Retro Game Club

Season 2 Episode 28 Episode 60   News: Hugues’ Ultrabox review XStation Optical Discdrive Emulator (ODE) Mod Kit You can now play an ultra-rare Quake arcade cabinet at home There are 5 brand new Dreamcast games being released in 2020 MEET “TREASURE TAILS”, A GENESIS/MEGA DRIVE PITCHED BY SEGA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE Battletoads re-print Murder Manor – The first interactive adventure presented in double lo-res graphics for the Apple II Preserving The Source Code of Star Fire   Custom PCB Lets You Stick a Raspberry Pi Inside a Sega Game Gear The 2020 Sonic Hacking Contest Website Is Now Open To Submit Entries LaunchBox 11.3 with Experimental Linux Support Atari Lynx Programming Contest 2020 - Play the Games Someone squeezed a Nintendo Wii into a Game Boy Color-like case 38 Years Later, The Atari 2600 Learns To Speak     Game Club Discussion: Wrecking Crew Snatcher   New Game Club Games: Atlantis on 2600 NBA Live '98   Music By: I Love Lightning Bugs   Game Club Master List   ==========

Season 2 Episode 27 Episode 59   News: Hugues' new article Tiny Sega Consoles Are For Action Figures, Not Action People SNK announces $500 Neo Geo arcade cabinet with 50 pre-loaded games MINIATURE STAR WARS ARCADE LETS YOU BLOW UP THE DEATH STAR ON THE GO Check out some wonderful Playdate game demos, including a low-fi Doom How did Resident Evil 2 manage to fit on a single Nintendo 64 Cart Mysterious Sonic the Hedgehog statue polished and restored A New Game Boy Color Game is Being Released RUMOR: ARCADE 1UP VIRTUA FIGHTER CABINET WITH SONIC THE FIGHTERS LEAKED Segapede/Astropede cancelled SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive gets over 12 minutes of prototype footage posted online Sonic The Hedgehog Ported to the Super Nintendo Because Nothing Is Sacred Anymore Self-Contained Tape Loader for the ZX Spectrum The Zero Terminal v3 is the ultimate DIY portable computer High Score. New retro game documentary on Netflix Libretro has been hacked.   Topic: Libretro has been hacked.   Game Club Discussion: Tapper 

Season 2 Episode 26 Episode 58   News: Bill English: Computer mouse co-creator dies at 91 Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) start August 16th, here’s what to look forward to! Now you can download and run the 1997 Macintosh OS 8.1 on your Windows, Mac, Linux as a standalone application Akihabara Will Look Different After This Arcade Closes Sega apologizes after exec says Puyo Puyo players eat beef bowls with cheese  Developer Announces Snowboarding Game, Updates Forum Thread He Started 13 Years Ago After Eight Years, Space Quest's Spiritual Reboot Is Playable Banjo-Kazooie meets Legend of Zelda in epic Jiggies of Time N64 mod Super Mario Freedom • Greatest Super Mario Bros. ROM Hack yet?! (new Boss, Power Ups, and Options) Kansasfest 2021 Announced Now you can play Myst on an Apple II – The game “demake” is now available  The ‘Halo Infinite’ Trailer Was Turned Into A Nintendo 64 Game THE GAME BOY AS A MIDI SYNTHESISER Boeing 747s Still Use Floppy Disks to Get Critical Software Updates The Exclusive

Season 2 Episode 25 Episode 57 News   This Powerful Retro Handheld Almost Puts the N64 in Your Pocket Nagoshi on SEGA making games for GameCube, was surprised by Nintendo’s unity Open Source Master System to Game Gear Converter FROM BEDROOMS TO BILLIONS: THE PLAYSTATION REVOLUTION | Official Trailer  A TRS-80 Color Computer Commercial Quality Action/Fight Game in BASIC, part 1 Accidental Doom Segment: Source code for the SNES version of Doom has been released It Can Take Nearly 12 Years To Spawn A Demon In Doom II Thanks To A Small Programming Quirk You can now boot a Windows 95 PC inside Minecraft and play Doom on it Accidental Hacker Segment: Hackers have discovered a ‘native’ PSOne emulator for PS4 Nintendo leaks continue with massive release of game protoypes, source code, and more https://kotaku.com/smoking-toad-f-zero-beavis-and-other-weird-nintendo-g-1844574730 Classic Nintendo Source Code And Prototypes Allegedly Leaked Accidental Mario rom hack seg

