Retro Game Club

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 things
• • Battletoads & Double Dragon Limited Collector's Cartridge Re-Release from Retro-Bit
  • Video Game Maps: NES & Famicom
  • Sonic Origins Is Remastered Classic Sonic Collection, Coming June 23

Game Club Discussion:

• Secret of Monkey Island
• NES Open Tournament Golf

New Game Club Games:

• Altered Beast
• Panel de Pon / Tetris Attack

Game Club Link Tree

Retro Game Club Discord

Bumpers: Raftronaut, Inverse Phase

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#DoodleWorld #Switch #IndieDev #Nintendo #MiSTerFPGA #FPGA #Sega32X #PacMan #MsPacMan #RomHack #Namco #SuperMario64 #N64 #Mario #Battletoads #DoubleDragon #BeatemUp #NES #Famicom #Sonic #Sega #LucasArts #MonkeyIsland #AlteredBeast #PaneldePon #TetrisAttack #retro #retrogames #retrogaming #videogames

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 or interesting thing
• • Return to Monkey Island confirmed by Ron Gilbert as real, slated for 2022 launch

Topic: Backward compatibility

Game Club Discussion:

• Populous
• Mappy-Land

New Game Club Games:

• Secret of Monkey Island
• NES Open Tournament Golf

Game Club Link Tree

Bumpers: Inverse Phase, Raftronaut

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#retro #retrogames #retrogaming #videogames #retrocomputing #NES #Populous #MappyLand #MonkeyIsland #Golf #Taxan #Namco #GodGames #EA #Sega #Vectrex #Doom #backwardcompatible #backwardcompatibility

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 Mods
• Other odd or interesting thing
• • Romero news:
  • • Wolfenstein 3D secrets revealed by John Romero in lengthy post-mortem chat
    • John Romero Corrects the Rumor About the Date That Doom Takes Place
  • Documenting Sony Memory Stick
  • Man Creates Entire Game of Pong Inside a Single Commodore 64 Sprite
  • Sierra founders got 'bored' in lockdown so they're making their first new game in more than 20 years
  • New PlayStation Plus Subscription Launches In June With Three Tiers

Topic: Dreamcast VGA

Game Club Discussion:

• Legacy of Ys
• Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers

New Game Club Games:

• Populous (any version)
• Mappy-Land

Game Club Link Tree

Bumpers: Inverse Phase, Raftronaut

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#Ys #Quake #DOOM #Zelda #OcarinaofTime #Wolfenstein #MemoryStick #PONG #Dreamcast #VGA #RPGs #FPS #IDsoftware #Sony #C64 #Sierra #PlaystationPlus #Chipndale #Populous #Mappyland #retro #retrogames #retrogaming #videogames #Mappy #NES #retrocomputing #MemoryStickDuo #Commodore64 #Disney

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 ARCADE LEGACY
  • Long Lost Canceled N64 Game Prototype Released
  • Witch Trial Adventure Game
  • Tachyon Dreams II - The second chapter of a new text-parser game with EGA graphics released for the PC!
• Doom running on things
• • DOOM COMES TO THE RP2040

Topic: EGM March 95 magazine read

Game Club Discussion:

• Another World
• Street Fighter II

New Game Club Games:

• Legacy of Ys: Books I & II
• Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers

Game Club Link Tree

Bumpers: Inverse Phase, Raftronaut

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#Retro #retrogaming #retrogames #videogames #retrocomputing #Nintendo #GameCube #GBA #GBASP #Switch #PSVita #EGM #gaming #gamingmag #gamersunite #DOOM #Homebrew #MortalKombat #Arcade #Sega #SegaGenesis #AnotherWorld #StreetFighterII #Capcom #SFII #Ys #LegacyofYs #ChipnDale #Chipndalerescuerangers #Disney #NES #NintendoDS

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 Pi Zero
• Homebrew, rom hacks & emulation
  • Wink - GBC Homebrew playable demo
  • Castlevania Undead Serious Redemption
  • Your PC isn't powerful enough for this NES emulator
• Doom running on things
  • John Romero has released a new Doom 2 level to raise funds for Ukraine
• Other odd or interesting thing
  • FreeDOS 1.3 Arrives, First Major Update Since 2016
  • Capcom Fighting Collection Releasing in June
  • Hundreds Of Rare Sealed Nintendo and Sega Games Discovered In Nebraska Storage Facility

Game Club Discussion:

• Satan's Hollow
• Defender

New Game Club Games:

• Another World
• Street Fighter II

Game Club Link Tree

Bumpers: Inverse Phase, Raftronaut

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#Nintendo #NES #HomeBrew #Castlevania #Emulation #Doom #FreeDOS #Capcom #Sega #SatansHollow #Defender #Arcade #shmups #AnotherWorld #StreetFighter #StreetFighterII

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 hacks & emulation
• • New NES game is a sequel to one of the system's longest-lasting mysteries
  • BASIC 10-Liner Contest – The 11th edition is live!
  • Wordle Can Now be Played on Game Boy and Analogue Pocket
• Other odd or interesting thing
• • Williams Defender Source Code Posted To Github
  • IT'S ALWAYS FLOPPY TIME!
  • Long-Lost Atari Jaguar Game Finally Unearthed

Topic: 25 Years of MAME

Game Club Discussion:

• Ape Escape
• Jackass: The Game

New Game Club Games:

• Satan's Hollow
• Defender

Game Club Link Tree

Bumpers: Inverse Phase, Raftronaut

Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram managed by: Zach

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#GBA #GameBoyAdvance #Nintendo #FloppyDisks #Atari #AtariJaguar #MAME #MAME25 #ApeEscape #Jackass #Jackassthegame #SatansHollow #Defender #Arcade #retro #retrogames #retrogaming #videogames

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
  • Sonic The Hedgehog C64/C128 has been RELEASED and it looks AMAZING!
  • Star Fox - Mouse Mode
  • Ys I (In Falcom Classics I) on Saturn Fan Translation Version 0.1 Released!
  • Skate Cat scatological platformer for NES demo available
• Doom running on things
  • This 'Minimum Viable Computer' Costs $15—and It Can Run Doom
• Takedown letter pending
  • Akumajou Dracula AGA - Castlevania could be coming to the Amiga, and it looks amazing ( Play the prototype today! )
• Other odd or interesting thing
  • Random: An AI Broke Tetris On NES, And It's Compelling Viewing

Topic: Ms. Pac-Man at 40?

• Preface
  • Steve Golson MIT talk
  • Podouken podcast ep. 30
• Development
• Release
  • Wikipedia lists it at 1/13/82
  • Newspapers said 2/3/82
• In the press:
  • Early reviews and reception:
    • "Love in the Arcades" Fitchburg State College newspaper, May 1982
    • "Around the Route" Cashbox, May 1982
    • Blurb in Electronic Games, June 1982
    • "Ms. Pac-Man Catching Up" Play Meter, July 1982
    • "Memoranda" Working Woman, November 1982
  • Women in gaming:
    • "Women Join the Arcade Revolution" Electronic Games, June 1982
    • "The House that Pac Built" Video Games, December 1982
    • "The Absolutely, Positively Last Word on Pac-Man" Video Games, August 1982
    • "A Cracked Review of Popular Video Games" Cracked, December 1982
  • Tips and tricks:
    • "Tips for Pac-Maniacs" Electronic Games, June 1982
    • "Beating the Games" Video Games, August 1982
  • Other interesting mentions in various publications:
    • "One way to research an issue" Nation's Cities Weekly, June 6th 1982
    • "Video Games Interview: Ken Uston" Video Games, December 1982
    • "Intermissions" Defending the Galaxy: The Complete Handbook of Videogaming, 1982
      • "Myth: Ms. Pac-Man Split Screen Level" Fandom.com
    • Interracial Books for Children Bulletin 1982: Vol 13 Iss 6-7
    • "Industry news" Body Fashions/Intimate Apparel, July 1982
    • "Ms. Pac-Man gobbles up nursing home interest, too." American Medical News, December 1982
      • "Video games provide therapy" Daily Universe, November 1982
• Ports
  • Compilation video of many ports
• Final thoughts

Game Club Discussion:

• Bonk's Adventure
• Doom 64 (remastered version)

New Game Club Games:

• Ape Escape
• Jackass: The Video Game

Game Club Link Tree

Bumpers: Inverse Phase, Raftronaut

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#AnaloguePocket #StarFox #Tetris #BonksAdventure #Doom64 #ApeEscape #JackasstheGame #FPGA #FoxMcCloud #Nintendo #Hudsonsoft #TG16 #PCEngine #CoreGrafx #Turbografx16 #Doom #IDsoftware #Jackass #Playstation #PS2

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 Boy Is the Worst Possible Way to Watch Movies
  • How I built my own Sega Mega Drive hardware dev kit from scratch
  • RetroArch aims to let you play real Nintendo 64 cartridges on PC emulators this year

• Doom running on things

• • Here's Doom played via rotary telephone

• Takedown letter pending

• Fanmade Star Fox demo on Sega Genesis brings dogfighting action without the Super FX chip

• Other odd or interesting thing

• • Remute releases new album for the Nintendo N64, turning the '90s console into a synth/sampler hybrid

• • 'Wingman SNES' Allows You To Use 125 Different Wired And Wireless Controllers On Your NES And SNES

Topic:

The Ultimate Dreamcast

• Aftermarket shells

• • Colorful DC shells

• • DreamCase

• • Recap motherboard and PSU

• New modern caps will extend the life of the console.

