Retro Game Club

By Hugues & Rob

Tech News Video Games

What's Retro Game Club about?

Retro Game Club is a podcast about retro gaming with a focus on programming, emulation, and projects you can do at home.

Each episode, we will have two games you can play with us and give us feedback before the next episode. We will also have a topic or project of the week that will be the focus of the conversation.

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Cloak & Dagger, Tempest 2000

01.23.2023

Season 5 Episode 2 Episode 138 News: Hacks / translations / homebrew games Private Eye Dol for PC-Engine CD translated Mega Man V for Game Boy gets colorization hack JAVA IS NOW ON THE NINTENDO 64! Other odd or interesting ...

Retro Game Club episodes:

01.23.2023 Cloak & Dagger, Tempest 2000 Season 5 Episode 2 Episode 138 News: Hacks / translations / homebrew games Private Eye Dol for PC-Engine CD translated Mega Man V for Game Boy gets colorization hack JAVA IS NOW ON THE NINTENDO 64! Other odd or interesting ...
01.09.2023 Parasol Stars, Quake II - What other collections like Atari 50 would you like to see? Season 5 Episode 1 Episode 137 News: Hardware Atari Announce A New Handheld, Mini Arcade & Home Console The Sega ST-V's MIDI OUT: A Quick Examination and Failed Experiments Game Boy interceptor Homebrew, ROM hacks & emulation Mortal Kombat II ...
12.26.2022 Primal Rage, Fighter’s History - Favorite Retro Things of 2022 Season 4 Episode 25 Episode 136 Ti Peripheral Expansion Box News: Hardware Fantastically Ridiculous Hack Puts Four Cartridges on One Game Boy Doom running on things A Christmas tree bauble that plays Doom Other odd or interesting things Michael Jackson's ...
12.12.2022 Strider (NES), Donkey Kong Land - Electronic Fun with Computers & Games Vol. 1 No.2 Season 4 Episode 24 Episode 135 News: The Internet Archive’s PalmPilot Emulation project lets you relive tech history Load PlayStation 2 Game Directly From a Raspberry Pi Homebrew dev working on R-Type port for Sega Mega Drive/Genesis BigPEmu: First Atari ...
11.28.2022 Arkanoid II, Kaboom! Season 4 Episode 23 Episode 134 News: Hardware EMULATE ANY ISA CARD WITH A RASPBERRY PI AND AN FPGA Homebrew, ROM hacks & emulation Road Rash (SegaCD) Improvement AmigameJam 2022 This Huge Star Fox Mod Adds New Levels, Ships, Weapons, ...
11.14.2022 MediEvil, GTA: Vice City Season 4 Episode 22 Episode 133 News: Hardware New Atari 2600 games shipped with upside down PCBs NEW SEGA Saturn SDLoader MakeMHz Announces Xbox Mod, “Project Stellar” Homebrew, ROM hacks & emulation Here Are The Winners Of The 2022 Sonic ...
10.24.2022 Sonic CD, Sewer Shark - Sega CD is 30 Season 4 Episode 21 Episode 132 Topic: Sega CD is 30 Game Club Discussion: Sonic CD Sewer Shark New Game Club Games: MediEvil GTA Vice City or Vice City Stories Game Club Link Tree Game Club Master List Retro Game ...
10.03.2022 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, TMNT: Tournament Fighters - Retro Game On Season 4 Episode 20 Episode 131 News: Hardware Turbo EverDrive PRO announced! Homebrew, ROM hacks & emulation The Analogue Pocket Can Now Play Super Nintendo Games SNES Star Fox now runs at a silky 60 fps thanks to a new ...
09.19.2022 Asteroids, Super Mario Kart - The Magnavox Odyssey is 50 Season 4 Episode 19 Episode 130 News: Hardware USB2PCE Adapter Available for Pre-Order N64 BlueRetro BT Controller Receiver with Memory Pak Fixel’s 3DO FZ-1 Optical Drive Emulator Reviewed Homebrew, ROM hacks & emulation Advanced NES ROM Utility - Split / ...
09.06.2022 Alien vs. Predator, Predator 2 Season 4 Episode 18 Episode 129 News: Hardware MACINTOSH CLASSIC II WITH E-INK DISPLAY New mod will let you use your Xbox controllers on Nintendo GameCube RESTORE YOUR FORMERLY USELESS OUYA CONSOLE NES Internal BlueRetro Kit Announced TEOS: A replacement ...
08.24.2022 Space Channel 5, Mouse Trap Season 4 Episode 17 Episode 128 News: Hardware Here Are The 60 Titles Included On The Sega Genesis Mini 2 Doom running on things Hacker Runs DOOM on Electronic Badge Hacker Jailbreaks John Deere Tractor, Installs Doom Takedown letter pending ...
