Season 3 Episode 11 (3.11 Game Club For Workgroups)

Episode 83

News:

• Reverse-Engineering NES Tetris to add Hard Drop  
• Cancelled Game Boy Color game Infinity to be completed and released
• Taken For Granted, The Game Boy Advance’s Mario Bros. Classic Remake is a Franchise Gem
• The "Underworld Theme" from 'Super Mario Bros' is a Replay of a 1979 Fusion Record 
• I Am Sorry, Christopher Nolan, The Ideal Way To Watch Tenet Is On A Game Boy Advance
• DAILY DEBATE: IS THE SECOND QUEST WORTH PLAYING IN THE LEGEND OF ZELDA (NES)?
• Legend of Zelda: Is Link Dead in Majora's Mask - Or Are Fans Reading Too Much Into It?
• Random “Connect things to Dreamcast” segment
  • DREAMCAST CONTROLLER ADAPTER EVEN WORKS WITH MICE
  • WIRELESS 360 CONTROLLERS NOW ON THE DREAMCAST
  • INTERFACING THE DREAMCAST CONTROLLER WITH JUST AN ARDUINO
• Talking Point: Is Zelda An RPG, Or Not?
• You could run Doom on 16 billion crabs
• Expert Doom Players Continue To Complete Challenges Once Thought Impossible
• Sonic The Hedgehog 30th Anniversary Comic Announced By IDW
• Arcade Classic ‘Space Invaders’ Returning As Augmented Reality Mobile Game
• Limited Run Games teases Neo Geo Pocket Color Selection Physical Release
• Blazing Rangers

Topic: Win 3.1 quick chat

Game Club Discussion:

• Panzer Dragoon
• Sega Rally Championship

New Game Club Games:

• SimEarth on Win 3.1
• Minesweeper 

Music (when we don’t use game music) By:

I Love Lightning Bugs

Game Club Master List

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #PanzerDragoon #SegaRallyChampionship #Windows #RetroComputing 

Season 3 Episode 10

Episode 82

News:

• Toys R Us Owners Plan to Reopen Stores Before the End of 2021
• The Best Customizable Controller Can Now Be Programmed on Your Phone
• The best game released in 2020 was an NES demake from 2008
• Store Your SNES Games In Style With These Rather Fetching Book-Like Cases
• Cotton Reboot! Review
• Brand new Sonic Heroes prototypes uncovered
• Xbox Gaming Lead Still Doesn't Understand The Nintendo 64 Controller
• Mario 64 segment
  • Super Mario 64 FPS Parody Becomes Speedrunning Sensation
  • NEW Super Mario 64 Mod - RENDER ’96 (SGI Project)
  • Super Mario 64 introduced the camera as a friend and foe in video games
• Optime GBA | A Game Boy Advance Emulator in C#
• Custom DS emulator adds analog control to Super Mario 64 DS
• Wait, Mario & Luigi Are Twins? 
• Link Has Never Been Zelda's Only Hero
• Random: The Fastest Way To Beat Paper Mario Is To Turn It Off And Play Zelda Instead
• Enjoying and Gaming on a TRS-80 Model 1
• Raspberry Pi Zero Emulates '80s ZX Spectrum PC From Inside a Cassette Tape
• FPGA Lynx coming to MiSTer
• New Game For TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Continues The Classic Series 

Topic: I Miss My First PC 

Game Club Discussion:

• RoadBlasters
• Katamari Damacy

New Game Club Games:

• Panzer Dragoon
• Sega Rally Championship

Music (when we don’t use game music) By:

I Love Lightning Bugs

Game Club Master List

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #Roadblasters #Katamari #KatamariDamacy #retrocomputing

Season 3 Episode 9

Episode 81

News:

• My 30-year quest to beat Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
• Sonic The Hedgehog is Literally God For An Entire Planet
• Sonic The Hedgehog's Weirdest Moves That Defy All Logic
• How The Legend of Zelda helped free us from arcade ports
• Review! The Sega Saturn Satiator
• Panzer Dragoon II Zwei: Remake to Launch This Year
• Arcade Archives Legend of Makai coming to Switch this week
• Super Nintendo World Theme Park To Open Early 2025 In Florida, Mayor Says
• Nintendo Can't Repair Some Japanese 3DS Models Because It's Run Out of Spare Parts
• I made my own Gameboy cartridge
• Pubjumper Mario - Unofficial C64 Mario game lost and found
• Pac-Land Amiga prototype found
• Former Activision Co-Founder Creates New Retro Gaming Studio and Announces the Two First Games for the Atari 2600
• Building the Ultimate Retro Computer
• Hackaday segment
  • RETRO DREAMCAST RHYTHM GAME CONTROLLER BUILT FROM SCRATCH
  • HIDDEN TV-OUT ON THE NINTENDO DS LITE
• Unplanned AI segment
  • Reinforcement learning algorithms score higher than humans, other AI systems at classic video games
  • SEAMAN CREATOR YOOT SAITO ON THE FISHY DREAMCAST AI THAT WAS WAY AHEAD OF ITS TIME

