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

This week:

This week we wonder how many ‘Johny Turbo’s there are, but we know exactly what percentage of people who will get the upcoming FF7 HD remake have played the original. We’re video game hipsters because we haven’t played the most popular games on a lot of retro systems, and classic Mega Man is coming to Nintendo’s latest system. We don’t understand the popularity of Pogs or how you would put them in an augmented reality cell phone game in this episode of the Retro League.

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

This week:

This week we’re not insulting Prince Harry, and we warn against eating 13-year old honey mustard. Computers are randomly making Mario and Doom levels while we enjoy our relaxing RPG town music playlists. If the return of the mythical NES Classic Mini wasn’t good enough for you Japan is getting an anime-themed one and we’re also getting a tiny, strangely-colored Neo Geo that doesn’t come with a power cord. We’re putting on our wizard hats and swimming away from bigger fish in this episode of the Retro League.

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

Content:

Pitfall! creator David Crane gives us the inside story on Activision – the world’s first third-party games developer.

https://soundcloud.com/the-retro-hour/activision-the-inside-story-with-david-crane-the-retro-hour-ep123

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

Content:

We talk to Jerry Buckner about the classic video game song Pac-Man Fever, working with Disney on Wreck-It Ralph and the early arcade scene.

https://soundcloud.com/the-retro-hour/pac-man-fever-with-jerry-buckner-the-retro-hour-ep122

Bomb The Pentominos is an Android puzzle game by Belldin Games. The game itself is ad-supported.

The goal of the game is to fit the Pentominos and Tetrominos in a way that they make full rows, which when is full, will be deleted and gives space for more pieces. Full rows also is the only way of scoring in the game.

The challenge is that the game also will go faster after some time and also after each 10 filled rows, which makes it real hard to survive at some speed. The way of scoring big is to build holes for one single piece that makes 4 full rows, but waiting for the right piece to make that gasp filled, may also fill up the board quick.

Game ends when there isn’t place for more pieces.

FlippyRunner is an arcade game for Android by MIKHArcade. Avoid obstacles by passing through opposite side of obstacles.

Retro Game Designer is live on Kickstarter! Create your own video games for Sega Megadrive / Genesis, Dreamcast, Playstation 1 & Atari Jaguar! No to very little coding skills will be needed.

🛡️ Click to play — activates YouTube and transfers data to Google.

Supporter versions start from 30 EUR to export for one system, but will feature a nag screen. A full fledged license will be 500 EUR and include commercial usage like selling your game.

Bored? Need something to read? Maybe even free? What about the latest REV’n’GE? Issue #86 is out!

Realms of Idle is a strategy game for Android by ilMare Games.

Release notes:

– Added Achievements!

Marat Fayzullin updated his Coleco Vision emulator ColEm for Android devices.

Changes:

* Released free ColEm 4.5 for Windows and Linux.
* Added battery-backed SRAM emulation (Lord Of The Dungeon works).
* Fixed saved state compatibility between 32bit and 64bit systems.

This is a free, limited version of ColEm that may show ads and nag you to buy the full version. For the latest, full, ad-free version, with better joystick, network play, and the ability to share your saved game play with other users, get ColEm Deluxe.