Category: Retro Memories
AJ and Joerg start off their series to dig into what’s going on about gaming in Jamaica – For this episode we’re happy to welcome Wayne Benjamin. He is one of the most influential video game and Esports journalists from Jamaica. Enjoy! (interview begins at 18:00) https://scene.world/thelabvideogametv
Retroaccion, the organizers of the event RetroMañía, has announced a new programming contest which objective is to pay homage to the first video game ever written – SpaceWar!, programmed in 1962 for the PDP-1 by Steve Russell in collaboration with Martin Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen, Bob Saunders, Steve Piner, and others. The contest asks for the participants to write a game…
It’s time for a look into our archives. – a talk with Andreas Escher (Rainbow Arts): Working since the 80s in the German game industry, he’s a pioneering graphic artist responsible for C64 gems like Katakis or Turrican and many more on various home computers and consoles of that era. Get ready for some insights and stories about his time…
Hello World! We are happy to have one of the most prolific Chiptune musicians in our podcast – Tronimal. He released music for the Gameboy, ZX Spectrum and even the TI-82 calculator! Besides some tech talk, the virtuoso gives us some interesting insights and talks about his upcoming projects. Interview starts at 18:12. http://scene.world/tronimal
Blake Patterson has posted on his excellent blog “The Byte Cellar,” an excellent article where he talks about his 35 years as an amiga user. As he says initially, it is a “meandering and reminiscent” type of post, which I’d say is one of the best types of reading when we feel walking down memory lane for an extra dose…
My history with Windows started with version 3.0 but PCs and DOS/Windows never brought me any nostalgia. Maybe because I always think that the current Windows 10 is not much different than what the 3.0 version delivered, at least at the fundamental level of having many desktop apps running simultaneously (ok, not really) where you can switch between them at…
He is a veteran graphic designer, coder and composer, mostly recognized for for the cool soundtrack of Game Boy Color games such as “Happy Hippo” for the Kinder Surprise brand! In this interview he talks about how he started with is love for game music, learned how to code, do graphics and finally was able to turn his love for music…
Habitat, and its final version Club Caribe, was one of the world’s first MMORPGs: an immersive, graphical, virtual world populated by C64 users in real time through the Quantumlink Network. Randy Farmer is one of the original architects of that world, and he remains involved in maintaining the project to this day. He joins AJ and Joerg to talk about…














