In this episode, Aaron, Matt A & Matt L table the discussion that troubled so many gamers in the 8-bit, 16-bit and even 32-bit era. Which is better, PAL or NTSC. More importantly, what’s the difference? If you’ve ever been confused about this eternal struggle, we’re here to help. If you don’t know your RGB from your RF, your 60HZ from your Big Black Borders, and perhaps you’re complexed why box art varies so much from region to region, don’t worry… the boys cover all this and more as they pu...
Jul 24, 2020•1 hr 52 min
Y'aar welcome to an episode themed around swashbuckling pirate games. Join Drisky and Kingy as they go through various gaming systems and various genres within the theme. Games features in this episode are: Booty Overboard Monkey Island 2 Pirates Capt'n Havoc Skull & Crossbones Cutthroat island Windwaker Show Notes: Alwa's Legacy https://store.steampowered.com/app/1205900/Alwas_Legacy/...
Jul 10, 2020•2 hr 22 min
Join Kingy and Drisky as they turn their eye to the amazing SNES and Super Famicom and some hidden platform game gems. Games covered are; Super Adventure Island 2 https://youtu.be/Mq9puS2dark Umihara Kawase (girl with fishing line) https://youtu.be/FDt4ulUnBrc Plok https://youtu.be/r-29NkxK6YY Link to Pickford Bros site and Plok Comics: http://www.zee-3.com/pickfordbros/ Do-Re-Mi Fantasy - Milon no Dokidoki Daibouken (Elf) https://youtu.be/WXNmZb2U3SY Claymates https://youtu.be/9UWlVQ1i9Ag Sutte...
Jun 19, 2020•2 hr 5 min
Join Garron and Drisky as they take you through some more classic Amiga Shooters on Volume 2 of our imaginary compilation of Amiga Shooters. Supercade Book 2 : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vanburnham/supercade-a-visual-history-of-the-videogame-age-1985-2001 SEGA Announcement (FOG & Game Gear Mini) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6XBIhtFg58 Adventure Game Studio: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/ FS-UAE Emu: https://fs-uae.net/ Buy Kickstarter roms officially: https://www.amig...
Jun 06, 2020•2 hr 23 min
Kingy is joined by 3 fantastic guests in this fascinating topic of text adventures; back to an era when flashy graphics meant nothing, but good writing was everything. Guests are: Mark Hardisty, curator of Classic Adventurer magazine Tim Gilberts - owner of Gilsoft and the genius behind The Quill, Illustrator and PAW Stefan Vogt - a modern day text adventure author. Show Notes: Classic Adventurer http://classicadventurer.co.uk/ A Gremlin in the Works - https://www.bitmapbooks.co.uk/products/a-gr...
May 22, 2020•2 hr 50 min
In this episode, Professor Will Brooker makes his return visit and chats with Kingy, the oddity that is/was British Gaming. They discuss the obscure British references during the 8-bit era; a time when international sales was but a pipe dream. Join the guys as they take a stroll down suburbia and chat about working class depictions in games. Show notes: The ZX Spectrum Experience Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp5NLOIuJRk Klass of 99 - Skooldaze sequel http://retrospec.sgn.net/users/r...
May 08, 2020•2 hr 15 min
We thought in these strange times, we would look for our listeners how to Netplay, in other words playing classic retro machines remotely. To add to the fun, Kingy and Drisky decided to have a competition of some versus games on the Mega Drive and 32X virtually, where the very honour of our retro gaming crown and our respective countries were at stake.
Apr 24, 2020•2 hr 40 min
Kingy and Drisky dive back into the wonderful world of magazine cover tapes and disks on the Amiga and Spectrum. Cor Blimey! Howz-about a free exclusive book to accompany show for every listener!!! ... https://archive.org/details/rgdscovertapewars_202004/mode/2up Talk about generous!!!
Apr 09, 2020•2 hr 51 min
At last, and back my popular demand, the team return to the epic battle-fest that is Best Game of 1987. The lads argued, fought and whittled the list down to a whopping 25 games and then argue their case for their own personal top 5. Which game will be crowned the top game of this year. Join Drisky, Kingy, Ric and Garron as they try their best to entertain you in such a difficult time we are globally living in. Please note that many references made in this episode were recorded prior to the lock...
Mar 25, 2020•4 hr 55 min
Drisky and Kingy return with volume 2 and continue on their journey of rare arcade game discovery. This time, the lads go through Drisky's chosen list. Games featured in this episode are: Big Karnak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw8QpIejpg4 Racing Hero https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcv62GL_Sj4 EDF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkgO23Ye7DM Vendetta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX4Rf_DghKg Cyvern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfjSAM1OVvQ Asura Blade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZrIC...