08.08.2022 Jungle Hunt, Sinistar Season 4 Episode 16 Episode 127 News: Hardware Analogue Pocket Just Got Its Long-Awaited Jailbreak Neo Geo Core Ported To Analogue Pocket Modder Finds A Way To Add 128MB Of RAM To 1.6 OG XBOX! Homebrew, rom hacks & emulation ...
07.25.2022 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Raiders of the Lost Ark Season 4 Episode 15 Episode 126 News: Homebrew, rom hacks & emulation Geofront Team Releases Translation Patch For Super Early Falcom Game; Computer the Golf YOUR OWN IBM MAINFRAME (OR VAX, OR CRAY…) THE EASY WAY The Cancelled Console: 3DO ...
07.10.2022 King's Quest 6, TRON - Atari, Inc. 50th Anniversary Season 4 Episode 14 Episode 125 News: Hardware AppleSqueezer GS Homebrew, rom hacks & emulation RASPBERRY PI PICO “MODCHIP” UNLOCKS THE GAMECUBE Homebrew Project: Lag Test Your Controller Other odd or interesting things Obscure Japanese PS1 Game Finally Available In ...
06.27.2022 Top Gun, Super Zaxxon - Apple II is 45 Season 4 Episode 13 Episode 124 News: Hardware MiSTerFPGA SNES SFC and MSU-1 supported. Homebrew, rom hacks & emulation Steam Deck Dual Screen - Nintendo DS Animal Crossing Gameplay WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN A RASPBERRY PI PICO FLASHES A ...
06.13.2022 Metal Gear Solid, Revenge of Shinobi - Interview: Raftronaut Season 4 Episode 12 Episode 123 News: Hardware Evercade Is Getting An "EXP" Upgrade Sega has announced its next mini console, which will be based on the Mega Drive 2. Homebrew, rom hacks & emulation After 30 years, the world ...
05.30.2022 The Legend of Kage, NBA Jam - Why we collect games Season 4 Episode 11 Episode 122 News: Homebrew, rom hacks & emulation New NES core for the EverDrive-64 X series Doom running on things The nightmare of getting DOOM running on PowerPC AIX Takedown letter pending Somehow, The N64 Can ...
05.16.2022 Altered Beast, Panel de Pon / Tetris Attack - Double Dragon The Movie Season 4 Episode 10 Episode 121 News: Hardware VM2 – A SD Card Based Dreamcast VMU Announced! Homebrew, rom hacks & emulation Prototype of a portable MiSTer. Smallest NES Contender Built Using Orange Pi Zero2 Doom running on things Dev ...
05.06.2022 Secret of Monkey Island, NES Open Tournament Golf Season 4 Episode 9 Episode 120 News: Homebrew, rom hacks & emulation Doodle World is coming to the Switch Mister supports 32x (surprise core release!) Ms. Pac-Man to Pac-Man OPTIMIZED SUPER MARIO 64 OFFERS EXCITING POSSIBILITIES Other odd or interesting ...
04.18.2022 Populous, Mappy-Land - Backwards Compatibility Season 4 Episode 8 Episode 119 News: Homebrew, rom hacks & emulation FINALLY, THE VENERABLE VECTREX GETS A MINI MAKEOVER Doom running on things “Can it run Doom” will never be the same, thanks to new ray-tracing mod Other odd ...
04.04.2022 Ys: Books I & II, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers - Dreamcast VGA Season 4 Episode 7 Episode 118 News: Homebrew, rom hacks & emulation Ys III for Genesis rebalanced Takedown letter pending Modder Recreates Quake 4 in Quake 1 Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Fan-Made PC Port Is Out And Already Spawning Glorious ...
03.21.2022 Another World, Street Fighter II - EGM March '95 Season 4 Episode 6 Episode 117 News: Hardware Your dream handheld GameCube is finally a reality 20 years later Homebrew, rom hacks & emulation A PlayStation Vita to Horizon OS (Nintendo Switch OS) translation layer MORTAL KOMBAT ROM HACK KONTINUES ...
03.07.2022 Satan's Hollow, Defender Season 4 Episode 5 Episode 116 News: Hardware Nintendo Game Processor - The lost Nintendo game creation PC RGB-Pi OS4 ALFa arrives with support for GunCon2 and Dreamcast pistols How to make a ⅓ scale Mac Plus from a Raspberry ...
02.21.2022 Ape Escape, Jackass: The Game - 25 years of MAME Season 4 Episode 4 Episode 115 News: Hardware Applesauce now supports IBM disks This Device Could End Up Being Essential For All Retro Gamers Did You Know The Game Boy Advance Could Make Video Calls Back In 2004? Homebrew, rom ...
