Retro Asylum

Retro Asylum The UK's No.1 Retro Gaming Podcast. Curating gaming culture for future generations. 'World's Best Po

The Retro Asylum podcast show was launched in October of 2011 by Andy Godoy & Dean Swain after they had decided to bring their previous show (which had focused on all aspects of gaming) to an end. The new show would focus on the guys main passion, namely the games that they had grown up with. Unlike other “retro” focused shows that were around at the time, Retro Asylum looked at the scene from a U

K prospective. Whilst other shows talked nothing but Atari, Nintendo & SEGA, Retro Asylum discussed the systems that the British audience had grown up with such as the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 & Amstrad CPC as well as the consoles and looked at classic British games such as Manic Miner & Chuckie Egg. Within a few months of the show being launched it had shot into the top 20 of the iTunes gaming chart. Eventually Retro Asylum would manage to knock corporate podcast’s such as IGN, Giant Bomb & The Official PlayStation Podcast off of the top spot of the iTunes gaming chart and has continued to do so on numerous occasions. In 2014 Andy Godoy decided to leave Retro Asylum due to family commitments, leaving Dean Swain at the helm. Steve Erickson joined the show in 2015 and shortly afterwards Retro Asylum was voted “Best Video Game Podcast” of 2015 in the very first UK Podcasters awards. Mads Kristensen joined RA in March 2016 and in the same year Retro Asylum was voted "World's Best Podcast' in the NME awards. Matt Wilsher, who had been a previous host in the shows early days also rejoined the show later this year. The shows line-up of hosts was completed when Chris Worthington joined in 2018. In 2021 Retro Asylum celebrated it's 10th Birthday making it not only the UK's Number 1 retro gaming podcast but also one the UK's longest running shows.

12 years since the podcasts inception and Retro Asylum is still going strong.

In our latest podcast Steve, Dean, Mark, Jim & Chris O’Regan look back at what Retro Asylum got up to during 2024, a qui...
21/01/2025

In our latest podcast Steve, Dean, Mark, Jim & Chris O’Regan look back at what Retro Asylum got up to during 2024, a quick round up of the latest news in the world of retro gaming, they also talk about pixel art on the Divoom Pixoo and look to what the future holds. Plus we have our special on the scene report from the Crash Live event. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/retroasylum/RA_Episode_345.mp3

Retro Asylum -  The UK’s No.1 Retro Gaming Podcast : Episode 345: Year Review And A Look To The Future
21/01/2025

Retro Asylum - The UK’s No.1 Retro Gaming Podcast : Episode 345: Year Review And A Look To The Future

Steve, Dean, Mark, Jim & Chris O'Regan look back at what Retro Asylum got up to during 2024, a quick round up of the latest news in the world of retro gaming, they also talk about pixel art on the Divoom Pixoo and look to what the future holds. Plus we have our special on the scen...

18/01/2025

UK Atari VCS (2600) console advert from 1982.

14/01/2025

Sega Really on the Sega Saturn. Great game that we need much more practice on 😂

13/01/2025

Dean Swain takes a quick look at the arcade version of Burnin' Rubber which is a 1982 overhead-view vehicular combat game.

Retro Asylum -  The UK’s No.1 Retro Gaming Podcast : Episode 344: Evercade - Data East Collection 1
12/01/2025

Retro Asylum - The UK’s No.1 Retro Gaming Podcast : Episode 344: Evercade - Data East Collection 1

In this episode Chris Worthington, Chris O'Regan, Jim Middleton, and Mads Kristensen take our viewers and listeners through the third Evercade cartridge: Data East Collection 1. As always, thanks to all of our Patreon’s who made this episode possible, we really appreciate your kind donations! Rich...

The Retro Asylum High Score Challenge game for January 2025 is Parodius Da! On the   Checkout our video for further deta...
04/01/2025

The Retro Asylum High Score Challenge game for January 2025 is Parodius Da! On the Checkout our video for further details: https://youtu.be/n-nvIcJ0Tog?si=RhEsYxOg-5jpfIOL

Jim Middleton is back with a quick play video of the Retro Asylum high sore challenge game of January 2025 which is the PC Engine conversion of Konami's Paro...

30/12/2024

Having fun with our Divoom Pixoo 64 😜

26/12/2024

What can we say about Shinobi on the ZX Spectrum? It’s a bit on the ugly side, enemy bullets are hard to see and the controls feel too loose due to the main player sprite running around a bit too fast at times. Despite all this, it plays alright and the soundtrack is pretty decent on 128k machines.

24/12/2024

Despite Joe Musashi looking like he’s taking on the Zeed terrorist organisation in his wellies, the Amstrad version plays surprisingly well. The animation is a bit suspect at times but the 128k version makes up for this with its great AY soundtrack and digitised speech.

24/12/2024

The C64 version of Shinobi gets a lot of things right, unfortunately the jumping from lower to higher sections and back feels a little odd on this version. You have to hold fire then press up or down depending on where you want to go. Also you are only able to throw 2 shurikens at a time. It’s also lacking in game music. Despite these flaws, it still plays better than the Atari ST & Amiga versions.

Watch Jim Middleton play Xmas Lemmings, Midnight Resistance & Sonic The Hedgehog on the Sega Master System in our latest...
24/12/2024

Watch Jim Middleton play Xmas Lemmings, Midnight Resistance & Sonic The Hedgehog on the Sega Master System in our latest video:

Jim Middleton plays Xmas Lemmings, Midnight Resistance which is our current high score game over on our Discord channel and Sonic The Hedgehog on the Master ...

22/12/2024

Shinobi on the Commodore Amiga, published by Virgin Mastertronic and programmed by Binary Design. Graphically a real disappointment.

Our very own Dean Swain will be joining Alan Stewart live on the Mamemeister YouTube channel tonight at 8pm 20/12/24 (UK...
20/12/2024

Our very own Dean Swain will be joining Alan Stewart live on the Mamemeister YouTube channel tonight at 8pm 20/12/24 (UK time). Be sure to subscribe https://youtube.com/?si=iEQP9MLWxNB85gpT

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