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Picross, Metal Storm

Season 8 Episode 15

Episode 226

News

• After Google mapped an adult male fruit fly's brain, software engineers made it play Doom, Mario64, and Beat Saber
• Sega Genesis no-code creator MD Engine is out now on Steam 
• Netflix and Sega are making a live-action Crazy Taxi movie

Game Club

• Picross 2
• Metal Storm

New Game Club Games

• Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
• Metroid

Other links

• Carrying My Cross Ep. 18: Different Perspectives Vol. 1
• Absolutely the Best Podcast: A Work in Progress (Zach's show)
• Metroid password generator
• Alternate history: Nine games that could have revived defeated consoles

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

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#retro #videogames #classiccomputing

Season 8 Episode 14

Episode 225

News

• Deus Ex and Ultima Underworld creator Warren Spector retires from game development
• Wolfenstein 3D is now fully playable on a stock Commodore 64 
• An Atari Desktop On A Sega
• Steam Deck Mod Brings Back Physical Games With Ancient Floppies

Game Club

• Metroid Prime Pinball
• Metroid Prime Hunters

New Game Club Games

• Picross 2
• Metal Storm

Other links

• S3E29 SNES is 30
• Max Headroom signal hijackings
• Absolutely the Best Podcast: A Work in Progress (Zach's show)

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

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#Metroid

#retro #videogames #classiccomputing

Season 8 Episode 13

Episode 224

*** Lots of extra chapter art in this one! ***

News

• Atari And Universal Sign Movie Deal For 10 Video Game Adaptations
• Fans Think A Long-Lost Pokémon Game Has Been Found 21 Years Later
• NES Advantage Stick Gets Bluetooth Upgrade
• Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time
• Play More of the Games You Love, Wherever You Play with XBOX Backward Compatibility on PC
• Contra is getting a 12-issue comic book series next year

Metroid is 40!

• RGC episode 99 - Metroid is 35!
• RGC episode 201 - Metroid series ranking
• Metroid 40th Anniversary episode of Games My Mom Found
• Metroid Ranking episode of Absolutely the Best Podcast: A Work in Progress

Game Club

• The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
• Phelios

New Game Club Games

• Metroid Prime Pinball
• Metroid Prime Hunters

Other links

• Hugues' setup schematic
• Absolutely the Best Podcast: A Work in Progress (Zach's show)

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

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#Metroid #Metroid40

#retro #videogames #classiccomputing

Gargoyle's Quest, Megalit

Season 8 Episode 12

Episode 223

News

• 50 years of the Zilog Z80: The 8-bit chip that ran the world
• 3ric is a brand new 6502 computer you can boot in your browser
• Homebrew developers figured out how to run DOOM on the Neo Geo
• Introducing RetroTap: Clean, Filtered Power for 45+ Retro Consoles
• Engineer shoves Linux peg through Sega 32X-shaped hole

Game Club

• Gargoyle's Quest
• Megalit

New Game Club Games

• The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
• Phelios

Other links

• Metroid 40th episode of Games My Mom Found
• This Bizarre Adventure
• Absolutely the Best Podcast: A Work in Progress (Zach's show)

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

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#retro #videogames #classiccomputing

Season 8 Episode 11

Episode 222

News

•  GRAPHICS UPGRADE FOR NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM
• PPU pinout
• decrayzo's I Unlocked Unused NES Features
• It's Linux, On A Sega Megadrive
• Pong game recompiles its own source code every frame — winning entry at IOCCC29 was generated by a custom compiler
• Hey old school Mac gamers, Bolo is back!
• Someone made an e-Ink ESP32 Game Boy, and it runs at a very playable 60Hz refresh rate
• Sega is re-releasing the original Sonic Genesis games on $100 cartridges

Game Club

• Mighty Bomb Jack
• Legendary Wings

New Game Club Games

• Gargoyle's Quest
• Megalit

Absolutely the Best Podcast: A Work in Progress (Zach's show)

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

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#retro #videogames #classiccomputing

Star Wars: Shadow of the Empire, Mega Man 2

Season 8 Episode 10

Episode 221

News

• MegaWiFi Addon
• The Virtual OS Museum
• New Book Tells The True Story Of Nintendo's Legal Fight To Establish Who Invented The Video Game

Game Club

• Star Wars: Shadow of the Empire
• Mega Man 2

New Game Club Games

• Mighty Bomb Jack
• Legendary Wings

Princess and the portals

Zach's Podcast

• Guardians of the Galaxy
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
• Metroid ranking
• Capcom vs Marvel Fighting Collection ranking

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

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#retro #videogames #classiccomputing

Season 8 Episode 9

Episode 221

Rob and Zach peruse the April 1991 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly!