02.07.2022 Bonk's Adventure, Doom 64 (2020) - Ms. Pac-Man at 40 Season 4 Episode 3 Episode 114 News: Hardware Analogue Pocket & Dock firmware updates merged Homebrew, rom hacks & emulation Legendary SNES Emulator SNESTicle Freed Using NSA Tools Tomb Raider on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance is incredible \| MVG ...
01.24.2022 Soulcalibur, any retro Madden game - The Ultimate Dreamcast Season 4 Episode 2 Episode 113 News: Hardware Loading games via barcode scanner using MiSTER+Pi Homebrew, rom hacks & emulation You Can Play the Original Prince of Persia on Your Apple Watch, No App Required Turns Out the Nintendo Game ...
01.12.2022 Psychonauts, Final Doom Season 4 Episode 1 Episode 112 News: Hardware This 8-bit processor built in Minecraft can run its own games Inside the Atari 2600-colecovision adapter REALTIME SHADOWS ON N64 HARDWARE Amiga A500 Mini Launches March 25 With 25 Bundled Games Homebrew, ...
12.20.2021 Donkey Kong 94, Dragonfire - News we cut throughout the year Season 3 Episode 39 Episode 111 Topic: Things we cut throughout the year Even Atari's Reanimated Corpse Is Getting in on the NFT Grift Someone Just Opened A Brand-New Nintendo 64DD Dev Kit Nintendo Once Made a Suggestive Ad for ...
12.13.2021 Ms. Pac-Man, Batman Returns Season 3 Episode 38 Episode 110 News: Hardware Fun with Linedrawing: The GCE/Milton-Bradley Vectrex and the PiTrex Homebrew, rom hacks & emulation An instant Amiga or Atari ST in your browser Street Fighter 2 re-balanced after 17 years via mod; ...
11.29.2021 Super Mario Land, Golf - Interview: Keith Coogan & Pinky Coogan Season 3 Episode 37 Episode 109 News: Hardware Super-Powered Cartridge Lets the Game Boy Advance Run PlayStation Games Polymega's Next Module Brings Nintendo 64 Support Homebrew, rom hacks & emulation Zelda II: Ocarina of Time (Related article from 2014? https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/07/ocarina_of_time_began_life_as_a_remake_of_zelda_ii_the_adventure_of_link ...
11.23.2021 Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader, Burnout - EB Christmas 2001 catalog Season 3 Episode 36 Episode 108 (Some audio issues midway in. But mostly fine) News: Hardware Intel 4004, world's first commercially available microprocessor, turns 50 Microsoft adds 76 more games to the Xbox backward compatibility program CRAMMING A DS INSIDE ...
11.13.2021 Kid Niki: Radical Ninja, Lego Star Wars - GameCube turns 20 Season 3 Episode 35 Episode 107 News: Hardware Use N64 Switch Online Controller With Real Hardware Looking for High Sierra Incredible Mod Turns the Game Boy Advance Into a Mini Switch With Joy-Con and Dock Support Homebrew, rom hacks & ...
11.04.2021 The Goonies II, Simpsons Hit & Run Season 3 Episode 34 Episode 106 News: Hardware US Copyright Office says you can fix a game console (but only the optical drive) Limited Run Will Turn Your Switch Into an Arcade Cabinet for $40 Arcade1Up Debuts Classic ‘Terminator 2’ ...
10.23.2021 Devil's Crush, Friday the 13th Season 3 Episode 33 Episode 105 News: Hardware Analogue OS Mega65 The 100 MHz 6502 A Rare Prototype of the Failed Phantom Console Is Going Up for Auction Raspberry Pi CM4 Used in Custom Nintendo Switch Lite Replica FPGA BOARDS ...
10.14.2021 Luigi's Mansion, Night Trap Season 3 Episode 32 Episode 104 News: Hardware Yorkshire gang's Game Boy device could unlock car in seconds Tron™ Arcade Machine Doom running on things Golden Axe has been remade in Doom, and you can try it now Takedown letter ...
10.09.2021 TV Sports: Football, Road Rash - Nintendo 64 turns 25 Season 3 Episode 31 Episode 103 News: Hardware Sega Pico Flash Cart Adapter v2 Mega Drive Mini is getting a Master System adapter in Japan, but it doesn’t play games Homebrew, rom hacks & emulation Latest version of RPCS3 brings ...
