The channels, podcasts, documentaries, magazines and associations worth your time. Picked one by one, each with a reason.
Updated November 2026
Channels that tell the story of retro with love and judgement.
TuMickael blends nostalgia for old hardware with honest tests of retro handhelds and Chinese clones, ideal before buying your next little gadget.
Start withESTAS son las CONSOLAS MáS PIRATAS de la HISTORIA - chustas chinakas de manual [vol 2]
LeEric explains game history and design with rigour and warmth; perfect for understanding why the classics still work.
Start withMi Top 10 Nintendo 64
LaKoyuki digs up hidden gems and technical quirks from every console with infectious affection; you'll leave with a backlog list.
SpRetro collecting without the posing: shop hunts, restorations and console showdowns told with enthusiasm and plenty of humour.
piIf Mortal Kombat defined your arcade childhood, here you'll find its history and lore told in encyclopaedic detail.
Start withMortal Kombat Bios: Sub-Zero (Bi-Han) / Noob Saibot
JALists and deep dives into classic libraries by a collector who knows every cartridge; very handy for knowing what to hunt for.
slA YouTube retro veteran: calm, well-researched looks at 80s and 90s systems and games, like chatting with a friend.
Start withEspecial MSX: sistema, modelos, breve historia y... JUEGOS || Análisis / Review en Español
ReApproachable retro tinkering: repairs, mods and tutorials explained without fear of electronics, with humour and a rescue spirit.
Start withLA MEJOR IMAGEN PARA RASPBERRY PI!!
GaSpanish-made retro documentaries with TV-grade care; their Game Boy piece is a small gem worth watching slowly.
Start withSala de Máquinas - Game Boy
AmThe Spanish-language go-to for the Amiga: careful reviews that place each game in context and make you want to dust off an A500.
FrA shoot 'em up specialist who speaks from hours on the pad; the best Spanish-language doorway into the shmup world.
Start withShoot 'em Ups: 10 consejos para empezar con ellos #Shmups
YoThe video arm of a fan-made retro magazine: good company for anyone who enjoys reading and talking about the classics.
ElNearly thirty years covering the Spectrum: interviews, memories and today's Spanish retro-computing scene, with the authority of people who lived it.
To listen to while you blow into the cartridge.
ReLong, well-researched roundtables on retro, neo-retro and today's scene: from E3 1999 to Westwood and the Neo Geo AES.
Start withRetroManiac Podcast 8x10 - 40 aniversario de saga Super Mario
ElFourteen seasons of ZX Spectrum and Spain's 8-bit Golden Age, with interviews with people from Dinamic, Topo and MicroHobby.
Start with14x05 Piratería – Tienda de barrio – Jordi Bartolls
CoNews, history and chat about the MSX standard, close to its community: Barcelona user meetings, books and anniversaries.
Start withConexión MSX - 9x02 - Presentación del libro "MSX: el nacimiento del primer estándar"
AmTen seasons devoted to the Commodore Amiga and other micros: news, tutorials, reviews and interviews with a scene still making things.
Start withInto the Wonderfull: Entrevista a Kikems (AmigaWave)
GaDeep dives into one series, game or system, from 8-bit micros to 128-bit consoles: from Heart of Darkness to Gran Turismo.
CeOver 300 episodes on Amstrad CPC games, 'in Mode 0 for lovers of chunky pixels', with guests and bite-sized recommendations.
Start withCepeceros Episodio 323: Max Headroom y Chicago's 30 con Raul García
ReA relaxed monthly get-together about retro games and retro life in general, like an after-dinner chat among friends, now in season 15.
ReClassic consoles with cheeky humour and the odd dubious film; it looks to the past without losing sight of the present.
Start withRetrobits 11x05: Alundra (PSX) y Exhumed (PSX/Saturn/PC). Fácil, rápido y sencillo.
QuA veteran since 2012 covering classic consoles and arcades; back after a pause, kicking off again with MicroHobby's return.
Start withQuemando el Mando 144: El regreso de MicroHobby, entrevista a JL Skywalker (Hobby Consolas)
ReThe Catalan-language podcast of the retroscroll.cat blog: old magazines like Hobby Consolas revisited, 'eternal backlog' games like Super Metroid, and live shows from RetroBarcelona.
Start withr-channel 057 – Repassant la Hobby Consolas número 14
GeCatalan public radio's general videogame show, with over 1,150 editions; now and then it gives whole hours to retro and the Spectrum.
Start withSlowGlass: els rebels del ZX Spectrum
FaNo longer publishing, but its eleven-season archive is still a gem: timeless games, cult films, interviews and plenty of memories.
Start withFase Bonus #176 - El poder del retro
What has been filmed about classic video games.
PíThe most complete chronicle yet: from Javier Valero's arcades to The Game Kitchen, told by someone who was making games in the eighties.
TrVigalondo uses his own gaming memories as the thread, bringing Dinamic, Erbe and Hobby Consolas together with today's streamers.
ArA patient portrait of the people saving arcade cabinets from oblivion; essential if you ever fed coins into a Spanish arcade.
EdForty minutes on why people treasure boxes, manuals and cartridges; you'll probably recognise yourself in more than one testimony.
8 A seven-minute short that works as a quick map of the 8-bit era: a good starter before the feature-length films.
¡NThe story of a cult game told by the people who made it, with pixel-art animation and plenty of period archive material.
LaFilmed only a few years after it ended, it keeps first-hand accounts from when the Golden Age was still a recent memory.
Retro is also for reading, on paper or on screen.
ReThe Spanish edition of the British classic: long features, making-ofs and interviews on the machines and games we grew up with. A slow quarterly read.
PiThe retro magazine started by José Luis Sanz, The Elf, Némesis and co: the writers who taught you to play, back writing about the games you played.
MiThe legendary ZX Spectrum magazine picks up its numbering where it stopped, covering homebrew games, new hardware like Spectranext and that eighties spirit.
MiThe oversized 25 x 35 cm format is back, with posters, maps and walkthroughs, multi-platform reviews and today's retro scene. Nostalgia that covers the whole table.
BoA free, fan-made magazine that reached 50 single-theme editions. Its archive is still a great place to lose an afternoon.
ReTen years of independent retro magazine: it began as a PDF, moved to print and closed with a 370-plus-page special collecting all its reviews.
The people who bring people together to play.
ALThe team behind RetroPixel Málaga: a free, family-friendly university show with computing-history talks, tournaments and workshops for all ages.
ReTwo decades linking Zaragoza and Bilbao: RetroMañía, RetroEuskal and a university museum of historic computing they look after themselves.
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AABarcelona's MSX meeting point: over sixty user gatherings and new homebrew releases for a system that is still very much alive.
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AUThe long-time organisers of RetroMadrid, who also rescue Spanish software history with the National Library and archives like Opera Soft's.
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ReA free, family-friendly retro fair in Torrent: pinball, consoles from NES to PlayStation, prize tournaments and even Scalextric tracks.
ReCollectors from across Galicia who don't just restore machines: they teach you to code, draw and compose new content for them.
ReThe Balearic retro reference since 2011: monthly tinkering meetups and exhibitions exploring the island's home-computing past.
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ExSpain's Commodore meeting point: one free day a year, with soldering workshops and concerts powered by a SID chip.
ReThe directory grows with the community. If you make something retro that belongs here, or know who does, write to us.
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