Over the years we've had many esteemed guests, and this page lists them all. Click on a person's card to see a list of all of the episodes that they have been on.

If you're looking for our list of hosts, try looking here.

Alyxa (codename: Glitter Fox)

"Sorry to keep you waiting," Alyxa says whilst casually leaning against a wall, pretending to smoke a fake cigarette. She takes a grenade from an unseen pocket, tosses it in the air a few times, catching it in her free hand. Suddenly, the pin falls out, "oh shi-" is all she gets out before, BOOM, a glitter grenade goes off.

CharlesG

Charles is one of the three geniuses behind the amazing puzzle game The Sexy Brutal. He has also worked at studios such as Lionhead and EA.

cvxfreak

Alex is the author of Itchy, Tasty: An Unofficial History of Resident Evil - a book which contains interviews which he has conducted, in person, with some of the key personnel from the early Resident Evil games.

He also works for both Brave Wave and Limited Run Games

Eben

Eben is the man behind the Raspberry Pi. We originally interviewed him after Jamie had bought a copy of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s book "Code the Classics: Volume 1". You can listen to our interview with him here.

Gregg Barnett

Gregg Barnett is a game developer and designer whose history goes all the way back to The Hobbit (as in the 1983 verison) and Way of the Exploding Fist. But you may be most familiar with his Discworld trilogy of point-and-click adventure titles

JohnK

John Krikorian is the host of the Trek Profiles podcast and a big fan of EverQuest. He originally talked to us, back in late 2020, about how he picked the game up after moving across the United States to a completely new town.

Matt Bliss

Matt’s main podcast is the amazingly succinct Dead Drop Game News, where he summarises the clickbait gaming news articles so that you don’t have to - it’s a great podcast, and you should subscribe to it. He’s also a podcast editor over at blissery.fm

MazGamingUK

Maz is a YouTuber, film maker, streamer, and one of the hosts of the DreamCast Junkyard Podcast. He’s also a positive human being and a wonderfully amazing chap, you should check out his content.

MikeH

Michael Hermann is the owner of Retrosoft Studios (the creators of RetroMania Wrestling) and a life long fan of 2D wrestling games.

Philip Oliver

Philip Oliver is one half of The Oliver Twins, one of the most prolific UK games developers. They have 209 games under their belt, a Guinness World Record for the highest number of 8-bit video games ever created, and all as a team of two people (Philip and his twin brother Andrew).

Red Mage

Red Mage is a friend of Jays with a love of JRPGS, story driven games, and The Sexy Brutale.

Sean Haas

Sean is the host of the Advent of Computing podcast, and originally joined us in episodes 103 and 104 to discuss some of the first video games released - which were mostly mainframe titles

Stan

Stan is one of the super talented folks who have been working on 0 A.D. for almost 2 decades. You can learn more about 0 A. D. here

Stephen L Kent

As both an author and video game historian, Steven L Kent has not only written about the history of video games, he was THERE when most of it happened.

Both Jay and Squidge were incredibly lucky to interview Steven on his two books: The Ultimate History of Video Games volumes 1 and 2.

We are extremely thankful to Jordan Freeman of ZOOM-Platform for introducing us to Steven. Go buy some DRM-free games from Zoom-Platform, and tell them we said, 'hi!'

SteveSmith

Steve runs all of the RetroEvents events throughout Yorkshire and beyond. You can learn more about RetroEvents here

Stoo

Stoo is a real legend in the UK video game scene. Having worked in the video games industry since the 80s, he’s had a hand in some of the biggest UK-based games of the 80s and early 90s, like Cannon Fodder and Sensible Soccer

You can find out more about Stoo at his website

White Mage

White Mage is a friend of Jays with a love of JRPGS, story driven games, and The Sexy Brutale. White Mage is also a wonderfully skilled artist, you should check her art here.

ZacClax

ZacClax (or Zachary Claxton) is the lead developer of a wonderful title called Earthrend. He is also the lead developer for Laughing Golem Studios.

ZBoi

ZBoi (aka Zacker The Hacker) is one of the most positive people that Jay has ever me. He's also the brains behind the Tabs & Spaces podcast (which Jay co-hosts), and created a whole bunch of Samurai Cat videos for learning Vim

He made his first appearance on the show talking about Street Fighter: The Movie in episode 97 of the podcast.