Follow along, and please enjoy!

Zach's Podcast

Game Club Link Tree

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Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

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#retro #videogames #classiccomputing

Season 8 Episode 8

Episode 219

News

• Atari Acquires Rights to the Legendary Wizardry RPGs
• Star Fox 64 is being remastered
• New DIY Adapter Connects a Wii Remote to the Dreamcast via Bluetooth
• Build your own dial up ISP with a Raspberry Pi

Game Club

• Demon's World
• Neo Turf Masters

New Game Club Games

• Star Wars: Shadow of the Empire
• Mega Man 2

Zach's Podcast

• Capcom vs Marvel Fighting Collection ranking

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

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#retro #videogames #classiccomputing

Season 8 Episode 7

Episode 218

News

• Hyper mega tech release clamshell c64 and zx spectrum
• DOOM on a fancy smart toaster
• The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap on PC
• Struggling Video Game Retailer GameStop Is Reportedly Trying To Buy…eBay?!
• NetHack just got its 5.0 update after 39 years of development

Game Club

• Dark Arms
• Moon Patrol

New Game Club Games

• Demon's World
• Neo Turf Masters

Neo Ness' Links

• YouTube
• Instagram

Game Club Link Tree

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Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

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#retro #videogames #classiccomputing #NeoGeo

Season 8 Episode 6

Episode 217

News

• SNES Super Dragons Lair Arcade
• The Nintendo Wii now runs Mac OS X Cheetah
• An unreleased Punch-Out prototype just revealed four scrapped fighters
• Majora's Mask just got a native PlayStation Vita port
• Street Fighter Movie Official Trailer
• $250 Neo Geo+ AES Aims to be a 1:1 Replica of SNK's Classic Console
• Polymega Remix

Game Club

• The Destroyer from Jail
• Little Samson

New Game Club Games

• Dark Arms
• Moon Patrol

Links

• Zach's Podcast
• Hugues Galloping Ghost Review

Game Club Link Tree

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Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

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#retro #videogames #classiccomputing

Season 8 Episode 5

Episode 216

News

• The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks
• Real-time Shader, Running On A Game Boy Color
• TABoy Is An Open Source USB Bridge For Old IDE Drives
• Modder Creates Portable Display Cartridge For Analogue 3D
• Finally! NES Tetris with 7-Bag Random Generator
• WinTown – Micropolis (SimCity) for NT RISC
• Ports:
• Quake ported to analogue pocket
• Homebrew Dev Recreates Minecraft on Saturn
• The N64 just got a seamless open world game
• A PC Port of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening.

Game Club

• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
• Double Dragon II: The Revenge (NES)

New Game Club Games

• The Destroyer from Jail
• Little Samson

Other Links

• Zach's Podcast

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

Threads, Facebook, Bluesky, and  Instagram managed by: Zach

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#retro #videogames #classiccomputing

News

• Where Movies Get Their Vintage Electronics
• Humble Fantasy Game Dev Bundle
• Google May Be Announcing a New Game Console at GDC
• Hardware Review: 16Bit Pocket MD - An Unexpectedly Decent Portable Mega Drive
• Nintendo Of America President Reggie Fils-Aime Is Retiring
• Unreleased Genesis game will come bundled with the premium Mega SG clone
• Sealed Mario Sells For $100,000

Topic

AppleSauce

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbD6Q9FwHV0
• https://applesaucefdc.com/hardware/
• archive.org/details/wozaday

Game Club Discussion

• Wings Of Fury & Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective
• New Game Club Games
• NES2PCE

We are on iTunes (finally)!

