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In this episode I talk about the death of PC optical drives, an amazing port of Out Run to the Game Boy Color, Atari 50 on GOG, Monkey Island's 35th anniversary, a LEGO SEGA controller, Microsoft's 6502 BASIC & more!

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Episode Links:

PC Optical Drives No Longer Being Made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTNCYrLEezA

OutRun GBC: https://rocketshippark.itch.io/what-if-outrun

RetroDodo Vectrex Mini Interview: https://retrododo.com/vectrex-reveals-upcoming-limited-edition-mini-console

C64 Microcassette: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/remaking-a-commodore-64-datasette-from-1982-using-1993-microcassette-tech-techtuber-touts-1mb-per-tape-a-5x-improvement-over-the-original

Atari On GOG: https://www.gog.com/en/news/more_atari_titles_join_gog

Ron Gilbert Monkey 25: https://www.grumpygamer.com/monkey25/

LEGO SEGA Controller: https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/sega-genesis-controller-40769

Microsoft 6502 BASIC: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/03/microsoft-open-source-historic-6502-basic

Video Of The Week 1 (Ahoy Brat): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzq_4REOABk

Video Of The Week 2 (Veronica Explains The Stop Bits): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSVaZwDFVrg

The Stop Bits EP: https://thestopbits.bandcamp.com/album/return-from-interrupt

Chapters:

00:00 The Death Of Optical Media?

04:37 PCBWay

05:38 Out Run For The Game Boy Color

11:39 Vectrex Mini News! Pricing & New Limited Edition

17:31 YouTuber Makes Cassettes Even Tinier

25:08 Atari Comes To GOG.COM

29:39 35 Years Of Monkey Island

36:13 New Retrogaming LEGO! SEGA

41:43 Microsoft 6502 BASIC Open Sourced

46:51 Video Of The Week