The Commodore 64 and Rob Hubbard will be appearing on The One Show on BBC 1, we catch up with Chris Abott from 8-Bit Symphony and we answer YOUR retro questions!

The inside story on classics like Lotus Turbo Challenge, Supercars, Kikstart 2 with Shaun Southern, and we talk Metal Slug history with Bitmap Books' Sam Dyer.

Mastertronic ruled the UK's budget game scene in the 1980s, we get the inside story on their spectacular rise and fall with former employee Anthony Guter.

Brazil is like an alternative universe where new Sega consoles and games are still on sale and popular.

Black Dawn Rebirth is the 7th episode of the Black Dawn series. The game is a dungeon crawler set in a science-fiction / horror theme. Its currently under development from Double Sided Games who previously brought you the fantastic L’abbaye des morts for the Commodore 64 Coder Shaun Watters told The Retro Hour "Bit of […]

After the first delay in summer Atari have yet again delayed the VCS. Its looking to launch at Christmas so could be in your stocking or even delayed future into 2020 if development continues this way. The reason for the delay is an apparent hardware upgrade. Atari say “AMD’s all-new Ryzen embedded chip will be […]

The North East's BIGGEST retro gaming event is back for the SEVENTH year! The event will be packed with the usual arcade machines, pinball machines and consoles for your enjoyment and remember, they're all set to FREE PLAY! Plans are already underway and we're looking at varying the selection of machines available for your enjoyment! […]

Ravi has been at it again with his two amigas and the great PT1210 software. Mixing live .mod tracks on 2mb each machine. Each month he chooses a different genre, then streams it live. Currently having a few issues with youtubes crazy copyright robots but it seems that periscope and facebook are the ways to […]

Do you want to wear a cult classic t-shirt from the Bitmap Brothers days? Well, Seven Squared Gaming gear have launched a kickstarter and this one look really cool! 5 Designs fully approved by the original developers Xenon, Speedball & Speedball 2 Limited Edition Retro Gaming Tees & Collectables! The prices dont seem that bad […]

SkillGrid is an endless score-attack vertical shoot 'em up. It is currently in development, and will be released (hopefully) in Q1 2019. This new AGA title looks like its really got some potential. This game comes from the wonderful guys at ReTream who of course brought us the wonderful title BOH. This game seems to […]