Season 7 Episode 11 Episode 200 Zach Links: https://linktr.ee/absolutelythebest https://absolutelythebest.net News MagicX: Launch date revealed for Nintendo DS-focused gaming handheld The Commodore 64 Gets An HDMI Upgrade Polish engineer creates postage stamp-sized 1980s Atari computer WWF WrestleFest Is Being Rereleased In Home Arcade Cabinet Form Later This Year Topic Adventures Of Super Mario Bros 3 Game Club Metal Slug 2 or X Fatal Labyrinth New Game Club Games Metroid Fusion Mega Man 5 Game...
Jun 19, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Season 7Ep. 11
Season 7 Episode 10 Episode 199 S.M. Oliva Links: Music Construction Set (1983) Computer Games (1984) Halcyon (1985) Computer Games (1985) Software Piracy (1985) Thomas M. Disch's Amnesia (1986) Mr. Gameshow (1987) Computer Games (1987, Part 1) Computer Games (1987, Part 2) News Gamer Discovers Two Super Mario 64 Bugs That Only Trigger After 14 Months Of Continuous Play PAC-MAN: The Official Cookbook OutRun Comes To The Game Boy Color Thanks To This Unofficial Port Game Club Qix Tiny Tunes Adven...
May 26, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Season 7Ep. 10
Season 7 Episode 9 Episode 198 Doodle World 2 Website Bluesky Threads Instagram Nate Peters News Michael Bay And Sydney Sweeney Team On Movie Adaptation Of ‘OutRun’ Video Game At Universal 33-year-old AmigaOS for Commodore computers gets an unexpected update Doom Box Plays Doom Someone Has Created A Version Of Windows For Game Boy Square, Capcom, Taito, & Sega Are All Making Promising Steps To Preserve Their Past Game Club Impossamole The Magic Candle New Game Club Games Qix Tiny Tunes Adven...
May 12, 2025•57 min•Season 7Ep. 9
Season 7 Episode 8 Episode 197 Interview: Ken Gagne Game reviews PRGE panel 2025 News Doodle World 2 Super Monaco GP SRAM (Genesis) Romhack New Genesis / Mega Drive Mod Upgrades Sega's Console For A "New Era" A Long-Lost NES Port Of Populous Has Just Been Discovered After 33 Years Sonic The Hedgehog games now have a timeline Game Club Shadow of the Colossus New Game Club Games Impossamole The Magic Candle Game Club Link Tree Retro Game Club Discord server Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase Thre...
Apr 28, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Season 7Ep. 8
Season 7 Episode 7 Episode 196 News MAME 0.274 Is Out Now, Bringing With It A Ton Of New Features & Fixes Game Club Ninja Gaiden II Robocop New Game Club Games Shadow of the Colossus Links Game Club Link Tree Retro Game Club Discord server Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase Threads , Facebook , Bluesky , and Instagram managed by: Zach ==================================== #MAME #NinjaGaiden #Robocop #KeithCoogan #retro #retrogames #retrogaming #videogames #classiccomputing...
Apr 14, 2025•54 min•Season 7Ep. 7
Season 7 Episode 6 Episode 195 News R.I.P. Peter Navy Tuiasosopo, Street Fighter’s E. Honda Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2503 You Can Now Stream Sega Saturn Games To Your Console Over WiFi Programmer gets a NES to emulate a PC, and it's as ridiculous as it sounds The Super Nintendo Now Runs Infinitesimally Faster Than It Did 35 Years Ago And Players Are Trying To Find Out Why GTA 3's Dreamcast Fan Port Looks To Be Getting Some Incredible Optimisations Game Club The Horde DOS MPEG decoder bun...
Mar 31, 2025•46 min•Season 7Ep. 6
Season 7 Episode 5 Episode 194 Glenn Rubenstein Interview Linktree Jeff Gerstmann Patreon News Launch PS2 Games from MemCard Pro Crazy Taxi Prototype Shows Sega Was Experimenting With GTA-Style Camera Angles Homebrew Mortal Kombat 2 3DO Port Public Beta Released Game Club Psychic World New Game Club Games The Horde Links Game Club Link Tree Retro Game Club Discord server Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase Threads , Facebook , Bluesky , and Instagram managed by: Zach ============================...
Mar 17, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Season 7Ep. 5
Season 7 Episode 4 Episode 193 HungryGoriya Interview Twitch blog YouTube News It's Taken 36 Years, But Amiga Owners Are Finally Getting A Worthy Port Of OutRun Shinobi – Neo Geo Port Now Available Atari Jaguar Is Coming To Analogue Pocket Game Club Super Mario Bros. 3 Myst New Game Club Games Psychic World Links Game Club Link Tree Retro Game Club Discord server Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase Threads , Facebook , Bluesky , and Instagram managed by: Zach ====================================...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Season 7Ep. 4
Season 7 Episode 3 Episode 192 Rob & Hugues discuss Computer Shopper buyers guide from September 1994 ! All 885 pages. This is a special episode – extra special in that it truly is Hugues’ last episode, though it was recorded a while ago. Enjoy! Game Club Link Tree Retro Game Club Discord server Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase Threads , Facebook , Bluesky , and Instagram managed by: Zach Email us: email@retrogameclub.net ===================================== #retro #retrogames #retrogami...