Music By:

I Love Lightning Bugs

Season 8 Episode 4

Episode 215

News

• Hamster is bringing classic home console games to Switch 2 and PS5 with Console Archves
• The CDX2: When the Sega Saturn Meets the Legendary CDX of the '90s
• Project Stellar Evolves: Introducing Stellar Plus and the Wireless Upgrade Kit

Topic: Virtual Boy for Nintendo Switch

Game Club

• Mario Bros.
• Gyruss

New Game Club Games

• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
• Double Dragon II: The Revenge (NES)

Links

• Zach's Podcast
• Hugues Arcade Advanced blog entry with Gyruss
• Yars revenge comic

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

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#retro #videogames #classiccomputing

Season 8 Episode 3

Episode 214

News

• OpenKSK – Open Source Sega CD Laser Board Replacement
• Someone modded their ROG Xbox Ally to play original Game Boy & Game Boy Advance cartridges for $60
• SEGA announces Sonic 35th anniversary plans 
• Sega Is Adding Playable Bandai Namco Game Gear Titles To Yakuza Kiwami 3
• DOOMPods

Game Club

• Crusader of Centy
• Destruction Derby

New Game Club Games

• Mario Bros.
• Gyruss

Zach's Podcast

• Metroid ranking episode

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

Threads, Facebook, Bluesky, and  Instagram managed by: Zach

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#retro #videogames #classiccomputing

Season 8 Episode 2

Episode 213

News

• SN Operator - Play and manage Super Nintendo cartridges on your computer, plus much more.
• Shader Beam brings CRT-style motion clarity to high-refresh monitors
• TurboRip is now open source
• TETRIS IN A SINGLE LINE OF CODE
• Sega news:
• "I Was Strangling Both M2 And Myself" - Sega's Yosuke Okunari Recalls The Painful Relaunch Of The 'Sega Ages' Series
• "It Would Have Been A Huge Success" - The Pitch Behind The Sega Handheld That Might Have Rivalled The Game Boy
• From the Air Force to arcades to home consoles: Sega co-founder David Rosen dies aged 95

Game Club

• Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind (SNES)
•  SpellCaster (Sega Master System)

New Game Club Games

• Crusader of Centy (Sega Genesis)
• Destruction Derby 64 (Nintendo 64)

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

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#retro #videogames #classiccomputing

Season 8 Episode 1

Episode 212

We have a special episode to kick off the new year and a new season! Rob and Zach talk about Nintendo's 1991 "Power of Choice" Demonstrator Program training video. We recommend watching it first, but it's not a requirement.

Links

• Power of Choice Nintendo Demonstrator Program Promo Tape
• Stewart Douglas Cheifet (1938 - 2025)
• My Loser Phase
• Zach's Podcast

  Game Club Link Tree

  Retro Game Club Discord server

  Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

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#Nintendo #PowerofChoice

Season 7 Episode 22

Episode 211

News

• VGHF Recovers Over 100 Sega Channel ROMs From The Coaxial Abyss
• DOOM gets ported to board design app, transforming walls into PCB traces, iconic demons into 64-pin packages, and ammo into 3-pin parts — fully playable KiCAD editor port runs at up to 25 FPS on modern systems
• Unofficial Dreamcast Port Of Star Fox 64 Now Available 
• Google killed support for the Dreamcast web browser after 25 years
• Hamster crowns Space Invaders as the 500th Arcade Archives release

Topic: Best games played in 2025

Game Club

• Shape Shifter
• Alien 3

New Game Club Games

• Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind
• SpellCaster

Hugues' Killer Frequency review

Zach's Podcast

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

Threads, Facebook, Bluesky, and  Instagram managed by: Zach

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#retro #videogames #classiccomputing

Season 7 Episode 21

Episode 210

News

• Microsoft Open Sources the Zork Trilog
• eXoWin9x
• modder just released a fan patch for Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
• Super Mario 64 Decomp Gets Ported to PS1  
• KRAKEN ZX Spectrum MultiClone

Topic: BlisSTer Interview with Ulaou

Game Club

• Shinobi
• Crush Roller

New Game Club Games

• Shape Shifter
• Alien 3
• note: in the episode the pick was Alien vs. Predator but that was already covered in S4E18.

Puzzle Bobble running on Taito B-System

Zach's Podcast

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

Threads, Facebook, Bluesky, and  Instagram managed by: Zach

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#Zork #SMB64 #Shinobi #Arcade #CrushRoller

#retro #videogames #classiccomputing

Season 7 Episode 20

Episode 209

Rob is Joined by Bovine Devine to talk about the FM Towns Marty!

This is a previously recorded special episode to cover some travel time for Rob. Regular episodes will resume soon. 

