The Retro Show: March 2023's Homebrews, News, Unboxings, Nostalgia #23

[@retrogamedreamer8761]

Wife and kids have left the house for a few days. Time to open a rather nice bottle of wine and press play on this one. Ahh bliss. All the best from Sweden 🙌🏻

[@HighlandPhoenix]

Best show of the week...!

[@itsmephil2255]

Awww puppyfractic, those eyes ❤️❤️❤️

[@StueyMonster]

I look forward to this show every month and this month I feel famous as I made it into Nostalgia Flakes! :)

[@RetroRecipes]

Congratulations 🎉

[@Chris391971]

Happy 50th birthday. Welcome to the club !!!

[@jb2590]

The Retro Show always seems to put a smile on my face. Thank you!

[@brokenmummy232]

Thanks Y'all for another great episode. In a world that seems to go madder each week, it is so wonderful to sit down and be returned to a feeling of Family, community, and nostalgia. A real wonderful thing your giving to the world each week and it is so much appreciated.

[@RetroRecipes]

Our pleasure!

[@coffeecuparcade]

Aww man this one pulled at the heart strings! Look at this amazing community you have created. Excellent Retrosode guys! Looks like I have you by a few months, I turned the big FIVE O last September. My wife got me the very same Lego for my 50th birthday! I had the entire galaxy set back in the day, it was nice to have my favorite spaceship back. I have not built it yet, but I will. Looking forward to the next episode!

[@more.power.]

Wow you blasted us all back to earlier childhood happiness. Without a doubt you guys touch the heart and soul of those who love Retro Nostalgia. Puppyfractics gleam in her eye shows how in tuned in she is with your story and feelings during the show. Thank you always for bring back such a happy time for me. With a belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY Perifractic.

[@theotherchannel2279]

5:00 Got a really funny story about Aha... My dad had to take my sister to see them with a friend and they had front seat tickets! Anyway, my dad used to be in a band in the 60's and is quite well known still in the music world back then. So my sister was in the front seats, and my dad met one of the stage hands who remembered him and he was let in to the VIP room with the band and hung out with them before they went on stage... 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂 As you can understand after the show when my dad told her, she was gutted!

[@aladdin4d]

Believe it or not, Simpson is still in business and the 260 VOM is still being made today in all its glory. It's up to Series 8 now and I'm pretty sure yours is a Series 3. Other than being able to have and an LED light now, they haven't changed much. It's a truly legendary piece of test equipment.

[@TheDavidPoole]

They remind me of the AVO meters we used back in college in the early 80s. They were ancient even back then. AVO was the manufacturer I believe named after Amps, Volts and Ohms. Much more fun were the Meggers. A kind of crank-wound generator that produced thousands of volts, but negligible amps. We had great fun wiring them up to each others workstations and zapping the bleep out of each other. It never got old.

[@aladdin4d]

@@TheDavidPoole Yeah that was the British Simpson. Or if you're British, Simpson is the American AVO. I think they quit making the traditional AVO 15 years or so ago and Megger actually owns the brand now.

[@angrydove4067]

I used those Simpson meters in high school and at work for grounding testing. Boeing still has them. Big Puppyfractic sure is a sweetheart.

[@scottminutolo894]

Happy Birthday and nothing but the best for you and your family! I turned the big 5 - 0 in November. Always love your videos, thank you!

[@coxyofnewp]

Got to remake Paradise Radio !! Oh I love this show, They always make me laugh, and put a smile on my face!! And I think we all was all thinking of our childhood days and what it meant tp us. Great show guys !

[@Ejrupolsen]

Love your show Perifractic and lady fractic ❤️🤟🤟🤟

[@TheDavidPoole]

Really great show, Fractics. The love you have of nostalgia shows through the work and effort you put into it. It's heartwarming and fun without being over the top or inane. Please keep it up!

[@hammer86_]

I love the way Puppyfractic looks at you. I've never seen a doggo look at her humans so intently 🙂

[@RetroRecipes]

She’s very special

[@TheShornak]

Great video Retro Crew.. Happy belated birthday Lord Fractic. I remember turning 50 very well. Next month though I turn 60. Your videos are always so fun to watch and since I was around back in the 80's as I was in my 20s these are always so retro. Brings back memories.