Feb 17, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Season 7Ep. 3
Season 7 Episode 2 Episode 19 1 At long last, it’s the “Ask Us Anything” Episode! Links Game Club Link Tree Retro Game Club Discord server Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase Threads , Facebook , Bluesky , and Instagram managed by: Zach...
Feb 03, 2025•1 hr 52 min•Season 7Ep. 2
Season 7 Episode 1 Episode 190 Rob talks a little about his future plans for Retro Game Club and some listeners have sent in well wishes for Hugues' retirement. ***This is a fixed re-release. We accidentally left out a couple messages in the original release. These are now included at the 15:36 mark. Sorry about that! Links Game Club Link Tree Retro Game Club Discord server Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase Threads , Facebook , Bluesky , and Instagram managed by: Zach...
Jan 22, 2025•31 min•Season 7Ep. 1
Season 6 Episode 26 Episode 189 Intro Hugues' annual virtual xmas card CX30+ PADDLE CONTROLLER BUNDLE Rob’s trip to the Blue Mountains News Emulation / hacks / translations / homebrew games Saturn Bomberman Fight!! English Translation Patch Is Out Now The Top Sega Saturn Stories of 2024 English translation patch for the NEC PC-FX game "Team Innocent: The Point of No Return” Other odd or interesting things New Arcades Open For 2025 The Founder of Nihon Falcom Masayuki Kato Has Passed Away, Aged 7...
Jan 06, 2025•1 hr 29 min•Season 6Ep. 26
Season 6 Episode 25 Episode 188 Intro S.M. Oliva’s links: Blog Podcast News Hardware PS placeable. Consolized PSP Emulation / hacks / translations / homebrew games The Secret of the Four Winds for Mega Drive/Genesis Doom running on things At long last, Doom can be played in Stardew Valley Other odd or interesting things Visual Basic 6 recreated as a cross-platform IDE in modern .NET – just ‘for fun’ Virtua Fighter 2 Is Getting A Physical Release On Xbox Topic: The Official Nintendo Player’s Guid...
Dec 23, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 6Ep. 25
Season 6 Episode 24 Episode 187 Intro Zach’s podcast: Absolutely the Best Podcast: A work in Progress News Hardware The upside-down capacitor in mid-‘90s Macs, proven and documented by hobbyists Emulation / hacks / translations / homebrew games InfeZtation - A stunning C64 arcade style run'n'gun platformer released by Monte Boyd Saturn Cult Classic Princess Crown Is Getting An Uncensored Translation Bounty Bob Strikes Back! - 7800 Topic: Nintendo DS at 20 Game Club Discussion Bonk III: Bonk’s Bi...
Dec 09, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 6Ep. 24
Season 6 Episode 23 Episode 186 Intro Guest host: Zach from Absolutely the Best Podcast: A work in Progress Hugues’ guest appearance on NintenDomain Game Boy Advance Compilations News Emulation / hacks / translations / homebrew games New Super Mario Bros. demake available for Game Boy Color, includes Yoshi and more Doom running on things Hackers make DOOM fully playable on Nintendo Alarmo Other odd or interesting things Introducing Polymega® Collection Sega delisting over 60 classic games from v...
Nov 23, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 6Ep. 23
Season 6 Episode 22 Episode 185 News Hardware RetroTime NES HUB Bluetooth for NES MiSTer FPGA's Next Trick? Launching Games From CD Doom running on things Redbox Kiosks Can Run Doom Other odd or interesting things Sega Video Game ‘Shinobi’ Sets Movie Adaptation With ‘Extraction’ Director, Universal Pictures Another Classic Star Wars Game Is Getting Remastered Topic: Unwinnable game states Game Club Discussion S.T.U.N. Runner Solstice New Game Club Games Balloon Kid (Game Boy) Kid Icarus Links Ga...
Nov 04, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 6Ep. 22
Season 6 Episode 21 Episode 184 Life is busy. This is a backup episode about Video Games magazine . Please enjoy. Links HUBOT Game Club Link Tree Retro Game Club Discord server Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase Threads , Facebook , Twitter , Bluesky , and Instagram managed by: Zach ==================================== #retro #retrogames #retrogaming #videogames #classiccomputing...
Oct 21, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 6Ep. 21
Season 6 Episode 20 Episode 183 News Hardware Super Gameboy Plus Emulation / hacks / translations / homebrew games The name that proved console emulation is "100% legal" is back for the third time as a '90s nostalgia mall that's also helping remaster retro cult classics Doom running on things DOOM ported to run almost entirely on AMD GPUs Other odd or interesting things Lost 1983 Programming Language Resurrected by Retro Compute YouTube Channel Game Club Discussion Marble Madness Treasure of Tar...
