Retro Game Club

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

Season 3 Episode 1

Episode 73

We take a deep dive into the King's Quest series.

Please join us and play a few games in the series.

Rob recommends trying to play King's Quest 1. If it's a bit too primitive for you, Try King's Quest 6. If that is still not to your liking, please try the King's Quest from 2015. If you go that route, please at least watch a few walkthrough videos of 1,3 and 4 before playing. It will really add to the story.

You can purchase the older games in bulk for really cheap. There are updated VGA and SVGA versions in this collection.

The 2015 King's quest is also really cheap and just a fantastic game.

There are also free remakes by ADG of the original games that are free and make it really easy to install and play on modern computers.

Music from The Sierra Chest

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #Sierra #SierraGames #KingsQuest

Season 2 Episode 40

Episode 72

News:

• Anniversary: ActRaiser Turns 30 Today, And There's Still Nothing Quite Like This SNES Classic
• Capcom Arcade Stadium – full lineup of games
• The RestoMod is a limited-edition retro-looking PC with a fake floppy drive
• This hero turned a Nintendo N64 into a mini PC with an old Intel NUC
• Super SD System 3 (SSDS3) Firmware 1.03 Announcement!
• The cleverest floppy disc protection ever? Western Security Ltd.
• SuperRT: Ray tracing on the SNES
• SNK Is Making A New Game Console, It Seems
• The Greatest Hits Game Bundle
• Poom is a pixelated 1980s version of Doom you can play right now
• PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 Architecture: A Practical Analysis
• Someone Found A Weird Unreleased Simpsons Game On An Old Dreamcast Dev Kit
• Work In Progress PCSX2 Libretro core in development
• PSVita: DaedalusX64 0.6 released with significant performance improvements in Nintendo 64 games, Turkish & Russian translations and more – TheFlow ports 3DS dynarec improvements

Topic: Sears Christmas Catalogs

Game Club Discussion:

• Super Off Road
• Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure

New Game Club Games:

• Ducktails
• Ys III

Music By:

I Love Lightning Bugs

Game Club Master List

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #SuperOffRoad #Pitfall #PitfalltheMayanAdventure #SearsCatalog

Season 2 Episode 39

Episode 71

News:

• Among Us Reimagined As Nintendo Game Boy Game In De-Make Video
• Sega will test fans' knowledge as part of its 60th anniversary
• NES palette comparisons
• Sonic the Hedgehog Lifetime Sales Hit One Billion Copies
• Sonic The Hedgehog Proved He's a Better Hero Than Iron Man
• Let's Rank All The Spider-Man Games, From Worst To Best
• A history of Intel vs. AMD desktop performance, with CPU charts galore
• 'Wiiboy Color' Is a Game Boy-Sized Nintendo Wii
• Switch: Return To Castle Wolfenstein ported to the console thanks to capsterx
• PET 2001 Emulator on $2 of Hardware
• PS4: Webkit exploit released for 6.xx, could potentially work on 7.xx
• A 3D SONIC ANIMATED SERIES IS COMING TO NETFLIX IN 2022!
• Shadowrun for the Sega Genesis Captures the Cyberpunk Spirit of the Tabletop Game
• Here's Doom on a regular SEGA Genesis

Topic: TurboPlay Magazine Nov 1991

Game Club Discussion:

• Shadow of the Ninja (NES)
• The Amazing Spider-Man: Web of Fire

New Game Club Games:

• Super Off Road
• Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure

Music By:

I Love Lightning Bugs

Game Club Master List

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#retro #retrogaming #retrogames #ShadowoftheNinja #AmazingSpiderMan #WebofFire #TurboPlay #GameMagazine