Retro Asylum

06/09/2025

Tonight at 8pm GMT Jim & Mads will be playing Rick Dangerous live on the Retro Asylum YouTube channel! How will a newbie to the game (that will be Jim) get on with the challenge? Find out: https://youtube.com/?si=nHTkNH4NQ2IQ1EZx

20/08/2025

Mini Vectrex on the way? So it seems! https://x.com/vectrexon

UPDATE*
So with a bit more investigation, it seems that this project is heading to Kickstarter soon. For more information and to sign up to the newsletter, visit https://vectrex.com

17/08/2025

It’s the video version of the latest Retro Asylum podcast! In episode 357 of The Retro Asylum hosts Chris O’Regan and Jim Middleton focus their attention on the 8th arcade cartridge for the Evercade series of consoles. I boasts 8 games from Toaplan’s back catalogue of arcade games. Not only do the hosts chat about each game, but they also announce the winners of the high score challenge as well as the prize draw for some Evercade related goodies.

In episode 357 of The Retro Asylum hosts Chris O'Regan and Jim Middleton focus their attention on the 8th arcade cartridge fo...

17/08/2025

In episode 357 of The Retro Asylum hosts Chris O’Regan and Jim Middleton focus their attention on the 8th arcade cartridge for the Evercade series of consoles. I boasts 8 games from Toaplan’s back catalogue of arcade games. Not only do the hosts chat about each game, but they also announce the winners of the high score challenge as well as the prize draw for some Evercade related goodies.

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/retroasylum/Episode_357.mp3

17/08/2025

Retro Asylum - The UK’s No.1 Retro Gaming Podcast : Episode 357: Toaplan Arcade 1

In episode 357 of The Retro Asylum hosts Chris O'Regan and Jim Middleton focus their attention on the 8th arcade cartridge for the Evercade series of consoles. It boasts 8 games from Toaplan's back catalogue of arcade games. Not only do the hosts chat about each game, but they also announce the winn...

17/08/2025

There’s less than 16 hours to go before your time runs out to back the 3rd ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter campaign! Will you be backing it? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spectrumnext/zx-spectrum-next-issue-3-0

16/08/2025

Can you remember Project X on the Amiga? Good, well there's a new version out that is called Project X: Light Years that has been released on Steam. Chris O'Regan reviews it for us over on our YouTube channel:

Chris O'Regan plays Project X Light Years, a reimagined version of the classic Amiga shoot 'em up Project X that has been...

04/08/2025

New games for old systems, here is a review of Tiger Heli for the Atari 7800:

https://youtu.be/ACL1e-uJYiE?si=EHAUjBPq0QXwTlpf

Defend the skies in a challenging, 7800 conversion of an arcade classic. This vertically scrolling shooter game was first released in 1985 as an arcade game,...

02/08/2025

Chris O'Regan play's Earthion which is a new 16-bit shoot em up that has been developed for the Sega Megadrive/Genesis but is currently available on Steam. Earthion will soon be released for Switch, PlayStation and Xbox and a physical cartridge will be released for the Megadrive/Genesis in 2026.

Chris O'Regan play's Earthion which is a new 16-bit shoot em up that has been developed for the Sega Megadrive/Genesis but is currently available on Steam. E...

02/08/2025

It’s 2025 and physical cartridges are being released for both the Atari 2600 & 7800 platforms which is mad! Here is Tiger Heli for the Atari 7800 and this is running on our original Atari 7800 hardware (it’s also compatible with the recently released Atari 2600 Plus and the 7800 Plus).

28/07/2025

Here is the video edition of our current podcast episode in which myself & Chris O’Regan chat to Henrique Olifiers and Chris Hill about the amazingly successful 3rd Kickstarter campaign of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Next and a whole lot more!

Christopher O'Regan and Dean Swain chat to Henrique Olifiers and Chris Hill about the amazingly successful 3rd Kickstarter campaign of the Sinclair ZX Spectr...