This week Paul Davies and Dean Swain get back our roots and have a big old retro gaming chat about anything and everything. This includes what to expect in our bumper 100th episode, the recent EGX event at Earl’s Court, their favourite retro multi-player games, gaming shop stories and why Dean can’t hack joystick wagglers!

We grab the chance to sit down again with movie makers Anthony and Nicola Caulfield following the successful release of their movie ‘From Bedrooms to Billions’ an ode the wonderful back story of the UK gaming industry.

Finally we meet up with Spanish game Dev Nachobeard at EGX to talk about his current games which have a retro heritage and also about the retro gaming scene back in his homeland.

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Welcome to episode 98 of the UK’s No.1 Retro Gaming Podcast.

In this episode, Sam (mrsid), Steve (press play on tape) and Paul (the drisk) chat through the history of budget game kings, Mastertronic.

In this third in the series or our company history podcasts, we chat about key games, milestones in the companies history and have some amazing listener contributions.

If that wasn’t enough, we have even produced a History of Mastertronic PDF for you to download which includes loads more detail. Huge thanks to Paul for putting this together. Enjoy!

View it here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzvd4KYph8BNblFWelJrOXlDZkk/edit?usp=sharing

Big thanks to all our wonderful sponsors and to Phil Hockaday for the EXCELLENT cover artwork!

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Paul Driscoll AKA TheDrisk managed to interview legendary game developers John and Ste Pickford about their illustrious gaming history, going through such classics as Feud, Zub, Plok! to name but a few. I hope you enjoy the podcast and find it as interesting as I found it when doing it.

Check Out John and Ste Plok! cartoon they are now doing, as a regular patreon of the cartoon and donating towards it, I can say it is a great cartoon and one people who love video games will really enjoy. To see the cartoons please go here...

http://www.patreon.com/plok

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Keep it retro...

In this episode Paul Monaghan takes a walk down memory lane to discuss his arcade memories. Starting out in the 80's up to today, a lot of classic machines are discussed. Members of the team also discuss what they loved about the arcades.

As well as this is an interview with Paul Bratt from Paul's Custom Cabs who makes an excellent range of custom made bartop arcade machines to order.

Check out https://www.facebook.com/pauls.customcabs?fref=ts

https://www.facebook.com/ABeadsCStart - for a great charity raffle run by a friend of our show.

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Play Expo- http://www.playexpo.net/ Play Expo is returning to Manchester’s EventCity for its third successive year. Taking place 11th and 12th October 2014.

Funstock http://www.funstock.co.uk/ Home of the Dingo A330, NeoGeoX and stacks of retro gaming merchandise and usb controllers. Remember to use the code ‘asylum’ for an exclusive 5% discount against any order.

Retro Towers http://www.retrotowers.co.uk/ The only place to pick up the fantastic Everdrive and retro console cables and peripherals.

September Site Sponsors

Dino Dini- legendary game producer of the Kick Off and Goal series.
Follow Dino on Twitter @dndn1011
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Finally thank you to Trish Bertram for our new LWT intro, her website is http://www.trishbertram.com/

In Episode 96 of the UK's Number 1 Retro Gaming Podcast, we welcome a new Co-Host Phil Hockaday aka @Last1up

Phil joins Ally for a retro banter and pick up's before they move onto the show's main topic which is all about SNK and specifically the enigma of a console the Neo Geo AES.

There is also a bonus interview by Paul M with the mega talented beads artist A Beads C Start. Make sure you listen to it at the end of the Podcast as A Beads C Start is running a charity competition where you could win a one of a kind piece of bead art.

Thanks for listening!

Join the Retro Asylum as we hurtle back into the past and bring you The Time Jumpers! Paul Davies takes the controls for our maiden voyage back to July 1986.

Announcer - Spike Real

Follow us on Twitter- @retroasylum1 and @psdavies

Be sure to check out the Official Retro Asylum YouTube Channel
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Main Site Sponsors

Play Expo- http://www.playexpo.net/ Play Expo is returning to Manchester’s EventCity for its third successive year. Taking place 11th and 12th October 2014.

Funstock http://www.funstock.co.uk/ Home of the Dingo A330, NeoGeoX and stacks of retro gaming merchandise and usb controllers. Remember to use the code ‘asylum’ for an exclusive 5% discount against any order.

Retro Towers http://www.retrotowers.co.uk/ The only place to pick up the fantastic Everdrive and retro console cables and peripherals.

