Digital Foundry Retro

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  • Premiered: May 2016
  • Episodes: 224
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Season 4
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DF Retro Extra: Our First Gaming PCs and Hardware Upgrades!
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Jan 21, 2019
John, Alex and Rich sit down to discuss their very first gaming PCs, their early hardware upgrades and the games that inspired them to improve their gaming hardware!
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Contra 3 - Sublime 16-bit Shooting!
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Feb 10, 2019
DF Retro returns with a detailed look at one history's greatest shooters - Contra 3: The Alien Wars. John goes in-depth on how this classic SNES shooter works, what makes it brilliant .. show full overview
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DF Retro Extra: Sony at E3 2006 - PlayStation 3's Darkest Hour Revisited
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Feb 24, 2019
Join John, Alex and Rich for a DF Retro Extra, as the team re-examines the darkest hour for the PlayStation 3 - the legendary E3 2006 media briefing. Yes, it's the one with Riiiidge .. show full overview
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DF Retro EX: Making Pitfall, Tron & Beyond - An Interview with Bill Kroyer
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Mar 10, 2019
What links Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure with the beginnings of Hollywood CG movies, a whole host of animated features and the original artists that helped to define the Disney method? .. show full overview
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Killzone 2 Ten Years On
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Mar 17, 2019
DF Retro returns! It's just over ten years on from the release of Killzone 2 on the PlayStation 3. Join John Linneman for a look at the game's controversial beginnings, to its final, technologically astonishing result.
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Analogue Mega Sg Review
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Mar 31, 2019
Is this the coolest, most impressive - and accurate - Mega Drive clone yet? Join John Linneman for a detailed breakdown of the new Analogue Mega Sg, including an overview of its features, and the most comprehensive battery of emulation tests.
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DF Retro Extra: Blast Processing Deep Dive
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Mar 31, 2019
Join John Linneman and talented coder Gabriel Morales discuss Sega's almost legendary 'Blast Processing', what it actually was, how it worked and why it never actually appeared in any Genesis/ Mega Drive games - nope, not even Sonic 2...
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Bubsy the Bobcat - The Ultimate Mascot?!
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Apr 01, 2019
Bubsy's back...again! This time on DF Retro. Join John and special guest Audi, the one and only World Heavyweight Champion of Bubsy, as they step through the history of everyone's .. show full overview
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DCHDMI Review - The Ultimate Dreamcast HDMI Upgrade!
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Apr 14, 2019
Sega's Dreamcast broke the mould by introducing 480p rendering to consoles, backing it with the legendary VGA box. Modern 480p options are available but none have the same pure digital .. show full overview
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Virtua Racing
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May 01, 2019
A very special DF Retro as John Linneman takes a look at the phenomenal new Switch version of Virtua Racing, stacking it up against every console conversion and, of course, the arcade original.
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DF Retro EX: Ninja Gaiden 2 on Xbox One X vs All Platforms!
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May 11, 2019
Microsoft delivers once again with a brilliant Xbox One X enhanced back-compat release for Ninja Gaiden 2. John takes a look at the latest version of the game and stacks it up against .. show full overview
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Castlevania Series Retrospective
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May 28, 2019
In this episode, John explores the recently released Castlevania Anniversary Collection checking out each and every game included. What did each installment bring to the table and how do .. show full overview
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Let's Play: Castlevania 64
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Jun 15, 2019
And now for something a little different - a Digital Foundry Retro Let's Play! In this video, John returns to play some of the controversial Castlevania 64. Is it really a series low point? Audi Sorlie guests.
