This Week in Retro

New Old Games - This Week In Retro 260

21 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Our most popular guest returns as  @ReesRambles  joins us to discuss the latest news surrounding the Myrient mega-archive, the legacy of operating s...

Retro Certifications and Turbo Scooter - This Week In Retro 259

14 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 The legacy of Lucasfilm Games looms large this week. We take on the controve...

Epic Adventures In 64K - This Week in Retro 258

07 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

All the fun you can squeeze into 64k or less as we look at the international sensation that was Jet Set Willy and the explosion of open-world adventur...

Remember The CD-i? - This Week In Retro 257

28 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 "Keep a copy of what's important to you." "Punish your children one day." Wi...

The History Of Shoot 'Em Ups - This Week In Retro 256

21 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

DJ Slope of  @slopesgameroom  is our guest for this week's dive into the history of shoot 'em up games of all shapes and sizes. In other departments...

The Last 8-Bit Episode - This Week In Retro 255

14 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 We're gonna need a bigger byte to hold future episodes of This Week in Retro...

Preserving Atari’s Legacy - This Week In Retro 254

07 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

After years of uncertainty, the vast and historically significant Atari archives held by the late Curt Vendel have a new home at The Strong National M...

PicoIDE Has Arrived! - This Week In Retro 253

31 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 We celebrate the launch of PicoIDE, the all-in-one replacement for ATAPI CD-...

Australia’s Computing History - This Week In Retro 252

24 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Australia's rich history of technological innovation gets the spotlight this week as Chris explores The State of Electronics, a channel dedicated to c...

Long Live Home Arcade Gaming! - This Week In Retro 251

17 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It's a bonanza of stand-up arcade feature stories this week. Will Basic Fun! give Arcade1Up a powerful next stage? We also remember the life and caree...

Still a Racing Show - This Week In Retro 250

10 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 In this milestone 250th episode of This Week in Retro, we celebrate that the...

2025 Unseen Bits - This Week In Retro

27 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As per tradition, here are some of the unseen bits and out-takes from This Week In Retro in 2025. Audio only listeners, you might get more from this b...

Commodores Under the Christmas Tree - This Week In Retro 249

20 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the last regular show of the year we are joined by Neil and Aaron for a bumper episode. The latest goings-on at Commodore including Commodore 64 Ul...

RAM Prices Skyrocketing (In the 1990s) - This Week In Retro 248

13 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 An 80s film and game icon has a statue at long last, RAM prices are sky high...

Let’s Talk About Joysticks - This Week In Retro 247

06 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are joined by Allan (aka Happy Coding ZX) to talk about joysticks, haunted tech and does retrobrighting damage your beloved computers and consoles?...

SEGA Master System Hits 40 - This Week In Retro 246

29 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 The SEGA Master System ( and Windows ) have reached 40 years old. Microsoft ...

eXoWin9x Is Here - This Week In Retro 245

22 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are very pleased to be joined by eXo this week, creator of eXoDOS and more. He is here to talk about the launch of eXoWin9x which is a growing coll...

New CPC Games - Heavy Metal Computing - 1980s Space Shooters - This Week In Retro 244

15 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Dave is very excited because there have been a number of new games for the A...

A Blast From The Past - This Week In Retro 243

08 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Sound Blaster name is back with something a bit different, does it sound like a good idea? The Commodore C16 gets a new version of Green Beret and...

Get Ready For THEA1200 - This Week In Retro 242

01 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 With Jason away this week we needed help and who answered the call...Neil! T...

A Zombie Console Awakes - This Week In Retro 241

25 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week in retro we discuss the return of a console we thought was dead an buried, the Intellivision.   With two arcade focussed stories we feel ol...

Were We Wrong About DOS Gaming? - This Week In Retro 240

18 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 How do you feel about making DOS games simpler to play? Did 1983s WarGames r...

The High Cost Of Computing - This Week In Retro 239

11 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A hour or so of retro computing chat including: How dare you diss the Amstrad CPC! Roger Dean talks about his work with Psygnosis. Do you really think...

The Pi500+ Looks Yummy - This Week In Retro 238

04 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 The Raspberry Pi 500 returns upgraded! Jordan Mechner posts about the many P...

