We're back for Episode 104!

In this episode Cody and Eric catch up on the news +  Battle Of The Systems: Pricey Cart Battle - Little Samson (NES) vs Golden Axe Warrior (SMS)

We are doing news for the first monthly episode and then "catching up" later in the month.

Episode Guide

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6:50 - Quick Questions

28:03 - Patreon Song

32:02 - Tea Time With Tim - Hal Labs – Pinball Games Over The YEars

50:28 -  - Cody's Corner

1:05:12 - News

1:48:57 - Battle Of The Systems: Pricey Cart Battle - Little Samson (NES) vs Golden Axe Warrior (SMS)

(Eric) - Project EGG Could Bring MSX, PC-98, And Neo Geo Titles To Switch - https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/03/project-egg-could-bring-msx-pc-98-and-neo-geo-titles-to-switch 

(Cody) https://www.timeextension.com/news/2023/04/bitmap-books-publishing-new-history-of-the-run-n-gun-genre 

(Eric) - STEPPER: A new 16-step sequencer for the GBA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA6Cm8fe5-I 

(Cody) https://www.timeextension.com/news/2023/04/this-new-york-museum-is-creating-the-worlds-biggest-donkey-kong-arcade-machine 

(Eric) - E3 Cancelled. End of an era? - https://meetings.skift.com/what-e3s-cancellation-means-for-the-industry/#:~:text=Due%20to%20the%20impact%20of,on%20a%20hybrid%202023%20edition. 

https://www.ign.com/articles/e3-has-been-canceled 

(Tim) - As mentioned briefly in Ep 103 catching up. The MSX 2023 Game Dev compo is now on. Entries have started to come in. Started in Feb and entries close in October and Judging then until November. Check out the msxdev.org website for more details and entries as they come through. 

https://www.msxdev.org/msxdev23/ 

(Eric) Dredge - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1562430/DREDGE/ 

(Cody) (Cody) https://www.timeextension.com/news/2023/04/this-dead-space-ps1-style-demake-looks-absolutely-stunning-and-its-out-now 

(Tim) - Platformer Celeste Has Been Unofficially Ported To Playdate - The port is based on the PICO-8 version of the game. A Playdate developer named hteumeuleu has ported over Maddy Makes Games' critically acclaimed platformer Celeste to Panic's crank-based handheld. This unofficial version of the game is based on "Celeste Classic" for the PICO-8 and is a faithful recreation 

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2023/04/the-platformer-celeste-has-been-unofficially-ported-to-playdate 

(Cody) https://www.timeextension.com/news/2023/04/32-years-later-blatant-r-type-clone-rezon-finally-comes-to-home-consoles 

(Tim) - New C64 game Space Station 23 - Space Station 23 has been hit by an asteroid and it's partly destroyed. The space station is also invaded by a nasty species of aliens. Pick it up on Vector 5 Games’ Itch.io site and throw em a few bucks for a cool looking game 

 Features - 10 levels (3 exterior themed and 7 interiors themed), 240 different rooms to explore, save/load game. 

https://vector5games.itch.io/space-station-23 

(Cody) https://retrododo.com/atari-vcs-collectors-edition/ 

(Tim) - HAL Labs created a Mini! - Not new. But not sure if we have covered this before on the show. The Pasocom Mini PC 8100? A little-known computer was made as a Mini by HAL Labs in 2019 before a lot of the other Mini’s were launched. 

https://strategywiki.org/wiki/PasocomMini_PC-8001 

https://www.hallab.co.jp/works/detail/003366/ 

(Eric) New rouguelike for Dreamcast (and eventually PC) - Harlequest  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ross-codes/harlequest-a-new-3d-dungeon-crawler-for-the-sega-dreamcast 

(Eric) Pico-8 game like Vampire Survivor – Beckon The Hellspawn - https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=51555 

(Cody) Square Enix buys tomb raider franchise back from embracer group for 600 Million after selling it to them last year along with other IPs for 300. 

(Eric) New ZX Spectrum Games - Bruxólico - https://twitter.com/amaweks/status/1643617474196172806?t=rPIRBq8VVzYwrcbI1xUKzw&s=19 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdcohKbylqw 

Super Bomberman 2 Remix - https://zxonline.net/game/super-bomberman-2/ 

(Cody) Silver Falls White Inside Horror Game 

https://silverfallsgame.com/wiiu/ 

(Tim) New conversion of Juan Martínez’s Night Knight for Atari 8 Bit for the ABBUC-Software Contest 2023 by Lars Langhans. Final date for sending in submissions is 31. of July 2023 and then submissions will be released after that, so we have a while to wait yet, but Juan will keep us updated when its available. 

(Eric) Zelda and Studio Ghibli mash-up RPG - Kloa 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wildpadgames/kloa-child-of-the-forest 

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