This Week in Retro

This Week in Retro


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It Is Time To Un-Eliminate CRT Monitors! - This Week In Retro 136
August 26, 2023

Have you ever thrown away your game boxes only to wish you hadn't? What if we could revive all those dead CRT screens? Did you ever see the DVD player that though it was a gaming console?All this plu

Sony get Wiped Out - This Week In Retro 135
August 19, 2023

The original Wipeout has been reverse engineered and is now playable in your browser. From Ultimate Play The Game to Rare, we look at 40 years of games. Battletech mech games have an awesome article y

Is it Time to Eliminate CRT Monitors? - This Week In Retro 134
August 12, 2023

Do you really need a CRT screen to get the best from retro games? 8BitDo have a new Nintendo/Famicon inspired keyboard set up with some interesting features. The story of SWIV (the sequel to Silkworm)

Faking Retro TV? - This Week In Retro 133
August 05, 2023

Did you miss us? We are back with a story about finding a Discs of Tron arcade machine by the side of a road. What a find. We follow that by wondering if a new retro restoration TV show could be putti

What Is Retro? (baby don’t hurt me) - This Week In Retro 132
July 15, 2023

Would you like to stay at an 80s style inspired B&B complete with working arcade full of games to play.....I think most would! Did you know the Atari ST really was amazing as part of MIDI network?

2D Is All Sega and Nintendo Need - This Week In Retro 131
July 08, 2023

Sega and Nintendo are taking Mario and Sonic back to their 2D roots, how do we feel about that? Do kids of today get what the likes of the ZX, CPC and C64 are? Is it possible to bring classic adventur

A Truck Sized Printer Or An Egg Sized Dave? - This Week In Retro 130
July 01, 2023

The merging of two technologies can sometimes create something wonderful, in this case it is dot matrix printer the size of a pickup truck, that you can drive and print messages as you go. Could this

Windows 7 Runs Out Of Steam - This Week In Retro 129
June 24, 2023

We are very happy to be joined by Amiga Bill this week as we discuss the end of Steam for Windows 7, the lost art of home made game maps and remembering that before Duke Nukem discovered a 3rd dimensi

Pac-Man Gets Blocked - This Week In Retro 128
June 17, 2023

Once again two hobbies collide in the form of the Lego Arcade Pac-Man set. Who better to chat about it than Lego Grand Master Owen from Australian Lego Masters 2023. This week we also take a look at a

Nintendo Murders Dolphin - This Week In Retro 127
June 10, 2023

Saturday morning wouldn't be the same without your bowl full of retro goodness. This week our stories cover the end of the Dolphin on Steam, the FMV classic The 7th Guest remake, and Doom running on T