[@charlvz2008]

Happy 50th Perifractic! Greetings from Cape Town South Africa.

[@Roblilley999]

Nice to see one of the Tech Dif Matt Gray on the Retro Recipe video

[@kerzwhile]

Whoa.. can't believe your 50.. I'm 51. You look great! Happy belated!

[@Allen-by6ci]

I love your Retro Room. Your attention to detail is amazing. I especially like the flashing Tardis light (digitally added, I assume) in every camera shot that has it. Nice job.

[@GAMECLOSET]

Perifractic has a short video on when they had the TARDIS painted on their door/doorway. You should check it out!

[@nfmc6640]

Another great one! Looking forward to the next one 👍

[@jameyspielt]

love your stuff! greetings from north germany.

[@bentyh6460]

Someday if I ever have a house I'm gonna have a room just like this filled with all my old machines, and pups

[@canvoodoo]

My wife got me the lego explorer the other day. The lighting kit is a must, back of the net.

[@ashtonsretrocomputerroom]

Next to the EPXY 500XJ, the TAC-2 is my favourite stick! For games like Vector Star Wars, it’s accuracy really shines through!

[@FireFlux73]

Wonderful show as usual, always great to watch and a happy late birthday wish as well. Like you, i'll be 50 in November and just as nostalgic. :) Keep up the good work.

[@choi13a]

Happy birthday mate, you don’t look a day over 35! 🎉

[@RetroRecipes]

Wow, thank you!

[@Colin_Ames]

Another great video. That Simpson 260 is a nice piece of kit. I had a Series 5 when I was more active in repairing antique radios. Now I make do with a very old Beckman digital multimeter that just keeps chugging along. Renaissance Fairs are fun. There was one held not far from my home when I was living in Michigan. Never saw a Tardis there!

[@8bitsinthebasement]

Good job, thanks.

[@GlensRetroShow]

Thanks Guys and I hope you really have some fun with the GRS Build-A-Cade :) we still have so much more planned for it ;)

[@swingstylez]

I'm with you. I have a collection of Casios 😁. They may not have bling but there are lots of interesting designs, thanks to radio signals, some are more accurate, and some are solar powered. Some give me the tide information, some I can snorkel with, some look classy, some are all analogue, digital, or a mix, some are super tough, and some have fashionable colours. Some have all the above attributes.

[@puzzud]

Lady Fractic after "probably not his mom, is it?" LOL!

[@eskey691]

Amazing show as always and It Returned To The Desert looks amazing and I only just noticed the light flash on top of the door. An so many dad jokes 😂😂 love it, looking forward to the next video so until then have a great weekend and take care. Oh happy belated birthday 🙂🙂

[@Locust2011]

I actually have the a-ha vinyl box set you spoke about in this video. It was so very awesome and completely fantastic to hear you mention it!

[@andyroberts1952]

Fantastic show as usual!

[@josephphillips9243]

Perifractic, a great episode again. You reminded me of Neil from Young Ones when you said "I wish I had never been born"

[@RetroRecipes]

Hahaha

[@jamess854]

The Alan Partridge clip was unexpected but most definitely appreciated! Lovely stuff!

[@GAMECLOSET]

• I still have my old Casio calculator watch I got for Christmas when I was about 9-ish. The band broke a long time ago and a pin hole where the band's pins hold them in cracked & broke hence why I am not wearing it today. 😀 • Interesting tidbit: Americans are mostly unaware that a-Ha is still producing albums and touring. They are huge in Europe, of course. I think their 11th album dropped in Oct. 2022, after a short band hiatus. (I love their Living Daylights song for the Bond movie of the same name.) • Terminator/Back to the Future CROSSOVER?!?! Take my money now! • Harleyfractic just commented: "I'm going to be a superstar? Yay!" (Yes, she is as fun as you think she is- except at bedtime.) • I would love one of those little arcade machines! But I am borderline inept to put my Pi 3 inside and get it running. HAHA! Do they have instructions printed for goofballs like me? • Does the air purifier do toast on one side? 😀 • Ant Attack! LOVE that! • That 1993 pen drawing was pretty cool! Kudos! • Peri's Full-Circle Star Wars letter… priceless and heart-warming. A wonderful retro show as always. Thank you Lord & Ladyfractic!

