + fast?? Latest "This Week In Retro" Episode Guide now available - totally free with links to each episode: bit.ly/TWIRGuide @thisweekinretro.bsky.social @davevelociraptor.bsky.social @richrap3d.bsky.social @lgr-yt.bsky.social