We take on a Sega myth, an Amiga delay, and debate the merits of the latest games enshrined in the Hall of Hame at The Strong Museum of Play. We're joined this week by Jo Cook of the UK Amstrad Group, holding its inaugural live user event next month.

See https://www.ukag.org.uk/index.php/2026/01/08/more-info-on-the-june-uk-amstrad-group-meet for more information on the UKAG meet, and visit https://www.addict.media/ for your copy of Pixel Addict magazine.

00:00 - Show Opening

03:54 - Hall Of Fame Games Story Link: https://www.museumofplay.org/exhibits/world-video-game-hall-of-fame/inducted-games/ Board games: https://www.ukag.org.uk/index.php/2026/05/09/retro-games-leave-the-screen-play-pac-man-level-ten-and-8bit-box-at-ukag/

27:19 - Old Masters Never Give Up Story Link: https://www.xda-developers.com/the-sega-master-system-is-still-being-made-and-sold-in-brazil-37-years-later/

40:31 - Housekeeping - News links found below

44:44 - Merry Christmas Amigans Story Link: https://www.facebook.com/THEC64andMoreByRetroGamesLtd

57:56 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Wolfenstein docs: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1t5jzp6/as_a_german_this_is_very_funny_to_me/

Melbourne House archives: https://old.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1t7zg94/former_melbourne_house_developer_surfaces_with/

Sierra game upscaling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Yp9S23ICo

AMD K5 support: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/amds-legendary-k5-its-first-independently-designed-processor-is-being-removed-from-the-linux-kernel-4-3-million-transistor-chip-gets-the-axe-because-it-lacks-time-stamp-counter-tsc-support-making-it-a-coding-burden

Atari acquires Wizardry: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260506151146/en/Atari-Acquires-Rights-to-the-Legendary-Wizardry-RPGs

IcePi FPGA C64: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1t76ofv/icepizeroc64_tiny_and_fully_opensource_fpgabased/

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Sports sim pioneer Kevin Toms (Football Star* Manager) is in the guest chair as we talk about the incredible staying power of 1982's blockbuster computer launches, the Commodore 64 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum, soon to be released in handheld format. We also look at the incredible R&D legacy of Xerox PARC, the impact of the BBC Computer Literacy Project, the latest from Commodore and FujiNet, a surprising workstation on FPGA, and a great deal more!

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00:00 - Show Opening

06:40 - 1982 In The Palm Of Your Hand Story Link: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/04/the-c64-and-zx-spectrum-are-being-reimagined-as-nintendo-style-clamshell-handhelds C64C Ultimate: https://commodore.net/c-you-soon-commodore-64-ultimate-line-up-expands-with-c64c-edition-later-this-year/

33:27 - Zero For Xerox Story Link: https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-xerox-invented-the-gui-and-lost-it/ Dramatization: https://youtu.be/VpY2fBitQcw

43:16 - Housekeeping - News links found below

48:58 - The Trojan Mouse Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZjNHnYFqOA

01:05:39 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Open source PC-DOS 1.0: https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-open-sources-dos-1-0-much-more-than-the-code/

The end of Ask: https://mashable.com/article/ask-jeeves-shut-down

FujiNet firmware update: https://fujinews.substack.com/p/major-firmware-update-from-the-fujinet

The 7th Guest remake trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwA5q-oDT3k

Windows 9x Subsystem For Linux: https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x

Apple Lisa on FPGA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jNQDcpHc68

Lego Sega Genesis: https://segabits.com/blog/2026/05/01/lego-sega-releasing-sega-genesis-console-on-june-1/

Galaxian3 emulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH3uyB_WhEo

Episode Credits

"Commodore 16" by Marcin Wichary is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=openverse.

If you find joy in making or fixing, you're already a kindred spirit with our return guest Lee of the More Fun Making It and More Fun Fixing It YouTube channels. Lee shares tales of his latest retro event visits and upcoming charity effort (a custom throwback game console could be yours!) before we take on the top stories. The team takes on the state of the traditional arcade, the revival of an early 1990s horror classic, and a new-old multiplayer racing game. Plus news from Commodore, Sega, and much more.