Which Way Is Up? - This Week In Retro 237

27 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are  joined by Andy from the Big Car and Little Car YouTube channels today to talk about Dungeons and Dragons, inverted flight controls and how th...

Massive Vintage Computer Festival - This Week In Retro 236

20 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Jason has his report and some footage from Vintage Computer Festival Midwest...

Commodore Datasette But Tiny - This Week In Retro 235

13 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our first guests for quite some time are Taylor and Amy from The Taylor and Amy show. They join us to talk about BASIC, a teeny tiny replacement for t...

SID Tunes Better Than Arcade? - This Week In Retro 234

06 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠   First the floppy and now the optical, can disks survive? The Texas Instru...

Setting TheA1200 Record Straight & Win 95 Is 30 - This Week In Retro 233

30 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Vectrex mini and TheA1200 are two new pieces of gaming hardware that are on their way. We talk about the Commodore 128, did it make it onto your r...

The Best of Tech’s Worst & New Retro Games - This Week In Retro 232

23 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Settlers II is finally coming to the Amiga but you'll need a beefy setup to get it running. The Spectrum has a fantastic looking platformer called...

AOL Hangs Up - This Week In Retro 231

16 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 America Online is hanging up on its dial-up service. Hexen and Heretic are r...

Three-Commodore Salute! - This Week In Retro 230

09 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Yes, its another show with Commodore in the title but things are happening! The original D&D megadungeon has returned...again! Do you remember the...

The Commodore Amiga Turns 40 - This Week In Retro 229

02 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Put on your party hats and prepare the party poppers for it is time to celeb...

The Next Spectrum Next - This Week In Retro 228

26 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Issue Three of the Spectrum Next computer smashed its Kickstarter goal in mere hours, and brings some important upgrades!Just how naughty are pre-load...

Keeping Up With A Commodore! - This Week In Retro 227

19 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Find out which one of us has ordered the new Commodore 64 Ultimate! How did ...

Retro Upgrade Updates and Remembering Psygnosis - This Week In Retro 226

12 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hello and welcome to this week's look at retro computing and gaming goodness. eXoIF is a new release that contains almost 900 interactive fiction titl...

Who Owns Commodore & Outrunning The Stig - This Week In Retro 225

05 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Back with a longer than usual show this week but we have three great topics ...

Check and Mate! - This Week In Retro 224

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 ChatGPT makes excuses as to why an Atari 2600 beat it at chess. Wing Command...

Happy Birthday ATARI ST - This Week In Retro 223

14 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join us as we talk about the Atari ST as it turns 40 years old! The Dolphin emulator gets an update and GOG puts its cards on the table regarding game...

Star Wars: X-Wing Gets An Upgrade - This Week In Retro 222

07 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Delve into the making of Myst and its sequels. Check out the amazing work on...

Hot Tubs & Car Phones - This Week In Retro 221

31 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Back to the 80s where everyone had a Filofax and wore power suits! Remember how some coders wanted to be rock-stars? How can you spot a fake coding bo...

Half A Century Of Type-Ins - This Week In Retro 220

24 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are joined by James (WhatHoSnorkers) to discuss a new video that shows how DMA Design reinvented the puzzle game, to remember the computerised Rale...

Video Games Aren’t Real, They Can’t Hurt You! - This Week In Retro 219

17 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Have you ever played an online game and found no other users? Have you ever ...

Was 2000 The Best Year For Gaming? - This Week In Retro 218

10 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Thank you for joining us once again for another look at some up to date news for out of date tech. Jason joins us and has selected a story about distr...

Outrun On The Big Telly - This Week In Retro 217

03 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Outrun is getting a movie, an Australian arcade is closing its doors and can...

Super Fast Win 98 Install - This Week In Retro 216

26 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bill Gates predicted the online future way back in 1993, how much did he get right? Was the first 3D game made in 1992? And what if you could install ...

16-Bit Demakes & OS Updates - This Week In Retro 215

19 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Jason from The Retro Adventurers joins us again today and tells us all about...

Chiptune Heaven - This Week In Retro 214

12 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A chiptunes documentary, a top ten list of influential games that seems a bit dodgy and ten seems to be the idea age to want to go back to. We are joi...

Atari Shock - This Week In Retro 213

05 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 A bit of a thing broke out about the different way the US sees gaming histor...

