Our guest is Seamus Keane, Director of Special Events at the Cradle of Aviation Museum, and creator of the Arcade Age Exhibit. Seamus walks us through the creation of the exhibit and what it means to the history of preservation of the bygone e

George Smith, Racing Game Enthusiast - Episode 16

May 5th, 2023 42m 19s

Mike sits down with George Smith, one of LIRetro's freeplay coordinators and general racing and racing game enthusiast.

Brendan Returns - Episode 015

Mar 27th, 2023 45m 46s

Brendan Bailey returns to talk retro with Mike.

Joel Albino / State of the Retro - Episode 14

Jan 30th, 2023 49m 37s

Join Mike as he chats with Expo Operations Coordinator Joel Albino about what's in store for this year's show.

Rizuki

Dec 20th, 2022 46m 55s

Join Mike as he chats with Rizuki, LIRetro's Cosplay Coordinator about Cosplay in general and the growth of the art form at LIRetro,

Anatoly Shashkin / Dos Nostalgia - Episode 012

Nov 29th, 2022 47m 31s

Join Mike as he chats with Anatoly Shashkin aka Dos Nostalgia, a true steward of classic PC Gaming and also the PC Gaming Coordinator for LIRetro.

Expo Museum Recap / Solo Game Development - Episode 011

Oct 27th, 2022 52m 13s

Join Mike and Brendan as they recap the museum section at the 2022 Long Island Retro Gaming Expo and talk about Brendan's advertures being a solo game developer. A sprinkling of pinball also makes it's way in. Follow the development of Nixie

Interview with Matt Papa / Inti Creates

Jul 14th, 2021 1h 11m

Using the magic of radio, Mike beams himself all the way to Japan for an interview with Matt Papa from Inti Creates! Inti's next (and very exciting) release is Blaster Master Zero 3, releasing on July 29th, 2021. http://blastermaster-zero.com

New Host! / Interview with an Expo Founder

Jun 28th, 2021 1h

Join Mike Staub - the NEW host of the Long Island Retro Gaming podcast as he takes the reins from the old host and Expo coordinator Joel. Mike and Joel discuss the origins of the Expo, what our goal is when running the convention, and the speci

Introduction to MISTer FPGA - Episode 008

Apr 19th, 2020 1h 20m

Join Joel and George as they talk about what an FPGA is and the MISTer project. This was the first live LIRG Podcast with questions from the audience. Resources - A great article about MISTer - http://www.racketboy.com/retro/mister-fpga-the-fut

Odyssey of A PONG Arcade MAchine

Feb 19th, 2020 38m 36s

George " The Wizard" Portugal joins us in this companion podcast to his Youtube video series about the unique repair and history of a certain Pong arcade machine which has a direct connection to the founder of Atari.

Intro to Pinball

Jan 26th, 2020 1h 1m

Guest Brendan Bailey takes up through the long and storied history of pinball machines form the 1800s to today. We also try to answer the question - Why is pinball so much fun?

Bonus

Computer Space Restoration / Repair

Dec 27th, 2019 20m 21s

George from 1upRestorations tells the story of the restoration and repair of a Computer Space arcade cabinet, which had the distinction of being the first ever commercially released arcade machine in the Podcast "Quick-Bit."

Dan Policar

Dec 17th, 2019 1h 19m

Dan Policar is a Grammy nominated keyboardist, songwriter and producer. He has performed with Jamaican dancehall artist Sean Paul since 2012 and has worked with a number of other artists including Ellie Gouldling and Ricky Martin. Dan is also

System Modifications

Dec 10th, 2019 48m 58s

George from 1upRestorations walks us through some of the nuts and bolts on how classic video game systems output video and audio, and discusses some of the mods available to give these old systems new and better fidelity.

Content Creators / Creation In Today's World

Nov 29th, 2019 53m 17s

Join guest Elea from Blockhead Gaming as we discuss the rise of content networks and what it's like to be a content creator today. You can find more info about Elea and Blockhead Gaming at www.blockheadgaming.com.

The Sharp X68000

Nov 24th, 2019 52m 21s

Join special guest Brendan Bailey as he walks us through the history and allure of this Japanese only gaming PC from the late 80s. More info / resources on the X68k - X68000 wiki - https://gamesx.com/wiki/doku.php?id=x68000:x68000 NFGames Foru