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Be sure to stop by https://www.morefunmakingit.co.uk/ to see everything Lee has going on. Lee's Commodore 64GS charity project: https://morefunfixingit.co.uk/charity

00:00 - Show Opening

09:31 - Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside Story Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdrm4lndnv6o

24:19 - It's Not That Terrible Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzi_xK2Jifw Additional link: https://gamingbolt.com/a-comprehensive-history-of-horror-gaming

44:37 - Housekeeping - News links found below

49:57 - Null Modem Not Required Story Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/multistuntcar-156155783 Gameplay link: https://retro-foundry.github.io/multistuntcar/

01:02:00 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

EU Parliament game advocacy: https://youtu.be/oXcogLmxnJw?si=3mYRqOpooCgf5raO

Updated Commodore FPGA policy: https://commodore.net/why-we-re-protecting-your-commodore-64-ultimate-fpga/

SEGA's 2026 lineup: https://www.eurogamer.net/sega-universe-retro-anniveraries-2026

Retro search engine: https://wiby.me/

BBC interview with Peter Molyneux: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4glw5nyrggo

ZSNES update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5twUkvYFpA

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Welcome Andrew Borman, Director of Digital Preservation at The Strong ( https://www.museumofplay.org/ ) for an in-depth look at the future of the iconic Neo-Geo game console, with brand-new hardware just around the corner. If Metal Slug and Super Baseball aren't your thing, we also cover Channel 9 Australia's endorsement of retro gaming, the revival of a 50-year old electromechanical arcade machine from Nintendo, The Krypton Factor, and a potential block on alternative cores for the Commodore 64 Ultimate. If you think that's a CRT on the horizon it might just be a discarded kitchen appliance, but don't let that stop you from enjoying This Week in Retro episode 265!

00:00 - Show Opening

07:12 - Neo Geo Story Link: https://plaionreplai.com/

34:48 - Two Tales Of The Wild West Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOfqnomGPkM Story Link 2: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/commodore-fans-split-over-c64-ultimate-fpga-firmware-lockdown-firm-says-it-wants-to-protect-its-hardware-and-reduce-support-fallout

56:18 - Housekeeping - News links found below

01:02:46 - TV Gets Retro Gaming Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4QuYuPn2Mc Story Link 2: https://hackaday.io/project/205522-prime-time-game-show-lasers-and-an-amiga

01:13:39 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

CBS coverage of former New York City pinball ban: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuHhh3CLjbk

PC Gamer demo discs: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-internet-archive-has-preserved-758-old-pc-gamer-demo-discs-you-can-download-and-play/

FAT32 beyond 32GB: https://www.techspot.com/news/112058-microsoft-removing-32gb-size-limit-fat32-volumes-time.html

Sun Microsystems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems

Nigel Alderton interview: https://metro.co.uk/2026/04/16/nigel-alderton-interview-man-behind-zx-spectrum-classic-chuckie-egg-27984015/

Moonchild retrospective: https://kotaku.com/developers-of-moon-child-resurface-to-bask-in-all-the-shitposts-amiga-prototype-2000688827

DOOM chainsaw: https://www.gamesradar.com/games/fps/doom-co-designer-still-has-the-real-chainsaw-that-inspired-the-og-fpss-iconic-weapon-even-though-it-leaks-oil-and-was-kept-in-a-bowl-at-the-id-offices/

Bring big imaginations and big keyboards as we tackle the latest Retro eXo creation, a breakthrough in modern game development for the original Sony PlayStation, and breathe new life into those old digital video camcorders on the shelf. Chris shows off a holiday photo, there's a birthday... all this, and much more, in This Week in Retro episode 264!