Season 2 Episode 24 Episode 56   News   The Designer Of The NES Dishes The Dirt On Nintendo's Early Days   7 Sonic The Hedgehog Prototypes 2020 LCL Raspberry Pi GBA Game Console Try This At Home: Build an Atari Star Wars Cockpit Arcade Machine Turbo Petscii Fighter Shantae's Very Rare, Very Expensive Game Boy Color Game Is Getting A Re-Release Nintendo News: The Lion King: A Look Back at the BRUTALLY Difficult '90s Platformer This Super Nintendo Console is Now an Awesome Nintendo Switch Dock The Mario 64 PC port looks like a full-blown remaster with new 4K texture pack This Mario 64 mod uses Xbox Kinect to control Mario with real-life triple jumps The Manual Matters: ‘The Legend of Zelda’ How It Was Meant to Be Played       Topic: Interview w/ Dagen Brock  GS+ Emulator Flapple   Game Club Discussion: Skate Or Die  Donkey Kong Country    New Game Club Games: Short Circuit (Apple II) Montezuma’s Revenge   Music By: I Love Lightning Bugs   Game Club Master List   =============

Season 2 Episode 23 Episode 55 News We traced Namco’s “new” Pac-Man demake to its source: A 2008 fan ROMhack Boom! It's Super Mario Bros. With John Madden's Commentary COMPARING BARE SILICON ON TWO GAME BOY AUDIO CHIPS LaunchBox 11 is Here! Record Gameplay Videos, Take Screenshots, and Save Disk Space (actually 11.2 is already out) Analogue Delays Nt Mini V2, Details New Features Star Light Mario Rare Copy Of Super Mario Bros. Sells At Auction For Record-Breaking $114,000 Turns Out I Was Calling These Things In Mario Bros. The Wrong Name, So Please Tell Me The Right One SD2SNES Super Game Boy Open-Sourced, Author Revealed The Lost Street Fighter II: Champion Edition for Sega Mega Drive WinUAE 4.4 Released: The best Amiga emulator for Windows just got better REMOTE CODE EXECUTION ON THE N64 SEGA’S NEXT MICRO-HARDWARE IS A 36-GAME ARCADE MACHINE FunKey S – All Your Retro Games On A Keychain Batty over Bits - The Complexity of the Intellivision's Memory Layout Build a No-

Series background Series started in 1987. Action RPG - meaning an action game where you gain XP to earn levels and there's a story. Loosely set in the time period of Roman conquest (100-150 BC) Sometimes compared to Zelda but Falcom had already been working on other action RPGs by then.  Falcom is primarily a PC developer, console ports are by many different companies US localization is all over the place Except for I&II the games are independent stories but there are fan service references to previous characters and events. However, the different localizations mean sometimes these are easy to miss because people and places have different names depending on who did the translation.      Common elements across the games Same lead character and sidekick (except for Ys Origin) High quality soundtracks Every soundtrack ever is on Spotify or can be bought from all of the various music sites  Rings that enhance your powers More levelling solves all boss fights   They literally give you places to

Season 2 Episode 21 Episode 53 News Nvidia Engineer's Vulkan Driver For Raspberry Pi Runs Quake III Over 100 FPS at 720p Boomshakalaka: How the original NBA Jam caught fire through chaos FAN-MADE RADIO DRAMA SONIC AND TAILS R LIGHT-SPEED DASHES ONTO YOUTUBE Why Retro Gaming Needs a Revolution How Arcade1Up Plans to Revive Arcade Culture Steam Launch lineup revealed Dreamcast 32MB RAM upgrade Those PS1-style Final Fantasy 7 figures are now available to order at Amazon Modern Controllers on the Saturn and Dreamcast: Early Impressions of the Brook Wingman SD PS2 Hack Runs Games On Burned DVD Discs, No Mod Chip Required Montezuma's Redux - 1980's Atari 8-bit Platforming classic, overhauled Super Mario Bros. 3: The Forgotten Worlds Herzog Zwei Is The Next Sega Ages Classic To Come To Switch THEVIC20: The Wonder ColourComputer of the 1980s Returns Pac-Man's Creator On The Legacy, Pizza, And The Future Accidental Beverage segment Pac-Man sake series coming to salute the video game star’s 40th birth

