This week on The Retro Hour news, we’re looking at The Adventure of Node, a brand new Zelda-style RPG in development for AGA Amigas, complete with colourful top-down adventuring, smooth scrolling, monsters, caves, and a playable demo. https://postly.click/UYp
This is a brilliant preservation project. Flash Museum has archived over 130,000 Flash games and animations and made them playable again right in your browser. When Adobe killed Flash in 2021 a huge chunk of internet history nearly disappeared forever. https://flashmuseum.org/
What bargains are you hoping to find at the upcoming Gaming Market? 👀
Share your wish list for the next Milton Keynes Gaming Market! Are you searching for a rare retro game, the final Amiibo to complete your collection, or a boxed SNES? Let us know in the comments! 🎮🕹️👇
There were some bad video game tie ins over the years but Simpsons Skateboarding somehow passed me by. Released in 2002 for the PS2, clearly trying to cash in on the skating game craze.
As well as making podcasts we love listening to them too. Some of our favourites right now are Retro Asylum, Cane and Rinse, This Week in Retro, Into the Vertical Blank and anything from the guys at Amigos Retro Gaming Network . Give them a listen! https://www.everythingamiga.com/
Pandemic Studios ran a promotion for Mercenaries 2 in 2008 where they offered free fuel to gamers. It was an absolute disaster. With oil prices at record highs, the queues were massive and the whole thing descended into chaos. One of the most ill-timed and shambolic gaming promotions ever.
https://boingboing.net/2026/03/19/the-first-recording-of-computer-music-was-playing-at-the-wrong-pitch-for-decades.html The very first recording of computer music, made on Alan Turing's computer in 1951, had been playing at the wrong pitch for decades.