The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

James 'Purple' Hampton worked at Lucas Film Games in their golden era on games like Monkey Island, before developing for the Atari Jaguar on titles like Alien VS Predator.

Our BIGGEST episode ever with 3 guests - Jake Habgood gives us the history of Hogs of War, Matthew Smith at the Jet Set Willy 35th anniversary and a breakthrough in retrobriting with Christian Simpson!

We're joined by Brian Provinciano the man behind Retro City Rampage and Shakedown: Hawaii - a parody of retro games and '80s and '90s pop culture, as well as Grand Theft Auto.

We talk to the man behind the hugely successful book (and soon to be TV series) 'Console Wars'. How Sega took on Nintendo, their internal fights and chatting games with Seth Rogen.

Metal Jesus is a long-haired rocker dude who runs a popular YouTube channel dedicated to Retro Gaming. He joins us for a nostalgic chat about collectings, rare pickups and his time working at Sierra.

Sex, Drugs and Video Games - We get the story of the 90's at Virgin when the video games industry was truly rock n' roll with Tim Chaney, plus his time at U.S Gold and Commodore UK.

We get the fascinating history of the infamous Sierra from the man who is continuing their legacy, Shawn Mills of Infamous Quests.

'Go 8 Bit' brought retro games back to mainstream television and the stage, we're joined by its creator Steve McNeil for a great nostalgic chat this week

In this episode we discuss everything from brutal Infocom text adventures, retro gaming TV and the story of "The Dark Room", the world's only live-action adventure videogame with the wonderful John Robertson.

We're joined by Bruce Everiss to get the inside story on the legendary rise and fall of Imagine Software and Codemasters in their heyday.