Season 2 Episode 20 Episode 52 News Guinness reinstates Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong, Pac-Man records The Arcade Way Back Machine Researchers still don't know why this Atari 2600 game works  Legacy of the Beast - An Atari 2600 Shadow of the Beast inspiration released Coming soon – paraLLEl N64 RDP – Resolution upscaling! ZPG Pro Is A New Handheld To Potentially Rival The GPD XD Capturing a piece of SEGA's golden age. Virtua Fighter 3 and me. Emulate the NES, Sega Master System, and More on a Simple ESP32 Microcontroller C64 Component Mod & S-Video Available at VGP Mega Man Legends Composer Wants To Crowdfund The Third Entry THIS SONIC 3 & KNUCKLES MOD KEEPS GETTING BETTER AND BETTER Bandai Namco Is Bringing Its Retro Collection To The West As Namco Museum Archives Darius Cozmic Collection Arcade And Console Bring More Shmup Action To Switch eShop On 16th June Accidental Hampster segment Two More Nintendo Games Are Coming To Hamster's Arcade Archives Range Hamster Corporation Celebrates

Season 2 Episode 19 Episode 51 News https://huguesjohnson.com/features/newspapers/  Gameboy Advanced SP with 2 screens?  St1ka Interview with 3D NES Emulator Creator NINTENDO’S GBA DEV BOARD COULD PASS FOR MODERN DIY How Sega hopes to use Japanese arcades as streaming data centers New Saturn Castlevania SOTN Improvement Hack Utilizes The 4MB RAM Cart For Fast Loading, Smoother Animations, And More Sonic 3D Blast Is Better In 2D Fancy Coffee Table Turns Into Arcade Setup This is the best video game bundle ever Accidental game preservation section (follow-up to a previous item) SimRefinery recovered The long lost ‘Joust’ for the Commodore 64 has been found and preserved DS emulation guide from Erik Topic: Ps5 vs retro PS consoles Game Club Discussion: Space Harrier Galaga ‘88   New Game Club Games: Stunt Race FX Donkey Kong Jr.   Music By: I Love Lightning Bugs   Game Club Master List

Season 2 Episode 18 Episode 50   News Insignia Project Aims To Resurrect Xbox Live For The Original Xbox Introducing the Sega Triple Bypass New Phantasy Star English Patch Was 14 Years In The Making Everdrive N8 Pro v2.08 Firmware update HUMBLE RPG GAME DEVELOPMENT ASSETS BUNDLE King's Quest 6 AGI Version 30 years later, a lost Days of Thunder NES game recovered from 21 floppy disks Github link but not yet published In Japan, You Can Buy A Nintendo Wii For 50 Cents  Sega is making a Game Gear Micro   Topic:  EGM 50 Game Club Discussion: Kabuki: Quantum Fighter Virtua Fighter   New Game Club Games: Space Harrier Galaga ‘88   Music By: I Love Lightning Bugs Game Club Master List

Season 2 Episode 17 Episode 49   News: G-Boy: Wii / GameCube Portable DIY Kit Game Gear title Eternal Legend gets an English fan translation Raspberry Pi 4 Beta Firmware Brings True USB Boot for High-Speed Storage, No microSD Required Sega Saturn Fenrir ODE Firmware Updates When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery The Future Was 8 bit announces Mini PET, a modern take on the Commodore PET 2001 For Pac-Man's 40th birthday, Nvidia uses AI to make new levels You Can Play A New Dance Dance Revolution In Your Browser Right Now Sonic 3 Alternate Intro Puts The Hedgehog On A Surfboard PCE CD Support Added to MiSTer Source code releases - intentional and otherwise EA is releasing the source code for two classic Command and Conquer games Microsoft GW-BASIC source code now available on Github Xbox and Windows NT 3.5 source code leaks online American Classic Arcade Museum Go Fund Me   Topic:  Emulating on 3ds: Sky3ds & R4 cards   Game C

