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Retro Asylum - The UK’s No.1 Retro Gaming Podcast

The Retro Asylum is the UK’s number one retro gaming podcast show that looks at gaming culture from a UK perspective. The show regularly features at top of the iTunes chart and sits among some of the industry's biggest names.
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Now displaying: July, 2015
Jul 24, 2015

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Episode 121 is our special interview with the Godfather of football management games, Kevin Toms. We talk with Kevin about his first steps in game making, his games and the new IOS game Kevin Toms Football. Also in this episode Dean and Paul chat about what’s been happening, answer your questions in ‘Ask RA’ and run through the avalanche of retro crowd funding projects that are out there right now. Kevin Toms blog: http://blog.kevintoms.com/ Kevin Toms Football App Store link: https://appsto.re/gb/H9fN6.i Main Site Sponsors http://www.playexpo.net For all the latest news on Play Margate. http://funstock.co.uk Loads of excellent gift ideas here, from the Neo Geo X, JXD Android Gaming Tablet and much more! Get 5% off your order using the discount code ‘asylum’ at checkout. http://www.retrotowers.co.uk The only place to pick up the fantastic Everdrive and retro console cables and peripherals. For 5% off your order use the discount code ‘retroasylum’ at checkout. July site Sponsors- Nicholas Lees, Garron Tungate, John McManus, Michael Keith, Retrotowers.co.uk, Retromash.com. If you’d like to sponsor the show please visit our website at http://www.retroasylum.com and click the donate button at the bottom of our homepage. Everything pledged goes straight back into maintaining the site, so if you enjoy the show please consider donating. Any feedback is more than welcome and please leave us an iTunes review to help us spread the word to all the Retromaniacs out there.

Jul 17, 2015

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Episode 120 is our special coverage of the official launch of the ZX Spectrum Vega console. SMS Electronics gave us exclusive behind the scenes access to the console’s manufacturing process and we spoke to the key people responsible for bringing this project to life. We speak with Chris Smith, Chief Technical Officer and David Levy, Chairman of Retro Computers. So, if you had any questions about the Vega here’s where you’ll find the answer. The home of the Sinclair Vega- http://zxvega.co.uk/ Twitter- @sinclairzxvega SMS Electronics- http://www.smselectronics.co.uk/ Twitter- @SMSElectronics Main Site Sponsors http://www.playexpo.net For all the latest news on Play Margate. http://funstock.co.uk Loads of excellent gift ideas here, from the Neo Geo X, JXD Android Gaming Tablet and much more! Get 5% off your order using the discount code ‘asylum’ at checkout. http://www.retrotowers.co.uk The only place to pick up the fantastic Everdrive and retro console cables and peripherals. For 5% off your order use the discount code ‘retroasylum’ at checkout. July site Sponsors- Nicholas Lees, Garron Tungate, John McManus, Michael Keith, Retrotowers.co.uk, Retromash.com. If you’d like to sponsor the show please visit our website at http://www.retroasylum.com and click the donate button at the bottom of our homepage. Everything pledged goes straight back into maintaining the site, so if you enjoy the show please consider donating. Any feedback is more than welcome and please leave us an iTunes review to help us spread the word to all the Retromaniacs out there.

Jul 10, 2015

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Dean and Paul deliver a news and info update as well as bringing focus to an often-overlooked system, the Sharp X68000. The Retro Asylum has been listed in the Video Games category of the prestigious 2015 UK Podcaster Awards! We want to really encourage every member of our awesome community to help us be in with a chance of winning the award by voting for us on the dedicated page: http://ukpodcasters.com/directory/podcast/uk-retro-gaming-podcast-games-culture-curators/ Nine Worlds on 7-9 August 2015. It’s about gaming, film, cosplay, fandom, literature, science, geek culture, meeting people and having a really big party: https://nineworlds.co.uk/ Sharp X68000, XM6 Pro68k emulator: http://mijet.eludevisibility.org/XM6%20Pro-68k/XM6%20Pro-68k.html Sinclair Vega: http://www.retro-computers.co.uk/ Jump on our forums for stacks of retro chat: http://retroasylum.com/phpbb/index.php Check out our Official Retro Asylum YouTube channel to see the team playing and review the best retro games out there! http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfCC9rIvCKoW3mdbuCsB7Ag Main Site Sponsors http://www.playexpo.net For all the latest news on Play Margate keep an eye on their site. http://www.funstock.co.uk Loads of excellent gift ideas here, from Neo Geo X, JXD Android Gaming Tablet and much more! Get 5% off your order using the discount code ‘asylum’ at checkout. http://www.retrotowers.co.uk The only place to pick up the fantastic Everdrive and retro console cables and peripherals. For 5% off your order use the discount code ‘retroasylum’ at checkout. July site Sponsors- Dino Dini, Mads Kristensen, Nicholas Lees, Darron Tungate, John McManus, Michael Keith, Retrotowers.co.uk, Retromash.com. If you’d like to sponsor the show please visit our website at retroasylum.com and click the donate button at the bottom of our homepage. Everything pledged goes straight back into maintaining the site, so if you enjoy the show please consider donating. Any feedback is more than welcome and please leave us an iTunes review if you haven’t already.

Jul 5, 2015

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The Retro Asylum has been listed in the Video Games category of the prestigious 2015 UK Podcaster Awards! We’re extremely proud of our show and making the finalist list and receiving credit for our hard work and love for retro gaming culture would mean a great deal to us. We want to really encourage every member of our awesome community to help us be in with a chance of winning the award by voting for us on the dedicated page below: http://ukpodcasters.com/directory/podcast/uk-retro-gaming-podcast-games-culture-curators/ The nomination process only takes a few moments and you can do so by using your email, facebook or Google accounts. The voting for finalists runs until the end of July so please get voting now for the RA Team! More information is available via the UK Podcaster Awards page and our website: http://ukpodcasters.com/uk-podcasters-awards/ http://retroasylum.com/retro-asylum-nominated-for-the-uks-podcasters-awards/

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