[@RetroRecipes]

I hope she believes me because I’m never wrong! 😅

[@GAMECLOSET]

@@RetroRecipes She believes you. (I still need to get her to watch the piano video.)

[@agmbass]

Happy Birthday !!!

[@keithmichael112]

Aha also had "the sun always shines on TV", which is a jam

[@merman1974]

Another great episode, always look forward to it

[@RetroRecipes]

Glad to hear it!

[@MSHarvey_Lyricsmith]

Another magical RRetrofest with another superbly calming RRetroshow. It is like Valerian for the soul. Harleyfractic is fast becoming a legend in her own lifetime. A star of both today and tomorrow. I was never able to complete "It Came From The Desert" successfully on the Amiga. So the new game might be interesting. Was the music during the unboxing inspired by "Suburbia" by the Pet Shop Boys? It was vaguely reminiscent of that piece. Great to see the Knight Rider Court video showcased. That was a very audacious prank he pulled. The MIDI SID music reminded me of the progressive rock movement from the 1970s. Great production by the Laird and Lady of Retrotopia.

[@RetroRecipes]

Thanks! And the song “Just as fast as I can” wasn’t knowingly inspired, but I love PSBs so a lot of my stuff is done in that 80s Disco style. 👍🕹️

[@GAMECLOSET]

Miss Harleyfractic thanks you and loves fresh cut flowers in her dressing room. ❤ (But if there’s an accidental, stray, brown M&M in the candy dish she’ll rip that place apart Van Halen-style! 😂😂😂 (I’m serious……. No I’m not.)).

[@raymitchell9736]

Full-Circle seems to be a apt title for this episode. I like the close with the piano version of theme music. Oh and I have to add a belated happy Birthday 50... you'll get over it LOL... I'm a bit older so I can say it only gets scarier as you age more, but not to worry, Take care. LOL.

[@CallousCoder]

Yay!!! it's that time of month again! I always feel a little sad and misplaced in time after watching this show. And you are still looking good for an Abraham! I hope the next 5 months will be kind to me, although I am starting to bald now :D

[@RandomBitzzz]

I loved my TAC 2 joysticks. Great episode guys!

[@justinrichards9625]

Happy belated 50th birthday 🍰 from a fellow of the half century club, as I turned 50 last October 🎃 👍

[@SanithDemil]

I enjoyed this one a lot. Me and my friends would also record made up songs and shows on cassette as well.

[@005AGIMA]

Watched this with breakfast this morning. Awesome as always guys! Love it! WOW what a present btw ;) I have that and love it. (no spoilers).

[@RetroRecipes]

ooh intriguing!

[@005AGIMA]

@@RetroRecipes haha no I meant the present you got in the video... The Lego thing. Don't want to spoil it for your other viewers ;)

[@RetroRecipes]

@@005AGIMA ahhh gotcha! Damn now I’m unintrigued 😅

[@Capt.Marco-Hawk-L.L.A.P]

Fantastic show, I use to daydream that I was a Jedi Knight in training that did a bit of smuggling on the side lol, that was when I wasnt dreaming of being in the Star Trek universe lol I just got myself a air conditioner for my computer room, it also lets me add an essential oils to it, has a small pad on top of it in an enclosed box with holes

[@greymack]

Happy b'day perifractic and welcome to the club. You are ageing well sir, keep up the good work 🕹️

[@davidjwidmann]

Ah, the TAC-2. Best joystick of the era, IMHO.

[@MugsyNJ2]

Fun Fact: Smash Hits magazine was published in America under the name "Star Hits". I remember buying quite a few copies back then.

[@danlscan]

I don't know why I enjoy these so much but thanks.

[@bigfairy321]

Cant wait for your review of the Galaxy Explorer ;P

[@upstairsroomsoftware4143]

TAC 2. Oh man... love that joystick... C64 and Amiga ... and my TAC 2. Wish I still had it.

[@loneeagle8903]

Happy Belated Birthday Perifractic we share a birth month although I have you by 8 years love the videos and my first computer was a TI99/4A

[@DoneBlock94]

I can only hope I’ll look as good when I’m Hawaii 5-0. Sheeeesh.