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

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#FMTownsMarty

Season 7 Episode 19

Episode 208

News

• How a programmer got Doom to run on a space satellite and what happened next
• Sonic GX - HOT NEWS as Sonic the Hedgehog has arrived on the Amstrad GX4000 and Amstrad Plus!
• Classic 1988 NES Action Title 'Ninja Gaiden' Used 'Castlevania' for Inspiration
• Castlevania Is Being Ported To The (Checks Notes) Atari 2600

Topic: The 386 at 40 and the PS2 at 20

Game Club

• Crüe Ball
• Ninja Five-O

New Game Club Games

• Shinobi
• Crush Roller

Shinto's links:

• The Atari Jaguar Game by Game Podcast (website)
• RSS Feed
• Apple Podcasts
• BlueSky
• Facebook
• Mastodon

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

Threads, Facebook, Bluesky, and  Instagram managed by: Zach

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#Doom #Sonic #NES #NinjaGaiden #Castlevania #CrueBall #NinjaFiveO #GBA #Genesis #AtariJaguar

#retro #retrogames #retrogaming #videogames #classiccomputing

Season 7 Episode 18

Episode 207

News

• Behold: The Lego Game Boy has already been modded to play games for real
• Macintosh System 7 Ported To X86 With LLM Help
• Super Mario Bros. speedrunner discovers 'new' levels in The Lost Levels after 39 years
• The Toasty Guy From Mortal Kombat Has Left The Studio After 30+ Years
• Another Game Boy Classic Is Getting The 'DX' Colourisation Treatment
• 'Don't Die Mr. Robot!' Gets Demade For The Neo Geo Pocket Color
• Bubble Bobble's Incredible C64 Port Just Got A New Fan Remaster That You Can Play For Free  
• After 35 Years, Sunsoft's PC Engine 'City Hunter' Game Is Being Revived For Modern Platforms

Topic: President of TTI / Turbo Zone Direct, Steve Garwood

Game Club

• Chip's Challenge
• Rolling Thunder

New Game Club Games

• Crüe Ball
• Ninja Five-O

Zach's podcast: 

• Absolutely the Best Podcast: A Work in Progress

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

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#GameBoy #Macintosh #SMB #MortalKombat #NeoGeoPocketColor #BubbleBobble #C64 #PCEngine #TurboZone #ChipsChallenge #AtariLynx #Arcade #RollingThunder

#retro #retrogames #retrogaming #videogames #classiccomputing

Season 7 Episode 17

Episode 206

Rob is Joined by Zach from Absolutely the Best Podcast: A Work in Progress to rank all the Nintendo consoles!

This is a previously recorded special episode to cover some travel time for Rob. Regular episodes will resume eventually. 

Game Club Link Tree

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Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

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#Nintendo

Season 7 Episode 16

Episode 205

News

• Golden Axe Is Being Unofficially Ported To The Atari 2600
• Sega Accused Of Using Police To Recover Nintendo Dev Kits It Had "Negligently Disposed Of"
• Microsoft open-sources its 6502 version of BASIC from 1976
• Juergen's 100 MHz 65F02 Microprocessor is designed to work as an Accelerator for 6502 And 65C02 Computers
• Sega Laserdisc Emulation Has Just Taken A Major Leap Forward
• Miyamoto Explains How Super Mario Bros. World 1-1 Was Created
• All Lost iPod Games Have Been Recovered

Game Club

• Banjo-Kazooie
• Castlevania: Bloodlines

New Game Club Games

• Chip's Challenge
• Rolling Thunder

Zach's podcast:

• Absolutely the Best Podcast: A Work in Progress

That Movie Rob is in:

• Is That All There Is

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

Threads, Facebook, Bluesky, and  Instagram managed by: Zach

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#GoldenAxe #Atari2600 #MOS6502 #Laserdisc #Emulation #LaserActive #SMB #iPod #BanjoKazooie #Castlevania #PlayStation

#retro #retrogames #retrogaming #videogames #classiccomputing

Season 7 Episode 15

Episode 204

Zach's podcast: Absolutely the Best Podcast: A Work in Progress

News

• Computer Entertainer has been digitized.
• Embedded Go as a toolchain, Pi Pico 2, Nintendo 64
• CrankBoy Is A Playdate Game Boy Emulator With Impressive Performance
• Nintendo Of America Once Suggested Pokémon Company Should Give Pikachu Big Naturals, It's Claimed
• Vectrex Mini Prototypes Showcased At Gamescom 2025
• Lego iMac G3

Game Club

• Tapper
• Life Force/Salamander

New Game Club Games

• Banjo Kazooie
• Castlevania: Bloodlines

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

Threads, Facebook, Bluesky, and  Instagram managed by: Zach

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#Nintendo64 #GameBoy #Emulation #Pokemon #Vectrex #Lego #iMacG3

#retro #retrogames #retrogaming #videogames #classiccomputing

Season 7 Episode 14

Episode 203

Ryan Ridley (Rick & Morty, Renfield, Star Trek: Lower Decks, etc.) joins for a special interview and Zach is back to cohost the rest of the episode!