Game Club Discussion:

• Star Fox
• Frogger

New Game Club Games:

• RoadBlasters
• Katamari Damacy

Music (when we don’t use game music) By:

I Love Lightning Bugs

Game Club Master List

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #StarFox #Frogger #SNES #Arcade

Season 3 Episode 8

Episode 80

News:

• https://huguesjohnson.com/programming/java/BinToWav/ 
• Rare's Unreleased N64 Game That Became Star Fox Adventures Leaks Online
• Another arcade is closing in Tokyo.
• RetroArch’s Open Hardware project aims to make using real cartridges on emulators easy
• Hacker Rewrites Crappy SNES Racer To Improve Its Framerate Sevenfold
• There's Been An N64 Mini-Game Hidden Inside The Switch Version Of Firewatch All This Time
• The Lost Vikings, Rock N' Roll Racing, And Blackthorne Return In The Blizzard Arcade Collection
• Rock N' Roll Racing Music Might Get Twitch Streamers In Trouble
• New Mortal Kombat Cabinet Coming From Arcade1Up (R note- Toobin’ is one of my favs. Will prob pick for game club this spring)
• Frogger is coming to the Peacock streaming service as a game show
• Building a new NES in 2021! Opentendo build guide and demonstration
• SDCard interface for the Commodore Amiga
• Building a SMS/ Mark-III game cartridge reader
• Random Analogue Segment
  • Analogue says it’s making more Pockets — and going after bots and resellers
  • Super Nt: Firmware Update v5.0
  • Mega Sg: Firmware Update v4.8

Game Club Discussion:

• Twinkle Star Sprites 
• Side Pocket

New Game Club Games:

• Star Fox
• Frogger

Music (when we don’t use game music) By:

I Love Lightning Bugs

Game Club Master List

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #TwinkleStarSprites #NeoGeo #SidePocket 

Season 3 Episode 7

Episode 79

News:

• An anniversary for great justice: Remembering “All Your Base” 20 years later 
• [Let’s Talk] Dormant Nintendo franchises you’d like to see make a return
• Super Metroid knew how to tell a story and set a mood | Why I Love
• RESTORED DREAMCAST IS A SEGA FAN’S DREAM COME TRUE
• In the ’80s, she was a video game pioneer. Today, no one can find her: The search for Ban Tran
• Virtual Boy Architecture
• NEOGEO CLASSIC COMPLETE COLLECTION
• RetroN Sq is a cube-shaped console for playing Game Boy titles on your TV
• Insanely Rare Sega Arcade Cabinet Found Abandoned In U.K. Field
• Guide: How To Spot Bootleg Nintendo Video Games
• NOW FANS HAVE PORTED SUPER MARIO 64 TO NINTENDO DSI
• COSMIC RAY FLIPS BIT, ASSISTS MARIO 64 SPEEDRUNNER
• Retro Nintendo Games Found Hidden in Microsoft Edge Extensions
• Unplanned GTA segment:
  • GTA 3 And Vice City Have Been Reverse-Engineered On PC
  • Grand Theft Auto San Andreas gets a 4.6GB AI-enhanced HD Texture Pack

Topic: Favorite Fictional game ideas

Hugues:

• Global Thermonuclear War
• Zonic Fugue (https://local.theonion.com/ghost-of-christmas-future-taunts-children-with-visions-1819566694)
• Bonestorm
• [honorable mention] Crime Bashers - "Save Chicago from drug dealers & lowlifes.”

Rob:

• Bandersnatch
• The Last StarFighter
• Space paranoids
• Wayne's World, Zantar is an arcade game at the video arcade chain Noah's Arcade, about a gelatinous cube eating warriors in a village, and their chieftain
• Aqua teen hunger force: Video Ouiji

Game Club Discussion:

• Dig Dug
• Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego

New Game Club Games:

• Twinkle Star Sprites
• Side Pocket

Music (when we don’t use game music) By:

I Love Lightning Bugs

Game Club Master List

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #DigDug #Arcade #CarmenSandiego 

Season 3 Episode 6

Episode 78

News:

