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

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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

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

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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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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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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

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

  
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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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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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