[@ichiro-ota]

Thanks for introducing MIDISID. I got one and I really love it!

[@SuperJustid]

"Oficial" is in Spanish... The Casio community manager in Spain is who started the tweets ;)

[@RetroRecipes]

That Twitter account says “parody” when you visit it though

[@MrKevinp0]

AHHH!! Stop it! My eyes are leaking nostalgia again!! 😆😆

[@Dwarfboysim]

Loved the episode and the piano music at the end. Who composed and played it?

[@RetroRecipes]

Thank you. That’s yours truly from this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpi3q2yjbMppabs The tracks are supporter exclusives 🙏 retrorecip.es/support

[@retroandgaming]

Oh my GOD. The TAC 2 - Best Joystick ever!

[@GAMECLOSET]

Yes, and once internally cleaned and greased properly, they work great!

[@retroandgaming]

@@GAMECLOSET I got my original from the 1980s and it still works great!

[@GAMECLOSET]

@@retroandgaming these were mine as a kid. They went to a friend and sat in the very box I gave them to him for like a year. I got them back, tested them and only 1 of the 4 worked. The internals made me scratch my head. I’ve fixed original Atari joysticks to varying degrees. So, a friend who builds controllers and repairs them refurbished two for me and told me what an easy fix it was and he was right. He had me buy an synthetic grease that helps conductivity. Great for refurbishing Atari paddles after cleaning too!

[@retroandgaming]

@@GAMECLOSET sweet! Maybe I should open up mine and do some preemptive work. Any good brands of grease?

[@GAMECLOSET]

@@retroandgaming yes, the one I got from Amazon is Synco Lube Super Lube-21030 Synthetic Multi-Purpose Grease, 3 Oz. tube.

[@Applecompuser]

That Commodore keypad device looks very interesting.

[@BlueCollarBachelor]

The Casio is more trouble free than the Rolex that needs constant service. My 33 year old Casio still keeps perfect time. It's just been fed batteries.

[@blazer666del]

One complaint......the show isn't long enough!!!!

[@thefamoustimsmitty]

Solvang! Mmm, aebleskivers 🤤

[@michaelblum410]

Peri turned 50 last month? He couldn't possibly be 50, he remembers and loves so many of the computers, shows, Legos and bands I did as a kid and.... Oh no.... But anyway, happy belated birthday!

[@casachezdoom2588]

I have somre pretty fond memories of playing "It Came From The Desert" on Amiga. I used to hang out with two of my friends and we'd play video games on Amiga and Commodore 64 until the sun came up, to the dismay of our parents. Another game that brings similar memories is "Out of this World" (aka "Another World"). Good times.

[@suvetar]

Belated Happy Birthday!! How does one get in touch to suggest a Meme?

[@RetroRecipes]

Check out the submit content link in the video description or About page

[@spamburger222]

Hope i look as good as you at 50!

[@cyberhawk99]

I gave this channel a shout out over on JayzTwoCents where they were doing a video on the Commodore 64.

[@RetroRecipes]

Brilliant!

[@hansc8433]

60 takes on me 😊

[@andyt2510]

Another Doctor Who link in this episode - in the Rainbow clip you hear Zippy talking. Zippy's voice is provided by Roy Skelton, who also was a voice for the Daleks in some stories. And for another David Tennant link - he was in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, a film who also had a cameo by someone else who looks vaguely familiar! I forgot to check the wand store at the end of the Harry Potter Making Of studio tour near London (after seeing David's and a few other cast members in the vast array of names), however in the queue to get in before the pre-show is a number of large stills on the wall and one of them is the Weasley twins in their old form after trying to trick the Goblet, on of which (Fred) I believe is a certain Perifractic.....

[@RetroRecipes]

You're not wrong! I'm not actually in that photo as they used the twins too, but I was used for special effects and make up shots of the transformation and fighting on the floor. :)

[@Testacabeza]

Man, I don't have any pictures of us playing with the C64. We were the only ones with a computer in the area, so had a constant influx of kids coming in to play and hang around...the memories.

[@prestonostra]

Can't frown on Casio...the G-Shock is a banger. Watch nerds love 'em.

