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.

03/01/2026

A very quick play of Chase H.Q

03/01/2026

Not played StarWars in a while. Playing in “Hard” mode, I do quite well on the first run but go to pieces the second time around.

30/12/2025

Originally planned to be a Gauntlett sequel, Xybots didn’t see any console conversions apart from on the Atari Lynx, which thankfully is a great conversion of the arcade original.

29/12/2025

The Atari Lynx got a great conversion of the 1984 Namco arcade game Pacland. Being played on real hardware.

26/12/2025

Every year we invite Gordon King from the RGDS podcast to appear on the Retro Asylum Christmas episodes. This year we decided to do a Secret Santa... What did Kingy get?

The best Christmas card that we received this year was from our good friend Laurence Bennion of https://www.blacklighter...
24/12/2025

The best Christmas card that we received this year was from our good friend Laurence Bennion of https://www.blacklighter.co.uk who makes the brilliant UV overlays for the Vectrex. You can checkout his page at https://facebook.com/laurence.bennion Nice one Laurence and we hope that you have a great Christmas! 👍👍👍

Anyone else looking forward to the Intellivision Sprint?
23/12/2025

Anyone else looking forward to the Intellivision Sprint?

If your shelf jumps from Atari to Nintendo, there’s a gap, Intellivision Sprint fills it!

Available now at https://bit.ly/4qexPwS

in September of 1989 a small bunch of school kids from Hackney attended the ECTS show (the European Computer Trade Show)...
20/12/2025

in September of 1989 a small bunch of school kids from Hackney attended the ECTS show (the European Computer Trade Show). One of those kids went on to host a certain podcast. Anyway, whilst those kids where there, they were quickly interviewed for a BBC Documentary about video games. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5d88x1wBFU

We’ve just released a video on our YouTube channel that takes a look at the unreleased arcade version of LED Storm:https...
14/12/2025

We’ve just released a video on our YouTube channel that takes a look at the unreleased arcade version of LED Storm:

https://youtu.be/7BX6Hs_a1ik?si=3ACm1HItrslHqWDV

Dean Swain takes a look at the version of Capcom's LED Storm that didn't make it to the arcades and yet did recieve a conversion to the home micro's courtesy...

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