4 Tales Of Retro Woe - This Week In Retro 212

29 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week we are joined by Jason Compton from The Retro Adventurers to talk about four retro projects that may have hit hard times, how the loss of on...

Retro Tech Up In Smoke - This Week In Retro 211

22 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Is your Super Nintendo (SNES) speeding up? (yes, it is.) Windows 3 can now u...

The Next Episode - This Week In Retro 210

15 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Did you miss out on the Spectrum Next? You might get another chance! Want to...

He's Back! - This Week In Retro 209

08 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are joined by Lee from More Fun Making It! Retro gaming and computing chat about such things as how some publishers have got things a bit wrong rec...

Y2K With A Vengeance - This Week In Retro 208

01 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Neil and Dave love a bit of Ultima and there are two news stories related to that very series in this week's show. Can AI really be trusted to faithfu...

Romantic Robots - This Week In Retro 207

22 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The hidden tale of the Game Wizard for the SNES leads us to reminisce about Romantic Robot's Multiface devices. More youngsters are looking to disconn...

Top Gear’s Top Retro Racers - This Week In Retro 206

15 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Top Gear have published their list of 50 top racers, do we agree? 40 years a...

The Beatles Had a Text Adventure Game!? - This Week In Retro 205

08 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Did you know that the songs of the Beatles inspired a text adventure game? L...

Forget About Doom - This Week In Retro 204

01 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are joined by MeanMachineDean this week! Putting Doom aside what are the best FPS games of the 1990s? It's bye bye Blu Ray (sort of). The launch of...

Hard Core MiSTer - This Week In Retro 203

25 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 The 3DO is coming to MiSTer. Could this be the last big system before we nee...

New FPGA Consoles - This Week In Retro 202

18 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Amigathon 2025 is today! Help our friends raise money by playing old games: ...

How Big Is Too Big? (CRT TVs) - This Week In Retro 201

11 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For the first episode of 2025 we take a look at some of the BBC's Tomorrows World predictions from 30 years ago. What did they get right and wrong. We...

The Super Sega Saga - This Week In Retro 200

21 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Episode 200 is a bumper show with the return of occasional host Chris and sp...

Atari STE Goes Faster - This Week In Retro 199

14 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A clever coder has created what is surely the fastest, smoothest and most impressive racer for the Atari STE. Indiana Jones has a new game out but let...

The Best Gaming Computer Of All Time - This Week In Retro 198

07 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 What does your retro computing area look like? What is the best gaming compu...

Desktop PCs Are Back! - This Week In Retro 197

30 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The beige PC is back! What started as a joke has become reality. A Windows developer has shared some secrets on how the Win 95 installer did things be...

Half Life 2 - 20th Anniversary - This Week In Retro 196

23 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 As Half Life 2 celebrates its 20th anniversary with a special edition we als...

Look At All Those New Mega Drive Games - This Week In Retro 195

16 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Just how do you keep track of all the new SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis games? Join us as we take a look at a website that aims to do just that. We are jo...

Speedball Rebooted - This Week In Retro 194

09 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Speedball is taking another shot at the goal, this time with Rebellion at th...

ALAN SUGAR IN SPAAAAAAAAACE! - This Week In Retro 193

02 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Amstrad online museum is open for business! We took a quick look and it bought back some CPC memories. The US Copyright Office has hindered game p...

Game Over Yeah! - This Week In Retro 192

26 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Dave is a little under the weather this week so Chris steps up. We look back...

Is Older Always Better? - This Week In Retro 191

19 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We return to find that your PC will be able to emulate an Xbox, that a rare Microprose arcade cabinet has been restored ( and is quite excellent ) and...

Atari Jaguar On The Toilet - This Week In Retro 190

05 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Strange show title this week but please stick with it! Neil is back full tim...

40 Years of ELITE - This Week In Retro 189

28 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Elite is 40 and to celebrate some source code has been shared. Fancy a job at Sega looking after its history? A PS2 gets a stunning restoration. Neil ...

Return Of The Cartridge Game - This Week In Retro 188

21 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 We are joined by Ben from Plaion, the people who bought you the Atari 2600+ ...

Dongles, Doom & DOS - This Week In Retro 187

14 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we are joined by Richard from Heber Ltd. to talk about a video that shows life behind the scenes at id Software and the ITX Llama, a machine...

