IT'S GOOD TO TALK Retro Gaming Podcasts Special

If we’re going to talk about retro gaming podcasts, we should probably start with the granddaddy of them all. The US-based Retronauts began back in 2006, not long after the very emergence of podcasts as a concept – and although host Jeremy Parish isn’t sure whether it was the first ever podcast dedicated to retro gaming, he’s certain it was definitely one of them. “Around that time I was at 1up.com, and some of the people on staff got wind of […] this new thing happening called podcasts,” he recalls. “So I said, you know, it’d be fun to do something focused on classic gaming because that’s kind of an underserved area – and that was it.”

The first episode talked about the launch of Final Fantasy III for the then-current Nintendo DS, remembers Jeremy, which marked the first time that the game had been localised into English. “To me, that was really sort of the mission statement for the podcast: not just to talk about old games, but to put them into perspective,” Jeremy highlights. “Like, tie them to something