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00:00 - Show Opening

03:03 - Undiscovered Text Adventures Abound Story Link: https://www.retro-exo.com/if.html Original TWiR coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUtxKUkJaXk

17:34 - New Life For PlayStation & Wii Story Link: https://psxsplash.github.io/ Bandwidth appeal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfZ-XHiDBow MacOS X on Nintendo Wii: https://bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html Windows compatibility: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260407-00/?p=112213

31:38 - Housekeeping - News links found below

36:57 - Video Editing Like It’s 1999 Story Link: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/firewire-on-a-raspberry-pi/ Video demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuKeW45OL-g

46:18 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

PicoGUS 4.0: https://github.com/polpo/picogus/releases/tag/v4.0.0

Oldversion returns: https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/oldversion-is-back-and-better-than-ever/

RIP Yoshihisa Kishimoto: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/04/double-dragon-creator-yoshihisa-kishimoto-has-passed-away

New Amiga Double Dragon: https://www.indieretronews.com/2026/04/double-dragon-near-arcade-experience.html

Arcade photos: https://www.thescroller.net/83840/20-photos-what-arcades-used-to-look-like/

Arcade manuals: https://arcadeRTFM.com

Breakout for ZX81: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NheQgCtFgI

End of Linux support for i486: https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-7-1-finally-dropping-support-intels-37-year-old-486-processor/

Episode Credits:

"PlayStation-SCPH-1000-with-Controller.jpg" image by Evan-Amos. Public domain.

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Indie game dev legend Jeff Vogel of spiderwebsoftware.com joins us for a provocative hour of conversation about legendary Apple products, summer camp with Lord British, moonshots and other artifacts of the Space Race, and much more!

00:00 - Show Opening

08:20 - Fifty Years Of Apple Story Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgxdn9lyd2o Apple prototypes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74qPQt_5DdM

23:17 - Moon - The Computer Art That Made Sure We Didn’t Miss Story Link: https://hackaday.com/2026/03/30/see-the-computers-that-powered-the-voyager-space-program/

31:17 - Housekeeping - News links found below

37:15 - Omega Race Counts As Racing Story Link: https://github.com/albank1/Commodore-64-More-Disassembled-Games Dragon's Eye CRPG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJfGN4Zeb7M Additional links: https://github.com/cyneprepou4uk/NES-Games-Disassembly https://www.retroreversing.com/source-code/decompiled-retail-console-games

49:29 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Gaming Historian ends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV_Aww8_6wQ

XBox 360 GTA4 Devkit: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/xbox/xbox-360-devkit-bought-for-usd5-at-car-boot-sale-came-with-2007-beta-build-of-gta-iv-with-unreleased-assets-version-includes-cut-ferry-system-zombies-and-more

Manic Miner online: https://manicminer.online

Taito Crown 603 claw machine: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/after-asking-the-japanese-public-to-help-it-find-its-first-ever-claw-machine-game-taito-instead-found-its-second/

CLK emulator: https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK

Doom "on a BBC Micro": https://youtu.be/32hJLwrk-gY

Capcom mini-arcade machine: https://www.hackster.io/news/lcl-li-s-tiny-capcom-arcade-cabinet-uses-a-period-appropriate-though-scaled-down-crt-display-68d78f2c6743

Episode Credits

"Apple Lisa (Little Apple Museum)" by Alvy is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=openverse.

"Apple Vision Pro (M5, 2025) with Dual Knit Band on Display (cropped)" by AzureSaturn is marked with CC0 1.0.

"Apple Macintosh ー Computer History Museum (25364330319)" by Ik T from Kanagawa, Japan is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?

"Apple Newton MessagePad H1000 in NMAH" by National Museum of American History is marked with CC0 1.0. To view the terms, visit https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en/?ref=openverse.

It's taken too long to get prominent retro podcaster and archivist @KaySavetz (ANTIC, Eaten By a Grue, Internet Archive, and more) on the show! On this bonus-sized episode Kay joins Dave and Jason as we take a deeper look at 1990s nostalgia and the loss of multi-format cover art giant Philip Castle, and chart the dramatic rise and hard fall of Iomega's Zip drives. And for the sake of equal time, Kay presents a news brief involving source code hidden away on SyQuest media.