Mar 13, 2020•2 hr 28 min
The kings of retro fighters RetroRic, Matt Lambourne and Matt Aguilera revisit the gory age of the early games of the Mortal Kombat franchise. MK1, MK2, MK3, UMK3 and MK Trilogy. Talking fatalities, controversies, secrets, censorship, the impact of the franchise and its lasting legacy within the vs fighting scene. FINISH HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mortal Kombat II Unlimited https://youtu.be/gdoe0ApzPDM Fergality https://youtu.be/HZ-xxOjBKtE Lawsuits https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_surroun...
Feb 28, 2020•2 hr 36 min
Join Kingy and Drisky as they take you through some obscure arcade gaming gems. We all love discovering new games and we all get paralysed by the sheer choice of most retro collections, that we thought it would be fun if we choose an obscure gem in each genre for us all to try. Volume 1 is Kingy's choices with Volume 2 and Drisky's choices coming soon. We would also love you the listeners to give your suggestions. So come join us as Kingy suggest some real wonders, we would love for you to try t...
Feb 14, 2020•2 hr 10 min
Join Garron and Drisky as they take you through some classic Amiga Shooters. The Games covered: Hybris: Hybris Video Hybris Manual Battle Squadron: Battle Squadron Video Battle Squadron Manual Blood Money: Blood Money Video Blood Money Manual Z-Out: Z-Out Video Z-Out Manual SWIV: SWIV Video SWIV Manual Project X: Special Edition: Project X : SE Video Project X: SE Manual Project X Original Manual Disposable Hero: Disposable Hero Video Disposable Hero Manual Banshee: Banshee Video Banshee Manual ...
Jan 31, 2020•2 hr 9 min
Join Kingy and Ric in this epic episode where the lads share their memories and chosen games in this exciting 8-bit era. They mainly focus on the micro-computers of this period; if Commodore, Sinclair, Atari, Acorn and Amstrad floats your boat, then this is the episode for you. Expect gaming anecdotes, the bad humming of tunes and camaraderie driven banter. Combat Hack Red vs Blue https://atariage.com/hack_page.php?SystemID=2600&SoftwareHackID=197 Combat Comeback https://archive.org/details/...
Jan 16, 2020•3 hr 58 min
Join Drisky, Garron, Ric, Jon and Kingy as they drunkenly celebrate the year end and reflect over all the previous decades of gaming. Warning: This episode contains alcohol misuse, swearing and other type of content not suitable for all. You have been warned. We'd like to thank our of our listeners for making 2009 great and we shall see you all in 2020.
Dec 29, 2019•2 hr 17 min
In celebration of the new Star Wars film, ending of a Saga, join Drisky and Kingy as they chat about some of the lesser known Star Wars Games out there, that we love and all mixed in with two big hitters that are our favourites. Don't forget Drisky wrote the book on Star Wars Video Games (literally) way in his time at Retro Asylum, so have a read with this free pdf book that covers every Star Wars game ever made (up to 2014 when it was written)... https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxvnp7cHAPAZR3N...
Dec 06, 2019•2 hr 15 min
Join Drisky and Kingy as they chat about the very much underrated Atari 7800. Could it have been the dominant console if it were released when planned? There are some real gems of games on this system, so join the lads as they wax lyrical about them. Show notes:- Paul Davies' book - Florin's Zx Spectrum Haul of Games - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07ZZGDDXX/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Blast Annual 2020 https://www.facebook.com/groups/2286690961659824/ Baggers in Space https:...
Nov 23, 2019•2 hr 9 min
The 20th of October saw the RGDS team make their annual pilgrimage to Arcade Club in Bury. Join Drisky and Kingy as they chat about the weekend and go over their choices of "games of the weekend". Apologies for the distortion in my mic, I hadn't noticed the gain had been knocked up. (Kingy) Show notes:- Kingy's video interviewing the RGDS team at Arcade Club https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeVx-oBKIco#action=share Will Brooker's successful ZX Spectrum documentary Kickstarter https://www.kickstar...
Nov 01, 2019•2 hr 37 min
Join Matt, Aaron and Garron as they talk about their Dreamcast journey, as the console now hits 20 in the PAL region. We chat about made this short lived console so great, some of our favourite games and its legacy. Join the team as they talk about the first entry to the 6th generation of consoles. Matt has shared his awesome Apple Music Crazy Taxi playlist https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/2019-music-from-and-inspired-by-crazy-taxi/pl.u-Z60Jsr2G3o Mike Phelan over at the fantastic Dreamcast J...
Oct 14, 2019•1 hr 57 min
Drisky and Kingy take you through some classic Sega games that appeared on Sega 3D Classics Collection on the 3DS by M2. Don't worry if you don't have a 3DS as really its an excuse (as if we needed one) to talk through some great Sega retro classics. 3D VR NES emulator https://geod.itch.io/3dnes/devlog/26400/3dnes-v2-release Kingy guesting on Arcade Perfect chatting about Power Drift https://arcadeperfectau.podbean.com/e/arcade-perfect-podcast-ep-17-powerdrift/ Super Bub on Net Yaroze https://ww...
