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.

Will you be pre-ordering The A1200?
10/11/2025

Will you be pre-ordering The A1200?

09/11/2025

Thanks to Gamesyouloved we got to have a good look at the Vectrex Mini. Stay tuned to the Retro Asylum podcast for more info 👍

08/11/2025

A newly made game that celebrates the 40th anniversary of the SEGA MarkIII console in Japan (that’s the Sega Master System to the rest of us). Download it at https://badcomputer0.itch.io/astro-climber

04/11/2025

Later tonight we will be chatting to David Oghia who is the man behind the mini Kickstarter project. If you have a question for David, please do let us know.

03/11/2025

Will you be backing this Kickstarter campaign?

02/11/2025

This is a clip of the latest episode of the Retro Asylum podcast in which Darran Jones who is the editor of Retro Gamer magazine is interviewed.

Here is the video version of our latest podcast, enjoy!https://youtu.be/xShUY0_C5dQ?si=xB8H7MqmXxoDi5tN ...
02/11/2025

Here is the video version of our latest podcast, enjoy!

https://youtu.be/xShUY0_C5dQ?si=xB8H7MqmXxoDi5tN

Dean Swain & Jim Middleton are joined by the editor of Retro Gamer Magazine Darran Jones for an exclusive interview. Find out how Darran first got into writi...

It's time for a new episode and it's a long one! Dean & Jim are joined this time by Retro Gamer magazine editor Darran J...
02/11/2025

It's time for a new episode and it's a long one! Dean & Jim are joined this time by Retro Gamer magazine editor Darran Jones, in which we discuss loads about the magazine, about Darran, how he got into writing, how he started his career journalism and even what his order is down at his local fish & chip shop: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/retroasylum/Episode_360.mp3 This episode is also available on YouTube. Please do use the Hype feature if you can or give it a thumbs up if you can please, it's much appreciated! https://youtu.be/xShUY0_C5dQ?si=Ek3kXbK0ypBSyRU5

As Halloween edges closer, Jim Middleton takes a look a spooky arcade styled game called Silver Bullet published by Flyn...
30/10/2025

As Halloween edges closer, Jim Middleton takes a look a spooky arcade styled game called Silver Bullet published by Flynns Arcade that has just been released for Steam & Nintendo Switch: https://youtu.be/UaZTxP3KLPc?si=f-E8IqfJohwsiGIg

Jim takes a look at Silver Bullet, a new gothic arcade gallery style shooter available now on the Nintendo Switch and Steam.https://retroasylum.comNintendo S...

In our latest video, Chris O’Regan takes a good look at the Pac Man Edition of the Atari 2600 Plus: https://youtu.be/dEJ...
29/10/2025

In our latest video, Chris O’Regan takes a good look at the Pac Man Edition of the Atari 2600 Plus: https://youtu.be/dEJI2bHcmRQ?si=OAZYPjdCv7N1mOzj

Those lovely people at Atari sent us an Atari 2600+ Console - Pacman edition for us to review. We give the retail box a grand opening and put the machine thr...

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