All this, your picks for a gaming industry legend you'd like to spend an hour with, and more in This Week in Retro 262!

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00:00 - Show Opening

04:24 - Elite Box Art Was Elite Story Link: https://x.com/DavidBraben/status/2035665737449107849

17:33 - Media Giants Of The Past Story Link: https://hackaday.com/2026/03/24/from-zip-to-nought-the-rise-and-fall-of-iomega/

32:42 - Housekeeping - News links found below

48:45 - I Wish It Was The 90s - Or Do I? Story Link: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/22/young-people-are-longing-for-the-low-tech-90s-and-so-would-i-if-i-could-only-remember-them Additional Link: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/mar/27/retro-rewind-video-rental-retail-sim

01:01:10 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

PicoGX Cartridge: https://shop.flamelily.co.uk/picogx

History of Creative SoundBlaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTPa6wRECw0

3dfx Voodoo on FPGA: https://hackaday.com/2026/03/22/the-3dfx-voodoo-lives-again-in-an-fpga/

Pico Z80: https://eaw.app/picoz80/

Windows 3.1 on AMD Ryzen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qP3Jy52RuQ

MS-DOS on Apple II: https://sethkush.com/post/2026/03/22/reboot-camp-83-ms-dos-on-the-apple-iie-is-ready/

Game stores final closure: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/major-uk-retailer-leave-high-085419192.html

Lemon20 community: https://lemon20.com

Nintendo64 Open World Engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXxmIw9axWw

Kikstart documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW6AdUeIFLs

Jetpac remake: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/03/the-zx-spectrum-classic-jetpac-has-been-unofficially-remade

Kerbal flight via ZX Spectrum: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/enthusiast-lands-on-the-moon-using-hardware-from-the-1980s-zx-spectrum-home-computer-with-3-5-mhz-cpu-and-48kb-of-memory-power-kerbal-space-flight

AOL Macintosh source code: https://bitbang.social/@mac84tv/116313232502499502

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How did we allow this to happen?! Not the guest appearance by @adriansdigitalbasement , but rather the proliferation of competing controller standards which has finally been solved (possibly) by a new multi-interface project for USB, Raspberry Pi, and MiSTeR devices. Plus the latest developments at the new Commodore International Corporation, a treasure trove of audio recordings from Game Developer Conference 1989, the mostly-respectful observance of an important anniversary for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance, and the first "Chris' Corner" segment to keep the transportation news flowing while Chris takes a brief holiday!

00:00 - Show Opening

02:25 - Every Joyport, Everywhere, All At Once Story Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/MiSTerFPGA/comments/1rx12q4/multi_controller_adapter_retro_controllers_on/

20:50 - Commodore Is Growing Story Link: https://www.ign.com/articles/former-xbox-front-man-major-nelson-just-joined-the-company-behind-the-commodore-64-retro-revival

39:04 - Housekeeping - News links found below

47:21 - Meeting Legendary Minds Story Link: https://gamehistory.org/cgdc-1989-tapes/

Additional link: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/03/the-nes-is-not-gonna-go-on-forever-forget-gdc-2026-take-a-trip-back-in-time-with-recordings-from-the-1989-event

01:00:44 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Young People Yearn For 1990s Tech: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/22/young-people-are-longing-for-the-low-tech-90s-and-so-would-i-if-i-could-only-remember-them

GBA At 25: https://www.eurogamer.net/the-best-gba-games-you-can-play-on-switch-and-five-we-hope-show-up-soon

Gunship Origins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni4AbrlROz4

Chuck Norris Obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/20/chuck-norris-was-the-rip-roaring-king-of-80s-friday-night-vhs-fests

Rosetintedspectrum: https://youtu.be/NJ-QxbVUg6o

Indy Classic Expo: https://indyclassic.org

OpenTTD News: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/openttd-asks-people-to-please-stop-being-mad-at-atari-for-forcing-the-game-off-steam-openttd-as-a-project-retains-its-full-independence-and-you-can-still-get-it-for-free/