Season 8 Episode 14

Episode 225

News

• Deus Ex and Ultima Underworld creator Warren Spector retires from game development
• Wolfenstein 3D is now fully playable on a stock Commodore 64
• An Atari Desktop On A Sega
• Steam Deck Mod Brings Back Physical Games With Ancient Floppies

Game Club

• Metroid Prime Pinball
• Metroid Prime Hunters

New Game Club Games

• Picross 2
• Metal Storm

Other links

• S3E29 SNES is 30
• Max Headroom signal hijackings
• Absolutely the Best Podcast: A Work in Progress (Zach's show)

Game Club Link Tree

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Season 8 Episode 13

Episode 224

*** Lots of extra chapter art in this one! ***

News

• Atari And Universal Sign Movie Deal For 10 Video Game Adaptations
• Fans Think A Long-Lost Pokémon Game Has Been Found 21 Years Later
• NES Advantage Stick Gets Bluetooth Upgrade
• Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time
• Play More of the Games You Love, Wherever You Play with XBOX Backward Compatibility on PC
• Contra is getting a 12-issue comic book series next year

Metroid is 40!

• RGC episode 99 - Metroid is 35!
• RGC episode 201 - Metroid series ranking
• Metroid 40th Anniversary episode of Games My Mom Found
• Metroid Ranking episode of Absolutely the Best Podcast: A Work in Progress

Game Club

• The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
• Phelios

New Game Club Games

• Metroid Prime Pinball
• Metroid Prime Hunters

Other links

• Hugues' setup schematic
• Absolutely the Best Podcast: A Work in Progress (Zach's show)

Game Club Link Tree

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Gargoyle's Quest, Megalit

Season 8 Episode 12

Episode 223

News

• 50 years of the Zilog Z80: The 8-bit chip that ran the world
• 3ric is a brand new 6502 computer you can boot in your browser
• Homebrew developers figured out how to run DOOM on the Neo Geo
• Introducing RetroTap: Clean, Filtered Power for 45+ Retro Consoles
• Engineer shoves Linux peg through Sega 32X-shaped hole

Game Club

• Gargoyle's Quest
• Megalit

New Game Club Games

• The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
• Phelios

Other links

• Metroid 40th episode of Games My Mom Found
• This Bizarre Adventure
• Absolutely the Best Podcast: A Work in Progress (Zach's show)

Game Club Link Tree

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Season 8 Episode 11

Episode 222

News

• GRAPHICS UPGRADE FOR NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM
• PPU pinout
• decrayzo's I Unlocked Unused NES Features
• It's Linux, On A Sega Megadrive
• Pong game recompiles its own source code every frame — winning entry at IOCCC29 was generated by a custom compiler
• Hey old school Mac gamers, Bolo is back!
• Someone made an e-Ink ESP32 Game Boy, and it runs at a very playable 60Hz refresh rate
• Sega is re-releasing the original Sonic Genesis games on $100 cartridges

Game Club

• Mighty Bomb Jack
• Legendary Wings

New Game Club Games

• Gargoyle's Quest
• Megalit

Absolutely the Best Podcast: A Work in Progress (Zach's show)

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

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Star Wars: Shadow of the Empire, Mega Man 2

Season 8 Episode 10

Episode 221

News

• MegaWiFi Addon
• The Virtual OS Museum
• New Book Tells The True Story Of Nintendo's Legal Fight To Establish Who Invented The Video Game

Game Club

• Star Wars: Shadow of the Empire
• Mega Man 2

New Game Club Games

• Mighty Bomb Jack
• Legendary Wings

Princess and the portals

Zach's Podcast

• Guardians of the Galaxy
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
• Metroid ranking
• Capcom vs Marvel Fighting Collection ranking

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord server

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Season 8 Episode 9

Episode 221

Rob and Zach peruse the April 1991 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly!

Follow along, and please enjoy!

Zach's Podcast

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Season 8 Episode 8

Episode 219

News

• Atari Acquires Rights to the Legendary Wizardry RPGs
• Star Fox 64 is being remastered
• New DIY Adapter Connects a Wii Remote to the Dreamcast via Bluetooth
• Build your own dial up ISP with a Raspberry Pi

Game Club

• Demon's World
• Neo Turf Masters

New Game Club Games

• Star Wars: Shadow of the Empire
• Mega Man 2

Zach's Podcast

• Capcom vs Marvel Fighting Collection ranking

Game Club Link Tree

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Season 8 Episode 7

Episode 218

News

• Hyper mega tech release clamshell c64 and zx spectrum
• DOOM on a fancy smart toaster
• The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap on PC
• Struggling Video Game Retailer GameStop Is Reportedly Trying To Buy…eBay?!
• NetHack just got its 5.0 update after 39 years of development

Game Club

• Dark Arms
• Moon Patrol

New Game Club Games

• Demon's World
• Neo Turf Masters

Neo Ness' Links

• YouTube
• Instagram

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Season 8 Episode 6

Episode 217

News

• SNES Super Dragons Lair Arcade
• The Nintendo Wii now runs Mac OS X Cheetah
• An unreleased Punch-Out prototype just revealed four scrapped fighters
• Majora's Mask just got a native PlayStation Vita port
• Street Fighter Movie Official Trailer
• $250 Neo Geo+ AES Aims to be a 1:1 Replica of SNK's Classic Console
• Polymega Remix

Game Club

• The Destroyer from Jail
• Little Samson

New Game Club Games

• Dark Arms
• Moon Patrol

Links

• Zach's Podcast
• Hugues Galloping Ghost Review

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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

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