Category: Miscellaneous
The Retro Hour EP133 – Alternative Software: The Inside Story (misc)

The Retro Hour is your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news, views and interviews from the UK.

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Alternative Software has been making releasing budget games for 33 years, we talk to founder Roger Hulley about classics like Skool Daze, Pheenix and much more!

https://soundcloud.com/the-retro-hour/alternative-software-the-inside-story-with-roger-hulley-the-retro-hour-ep133

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The Retro Hour EP132 – Midway Arcade to Raven Software (misc)

The Retro Hour is your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news, views and interviews from the UK.

Content:

We reminisce about the Mortal Kombat series, WWF WrestleMania, Hexen II and much more with Jake Simpson – formerly of Midway and Raven Software.

https://soundcloud.com/the-retro-hour/midway-arcade-to-raven-software-with-jake-simpson-the-retro-hour-ep132

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The Retro League Podcast – Episode 449 – Cast Out of Paradise

The Retro League Podcast features discussion about the latest retro gaming news, re-releases, community developments and reviews of our favorite games.

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This week we found out Jim Carrey will be in the upcoming live-action Sonic the Hedgehog film and all the questions we have about that leave us confused and befuddled. We wish a Happy Birthday to Chrono Trigger while someone launched Earthbound into space. Nintendo’s crusade against software piracy has hit one of the big rom sites, and we learn life lessons from The Dude in the episode of the Retro League.

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The Retro League Podcast – Episode 448 – Build Your Own Video Rental Store

The Retro League Podcast features discussion about the latest retro gaming news, re-releases, community developments and reviews of our favorite games.

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This week we have joke news articles about GameStop and lazy creators, but real news about the NES outselling modern systems. High-tech cars are getting a software update that will include Atari games and EA is stomping out a SimCity fan game. We’ve got Harry Potter fan theories and a sub-par PS1 game in this episode of the Retro League.

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The Retro League Podcast – Episode 447 – The Greatest List of All Time

The Retro League Podcast features discussion about the latest retro gaming news, re-releases, community developments and reviews of our favorite games.

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This week you could buy a brand new arcade machine and there’s an edutainment parody game awaiting crowdfunding. We question Wikipedia’s list of greatest games, and remember college bowling alley arcades. We find more emulator boxes trying to grab your money and Russian eBay scammers in this episode of the Retro League.

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Video: How Software Piracy Birthed an Underground Art Scene (misc)

inversephase talks about the demoscene! The demoscene does not make halt on any systems and we are sure you have seen the one or other console or handheld demo here on PDRoms already! Please make sure you have a bit more than three hours to enjoy the complete video. It’s very informative!

How Software Piracy Birthed an Underground Art Scene (HOPE 2018)

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The Retro League Podcast – Episode 446 – Chasing the Popular Trends

The Retro League Podcast features discussion about the latest retro gaming news, re-releases, community developments and reviews of our favorite games.

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This week we’re making our controllers wireless and researching a Super Famicom game with a generic title. We wonder if kids these days are so impressionable that they would rush out and buy luxury cars just because they saw one in Mario Kart. We remember Suncoast stores and the Rock is looking back on his younger self in this episode of the Retro League.

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The Retro League Podcast – Episode 445 – Ban All Coin-Operated Amusement Devices

The Retro League Podcast features discussion about the latest retro gaming news, re-releases, community developments and reviews of our favorite games.

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This week we have evidence that the mythical NES Classic Mini is actually a real product that consumers could buy and not just a scam perpetrated by eBay resellers. We might have to expose our stomachs to cheap burgers in order to get some Mario toys but we were completely perplexed for several minutes by the face of Trog. We’ve got a Sega CD adaptation of a comic book super hero and a staple of the SNES on this episode of the Retro League.

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The Retro League Podcast – Episode 444 – Gamer Motivations

The Retro League Podcast features discussion about the latest retro gaming news, re-releases, community developments and reviews of our favorite games.

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This week we’ve found the wordiest video game listing on Craigslist and we watched the history of the Betamax camcorder. Sixteen years ago Nintendo had people carry televisions and video game consoles around for an entire weekend in the summer heat and we took a personality test to find out why we play games. Our listeners have picked their favorite movies from 1998 and we’ve picked some 1980’s arcade classics in this episode of the Retro League.

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The Retro Hour EP131 – The History of Sega (misc)

The Retro Hour is your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news, views and interviews from the UK.

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We’re joined by one of the world’s leading Sega historians Ken Horowitz, the owner of Sega-16.com and author of two Sega history books for some great nostalgic chat.

https://soundcloud.com/the-retro-hour/sega-historian-ken-horowitz-the-retro-hour-ep131

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