Season 2 Episode 16 Episode 48 News Random: Mike Tyson Wants To Make A New Punch-Out!! Game Using His Cannabis Company PUTTING AN ARCADE CABINET INSIDE OF AN NES CONTROLLER Nintendo takes action against that really good Super Mario 64 PC port  Rank The Mario Kart Games, Worst To Best Sega 32x Noise Fix Tested MicroProse, Legendary Creators Of Civilization, XCOM And Falcon 4.0 Is Back After 20 Year Gaming Absence Kirby design director wants to make a non-action spin-off, says there’ll be a lot of variety in the future Siliconera Speaks Up: How Can So Many Series Be Turning 35 This Year? The Sound Of A Japanese Arcade Is A Beautiful Thing Recreating Sega’s Columns with Arduino! SNAKES AND LADDERS: GAME BOY EMULATOR IN PYTHON 10 Sega Genesis Games That Should Get A Remake Final Fantasy III Designer Had His Own Head Canon About White Mage’s Iconic Red Sleeves Concept Artist Discusses Retro's Cancelled Zelda and Mario Spin-Offs How to emulate a Color Computer in MAME – The ultimate tutorial paraLLEl-

Season 2 Episode 15 Episode 47 News Hard4Games Jaguar Tape Hard4Games SEGA 32X VHS Previews Billy Mitchell takes his Donkey Kong high-score cheating case to court Sailor Moon for PC-Engine CD translation released Terraonion MODE - Dreamcast & Saturn ODE RetroPie 4.6 released with Raspberry Pi 4 support N64 Emulation: MasterFeizz releases ARMv6 dynarec version of DaedalusX64 for the 3DS & ports it to the Vita version – Mario Kart 64 & Super Mario 64 are now effectively playable on both the Vita and New 3DS RetroArch 1.8.6 released! – Libretro Pong Quest Driven Mad By Lockdown, Jalopnik Editor Sews A Working Plush Atari 2600 Joystick These custom Jelly Key keycaps are modeled after classic arcade games Controlling an Air Conditioner Might Be the Least Exciting Game Boy Game Ever Created Al Alcorn, Creator of Pong, Explains How Early Home Computers Owe Their Color Graphics to This One Cheap, Sleazy Trick Ranking The House Of The Dead Arcade Games, Worst To Best Space Quest - A Son of Xen

Season 2 Episode 14 Episode 46   News Super Mario Odyssey 64 Mod Brings Odyssey’s Levels and Mechanics to Mario 64, Including Transformations John Conway, inventor of the Game of Life, has died of COVID-19 Apple II Diskbrowser LaunchBox 10.12 - Compete for MAME High Scores with the Community! This Abandoned Computer Store Is a Time Capsule of Early 2000s Tech The MYST TV Series Will Be Written by X-MEN: FIRST CLASS Writer Ashley Edward Miller Star Wars Episode 1 Release Date Set For PS4 And Switch Miyamoto Congratulates HAL Laboratory On Turning 40, Speaks Of Iwata, Smash Bros. And More Create Your Own Games On Switch With SmileBASIC 4, Available Next Week Kansasfest 2020 Will be Virtual Lynx 2020 Programming Competition 8BitDo TG16 2.5ghz controller   Topic: Console Controllers   Game Club Discussion: Saint Dragon Smash TV   New Game Club Games: Dragon's Lair Astrosmash   Music By: I Love Lightning Bugs   Game Club Master List

Season 2 Episode 13 Episode 45 News Furrtek Maps the PC Engine HuC6270 with John McMaster How to Write an Apple II BASIC Program in Your Web Browser Bug in Super Mario Bros (NES) discovered, patched Turn NES Games Into VR Games With This Program Sega made a traffic safety game in 1988, and collectors now have it Basic 10Liner 2020 results are out Pac-Man Fever musician releases new song Modder Guts A Nintendo GameCube And Turns It Into A Modern Gaming PC Retro-Bit Is Launching an Alternative Dreamcast Controller in Late 2020   Topic:  Nico Rosso - Mortal Kombat Movie   Game Club Discussion: Star Trek: The Next Generation – A Final Unity  Doom 64   New Game Club Games: Saint Dragon Smash TV   Music By: I Love Lightning Bugs

