Join us for a discussion of Australia's rich computing history, the origins of the "sunset-and-grid" aesthetic which has come to symbolize the 1980s, and a chat about peak 1990s computer magazines in This Week in Retro 252, coming this Saturday!

Old concert tickets. Some great shows.

Check the thread, someone out there should be able to figure this out. (Perhaps a Softside Adventure or similar?)

Some epyx titles. #epyx #bigbox

Trumplethinskin can dish it out, but just can't take it. Because someone called him a "Pedophile Protector", the short-fingered vulgarian flipped the tiniest bird imaginable. 😂 #TheTruthHurts

The naked disregard for the people of the United States under Trump is a stink Republicans should never be allowed to wash off.

We play the oldest and the newest-surviving variants of the original text adventure known simply as Zork. The 1977 edition Zork-285 and the 1990 (!) release of Mini-Zork are the featured games in Episode 36 of The Retro Adventurers. retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/36/

When calculators were both physical and fun 🤓

Chris' proposal for universal understanding and camaraderie: a racing game variant for all! Stunt Car Racer coverage is just one of many Geoff Crammond-verse mentions this week, along with your most wished-for retro news for 2026, in the banner 250th episode of This Week in Retro, coming Saturday!

Is it a wargame? Is it a chess clone? Yes.

Happy New Year everyone, here’s to a great 2026

All year long Duncan sifts through countless blurts, blunders, and bloopers trying to beat the deadline. Then comes the year-end reckoning. youtu.be/68_Yg9lWm50 Enjoy this year's lowlights with Chris, Dave, Jason, Neil, and select guests, and we'll see you again in January for Episode 250!

Lots of guests! Some hosts! Visible Zorker news! How Sierra / Lucasarts lulz were defeated in the marketplace! And more! Jason and Nick, joined by guests Robin Raymond, Tim Gilberts, Scott Adams, Andrew Plotkin, Dave "Velociraptor", Christian Neuhaus, and Iain Lee. retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/35/

It was a super-fruitful chatisode weekend! This is only the first half. Finished episode will be with you in just a few days.

@retroadventurers.bsky.social I just started listening to your podcast and wanted to share this image. This is definitely in my top 10 oldest pc games.

My christmas present arrived a week early! #c64

It's a matter of Life and Death as for maximum holiday cheer we are joined this week by "Doctor" Neil of The Retro Collective and "Former Solder Professional" Aaron of Amigos Retro Gaming. Episode 249 includes a discussion of a healthy work/life balance over the holidays. Coming Saturday!

For our 2025 finale, This Week in Retro welcomes back one traditional holiday guest and one surprise returnee. (who oh who could it beeeeeee)

Total Back Up Power Takes A Quantum Leap!

New Video: youtu.be/jrXO23EJacM Finally, the Amiga of my dreams. And remember to eat your HAM. #amiga #retro #computers #tech

From FB: John Menzies, Dundee, 1985 I almost lived at the home computers section off to the left. It's also the first place I went when my first game was released, and seeing it on the shelves was emotional to say the least. I'd finally made it.

@adriansdigitalbasement.com found this in a lot of vintage books I picked up recently. Awesome stuff.

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

For our Patreon supporters, a new episode of 260 Weeks Ago in Retro is live, a look back at Episode 14 from November 2020. Stories include virtual pinball and the Raspberry Pi 400. Patreon's autocaptioning left untouched because it's hilarious. www.patreon.com/posts/260-we...

Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Americans. Never before in my life have I been so worried about the future of democracy in the US. Devin over at Legal Eagle sums it up perfectly: youtu.be/zn-rkKIMNAs?... This is not the future the Founding Fathers envisioned when they formed this country.

So I heard there was this new RPG going around and I took a look, it looks pretty good. Available in CD and DVD, too, that's always snazzy.

Curse of the Azure Bonds

Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature. 2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise! That "feature" is now gone.

This weekend I implemented command passthrough to #PicoIDE over SMART Command Transport (which is done via creative use of the SMART log get/set commands). This way you can get status of the PicoIDE, load disc/disk images, etc., and being implemented with SMART means it works in user mode in Windows

Up-to-date news for out-of-date hype! Some of the most heavily hyped innovations of the 1990s get worked over this Saturday, including commentary from our guest, retro collection curator eXo. All this, and the best of pre-Elite space sims, and more in Saturday's episode of This Week in Retro!

Cartoon by @jesseduquette.bsky.social.

Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements. One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman: www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...

As agents were driving away, they pointed a pepper ball gun and then a real gun at Chris Gentry, a combat veteran who was lawfully standing on the side of the road. The agent who pointed the real gun at Mr. Gentry’s face said “bang, bang,” and “you’re dead liberal.” www.loevy.com/wp-content/u...

Some people say I focus too much on Commodore computers, but they're just sour appleheads. (Source.)

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!

Holy hot #CupOfJoe! Dr. Chheda has some things to say to healthcare workers who support this regime. Steamy!

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!

Course.... I'm assuming @visitthecave.bsky.social just called them both cunts for firing him.... must be that.... surely? 🤔

If I opened a dispensary, I would call it Starbase 420. The house strain would be Wesley Kusher.

What a pleasure it was to host Professor Steve Furber CBE today. A thoroughly entertaining talk and an insight into some incredible projects he’s worked on. Thank you to everyone who came along and shared the day.

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!

A trio of arcade monitors pulled out of old cabs to be inspected, serviced and saved. Some crustier than others.

Look what the nice folks at the PRGE Intellivision booth gave me! Thanks Mark!

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

Some new big boxes. #bigbox #interplay #descent #freespace

#atari #et #yarsrevenge Howard Scott Warshaw signed my carts.

#sfge #ATLANTA #VCFSE