Doom - The Greatest Arcade Game? This Week in Retro 60

Was 80s Britain the Silicon Valley of Europe? We dial up some modem memories, talk about a man with way too many copies of a Burger King game, and dish the dirt on mince pies. All this, plus our community question of the week, on This Week in Retro! 🏆Your monthly support helps us keep the retro news flowing! https://www.patreon.com/thisweekinretro ☕Or just buy us a coffee! https://ko-fi.com/thisweekinretro 🕸 TWiR Sub Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/ 0:00 Show Open 0:36 Snowed Under - New Charity ZX Spectrum Release https://cronosoft.fwscart.com/ 2:13 Mince Pies - Asking the tough questions 5:19 What are the best arcade games ever? https://www.boredpanda.com/best-arcade-games/?utm_source=com.google.android&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=organic 17:08 Relive the BBC Computer Literacy Programme https://clp.bbcrewind.co.uk/ 27:23 Dialling up Modem memories https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/r6dekm/lovely_old_1964_modem/ 38:57 You’ve got 2,706 copies of WHAT? https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/r4vnkp/man_collects_2706_copies_of_burger_kings_2006/ Story Links: Live on air hack at the BBC - https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=390145581552699 BBC takes a look at the Amiga - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS-NYK-8KL0 Follow your hosts! Twitter: https://twitter.com/rmcretro https://twitter.com/amigosretro Youtube https://youtube.com/rmcretro https://www.youtube.com/amigosretrogaming Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/amigosretrogaming Subscribe to the audio version of the show! 📻 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-retro/id1526487568?uo=4 📻 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2OPQ3cADaB92E9SpRdTe5y 📻 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8yZjQ5ODlmOC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw 📻 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2f4989f8/podcast/rss 📻 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFMx-JitepTttWc-ABHhu8A/ 📻 All other services: https://anchor.fm/thisweekinretro This Week in Retro is a weekly roundup of the hottest stories from the world of retro gaming and computing, voted on by you, the listener! Hosted by Neil from RMC and John Shawler from Amigos Retro Gaming.