Zach's show: Absolutely the Best Podcast: A Work in Progress

News

• Weird Al Yankovic's Lost Nintendo Game Is Real and It's Gloriously Insane
• The X68000 Z Is Getting Its Very Own Ys Collection This Winter 
• Modern SNES Handheld That Plays Physical Cartridges Is In The Works

Game Club

• Gomola Speed
• Rhyme Rider Kerorican

New Game Club Games

• Tapper
• Salamander / Life Force

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

Threads, Facebook, Bluesky, and  Instagram managed by: Zach

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#NES #WeirdAl #X68000 #Ys #SNES #TurboGrafx #PCEngine #WonderSwan #RyanRidley

#retro #retrogames #retrogaming #videogames #classiccomputing

Season 7 Episode 13

Episode 202

BovineDevine links

• Twitch
• Bluesky
• Discord

News

• Canceled, But Nearly Finished Animaniacs Game Has Been Found
• New Neptune fpga is coming. 
• A Feast Of 1970s Gaming History, And An 8080 Arcade Board
• Someone got a PS1 emulator running on a DS cartridge, and I'm really impressed
• Simple GOG client for Linux, Minigalaxy version 1.4 released

Game Club

• Hi-Octane
• Bionic Commando (NES)

New Game Club Games

• Gomola Speed
• Rhyme Rider Kerorican

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

Threads, Facebook, Bluesky, and  Instagram managed by: Zach

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#retrocollecting #Animaniacs #PlayStation #NintendoDS #Linux #HiOctane #BionicCommando #NES

#retro #retrogames #retrogaming #videogames #classiccomputing

Season 7 Episode 12

Episode 201

News

• Ryan Reynolds' Dragon's Lair Movie May Finally Have A Director
• It Looks Like 50 Cent Will Play Balrog in the Street Fighter Movie  
• PicoGUS – The $50 / €65 / £58 Sound Card That Only Does Everything
• YouTube is hiding an excellent, official high-speed Pac-Man mod in plain sight
• After 27 years, engineer discovers how to display secret photo in Power Mac ROM
• 30 Years On, DOOM's "Super FX 3" Upgrade Gives SNES Players A More Polished Way To Rip And Tear

Topic: Ranking the Metroid series

[Note: Zach somehow left his Zero Mission ranking out of the discussion. It should have been #4, below Super and above Samus Returns.]

Game Club

• Metroid Fusion
• Mega Man 5

New Game Club Games

• Hi-Octane
• Bionic Commando (NES)

Links

• Zach's podcast
• Hugues' catalog scans
• Sears catalogs & wishbooks

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

Threads, Facebook, Bluesky, and  Instagram managed by: Zach

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#Metroid #SamusAran #MegaMan #Capcom #DragonsLair #StreetFighter #PacMan #PowerMac #DOOM #SNES

#retro #retrogames #retrogaming #videogames #classiccomputing

Season 7 Episode 11

Episode 200

Zach Links:

• https://linktr.ee/absolutelythebest
• https://absolutelythebest.net

News

• MagicX: Launch date revealed for Nintendo DS-focused gaming handheld
• The Commodore 64 Gets An HDMI Upgrade
• Polish engineer creates postage stamp-sized 1980s Atari computer 
• WWF WrestleFest Is Being Rereleased In Home Arcade Cabinet Form Later This Year

Topic 

Adventures Of Super Mario Bros 3

Game Club

• Metal Slug 2 or X
• Fatal Labyrinth

New Game Club Games

• Metroid Fusion
• Mega Man 5

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

Threads, Facebook, Bluesky, and  Instagram managed by: Zach

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#MetalSlug #NeoGeo #FatalLabyrinth #SegaGenesis #MegaDrive #NintendoDS #Commodore64 #Atari #WWFWrestleFest #SMB #SuperMarioBros

#retro #retrogames #retrogaming #videogames #classiccomputing

Season 7 Episode 10

Episode 199

S.M. Oliva Links:

• Music Construction Set (1983)
• Computer Games (1984)
• Halcyon (1985)
• Computer Games (1985)
• Software Piracy (1985)
• Thomas M. Disch's Amnesia (1986)
• Mr. Gameshow (1987)
• Computer Games (1987, Part 1)
• Computer Games (1987, Part 2)

News

• Gamer Discovers Two Super Mario 64 Bugs That Only Trigger After 14 Months Of Continuous Play
• PAC-MAN: The Official Cookbook
• OutRun Comes To The Game Boy Color Thanks To This Unofficial Port

Game Club

• Qix
• Tiny Tunes Adventures

New Game Club Games

• Metal Slug 2 or X
• Fatal Labyrinth

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

Threads, Facebook, Bluesky, and  Instagram managed by: Zach

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#SuperMario64 #Mario #PacMan #OutRun #Qix #TinyTunes #TinyTunesAdventures #NES

#retro #retrogames #retrogaming #videogames #classiccomputing

Season 7 Episode 9

Episode 198

Doodle World 2

• Website
• Bluesky
• Threads
• Instagram
• Nate Peters

News

• Michael Bay And Sydney Sweeney Team On Movie Adaptation Of 'OutRun' Video Game At Universal
• 33-year-old AmigaOS for Commodore computers gets an unexpected update
• Doom Box Plays Doom
• Someone Has Created A Version Of Windows For Game Boy
• Square, Capcom, Taito, & Sega Are All Making Promising Steps To Preserve Their Past

Game Club

• Impossamole
• The Magic Candle

New Game Club Games

• Qix
• Tiny Tunes Adventures

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

Threads, Facebook, Bluesky, and  Instagram managed by: Zach

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#Outrun #Amiga #Doom #GameBoy #Impossamole #TG16 #AppleII #TheMagicCandle #NES #Homebrew #DoodleWorld #NeoGeo

#retro #retrogames #retrogaming #videogames #classiccomputing

Season 7 Episode 8

Episode 197

Interview: Ken Gagne

• Game reviews
• PRGE panel 2025

News

• Doodle World 2
• Super Monaco GP SRAM (Genesis) Romhack
• New Genesis / Mega Drive Mod Upgrades Sega's Console For A "New Era"
• A Long-Lost NES Port Of Populous Has Just Been Discovered After 33 Years
• Sonic The Hedgehog games now have a timeline

Game Club

• Shadow of the Colossus

New Game Club Games

• Impossamole
• The Magic Candle

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

Threads, Facebook, Bluesky, and  Instagram managed by: Zach

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#PRGE #HomeBrew #SegaGenesis #NES #Sonic #ShadowoftheColossus

#retro #retrogames #retrogaming #videogames #classiccomputing 

Season 7 Episode 7

Episode 196

News

• MAME 0.274 Is Out Now, Bringing With It A Ton Of New Features & Fixes

Game Club

• Ninja Gaiden II
• Robocop

New Game Club Games

• Shadow of the Colossus

Links

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

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Season 7 Episode 6

Episode 195

News

• R.I.P. Peter Navy Tuiasosopo, Street Fighter's E. Honda
• Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2503
• You Can Now Stream Sega Saturn Games To Your Console Over WiFi
• Programmer gets a NES to emulate a PC, and it's as ridiculous as it sounds
• The Super Nintendo Now Runs Infinitesimally Faster Than It Did 35 Years Ago And Players Are Trying To Find Out Why
• GTA 3's Dreamcast Fan Port Looks To Be Getting Some Incredible Optimisations

Game Club

• The Horde
• DOS MPEG decoder bundled

New Game Club Games

• Ninja Gaiden II
• Robocop

Links

• Zach
• Absolutely the Best Podcast: A Work in Progress
• GMMF: Contra, Super C, Operation C
• Hugues blog
• No Swear Gamer's YouTube channel

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Season 7 Episode 5

Episode 194

Glenn Rubenstein Interview

• Linktree
• Jeff Gerstmann Patreon

News

• Launch PS2 Games from MemCard Pro
• Crazy Taxi Prototype Shows Sega Was Experimenting With GTA-Style Camera Angles
• Homebrew Mortal Kombat 2 3DO Port Public Beta Released

Game Club

• Psychic World

New Game Club Games

• The Horde

Links

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Season 7 Episode 4

Episode 193

HungryGoriya Interview

• Twitch
• blog
• YouTube

News

• It's Taken 36 Years, But Amiga Owners Are Finally Getting A Worthy Port Of OutRun
• Shinobi – Neo Geo Port Now Available
• Atari Jaguar Is Coming To Analogue Pocket

Game Club

• Super Mario Bros. 3
• Myst

New Game Club Games

• Psychic World

Links

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Season 7 Episode 3

Episode 192

 Rob & Hugues discuss Computer Shopper buyers guide from September 1994! All 885 pages.