• Polycade Is A Wall Mounted Arcade Cabinet For Retro Gamers
• Playing With Power: The Nintendo Story to Premiere on Crackle in March 2021
• Gallery: Geeks Line's NES/Famicom Anthology Is The Most Exhaustive Look At The Console Yet
• Pixel FX's N64Digital Promises "Crystal-Clear HDMI Video" For Your Nintendo 64
• The dream of the Sega Dreamcast died 20 years ago
• JagStudio Development Suite
• Nintendo Switch Online Reveals February's Free SNES and NES Games
• It's 2021, And Super Mario 64 Now Has Ray Tracing
• PPSSPP 1.11 is here! 
• Random Mario Music segment
  • SUPER MARIO ORIGINAL SOUND TRACKS GET HIGH QUALITY REMASTER THANKS TO GIGALEAK
  • Super Mario 64 Intro's Classic Donkey Kong Easter Egg Discovered 
• Random Non-Video-Game Sonic Segment
• • SONIC NETFLIX SHOW OFFICIALLY TITLED ‘SONIC PRIME’, DUE IN 2022
  • Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Sequel Begins Shooting In March, Tika Sumpter Set To Return
  • Lego Sonic the Hedgehog is a delightful dose of nostalgia
• Random Ducktails Segment
  • DuckTales NES originally had an out-of-character ending where Scrooge gave up his fortune
  • The Story Behind DuckTales On NES

Game Club Discussion:

• Super Mario Sunshine
• Doodle World

New Game Club Games:

• Dig Dug
• Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego

Music By:

Takumi Grainger

(when we don’t use game music):

I Love Lightning Bugs

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #SuperMario #Mario #SuperMarioSunshine #DoodleWorld #IndieGames #IndieDev

Season 3 Episode 5

Episode 77

News:

• Super Mario World Made Mario Who He is Today
• Famicom documentary translated into English, includes Hideo Kojima, Keiji Inafune, and more
• YUJI NAKA HAD TROUBLE ON THE OFFICIAL SEGA TEST – BECAUSE OF ‘MR NEEDLEMOUSE’
• Rejected Sonic Designs Appear in Eggman’s Mean Time Machine
• 3D PRINTED PI ARCADE IS AN EMULATION HORN OF PLENTY
• Original Nintendo Game Boy unboxing doesn't go as planned
• Axunworks JAMMA Extractor
• Recovered video from 1990 gives a look inside Nintendo of America headquarters
• How Old-School Text Adventures Inspired Our Virtual Spaces
• What color was “Apple Beige”? 
• Ryu ga Gotoku Studios Toshihiro Nagoshi Steps Down as CCO of Sega
• 25 years later, Midway’s lost “MLB Jam” arcade game has been found
• Awesome mod turns Doom into a first-person Castlevania
• 2007 Nintendo Company Handbook shows lots of different tentative logos for Wii
• A LOOK AT HOW NINTENDO MASTERED DUAL SCREENS
• OutRun’s Composer Rewrote Sega’s Sound Drivers So Sword Of Vermilion Could Rock
• Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Gets Stunning Fan Remake In Unreal Engine
• ARDUBOY GETS EVEN SMALLER WITH NEW NANO EDITION
• Donkey Kong 64 developer cheat found after more than 20 years
• 25 Years Later, Player Confirms Street Fighter Alpha 2 Really Does Favor The Underdog
• Tetris On CD-i Plays Like Crap But Sounds Like John Tesh
• Play Tetris on the Raspberry Pi Pico

Game Club Discussion:

• Slalom (NES)
• Waku Waku Ski Wonder Spur (SFC)
• 1080 Snowboarding (N64)

New Game Club Games:

• Super Mario Sunshine
• Doodle World

Music By:

I Love Lightning Bugs

Game Club Master List

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #Slalom #NES #WakuWaku #1080Snowboarding #N64

Season 3 Episode 4

Episode 76

News:

• The Last Star Fighter Video Game
• Twin Tiger Shark JAMMA Arcade Kickstarter
• Nintendo artist (and Tingle creator) Takaya Imamura retires
• Relive the golden age of personal computers with this cool C64 case
• YOU GOT SOMETHING ON YOUR PROCESSOR BUS: THE JOYS OF HACKING ISA AND PCI
• PiBoy CM4X Is Experimental Pi’s Leaked RetroPie Handheld
• ODROID Go Super: Handheld retro console with a 5.0-inch display is now orderable for US$89.95
• Super Mario Sunshine Mod Turns Every NPC Into A Chuckster
• The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Demo Leak Reveals New Secrets About Nintendo Classic
• Neo Geo: Open MVS
• Capcom vs. SNK: An oral history
• PicoSystem portable game system
• wDrive v. Floppy Emu - Comparison of the Best Apple II Disk Emulators
• Stop ’N’ Swop: An Explanation and Retrospective
• Longtime Sonic The Hedgehog Voice Actor Stepping Away From Role
• Modded Sonic Games Are Zoomed Out To The Heavens
• Plex is launching a game subscription service filled with Atari games
• Here's A Long Sega Saturn
• YOUR NES CLASSIC MINI CONTROLLER, ON YOUR DESKTOP COMPUTER
• INTRODUCING GB OPERATOR