Sep 21, 2019•1 hr 45 min
No. 250 is upon us. There is no better way to celebrate our sestercentennial episode than have a bumper episode featuring the grossly underrated Sega Dreamcast. Join Drisky and Kingy as they discuss their favourite games in our continuing series of A to Z. Will Brooker's Kickstarter trailer/kickstarter for ZX Spectrum Experience. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mscsi/the-zx-spectrum-experience/...
Aug 29, 2019•2 hr 59 min
Kingy and Drisky chat about some of their favourite games in this tactical genre. The chosen list is one in which the rules of engagement and concise and they are very accessible for players who may be new/shy to this style of game. Don't worry about overly complicated tutorials; the guys are too old and impatient for that kind of thing these days :) Games featured in the episode are Rebelstar Raiders Rebelstar Hero Quest Space Crusade Advance Wars Worms Gladius Show notes:- Dr Ninja's Hero Ques...
Aug 02, 2019•2 hr 26 min
In this episode Drisky and G set sail looking at some of the best Japanese only Sega Saturn games to play and how to play them. There are lots of hidden gems for you to discover and enjoy here, so join us by trying some of these great games and telling us what you think. Come Join us on Discord and tell us what you think: https://discord.gg/jGZuZWy Games Super Tempo : https://youtu.be/Y_Cr8HP9EnQ Pui Li Ru : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyI3b8fWKZQ Game Tengoku: The Game's Paradise! : https:/...
Jul 19, 2019•1 hr 52 min
Ric and Kingy team up to discuss their favourite beat 'em ups. It's such a special genre close to their hearts. Many classics and some lesser known ones are discussed. Expect the usual banter and many memories of these brawler games. Show notes:- Bruce Lee remakes... C64 Bruce Lee II - http://kollektivet.nu/brucelee2/ ROCK HARD!!!! SMS version: http://www.smspower.org/Homebrew/BruceLee-SMS By Kagesan - This was a competition entry in 2014 (SMSPOWER.ORG) Slaps and Beans - https://store.steampower...
Jul 05, 2019•2 hr 26 min
Drisk is joined by Garron and Kingy as they discuss their own experiences in both camps of retro gaming. The pros and cons are discussed of both physical collecting and that of emulating. There is no right way, only your way. Show notes:- Spectrum DAW example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59eXA48x2SM M2 Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc5DlOkOcU4&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR155n0e7uRs-rB5e8-6QPcsZJ5ViuZEj3b-MebrmAC9u0SSob2qbL2eyW4 Electric Underground Podcast https://podcas...
Jun 21, 2019•3 hr 31 min
Drisky and Garron catch up with Revival organiser Craig Turner to discuss this year's Revival even in Walsall. Full details of the event can be found here- https://www.revivalretroevents.co.uk/ Hope to see some of our listeners there
Jun 07, 2019•1 hr 35 min
In celebration of The Drisk becoming a grandad!!! We decided it would be fun to have a show featuring games featuring babies/toddlers. Join Drisky, Garron and Kingy as they try and change the nappies on these retro classics. Come join the chat on our Discord channel.. https://discord.gg/BwUwY8A Games featured in this episode are:- Aero Wings 2 Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa Chuck Rock 2 Herbert's Dummy Run Jack the Nipper 1 & 2 Messiah Yoshi's Island Show Notes - Drisky's Jack the Nipper Map - http...
May 17, 2019•2 hr 49 min
Yes Drisky and Garron look through what we consider the top 5 movie licenses on the humble original Gameboy. There are some classic games talked about so take a listen and join us as we play through it. The RGDS Discord Channel: A new place for our listeners to all meet up and chat. Lots of fun and useful knowledge with a great group. We hope to see you there soon. https://discord.gg/f583qJa Ant Stream Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/234135283/antstream-retro-gaming-reborn/desc...
May 03, 2019•1 hr 30 min
Please note:- There are 2 versions of this episode; the stereo mix is done in a cinematic way to celebrate the movies. If you, for whatever reason, require the mono version - please choose that one For best listening experience use headphones in a dark room with some alcoholic beverages of your choice :D In this epic sci-fi episode, Ric and Kingy awake from their retro cryo-pods aboard the RGDS Nostromo and chat about all these lovely Alien themed games. The titles range from the 8-bit era, righ...
Apr 19, 2019•3 hr 59 min
Please note:- There are 2 versions of this episode; the stereo mix is done in a cinematic way to celebrate the movies. If you, for whatever reason, require the mono version - please choose that one For best listening experience use headphones in a dark room with some alcoholic beverages of your choice :D In this epic sci-fi episode, Ric and Kingy awake from their retro cryo-pods aboard the RGDS Nostromo and chat about all these lovely Alien themed games. The titles range from the 8-bit era, righ...
Apr 19, 2019•3 hr 58 min