[@slepey_]

I see delorean, I click

[@plan7a]

Personally Controlled Boxes? Plastic Computer Brush-up's? Polished Celebrations Bountiful? LOL.👾📦

[@cpace123]

I have many of Glens GRS products. And watch his show each week. I need to pull out my British English to US English. Contro,Contro??

[@GlensRetroShow]

Thanks as always HobbyHands

[@shayneerwin2809]

Great vid and content! Quick and random question though - may I ask where you got your t-shirt? Really like it!

man I always feel such a strong urge to download a movie by John Hughes movies, or re-listen to Adrian Mole, or something...

[@bigrichc8265]

You look way younger than 50, anyway another great video!

[@RetroRecipes]

Yay, thank you!

[@HisVirusness]

The first few seconds gave me a heart attack.

[@LoveDoctorNL]

It’s me at 25:23 😅

[@RetroRecipes]

So do tell, who took that photo?

[@LoveDoctorNL]

@@RetroRecipes It was my younger brother who took it. He had just gotten a camera that year 😄

[@RetroRecipes]

@@LoveDoctorNL Makes sense! Love it.

[@Hayabuza64]

Joyeux anniversaire Peri

[@warsstar]

26:45 - All is as The Force wills it.

[@shireoryx6153]

Simpson 260 no comparison with digital multimeters, especially for zeroing sychros/servos-analog is the best

[@saganandroid4175]

0:54 ah, the subtle eye motions from LF. Love it. This is the 2nd time I've seen her wear a science-themed shirt. I am impressed. Amazing good looks and being pro-science rarely go together in women. Sad but usually true. 3:41 there she goes with the subtle eye squints and quick-recovery over the "lovely knobs". The interplay between you two just multiplies the fun in your show. I'm old enough to finally know to read women and this is just hilarious. 3:54 what is that song?

[@wyldelf2685]

Hill Valley looks a little different after Skynet took over , , , , 😋👍👍

[@awilliams1701]

out of curiosity do you still talk to Ashley Fractic?

[@RetroRecipes]

I need to add an FAQ. It’s nice how many people still ask about Ashley. Haven’t chatted in a while as she became very busy with work as a prison officer and studying. She knows the door is always open. 👍🕹️

[@awilliams1701]

@@RetroRecipes that's awesome. And it sounds like she's doing well.

[@LeeTennant90]

I always get asked if I'm related to David Tennant, it's a no but at least he's spelling it the correct way 😉

[@GeeFunk84]

I wear out straps on my Casio F91W faster than batteries.

[@MrJonline]

when you two say "the retro show" i keep hearing "fun with flags"

[@RetroRecipes]

We'll take it!

[@wiwingmargahayu6831]

everybody reap what they sow Sir peace

[@RETRONuts]

I got a T-shirt at Christmas and I hunted hi and low for it(Ahhha... lol) and found a copy of it on Amazon, it was a T-shirt of the Blueprint of the C64, I saw it in your shop, I have never seen you where it... why(is it a copyright thing)...?

[@jeffflowers5489]

28:12 the most important comment of the episode.

[@Javier.Ortega]

You sound like the SNL sketch with, Molly Shannon, Ana Gasteyer and Alec Baldwin.

[@carychiasson9834]

When he played the theme for the A-Team I knew what it was before the title came up.

[@saganandroid4175]

4:06 OMG I'm dying! Her reaction as she braces for the next pun/joke. The extended blink, the heavy inhale, the head tilt, the look of resignment. Live long enough and you will know this female reaction well. We are ll brothers in this feminine disapproval :-D Ah, but then she decides it's pretty good. How fickle they are! I liked your Cumberbatch joke even if nobody else did. 12:38 watch out man, Lady sounds like she has a case of the BabyRabies! #OfficiallyRetro 16:18 pronounced Bak- eh light 17:53 I wish we could have seen her reactface on this one! 21:53 How many people sent you this KnightRider link? 25:04 STE owner hides face in disgrace 27:08 Manifestation doesn't work. Being tall and good looking does work however.

[@andrewdunbar828]

A Casssio or maybe a Cassssio. Oficial is spelled right if it's Spanish like the song though.