Topic: 90s console cartridge copiers

• Mega Drive: 
  • Super Magic Drive
• SNES:
  • Super Disk Interceptor
  • Professor SF II
  • Super Wildcard DX
• N64:
  • Doctor V64
  • Mr. Backup Z64

Game Club Discussion:

• Dynamite Headdy
• Q*Bert

New Game Club Games:

• Slalom (NES)
• Waku Waku Ski Wonder Spur (SNES)
• 1080 Snowboarding (N64)

Music By:

I Love Lightning Bugs

Game Club Master List

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #DynamiteHeaddy #QBert #Arcade

Season 3 Episode 3

Episode 75

News:

• MSDEXP (MegaSD Expansion Adapter) 
• Arcade Game ‘NBA Jam’ Will Be Focus of New Documentary (EXCLUSIVE)
•  
• Miyamoto's Kids Played "A Lot" Of Sega Games, But That Just Inspired Him To "Try Harder"

• A Redditor is squeezing entire movies onto a single floppy disk

  The Nintendo Famicom Clone Craze

  The World's Smallest Portable Nintendo 64 Is Barely Larger Than a Cartridge

• How to Backup and Preserve Computer Game Cassette Tapes
• PlayStation emulator Bleem will soon be a Steam competitor selling retro games
• RETROCOMPUTING WITH MODERN HARDWARE, NO EMULATION REQUIRED
• Circuit Gem is a handheld game system stuffed in a Sega Dreamcast VMU
• New Excel Based Apple II Graphics Tool
• GPD Win 3 Review: The Unofficial Microsoft Switch
• The Zelda-style Back to the Future SNES game we never got
• Here’s Doom actually playable on a SEGA Genesis 
• Jaleco's cute classic Rod Land is this week's Arcade Archives release
• THE AMIGA 1000, STILL RECEIVING NEW PERIPHERALS 35 YEARS LATER
• SNK Devs Once Put Goku In King Of Fighters 98
• PROTOTYPES FOR FOUR SONIC GAMES, INCLUDING SA2 & SONIC 1, RELEASED
• The former owner of the Nintendo Playstation Prototype, Terry Diebold, has passed away

Topic: 

Game Club Discussion:

• Bubble Bobble
• Tecmo Bowl

New Game Club Games:

• Dynamite Headdy
• Q*Bert

Music By:

I Love Lightning Bugs

Game Club Master List

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #BubbleBobble #NintendoDS #TecmoBowl #NES 

Season 3 Episode 2

Episode 74

News:

• Ys III Walkthrough and Version Comparison (Hugues’ link)
• CES 2021: Arcade1Up Unveils New Cabinets For X-Men, Killer Instinct, And More
• KFConsole features Intel GPU and GeForce RTX graphics
• This New Game Boy Game Is 21 Years In The Making
• Linux Kernel Sees New Port To The Nintendo 64
• Krikzz n8 update
• Raspberry Pi SNES Controller Handheld Has Its Own Screen
• Raspberry Pi Zero Mod Turns Tiny NES Christmas Ornament Into Functional Game Console 
• Space Invaders Amiga - An Arcade homebrew version of Space Invaders for the Commodore Amiga
• Miyamoto: “we are moving toward a position that will insure the spirit of Nintendo is passed down successfully”
• SONIC ADVENTURE 2 DEMO TRACKS UPLOADED TO YOUTUBE
• AtGames Releases Legends Core With Over 100 Classic Games
• Rare Game Boy Accessory Resurfaces After Nearly 30 Years
• Found & Preserved! | Game Boy Advance 3D Tech Demo
• After 25 Years, A New Cheat Code Has Been Discovered For Street Fighter Alpha 2 On The SNES
• Forgotten PS1 game 'Magic Castle' finally emerges two decades later

Game Club Discussion:

• Ducktails
• Ys III

New Game Club Games:

• Bubble Bobble
• Tecmo Bowl

Music By:

I Love Lightning Bugs

Game Club Master List

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #Ducktails #Ys #YsIII #WanderersfromYs #TG16 #Turbografx #PCEngine