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
• Ultra-rare Atari 2600 game nets more than $10K for Texas Goodwill
• Arcade Game Museum Opening In Japan For A Limited Time Only
• Castlevania Game Boy Advance Collection Looking Very Likely
• Don't Piss Off Bradley, the Parts Seller Keeping Atari Machines Alive 
• THE RIDICULOUS GAMECUBE KEYBOARD CONTROLLER GETS MODDED
• Killer Instinct’s Soundtrack Used A Human Bone Instrument
• The Nintendo 64 Is Now 25 Years Old
  • Related: Super Mario 64 turns 25: Examining the impact of the N64's most revolutionary game

Topic: Nintendo 64

• Radio Zelda commercials: https://www.reddit.com/r/zelda/comments/gbluan/mm_radio_zelda_nintendos_viral_marketing_majoras/
• Safety gloves for Mario Party: https://huguesjohnson.com/features/newspapers/2000-03-09.png 

Game Club Discussion:

• Spyro The Dragon
• Bad Dudes

New Game Club Games:

• Donkey Kong 3
• Spy Hunter

Game Club Master List

Bumpers, facebook, twitter and more: Zach

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #Spyro #SpyrotheDragon #BadDudes #N64 #Nintendo #Nintendo64

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.

Send your feedback to [email protected]

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #Videogames #VideoGameMagazine

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 LASER BLASTER TO CLASSIC ATARI 2600 GAMES WITH MACHINE VISION
• Arcade1Up Announces More Awesome Arcade Cabinets for Gamers to Enjoy 
• ROM hack - Dragon Quest I&II bug and translation fixes
• King's Quest 1 - Redux
• Doom running on things
  • Doom now runs on an Ikea smart light bulb 
• Nintendo related hacks/mods
  • Luigi’s Mansion is now Mario’s Mansion, thanks to a ROM hack
  • Random: Pixel Artist Reimagines Zelda: Wind Waker As A Turn-Based RPG
  • Entire NES built into NES cartridge 
  • NINTENDO DS TRANSFORMED INTO GAMEBOY MACRO
  • AN EMULATOR THAT ONLY PLAYS ONE GAME
  • Game Boy Advance game gets split-screen multiplayer through new FPGA core
• Mysteries
  • Random: N64 Sleuths Are Trying To Figure Out What Game This Old Cartridge Is
  • The Legend of Zelda: What is the Origin of Link’s Name? 

Game Club Discussion:

• Jaws 
• Pengo

New Game Club Games:

• Spyro The Dragon
• Bad Dudes

Game Club Master List

Bumpers, facebook, twitter and more: Zach

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #Jaws #NES #Pengo #Arcade

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 JAMMA Supergun Mini (Full Review)
• Let's Go Back In Time And Visit A Japanese Arcade In 1992
• The Story Of The Game Genie, The Cheat Device Nintendo Tried (And Failed) To Kill
• TIE Fighter: Total Conversion (TFTC)
• Super Mario Bros. movie extended cut discovered, still lacks Waluigi
• Lost N64 Game Found! CUBIVORE 
• Arcade1Up brings back The Simpsons '90s arcade hit 
• Piepacker raises $3m in seed funding round
• TURNING THE VIRTUAL BOY INTO A HANDHELD CONSOLE
• DREAMCAST HOMEBREW GETS BOOST FROM SD CARD CACHE
• EarthBound Secrets Discovered On Ancient Floppy Disk

Game Club Discussion:

• Toobin’
• Cruis’n USA 

New Game Club Games:

• Jaws
• Pengo

Game Club Master List

Bumpers, facebook, twitter and more: Zach

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #Toobin #arcade #CruisnUSA

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: SEGA EYEING REBOOTS TO DREAMCAST ERA HITS CRAZY TAXI, JET SET RADIO, SPACE CHANNEL 5
• Practical Retro Game Collecting in 2021
• Making Game Boy Games in 2021 with Quest Arrest Developer John Roo
• Heroes of Might and Magic 2 fans are building it a better engine
• J.J. Abrams Confirms That The Film Adaptation of PORTAL is Still in Active Development
• Picross S: Mega Drive and Mark III Edition Still In Development, Release Date Still TBC
• Sierra On-Line Founders Are Returning To Game Development
• Unplanned Lost & Found segment
• Recovering "lost" treasure-filled floppy discs with an oscilloscope
• Lost arcade game preserved for the first time in the latest MAME release
• Unplanned Neo Geo segment
  • When the arcade came home: a short oral history of the Neo Geo
  • Neo Geo at 30: The Big Red Machine’s Legacy Lives On
• Unplanned Amiga segment
  • AmigaOS 3.2 has been released for all classic Amigas
  • THE AMIGA 2000 YOU ALWAYS WANTED
  • How the Commodore Amiga powered your cable system in the ’90s
• Unplanned RetroArch Segment
  • RetroArch is about to get far more frequent updates
  • RetroArch gets an easy way to play HD, widescreen SNES games

Game Club Discussion:

• Blaster Master 
• Mr Do’s Castle

New Game Club Games:

• Toobin’
• Cruis’n USA 

Game Club Master List

Bumpers, facebook, twitter and more: Zach

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #BlasterMaster #MrDosCastle #Arcade

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
• E.T. VIDEO GAME GETS RE-IMAGINED IN 10 LINES OF BASIC
• Super Potato, Japan's Legendary Game Store, Opens Its Very Own International eBay Shop
• A Rare SNES SA1 Demo Cartridge Has Been Found And Preserved
• ORIGINAL GAME BOY POWERED UP WITH GBA MOTHERBOARD
• Tetris-OS Is an 'OS' That Only Plays Tetris (On github too)
• TETRIS FOR GAME BOY GETS ONLINE MULTIPLAYER
• Evercade is making a retro console for your TV called the VS 
• This Modder Stuck a Wii Into a GameBoy Advance SP
• Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX Aims to Recapture the Platforming Magic of 1986
• This Rare Accessory Lets You Play Modern Consoles Through Your Nintendo DS
• Star Wars Arcade Cabinet | The MagPi #105
• Save RAM hack for NEC handheld consoles
• One Of The Rarest Mega Man Titles Is Getting A Physical Reprint
• Super Mario 64 Speedrunner Beats Game Using Drum Set
• EX-NINTENDO PROGRAMMER REVEALS ZELDA 64 HAD PORTALS A DECADE BEFORE PORTAL

Game Club Discussion:

• Pigs In Space (2600) or any Muppets game.
• Total Carnage

New Game Club Games:

• Blaster Master
• Mr Do’s Castle

Game Club Master List

Bumpers, facebook, twitter and more: Zach

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #TotalCarnage #PigsinSpace #Atari2600 #Muppets

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 Club Games:

• Pigs In Space (2600) or any other Muppets game.
• Total Carnage

Game Club Master List

Bumpers, facebook, twitter and more: Zach

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #TassTimesinTonetown #Rastan #BKTaylor #AppleIIgs

Season 3 Episode 16

Episode 88

News:

• Was Goldeneye 007 Originally Intended for Super NES?
• A timeline of Mortal Kombat ripoffs from the 1990s
• Mortal Kombat Performed Its Biggest Fatality On... Primal Rage? 
• FAN VIDEO RE-IMAGINES THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: A LINK TO THE PAST AS A TURN-BASED RPG
• EXPLORING THE WORLD OF NINTENDO 3DS HOMEBREW
• Nintendo Game Boy Becomes Game Man Thanks to Awesome Console Mod
• Play retro video games on Linux with this open source project
• Let's Rank All The Doom Games, From Worst To Best
• Video: Why Do We Buy And Collect Retro Video Games?
• The Konami Code Turns 35 With A Special Album Of Lo-Fi Gradius Tracks
• Ouch! NES Collector Recalls The Time He Threw Out Packaging Worth $4,000 To 'Save Space'
• A New OpenType Font – Apple II Pro

