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

Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase

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

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#MAME #NinjaGaiden #Robocop #KeithCoogan

#retro #retrogames #retrogaming #videogames #classiccomputing 

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

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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#Sega #StreetFightertheMovie #Emulation #Dreamcast #SegaSaturn #GTA #3DO

#retro #retrogames #retrogaming #videogames #classiccomputing