We're joined by Andy Walker, former MD of legendary 80's game company Taskset. Covering classics like The Pit, Super Pipeline, Bozo’s Night Out and the reggae-fuled Jammin’.
We head to Melbourne, Australia to talk to Bad Goat Studios about their new retro-inspired 2d point-and-click adventure, and Nostalgia Nerd joins us to talk about his amazing new book. Bad Goat Studios: https://www.mosseadventure.com/
We're joined by Commodore 64 cheat master Warren Pilkington whose Hints and Pokes for Zzap64 and Commodore Format helped many of us finish our favourite games. 8-Bit Symphony Hull: https://c64audio.com/blogs/news/8-bit-symphony-press-release
We're joined by some of our favourite retro gaming Youtubers for a round-table discussion about game collecting tips, rare systems and the joys and troubles of a career on Youtube, recorded live at PLAY Expo Blackpool.
Memories of Teletext, archiving classic pages and how to access the new homebrew world with 'Teletext archaeologist' Jason Robertson. Telextext Archaeologist website: https://teletextarchaeologist.org/
We're joined by a true icon of British gaming, the Yak himself - Jeff Minter! Minotaur Project: http://www.minotaurproject.co.uk
How Sega challenged Nintendo in the 16-bit era, marketing the Mega Drive, planning Sonic 2sday and why the 32X should have never existed with ex Sega marketing legend Al Nilsen.
A friend of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, we're joined by the legendary Hal Barwood to talk about his time at LucasArts and the classic Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis. Hal Barwood's homepage: http://www.finitearts.com/ Please show some love to our sponsor and buy a copy of The Art of Point & Click […]
Our guest this week is Paul Conway who has worked on titles like Theme Park and The Sims and recently Darkside Detective, we talk about the rebirth of point & click adventure games in the 21st century and the joys and challenges of making them today.
It's Adventure Month and we talk to founder of AdventureSoft Mike Woodroffe about classics like Elvira, Waxworks and Simon The Sorcerer. AventureSoft website: http://www.adventuresoft.com/ Please show some love to our sponsor and WIN a copy of The Art of Point & Click Adventure games here: https://theretrohour.com/adventure-month/