• • PicoPSU

• • ReDream PSU

• Replaceable battery mod

• Noctua Fan

• Quiet fan upgrade

• • Dreamcast HDMI (DCDigital) Kit

• SDCard/SSD upgrades

• • GDEMU

• • TerraOnion MODE

• Controllers

• • StrikerDC controller

• • DreamConn+

• Pre-built is only a few bucks more.

• • https://stoneagegamer.com/dreamcast-builder.html

• • https://www.powrupgaming.com/collections/consoles

Game Club Discussion:

• Soul Calibur
• "any Madden game"

New Game Club Games:

• Bonk's Adventure
• Doom 64 (remastered version)

Game Club Link Tree

Bumpers: Inverse Phase, Raftronaut

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #Soulcalibur #Madden #Dreamcast #ConsoleMods

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, rom hacks & emulation
  • Two Retro Classics Gloriously Unite As Sega's Sonic Spins Onto The Commodore 64
  • Netplay improvements are coming to emulation frontend RetroArch
  • MAME removes support for Ex-Arcadia games.
• Other odd or interesting thing
  • Super Mario Bros. 3 Player Makes New Out of Bounds Discovery Decades After Release
  • Ian Hetherington, Founder of Wipeout Studio Psygnosis (Later Sony Studio Liverpool) Has Died
  • The Taito Egret II Mini Is Getting A Western Release
  • Inventing the Atari 2600The Atari Video Computer System gave game programmers room to be creative
  • Scrapped Game Boy Color add-on PageBoy discovered after more than 20 years
  • Rob's recommended twitch streamer: https://www.twitch.tv/hungrygoriya

Game Club Discussion:

• Psychonauts
• Final Doom

New Game Club Games:

• Soul Calibur (Dreamcast)
• "any Madden game"

Game Club Link Tree

Bumpers: Inverse Phase, Raftronaut

Facebook, twitter, instagram and more: Zach

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#Psychonauts #FinalDoom #Atari2600 #Colecovision #Nintendo64 #Amiga #Zelda #RetroArch #Doom #SuperMario #SegaGenesis #Sonic #GameBoyColor

#retro #retrogaming #retrogames

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 a Mario Game
• Windows 95 — How Does it Look Today?
• Nintendo GameCube Transformed Into Flower Pot By Clever Fan
• Most Expensive GameCube Games
• You Can Play Super Mario 64 In Your Browser
• Super Mario Bros. is actually a three-person co-op game, as long as you play it like this【Video】
• A New Investment Scheme Lets You Buy Shares of a Nintendo World Championships Cartridge
• Falling Goombas halt rides at Super Nintendo World theme park
• Robot arranges 100,000 dominoes into a Super Mario Bros. mural in one day
• Super Nintendo World merchandise now available at Universal Studios Hollywood
• Why New Games Like Paprium Are Still Being Released For The SEGA Genesis
• Random: Yoshi From The Super Mario Series Apparently Have Different Names
• Air Zonk is the video game equivalent of a sugar rush
• VINTAGE ARCADE USED NEGATIVE VOLTAGE TO TURN VOLUME UP TO 11
• Moons of Ardan mixes Factorio and city builders in space
• How Nintendo Censored Ocarina Of Time's 3DS Remake
• HK1 $39 Android Box is a Budget Emulation Beast
• The Ridiculous Chronology of the River City/Kunio-kun Series
• Garbagefield Saves Christmas - An unusual Sega Master System game
• SOON, TESLAS WILL BE ABLE TO PLAY SONIC 1 FOR SOME REASON

Game Club Discussion:

• Donkey Kong 94
• Dragonfire

New Game Club Games:

• Psychonauts
• Final Doom

Game Club Link Tree

Bumpers: Inverse Phase, Raftronaut

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #DonkeyKong #DonkeyKong94 #GameBoy #Dragonfire