Retro Dodo Podcast - Retro Gaming News, Interviews and Stories

On today's episode Seb is joined by award winning stand-up comedian and writer Mike Drucker. Mike has worked on incredible shows such as Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, as well as working as a writer at Nintendo. He joined us on the podcast to talk about his new book 'Good Game no rematch', an incredibly funny read that looks into his retro gaming past and how video games have shaped his life for the better… but mostly for worse. 

In this bonus episode Brandon & Seb discuss the major changes that are happening at Retro Dodo, why the website has changed, how Google is still attacking us and what you can do to help our independent publication!

Today we are joined by Liam Sherwood of Sore Thumb Retro Games, a shop that I consider to be the heart of gaming in Yorkshire and my local retro gaming Valhalla. I chatted with Liam about his love of Wrestling Games and the best title in WWE series, the importance of game preservation, current and future trends when it comes to purchasing nostalgic media, the challenges involved with running a busy store, and much more. 

In this episode of the Retro Dodo Podcast, I chat with Matsy the Pokémon Tattooer, a tattoo artist from Dublin, Ireland who has become a social media sensation thanks to his amazing gaming tattoos and pop-culture mashups. We spoke about finding inspiration through retro games, how Pokémon shaped us as children, a failed X-Factor audition, a Pokémon Go addiction, and much more!

In todays episode we chat to the studio behind one of our favourite games from our childhood, Croc: Legend of the Gobbos. Join us as we talk with Argonaut Games founder Jez San OBE, Croc's Original Animator Jason Smith, and Mike Arkin, the man responsible for bringing Croc back to modern audiences on current-gen consoles

We speak about the development of the original, the difficulties, the successes, how it finally evolved into an upcoming remake and how they're absolutely not working on a Croc 2 remake...

Today we're joined by grammy award winning arranger and two time grammy nominee Jake Silverman, a chiptune artist and video game composer who you may know better as Button Masher on Social Media and Spotify.

Jake joined us on the podcast to talk about that incredible grammy win, who he's competing against for his second grammy, his favourite retro game soundtracks and more!

We speak with Tofer, you may know him from social media as he has over 300,000 followers and creates remarkable short-form video content!

In this episode of Retrospect we are joined by Devin Supertramp, one of the biggest film making YouTubers around and has an obsession with video games, which is very obvious if you are a subscriber. We chat about his history, how we managed to snag a job with Nintendo and what he's working on next that has a retro gaming focus!

In this episode of Retrospect we talk with Brent Scotchmer, an avid collector, and illustrator for well known collectible brands such as POG, Topps & Garbage Pail Kids. We discuss what the future of collecting looks like, how to be the "go-to" collector in your town, and what Brent himself is collecting!

We have the honour to speak with Riley Testut, the founder of the Alt Store and the incredibly popular emulator known as Delta. We talk about his origin story, how he founded both businesses and what the implications were when Adobe came knocking.