This is a special episode – extra special in that it truly is Hugues' last episode, though it was recorded a while ago.

Enjoy! 

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Season 7 Episode 2

Episode 191

At long last, it's the "Ask Us Anything" Episode! 

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Season 7 Episode 1

Episode 190

Rob talks a little about his future plans for Retro Game Club and some listeners have sent in well wishes for Hugues' retirement. 

***This is a fixed re-release. We accidentally left out a couple messages in the original release. These are now included at the 15:36 mark. Sorry about that!

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Season 6 Episode 26

Episode 189

Intro

• Hugues' annual virtual xmas card
• CX30+ PADDLE CONTROLLER BUNDLE
• Rob's trip to the Blue Mountains

News

• Emulation / hacks / translations / homebrew games
• Saturn Bomberman Fight!! English Translation Patch Is Out Now
• The Top Sega Saturn Stories of 2024 
• English translation patch for the NEC PC-FX game "Team Innocent: The Point of No Return"
• Other odd or interesting things
• New Arcades Open For 2025
• The Founder of Nihon Falcom Masayuki Kato Has Passed Away, Aged 78  
• Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld editor and renowned hardware journalist, dies at 58
• Sega Admits It Doesn't Know How Many Games It Owns

Topic: 15 Years of Podcasting

• Nintendo Retrocast
• Retrogaming Radio
• If NES games were made today

Game Club Discussion

• Final Fantasy VI
• Hyper Catalog 4

New Game Club Games

• Super Mario Bros. 3
• Myst

Links

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Season 6 Episode 25

Episode 188

Intro

• S.M. Oliva's links:
• Blog
• Podcast

News

• Hardware 
• PS placeable. Consolized PSP
• Emulation / hacks / translations / homebrew games
• The Secret of the Four Winds for Mega Drive/Genesis
• Doom running on things
• At long last, Doom can be played in Stardew Valley
• Other odd or interesting things
• Visual Basic 6 recreated as a cross-platform IDE in modern .NET – just 'for fun'
• Virtua Fighter 2 Is Getting A Physical Release On Xbox

Topic: The Official Nintendo Player's Guide

Game Club Discussion

• Tomb Raider
• Alex Kidd in Miracle World

New Game Club Games

• Final Fantasy VI
• Hyper Catalog 4

Links

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Season 6 Episode 24

Episode 187

Intro

• Zach's podcast: Absolutely the Best Podcast: A work in Progress

News

• Hardware 
• The upside-down capacitor in mid-'90s Macs, proven and documented by hobbyists
• Emulation / hacks / translations / homebrew games
• InfeZtation - A stunning C64 arcade style run'n'gun platformer released by Monte Boyd
• Saturn Cult Classic Princess Crown Is Getting An Uncensored Translation
• Bounty Bob Strikes Back! - 7800

Topic: Nintendo DS at 20

Game Club Discussion

• Bonk III: Bonk's Big Adventure
• Zelda II

New Game Club Games

• Tomb Raider
• Alex Kidd in Miracle World

Links

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Season 6 Episode 23

Episode 186

Intro

• Guest host: Zach from Absolutely the Best Podcast: A work in Progress
• Hugues'  guest appearance on NintenDomain
• Game Boy Advance Compilations

News

• Emulation / hacks / translations / homebrew games
• New Super Mario Bros. demake available for Game Boy Color, includes Yoshi and more
• Doom running on things
• Hackers make DOOM fully playable on Nintendo Alarmo
• Other odd or interesting things
• Introducing Polymega® Collection
• Sega delisting over 60 classic games from virtual stores, including Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi
• 29 Years Later, A New Donkey Kong Country 2 Cheat Code Has Been Discovered
• Digital Eclipse's 'Tetris Forever' To Include 2 MS-DOS Games
• SNK and Tanita have achieved a dream collaboration and released a pedometer, a thermo-hygrometer, and a body composition analyzer for professional use with KOF character designs! The body composition analyzer for professional use can play "KOF '98"! -