Topic: 

• Interview: Rebecca Heineman

Game Club Discussion:

• Gauntlet: Legends / Dark Legacy
• Time Pilot

New Game Club Games:

• Tass Times In Tonetown
• Rastan

Game Club Master List

Bumpers, facebook, twitter and more: Zach

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #Gauntlet #GauntletLegends #TimePilot #BurgerBecky 

Season 3 Episode 15

Episode 87

News:

• Sonic the Hedgehog Fans Are Furious About Sega's NFT Announcement 
• Street Fighter 2 as a tech demo on the Amiga
• NES Tetris Players Call It 'Rolling,' And They're Setting New World Records
• The Noid gets back into video games with Crash Bandicoot crossover
• The Man Who Invented Majora's Mask Reflects on 30 Years at Nintendo
• Hands On: The EverDrive GBA X5 Mini Solves The Only Real Issue We Had With The Original
• Everything you ever wanted to know about Street Fighter history
• Super Mario Bros. 2 Japan + Super Mario Bros. 2 USA = My Dream Game
• Sega Sells Its Western Arcade Division
• Typing of the Dead: Overkill to include Yahoo Answers custom dictionary 
• Software Developer Tracks Down Code for a Beloved 41-Year-Old Text Adventure
• Sinden Light Gun Support Added to PS1d
• Playstation 1 In-Game reset mod 
• PlayStation Portable Architecture

Topic: Ports that are better than the original

• Contra
• Bump'n'Jump
• Rygar
• Legendary Wings
• Bionic Commando
• Ninja Gaiden
• Late 16-bit Frogger and Space Invaders ports
• Punch-out (original arcade vs NES)
• Super Mario Vs
• Klax
• Paperboy
• Soul Calibur on Dreamcast 
• All Neo Geo games. They are the same game, but you are at home.
• Also debatable: Strider on NES, very different yet better game than the arcade 
• Controversial opinion: some 7800 ports are more fun than than the original game despite being technically inferior: Food Fight, Commando, Galaga is really close

Game Club Discussion:

• Bump’n’Jump
• Pac-Man Arrangement

New Game Club Games:

• Gauntlet: Legends / Dark Legacy
• Time Pilot

Game Club Master List

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #BumpnJump #PacMan #PacManArrangement #Arcade

Season 3 Episode 14

Episode 86

News:

• Hugues' best game year article
• Sony Reverses PlayStation Store Update, Will Continue To Sell PS Vita And PS3 Games 
• 12-year-old J.J. Styles' local TV show was the predecessor to modern gaming culture decades before Twitch. 
• Castlevania’s canceled Dreamcast game discovered in playable prototype
• Metroid Prime’s 2D fan remake is now playable
• This Mario 64 PC mod adds permadeath, 60 fps support, and new moves
• Nintendo Superfan Recreates Company's 19th Century Office To Store His Collection
• Ultra CD RAM Cart available for pre-order
• Dolphin emulator adds way better free look support
• ‘Perfect’ Super Mario Bros. speedrun beat after two years 
• The House Of The Dead: Remake Comes To Nintendo Switch This Year
• Pac-Man 99, A Battle Royale-Like Pac-Man Game, Out Now On Nintendo Switch
• Feature: Zelda: The Minish Cap Is All About Seeing Things From A New Perspective
• Kitchen Bump Bar Plays Doom Between Orders 

Game Club Discussion:

• Super Metroid
• Dragon's Trap/Curse

New Game Club Games:

• Bump’n’Jump
• Pac-Man Arrangement

Game Club Master List

Bumpers, Facebook, Twitter and more: Zach

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #Metroid #SuperMetroid #Metroid3 #SamusAran #DragonsTrap #DragonsCurse