Season 2 Episode 12 Episode 44 News Intellivision takes more than 10,000 VIP edition preorders for Amico console in a few days Fixing the Super Rare Sega Pluto Prototype Trimmed PCB Makes The Ultimate Portable N64 Missile Command: Recharged Official Trailer  The Punch-Out Speedrunning Community Spent Five Years Trying To Beat One Player And All His Records  How SNES Emulators Got A Few Pixels From Complete Perfection NINTENDO HAS BIG PLANS FOR SUPER MARIO BROS.’ 35TH ANNIVERSARY 28 years later, a no-disc version of the Sega CD exists—and it rocks [Updated] Kojima’s GBA experiment—and the sunny island childhood it changed forever Meet the musicians who compose in Mario Paint Topic:  Hard4Games Interview Game Club Discussion Gradius III - SA1 rom hack (SNES) Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game   New Game Club Games Star Trek: The Next Generation – A Final Unity Doom 64   Music By: I Love Lightning Bugs  

Season 2 Episode 11 Episode 43 News Hyper Catalog 5&6 review I wrote while bored one night Corona Relief Done Quick Speedrunning Marathon Announced War Stories: How Prince of Persia slew the Apple II’s memory limitations  Super Mario 64’s Smoke Effect Bug Fixed After 24 Years Myst de-make for Apple II Ryan Reynolds To Star in The Upcoming Live-Action Film Adaptation of DRAGON'S LAIR! Read Some FREE Retro Gaming Books While In Isolation Star Wars Episode I: Racer will include LAN multiplayer on Switch Hardware Review: PC Engine Mini - Still An Acquired Taste, Even After 30 Years  Sega's New Mascot Is The Son Of Sega's Old Mascot Shadow Man Remastered Bringing the N64 Favorite to PC and Consoles Next Year ASCII art + permadeath: The history of roguelike games AdventurePi: portable Raspberry Pi arcade machine   Topic:  Arcade 816 Stylized arcade cabinets of video game consoles and an arcade venue in Chicago.  Game Club Discussion Metal Marines (Win 3.1) Freeway   New Game Club Games Gradius

Season 2 Episode 10 Episode 42 (The answer to life, the universe and everything) News Unplanned Game Sale section: GOG is offering 27 free games to help you relax at home   Mortal Kombat 4, The 1997 Klassic, Is Now Available On GOG Humble Bundle Steam Sale   Games That Weren’t A Lobo fighting game was in the works for Nintendo 64 but was ultimately canceled along with these other titles that never saw the light of day Why The Original Nintendo Famicom Controller Has A Microphone Revealed THE ULTIMATE GAME BOY TALK Atic Atac - Ultimate Play the Game classic has finally made its home on the C64! Interact with Atari’s 6502 Processor in BASIC Emulation News Final Burn Neo Progress Report LaunchBox 10.11 & 10.2 is Here!  Topic: No sports right now, let’s play some sports games. NHL ‘94 (Sega CD) Ice Hockey (NES) NBA 2k1 (Dreamcast) NBA JAM (32x) Mentions: Bill Lambert Basketball (SNES) Pole Position II (car racing probably cancelled for the season) (why does that even need a live crow

Season 2 Episode 9 Episode 41   News TurboGrafx-16 Mini indefinitely delayed due to coronavirus Tim Skelly - 1951-2020 Visual 6502 Remix SONIC HACKING CONTEST COMING THIS OCTOBER Even 25 Years Later, the Iomega Zip Is Unforgettable The PlayStation 2 Is Now Twenty Years Old Which Super Mario Character Are You Based On Your Zodiac Type? The Pit - 1982 Arcade game gets a ZX Spectrum conversion release! Topic:  N64 games that are cheap to import and that you can play without knowing Japanese Bakuretsu Muteki Bangai-O  Puyo Puyo Sun & PUYO PUYO 4 PARTY Puyon Rakugakids Games that on average ½ the price of the US version Diddy Kong Racing Yoshi’s Story Donkey Kong 64 Mario Kart 64 Kirby 64 Gameshark as cartridge converter vs modding Game Club Discussion Punch Out!! (NES) Defender of the Crown   New Game Club Games Batman (NES) Stinger (US)/Moero TwinBee (J)   Music By: I Love Lightning Bugs