New Consoles For Everyone - This Week In Retro 186

07 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Jason from Mr Lurch's Things joins us for a bumper edition to talk about a b...

Commodores Are Burning Hot! - This Week In Retro 185

24 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fan favourite Chris is back to bring his views on a new book all about classic arcade games, to find out just how cool the C64 really is and how good ...

Golden Joysticks Ahoy! - This Week In Retro 184

17 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 This is This Week In Retro (TWIR), your weekly show about retro (vintage) co...

What Was Your First GUI? - This Week In Retro 183

10 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bob from RetroRGB joins us this week to talk SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis games, our memories of early GUIs and a Game Boy with a CRT screen which is still...

NVIDIA Bailed Out By SEGA!? - This Week In Retro 182

03 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's This Week In Retro, your weekly round up of news for old ( and sometimes not so old ) computers, consoles and games. This week we look back at so...

The Codemasters Archive Returns - This Week In Retro 181

27 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Think you know all of the Codemasters games? Why not use the Codemasters Arc...

Retro Game Dev Reborn - This Week In Retro 180

20 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 This week we learn about eXoDOS, discover that an old name from gaming histo...

Microsoft Calls Time On Xbox 360 - This Week In Retro 179

13 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The BBC went to visit DMA in Dundee. Microsoft is shutting the Xbox 360 store, has it had its time? With the recent video detailing the making of Synd...

The Amiga's Final Fight? - This Week In Retro 178

06 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Clint has been LGRing for 15 years, how many more until he is considered ret...

Cleaning Dirty Floppy Disks - This Week In Retro 177

29 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Wouldn't it be great if there was a machine to clean your old and dirty floppy disks? Now there is! Footage from a cancelled Indiana Jones game has su...

Old People Complaining About Young People - This Week In Retro 176

22 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Say goodbye to ICQ, the old messaging service. Is the youth of today really that different from that of the 80s/90s when it comes to gaming? We check ...

The Real Winamp Player - This Week In Retro 175

15 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 What if that classic Winamp interface could leave your PC screen and still p...

Acorns, Wizardry and Daley Thompson - This Week In Retro 174

08 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Does your Acorn Electron need a new ULA? You are in luck! There is a remake of Wizardry : Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. We talk celebrities in ...

Atari’s Sprint Finish - This Week In Retro 173

01 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Two Atari stories this week which should both be welcome news for gaming fan...

Automatic Nintendo For The People - This Week In Retro 172

25 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You think that Doom killed the Amiga right? Maybe not. What if you could recompile any N64 game to run on any system? The Ghostbusters finally get to ...

The Atari Jaguar Needs Good Games - This Week In Retro 171

18 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 When you need him most he will be there! He stands tall, gazing into the mid...

Cut Price MiSTer Is Here! - This Week In Retro 170

11 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Commodore International filed for bankruptcy 30 years ago in 1994. There is the UK petition to force games publishers to commit to ensuring that games...

Ugly Computers - This Week In Retro 169

04 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! You can find the Commodore PC10 III PCB Reproduction board we mention in the show...

Goodbye To The Z80 CPU - This Week In Retro 168

27 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Z80 CPU has come to the end of its run, after 48 years it finally goes out of production.  There is a resurgence in analogue tech and media. Just...

High Street Retro Repair - This Week In Retro 167

20 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 This week we are joined by Frank from Retro Rewind. You can check out everyt...

Lara's Number One! - This Week In Retro 166

13 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

BAFTA thinks Lara Croft is just about as iconic as a game character can get, do you agree. We might soon see retro gaming on Apple's iOS but what exac...

From 6502 to FPGA - This Week In Retro 165

06 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Do you love the 6502 CPU? Of course you do, why wouldn't you? Lets chat abou...

You Wouldn’t 3D Print a Computer - This Week In Retro 164

30 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Your weekly Retro Computing discussion show returns! Rollercoaster Tycoon is 25 years old? Are you a fan of any of the Tycoon games? We chat about tho...

Atari Returns To The Arcades - This Week In Retro 163

23 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 We check out a video which runs through the history of RPGs, look at how Ata...

Can Physical and Digital Retro Live in Harmony? - This Week In Retro 162

16 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

EA have added a number of classic games to their Steam line up, Japan loves it's retro games and a museum piece showcases a VHS rental store in Austra...