09.21.2021 ActRaiser, Super Dodge Ball - Ways to play NES games Season 3 Episode 30 Episode 102 News: Hardware Homebrew, rom hacks & emulation Searching for English text in games Ys III for Genesis retranslation A Determined Hacker Has Brought Google Maps to the NES Fan Demake of Castlevania Symphony of ...
09.10.2021 R-Type, Joust - SNES is 30 years old Season 3 Episode 29 Episode 101 News: Hardware Why does the GameBoy Pocket produce a blue line on power off? CLOUD-BASED ATARI GAMING 286 vs 386SX Polymega is released. Homebrew, rom hacks & emulation It’s now possible to play early ...
08.30.2021 Episode 100! Ask us anything. We made it to episode 100! The listeners emailed us a ton of fun random questions. We'd love to thank Zach, our listeners, all the sites that we read news from, and anyone keeping retrogaming alive. We'd also like to ...
08.18.2021 Thexder, Pole Position - Metroid is 35! Season 3 Episode 27 Episode 99 News: Hardware This PS2 mod is a handheld dream come true Beige Against the Machine: The IBM PC turns 40 Retro Games THEA500 Mini Reboots Commodore Amiga 500 For Gaming Nostalgia Homebrew, rom hacks ...
08.04.2021 Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams, Jr. Pac-Man Season 3 Episode 26 Episode 98 News: Homebrew, rom hacks & emulation Collision Detection is Hard: The Story of Alf Hudson's Wintry Adventure Island II Guitar Hero faithfully recreated within Super Mario 64 – and it’s amazing! Vita3k (Sony Vita ...
07.26.2021 Tiger Heli, Commando Season 3 Episode 25 Episode 97 News: Hardware Keeping the Upscale and Capture Pure - The RGB2HDMI and Digital PC Video Standards DIY Game Boy Camera adapter wirelessly transfers its crappy photos to a smartphone Modded Sega Dreamcast is actually ...
07.18.2021 Donkey Kong 3, Spy Hunter - DK is 40 years old Season 3 Episode 24 Episode 96 News: Homebrew & ROM hacks Slow Mole - Rage inducing platformer for the NES Capitán Sevilla for Virtual Boy OG Game Boy is getting a new game and it looks adorable Here's How It ...
07.09.2021 Spyro The Dragon, Bad Dudes - Nintendo 64 random thoughts Season 3 Episode 23 Episode 95 News: Near, creator of the higan and bsnes emulators, has died MODIFYING A SNES ROM TO BE WIDESCREEN Unfinished Atari Jaguar CD FMV, American Hero, Is Being ‘Restored’ and Completed for Consoles and PC ...
07.02.2021 Magazine Read: Video Games - Volume 1 Number 11 (1983-08) A special episode while we aren't able to record a "real" episode. We read Video Games: Summer Fun! 1983 Direct PDF download It's right about the time when the video game market crashed. So many great things in this issue. ...
06.23.2021 Jaws (NES), Pengo (Arcade) Season 3 Episode 21 Episode 93 News: How Roberta Williams Transformed the Adventure Game Niche Into A Beloved Genre Classic 'GoldenEye 007' N64 Game Has Been Recreated in 'Far Cry 5' Giving Us HD Remake We've Always Wanted ADDING A ...
06.14.2021 Toobin’, Cruis’n USA Season 3 Episode 20 Episode 92 News: Metal Slug Tactics Is Metal Slug, But With Turn-Based Tactics Sega Might Be Reviving Its Theme Park Business In The West NEW FAN PROJECT RECREATES THE LEGEND OF ZELDA (NES) IN 3D Axunworks ...
06.07.2021 Blaster Master, Mr Do’s Castle Season 3 Episode 19 Episode 91 News: Taito announces mini arcade cabinet with rotating screen and trackball controller 20 years later, N64 emulator Project64 gets its 3.0 update WHAT NES DEVELOPMENT LOOKS LIKE ON THE APPLE II IT’S (STILL) THINKING: ...
05.28.2021 Total Carnage, Pigs In Space or any Muppets game Season 3 Episode 18 Episode 90 News: Hell Yeah! The Summer Games Done Quick 2021 Schedule Looks Amazing Star Fox 64: Survival is a tricky horde mode spin-off…of Ocarina of Time DOOM ON A BOOTLOADER IS THE ULTIMATE CHEAT CODE ...
05.18.2021 Tass Times In Tonetown, Rastan - Interview: B.K. Taylor Season 3 Episode 17 Episode 89 No News this week! We didn't want the episode to be too long. Topic: Interview- B.K. Taylor (Muppets, Home Improvement, Eureeka's Castle, National Lampoon) Game Club Discussion: Tass Times In Tonetown Rastan New Game ...