August Site Sponsors

Dino Dini- legendary game producer of the Kick Off and Goal series.
Follow Dino on Twitter @dndn1011
Michael Keith
Mads Kristensen
Blake Brett
TheRetroHunter

Welcome to episode 95 of the UK's No.1 Retro Gaming Podcast show.

This week we have a jam packed episode for you. MrSid talks about the C64 scene, Steve buys a sexy spectrum, Paul M talks cover disks and finally, we have the podcast that we recorded live from Revival earlier this month.

Once again, a huge thanks to Chris and the Revival team for an awesome weekend.

Any feedback, let us know on the Retro Asylum forums at www.retroasylum.com

Useful show links
http://www.lemon64.com
http://www.c64endings.freeolamail.com
http://www.c64.com
http://www.hvsc.c64.org
http://www.gamesthatwerent.com
http://commodoreformat.wordpress.com
http://www.zzap64.co.uk
http://csdb.dk

Also, don't forget to download issue 4 of RESET magazine: http://reset.cbm8bit.com

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Play Expo: http://www.playexpo.net/ Play Expo is returning to Manchester’s EventCity for its third successive year. Taking place 11th and 12th October 2014.

Funstock: http://www.funstock.co.uk/ Home of the Dingo A330, NeoGeoX and stacks of retro gaming merchandise and usb controllers. Remember to use the code ‘asylum’ for an exclusive discount against any order.

Retro Towers: http://www.retrotowers.co.uk/ The only place to pick up the fantastic Everdrive and retro console cables and peripherals.

August Site Sponsors
Dino Dini- legendary game producer of the Kick Off and Goal series.
Follow Dino on Twitter @dndn1011
Michael Keith
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Blake Brett
TheRetroHunter

Episode 94.5- The Retro Asylum Meets John Romero.

Paul Davies caught up with John Romero at his recent visit to the Revival 2014 retro gaming event on 9-10 August 2014.

During the interview John talks about what making games means to him, what Doom’s legacy is for modern developers, Daikatana’s marketing, how he’d change modern day shooters and how Doom’s shareware model back in the day is replicated in today’s free to play market. John also settles the score on the rumours following his recent Facebook check-in.

We hope you enjoy this interview as much as we did making it!

This week Paul Davies and Dean Swain take a walk through the most controversial retro video games ever made. From the beginnings with Death Race through Friday 13th and Sam Fox Strip Poker all the way up to Thrill Kill we delve into the games whose content caused hysteria in the
public consciousness.

In the middle section Paul Monaghan talks through his love for Dungeon Master and the memories the famous maze crawler offers.

In the final segment the Retro Hunter dusts off his fedora and takes us through his latest retro gaming pick-ups.

Be sure to check out the Official Retro Asylum YouTube Channel

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfCC9rIvCKoW3mdbuCsB7Ag

Main Site Sponsors

Play Expo- http://www.playexpo.net/ Play Expo is returning to Manchester’s EventCity for its third successive year. Taking place 11th and 12th October 2014.

Funstock http://www.funstock.co.uk/ Home of the Dingo A330, NeoGeoX and stacks of retro gaming merchandise and usb controllers. Remember to use the code ‘asylum’ for an exclusive discount against any order.

Retro Towers http://www.retrotowers.co.uk/ The only place to pick up the fantastic Everdrive and retro console cables and peripherals.

August Site Sponsors
Dino Dini- legendary game producer of the Kick Off and Goal series.
Follow Dino on Twitter @dndn1011
Michael Keith
Mads Kristensen
Blake Brett
TheRetroHunter

Welcome to episode 93 and a half of the UK’s No.1 Retro Gaming Podcast.

A little Friday treat for our Retromaniacs. You may be missing the show not coming out weekly anymore so hopefully this will satisfy your retro gaming cravings until next Fridays full episode!

In this episode MrSid (Sam) interviews Phil Hockaday (@last1up). Phil has been a listener of the show for a while and for the last few months has been helping out by designing some amazing podcast covers. Highlights of these covers include the epic designs he did for the Ocean and Psygnosis episodes.

http://retroasylum.com/episode-82-ocean-software-1984-1998/
http://retroasylum.com/ep-92-the-history-of-psygnosis/

We chat about Phil's gaming history and also Phil tells us his thoughts on NERG 2014.

As always, huge thanks to all sponsors and please leave us any feedback.