Retro Game Club

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

Season 3 Episode 13

Episode 85

News:

• Canceled arcade game Clockwork Aquario releasing soon
• Wind Waker Speedrunners Finally Found A Way To Skip Cutscenes
• Best Year in Gaming: 1991 is the year that the 16-bit era came of age
• The graphics cards that helped define PC gaming
• Super Coder Speeds Up Yet Another SNES Classic
• Review: Evercade Retro Handheld Console
• SUPER MARIO SUNBURN MOD SHINES UP A GAMECUBE FAVORITE
• The original Ninja Gaiden Black and II code has apparently been lost, so you're getting Sigma
• Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards hidden cheat code uncovered after two decades
• Sega is Metacritic's top-ranked publisher of 2020
• Return to Yoshi's Island 64 could be the best Super Mario 64 mod yet
• Would You Just Look At This Tiny Bubble Bobble Arcade Machine
• Sakurai acknowledges requests for Kid Icarus sequels & remakes but says it would be difficult
• Final Fantasy Creator Hironobu Sakaguchi Says Latest Project Could Be His Last
• Alistair's Magic Box – Emulator
• Launchbox 11.10

Game Club Discussion:

• Hudson's Adventure Island
• RBI Baseball (any variant or sequel)

New Game Club Games:

• Super Metroid
• Dragon's Trap/Curse

Game Club Master List

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #AdventureIsland #RBIBaseball

Season 3 Episode 12

Episode 84

News:

• Analogue Pocket Delayed, and the Suez Canal Boat May Be Partially to Blame
• Sealed Super Mario Bros. NES Cartridge Becomes Most Expensive Game Ever Sold
• Today marks 20 years since SEGA left the home console business (3/31)
• 2021 Sonic Hacking Contest Dates
• Is PS5 Adding PS3, PS2, and PS1 Backward Compatibility? New Sony Patent Has PlayStation Fans Speculating
• Breaking the Disk-Based Protection on Sierra On-line Key Disk Games - The Final Word
• 25 Years Ago, Resident Evil Gave Horror a New Name
• Here's Doom on a digital camera
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 30th Anniversary Edition playable online, kills you often
• Family BASIC - Putting the "Computer" into the Family Computer
• Interview: SNK vs Capcom: The Match of the Millennium Devs Talk About Preserving & Porting Classics
• A FLOPPY CONTROLLER FOR THE RASPBERRY PI
• Can't Decide on a Controller Layout? This Gamepad Lets You Flip the D-Pad and Joystick as Often as You Want (R- I want this)
• Atari 2600 Movie Cart
• Canceled arcade game Clockwork Aquario releasing soon
• RetroArch 1.9.1 released!
  • Related: RetroArch 1.9.1 – shines brightly on OpenDingux
• A Final Fantasy VI arcade cabinet now exists, and you need to see it

Game Club Discussion:

• SimEarth on Win 3.1
• Minesweeper

New Game Club Games:

• Hudson's Adventure Island
• RBI Baseball (any variant or sequel)

Game Club Master List

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #SimEarth #MineSweeper #PCgaming

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