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Retro Game Club episodes:

Cloak & Dagger, Tempest 2000

Parasol Stars, Quake II - What other collections like Atari 50 would you like to see?

Primal Rage, Fighter’s History - Favorite Retro Things of 2022

Strider (NES), Donkey Kong Land - Electronic Fun with Computers & Games Vol. 1 No.2

Arkanoid II, Kaboom!

MediEvil, GTA: Vice City

Sonic CD, Sewer Shark - Sega CD is 30

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, TMNT: Tournament Fighters - Retro Game On

Asteroids, Super Mario Kart - The Magnavox Odyssey is 50

Alien vs. Predator, Predator 2

Space Channel 5, Mouse Trap

Jungle Hunt, Sinistar

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Raiders of the Lost Ark

King's Quest 6, TRON - Atari, Inc. 50th Anniversary

Top Gun, Super Zaxxon - Apple II is 45

Metal Gear Solid, Revenge of Shinobi - Interview: Raftronaut

The Legend of Kage, NBA Jam - Why we collect games

Altered Beast, Panel de Pon / Tetris Attack - Double Dragon The Movie

Secret of Monkey Island, NES Open Tournament Golf

Populous, Mappy-Land - Backwards Compatibility

Ys: Books I & II, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers - Dreamcast VGA

Another World, Street Fighter II - EGM March '95

Satan's Hollow, Defender

Ape Escape, Jackass: The Game - 25 years of MAME

Bonk's Adventure, Doom 64 (2020) - Ms. Pac-Man at 40

Soulcalibur, any retro Madden game - The Ultimate Dreamcast

Psychonauts, Final Doom

Donkey Kong 94, Dragonfire - News we cut throughout the year

Ms. Pac-Man, Batman Returns

Super Mario Land, Golf - Interview: Keith Coogan & Pinky Coogan

Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader, Burnout - EB Christmas 2001 catalog

Kid Niki: Radical Ninja, Lego Star Wars - GameCube turns 20

The Goonies II, Simpsons Hit & Run

Devil's Crush, Friday the 13th

Luigi's Mansion, Night Trap

TV Sports: Football, Road Rash - Nintendo 64 turns 25

ActRaiser, Super Dodge Ball - Ways to play NES games

R-Type, Joust - SNES is 30 years old

Episode 100! Ask us anything.

Thexder, Pole Position - Metroid is 35!

Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams, Jr. Pac-Man

Tiger Heli, Commando

Donkey Kong 3, Spy Hunter - DK is 40 years old

Spyro The Dragon, Bad Dudes - Nintendo 64 random thoughts

Magazine Read: Video Games - Volume 1 Number 11 (1983-08)

Jaws (NES), Pengo (Arcade)

Toobin’, Cruis’n USA

Blaster Master, Mr Do’s Castle

Total Carnage, Pigs In Space or any Muppets game

Tass Times In Tonetown, Rastan - Interview: B.K. Taylor