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Turok Dinosaur Hunter
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Jul 14, 2019
DF Retro is back with a deep dive into one of the most technically impressive console games of its period - Turok Dinosaur Hunter's reputation may have diminished in the last 20 years, .. show full overview
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Blazing Chrome - The Spiritual Contra Sequel We've Been Waiting For
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Jul 21, 2019
For years we've been waiting for a proper sequel to 16-bit classics Contra 3: The Alien Wars and Contra: The Hard Corps - but Konami failed to deliver. So why not check out the next best .. show full overview
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Revisiting The Famicom Disk System
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Jul 27, 2019
DF Direct goes retro! John Linneman sits down Sekai Games' boss - and game historian - Audi Sorlie to talk about the Famicom Disk System, a Japan-only 1986 release that aimed to make .. show full overview
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DF Retro Let's Play: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - NES Turtlemania Revisited!
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Aug 03, 2019
It's the late 1980s: the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom is the most popular console in the world and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are the latest TV/comic sensation - with a .. show full overview
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The Best N64 HDMI Options Compared!
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Aug 10, 2019
Of all the major retro consoles, N64 is the machine that causes the most problems when hooking up to a modern flat panel display - mostly because S-Video was the top-end output offered .. show full overview
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Ion Fury: The Duke Nukem 3D Engine Powers A Brilliant New Game!
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Aug 14, 2019
DF Retro x Modern? 3D Realms is back with a BRAND NEW first-person shooter based on the classic Duke Nukem 3D Build engine. Enhanced, upgraded, and with a modern gameplay design, does .. show full overview
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DF Retro EX: Turok 2 Revisited! Switch/ N64/ PC - Original + Remastered!
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Aug 18, 2019
The original Turok: Dinosaur Hunter was a landmark release. Its sequel? Not so much. However, the new remaster fixes most of the original release's issues and is now on Switch, alongside .. show full overview
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The Sega Genesis Mini Review
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Sep 15, 2019
It's not perfect - but it's very, very good nonetheless. M2's work on the Sega Genesis Mini (aka Mega Drive Mini) is pretty awesome, the hardware itself is beautiful and the game .. show full overview
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The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Switch Remake - Absolutely Unmissable
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Sep 19, 2019
Developer Grezzo had the unenviable task of remaking and modernising one of the greatest Game Boy games of all time. Have they succeeded? Yes! Some noticeable frame-rate drops are .. show full overview
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DF Retro Let's Play: Rocket Knight Adventures!
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Oct 06, 2019
DF Retro's very own John Linneman teams up with Sekai Games' Audi Sorlie to revisit one of the Sega Genesis' finest games - the brilliant Rocket Knight Adventures from Konami. Essential retro viewing!
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Capcom Home Arcade Review
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Nov 12, 2019
This is an interesting product! We went into this one expecting to spend most of our time replaying the Capcom classics but ended up discovering a whole lot more of interest in the .. show full overview
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DF Retro: Terror Onion Mega SD Review - The Definitive Sega CD Emulator For Real Hardware?
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Dec 02, 2019
Join John Linneman and Audi Sorlie for a look at Terror Onion's excellent Mega SD - an FPGA-based recreation of the Sega CD (aka Mega CD) allowing you to run the entire library of .. show full overview
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Star Wars Shadows of the Empire Revisited on N64 and PC!
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Dec 15, 2019
Released at the tail-end of 1996 during Nintendo 64's launch window, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire gained massive attention owing to some phenomenal graphics - but there was a PC .. show full overview
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DF Retro's Nightmare Before Christmas: Let's Play The Worst Festive Retro Games
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Dec 23, 2019
Join DF Retro for an extended look at three of the least appealing Christmas games ever made - one for PlayStation 1 and two on the reliably terrible Philips CDi. Join John Linneman as .. show full overview
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DF Retro Festive! Let's Play Christmas NiGHTS on Sega Saturn!
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Dec 24, 2019
It's the only Christmas Let's Play that matters. John Linneman and Audi Sorlie travel back in time to 1996 to revisit Sonic Team's remarkable NiGHTS - or more specifically, its one-off Christmas variant!
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DF Retro Buried Treasure: Our Best Retro Gaming Finds Of 2019!
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Dec 29, 2019
Join John Linneman and Audi Sorlie for an end-of-year DF Retro Direct, where they share their best 'new' retro gaming finds of the year.

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