Topic: Console ports better than the arcade version

Game Club Discussion

• Balloon Kid
• Kid Icarus

New Game Club Games

• Bonk III: Bonk's Big Adventure
• Zelda II

Links

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Season 6 Episode 22

Episode 185

News

• Hardware 
• RetroTime NES HUB Bluetooth for NES
• MiSTer FPGA's Next Trick? Launching Games From CD
• Doom running on things
• Redbox Kiosks Can Run Doom
• Other odd or interesting things
• Sega Video Game 'Shinobi' Sets Movie Adaptation With 'Extraction' Director, Universal Pictures
• Another Classic Star Wars Game Is Getting Remastered

Topic: Unwinnable game states

Game Club Discussion

• S.T.U.N. Runner
• Solstice

New Game Club Games

• Balloon Kid (Game Boy)
• Kid Icarus

Links

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Season 6 Episode 21

Episode 184

Life is busy.

This is a backup episode about Video Games magazine.

Please enjoy.

Links

HUBOT

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Season 6 Episode 20

Episode 183

News

• Hardware 
• Super Gameboy Plus  
• Emulation / hacks / translations / homebrew games
• The name that proved console emulation is "100% legal" is back for the third time as a '90s nostalgia mall that's also helping remaster retro cult classics
• Doom running on things
• DOOM ported to run almost entirely on AMD GPUs
• Other odd or interesting things
• Lost 1983 Programming Language Resurrected by Retro Compute YouTube Channel

Game Club Discussion

• Marble Madness
• Treasure of Tarmin (AKA Minotaur)

New Game Club Games

• S.T.U.N. Runner
• Solstice

Links

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Season 6 Episode 19

Episode 182

News

• Hardware 
• Colecoco Master 
• Saturn MiSTer Core Gets Mouse Support
• Other odd or interesting things
• Italian police seize $52.8M in fake video game consoles from trafficking ring
• Please Stop Buying Unofficial "Saturn Mini" Consoles

Game Club Discussion

• Beetlejuice
• Mortal Kombat II
• Earthrise

New Game Club Games

• Marble Madness (I thought we did this but I didn't see it in the game list)
• Treasure of Tarmin (AKA Minotaur)

Links

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Season 6 Episode 18

Episode 181

News

• Emulation / hacks / translations / homebrew games
• GTA 3 Is Being Ported To Dreamcast, The Console It Was Originally Developed On
• Doom running on things
• Playing Doom on a volumetric display is the coolest thing you'll see today
• New Doom Cheat Code Surfaces After 27 Years
• Other odd or interesting things
• Wizardry co-creator Andrew Greenberg dead at 67

Topic

• Julia Minamata interview
• Julia's Twitch

Game Club Discussion

• Ridge Racer
• Destruction Derby
• Data Man

New Game Club Games

• Beetlejuice
• Mortal Kombat II
• Earthrise

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Season 6 Episode 17

Episode 180

News

• Hardware
• FlippyBird Connects Four WaveBirds To Your GameCube At Once
• Atari 7800+
• MakeMhz v1.6.1
• Emulation / hacks / translations / homebrew games
• Sega Genesis Is Finally Capable Of SNES-Style Transparency Effects Thanks To Clever Modders
• NESMaker shows off version 5, is getting renamed, and announces SNES tools
• Doom running on things
• Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines
• Other odd or interesting things
• Even Eternal Champions, Sega's Obscure 1993 Fighting Game, Is Getting Its Own Movie Now
• RadioShack Catalogs
• The Legend of Zelda - The Complete Series [DVD]

Topic

• Raftronaut interview
• Space Raft (Nintendo eShop)

Game Club Discussion

• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• Theme Park

New Game Club Games

• Ridge Racer
• Destruction Derby
• Data Man

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Season 6 Episode 16

Episode 179

News

• Emulation / hacks / translations / homebrew games
• New budget, entry level Genesis/Mega-Drive flash cartridge, the OpenED, launches from Everdrive creator Krikzz; goes open-source
• Homebrew Genesis/Mega-Drive game Hayato's Journey finishes development; now available to download for free
• ROMhacking.net Moves to News Only, Database and File Archive Released to Internet Archive
• Other odd or interesting things
• JALECOIIe famicom games coming to the Switch

Topic

• New Nintendo 3DS

Game Club Discussion

• Warbirds
• Wii Sports

New Game Club Games

• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• Theme Park

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