Retro Game Club

We made it to episode 100! The listeners emailed us a ton of fun random questions.   We'd love to thank Zach, our listeners, all the sites that we read news from, and anyone keeping retrogaming alive.   We'd also like to thank all other other retro podcasts out there.   And of course, the musicians that created our new bumpers: Inverse Phase Raftronaut   Game Club Link Tree

Season 3 Episode 27 Episode 99 News: Hardware This PS2 mod is a handheld dream come true Beige Against the Machine: The IBM PC turns 40 Retro Games THEA500 Mini Reboots Commodore Amiga 500 For Gaming Nostalgia Homebrew, rom hacks & emulation Cancelled Game Boy Color RPG Infinity Goes Live On Kickstarter Next Week Alf 2: Collision Detection is Hard, Blog Posts are Harder Other odd or interesting thing A Copy Of Super Mario Bros. For NES Just Smashed World Records, AGAIN   Damon Wayans Jr. is hosting Peacock's Frogger TV show  Newly Discovered SEGA Saturn Game Prototype Was Ahead Of Its Time Let's Go Back In Time And Visit A Japanese Arcade In 1979 Man Shocked Through Video Game Controller After Lighting Strike Apple Arcade is getting a new Castlevania game Picross S: Genesis & Master System Edition demo out now on the Switch eShop, footage   Topic: Metroid is 35 Game Club Discussion: Thexder Pole Position   New Game Club Games: R-Type  Joust   Game Club Link Tree Bumpers, fac

Season 3 Episode 26 Episode 98 News: Homebrew, rom hacks & emulation Collision Detection is Hard: The Story of Alf  Hudson's Wintry Adventure Island II Guitar Hero faithfully recreated within Super Mario 64 – and it’s amazing! Vita3k (Sony Vita emulator) Progress Report Doom running on things Doom in portrait mode on the Radius Pivot monitor  Other odd or interesting thing Food Fight Is Making A Comeback In 2022 Donkey Kong 64 Voice Actor Apologizes For The DK Rap, Shares Some Voice Clips Can People Still Play the Same Games as They Get Older? You Can Beat Castlevania Before Guilty Gear Strive Finishes Loading  Folks Think The Sims 2 On Nintendo DS Is Haunted Play MP3 and WAV Files on Your Atari 8-Bit Computer Using FujiConvert You Can Now Revisit the Most Popular Desktop Publishing App of the '80s in Your Browser Google's 'Doodle Champion Island Games' Is A Retro Throwback   Game Club Discussion: Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams Jr. Pac-Man   New Game Club Games: Thexder (Apple I

Season 3 Episode 25 Episode 97   News: Hardware Keeping the Upscale and Capture Pure - The RGB2HDMI and Digital PC Video Standards DIY Game Boy Camera adapter wirelessly transfers its crappy photos to a smartphone Modded Sega Dreamcast is actually an AMD-powered gaming PC UNDERSTANDING CUSTOM SIGNAL PROTOCOLS WITH OLD (super) NINTENDOS Wii U playing games from Zip disk  Homebrew and rom hacks Meet the developer who’s still making physical Game Boy games CRACKING A GBA GAME WITH NSA TOOLS Other odd or interesting thing Secret Nintendo Café In Tokyo Is Home To Relics Saved From The Company's Incinerator This Tetris-Playing Game Boy Knockoff Runs on a Tiny Nuclear Generator 16mm Film From Nintendo's 1974 Wild Gunman Arcade Cabinet Has Been Found The massive Museum of Pinball is closing its doors for good Rare Mario PC Game Donated To Museum   Game Club Discussion: Tiger Heli  Commando   New Game Club Games: Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams Jr. Pac-Man Game Club Master List Bumpers,

Season 3 Episode 24 Episode 96   News:   Homebrew & ROM hacks   Slow Mole - Rage inducing platformer for the NES Capitán Sevilla for Virtual Boy OG Game Boy is getting a new game and it looks adorable Here's How It Looks to Play 'Sonic the Hedgehog' In First-Person Perspective   Emulator news   Vita release: VitaQuakeIII 1.0 Re3 and ReVC (reverse engineered GTA implementations) back on github after DCMA counter notice How to Install Windows 3.1 on an iPad   Doom running on things   Authentic Mod Transforms Super Mario World, Sonic, DOOM Into Game Boy Originals    Weird or otherwise interesting things   Final Fantasy Remasters Reignite Controversies Over Pixel Art Retro: The Anticlimactic Quest To Find The Person Behind Metroid's Most Famous 'Cheat Code’ Evidence of a Secret, Unreleased SNK Millennium Console Has Been Discovered Wait, The PS1 Logo Was A 3D Model? KFC follows up KFConsole with Hot Winger 64 retro arcade machine Sealed Mario 64's Record-Breaking $1.5M Sal

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 T

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@retrogameclub.net

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 Nam

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

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

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

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 ===========================================   #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 ======================

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

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   N

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 Disc

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

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

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 Cass

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 algorith