The Retro Roadshow on Marketplace
The Retro Roadshow was featured during the December 22nd, 2025 episode of Marketplace Business News from PRX, as heard on NPR! This was the honor of a lifetime for NPR nerds like us, and we’re incredibly grateful to the whole Marketplace team for sharing our story with the world.
Click the picture below to listen to the segment!
The Retro Roadshow + PCWorld Magazine
We were honored to be invited to the studios of PCWorld Magazine for a “show and tell” session about an overlooked but groundbreaking early personal computer: the Texas Instruments TI99/4A!
The Retro Roadshow + Bay Area Libraries
The Retro Roadshow has been proud to partner with the Santa Clara County Library District and the City of Mountain View for a series of fun, educational, hands-on presentations and exhibitions on a variety of topics. Take a look!
The Retro Roadshow: Maker Faire Spotlight
The Retro Roadshow was honored to be featured in a Maker Faire Spotlight, reflecting our ongoing participation in these incredible events. Please click the image to the right to check out the full article!
The Retro Roadshow at the Bay Area Maker Faire 2024
This was The Retro Roadshow's exhibition at the 2024 Maker Faire, where our theme was "Racing Through Time!" We featured a variety of rare and vintage video game consoles and computers, all playing classic driving-themed games. Our visitors had a ton of fun while learning about the evolution of video game technology, design and art, and we also shared about how we work to rescue, preserve and restore our vintage exhibits. We hope to see you at our next event!
The Retro Roadshow at the Bay Area Maker Faire 2023
The Retro Roadshow was delighted to be featured at the Bay Area Maker Faire 2023! We set up an interactive pop-up museum, in which visitors could get hands-on and experience nearly 50 years of games starring Nintendo's iconic Mario character. Our visitors had a ton of fun while learning about the evolution of video game technology, design and art, and we also shared about how we work to rescue, preserve and restore our vintage exhibits. We hope to see you at our next event!
Huxley Dunsany, the founder of The Retro Roadshow, was featured in an article in the Jan. 8 2021 edition of the New York Times, titled “The Impractical but Indisputable Rise of Retrocomputing.”
The Retro Roadshow at the East Bay Mini Maker Faire 2019
In October 2019, The Retro Roadshow was one of the Featured Attractions at the East Bay Mini Maker Faire. With tons of rare, remarkable and fun computers and classic gaming consoles set up for attendees to enjoy, we were delighted by the warm reception we received from hundreds of visitors. Please enjoy this “behind the scenes” footage of our exhibit the afternoon before the big show opened!
Bringing Vintage Tech Into The Modern World
Part of the fun of using vintage computers is finding ways to incorporate modern technology. Follow along as I attempt to install and configure a modern Solid State Storage device (SD Card) in our vintage Amiga 500, a powerful gaming and multimedia computer from 1987.