Oct 07, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 6Ep. 20
Season 6 Episode 19 Episode 182 News Hardware Colecoco Master Saturn MiSTer Core Gets Mouse Support Other odd or interesting things Italian police seize $52.8M in fake video game consoles from trafficking ring Please Stop Buying Unofficial "Saturn Mini" Consoles Game Club Discussion Beetlejuice Mortal Kombat II Earthrise New Game Club Games Marble Madness (I thought we did this but I didn’t see it in the game list) Treasure of Tarmin (AKA Minotaur) Links Game Club Link Tree Retro Game Club Disco...
Sep 30, 2024•54 min•Season 6Ep. 19
Season 6 Episode 18 Episode 181 News Emulation / hacks / translations / homebrew games GTA 3 Is Being Ported To Dreamcast, The Console It Was Originally Developed On Doom running on things Playing Doom on a volumetric display is the coolest thing you'll see today New Doom Cheat Code Surfaces After 27 Years Other odd or interesting things Wizardry co-creator Andrew Greenberg dead at 67 Topic Julia Minamata interview Julia’s Twitch Game Club Discussion Ridge Racer Destruction Derby Data Man New Ga...
Sep 16, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 6Ep. 18
Season 6 Episode 17 Episode 180 News Hardware FlippyBird Connects Four WaveBirds To Your GameCube At Once Atari 7800+ MakeMhz v1.6.1 Emulation / hacks / translations / homebrew games Sega Genesis Is Finally Capable Of SNES-Style Transparency Effects Thanks To Clever Modders NESMaker shows off version 5, is getting renamed, and announces SNES tools Doom running on things Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines Other odd or interesting things Even Eternal Champions, Sega's Obscure 1993 Fightin...
Sep 02, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Season 6Ep. 17
Season 6 Episode 16 Episode 179 News Emulation / hacks / translations / homebrew games New budget, entry level Genesis/Mega-Drive flash cartridge, the OpenED, launches from Everdrive creator Krikzz; goes open-source Homebrew Genesis/Mega-Drive game Hayato’s Journey finishes development; now available to download for free ROMhacking.net Moves to News Only, Database and File Archive Released to Internet Archive Other odd or interesting things JALECOIIe famicom games coming to the Switch Topic New ...
Aug 19, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 6Ep. 16
Season 6 Episode 15 Episode 178 Rob & Hugues discuss 3DO Magazine, July 1996 ! This is a special episode, recorded much earlier to accommodate down-time. Enjoy! Game Club Link Tree Retro Game Club Discord server Bumpers: Raftronaut , Inverse Phase Threads , Facebook , Twitter , Bluesky , and Instagram managed by: Zach Email us: email@retrogameclub.net ===================================== #retro #retrogames #retrogaming #videogames #classiccomputing #3DO #Panasonic #gamemagazines #90s...
Aug 05, 2024•41 min•Season 6Ep. 15
Season 6 Episode 14 Episode 177 News Hardware MiSTer FPGA Now Supports The Sinden Light Gun Project Stellar (MakeMHZ) will soon have a 256mb XBOX upgrade. An all-in-one retro gaming console system, using the Raspberry Pi CM4 embedded computer module. Emulation / hacks / translations / homebrew games RetroAchievements Now Supports GameCube! Someone made their ROG Ally play Game Boy cartridges and it’s pretty amazing Other odd or interesting things Kien GBA game released 22 years after it was anno...
Jul 22, 2024•57 min•Season 6Ep. 14
Season 6 Episode 13 Episode 176 News Hardware Completing the Apple IIc Upgrade Experience Sega's Cancelled Neptune Console Is Getting Revived In FPGA Form Emulation / hacks / translations / homebrew games Sony Is Developing PS3 Emulation For "Select" Titles On PS5 Doom running on things Complete Doom FX SNES Source Code Other odd or interesting things Atari 50 Expansion Adds Over 30 Games And New Timelines This October Dune II: The Building of A Remaster Game Club Discussion Robotron Ys IV New G...
Jul 08, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 6Ep. 13
Season 6 Episode 12 Episode 175 News Hardware GABE - THE ULTIMATE BLUETOOTH GAMING DEVICE FOR THE APPLE II, SERIOUSLY. Emulation / hacks / translations / homebrew games You Can Now Play The Original Fallout On 3DS 26 Years Later, Sega Classic Burning Rangers Gets A Two-Player Mode Mario Builder 64 Other odd or interesting things Insanely Rare Sonic Arcade Game Crops Up On Japanese Resale Site Ys I&II debug menu Topic: Retail Clerk ’90 Hugues’ web page Game Club Discussion Kung-Fu Master Donk...
Jun 24, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Season 6Ep. 12
Season 6 Episode 11 Episode 174 News Hardware Z80 discontinued after 50 years SummerCart64 Dance Dance Revolution Classic Mini Will Be Available for Public Emulation / hacks / translations / homebrew games Finally, You Can Play Tetris On The Side Of A 7-Eleven Slurpee Cup! This N64 Controller Can Play The Entire Game Boy Library Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Launches On Switch In July How to port any N64 game to the PC in record time First retro game emulator launches for Apple TV wi...
Jun 10, 2024•1 hr 32 min•Season 6Ep. 11
Season 6 Episode 8 Episode 171 In this special episode, we watch Sega GameWorks Launch Party on MTV from 1997. We suggest watching it before listening: · YouTube · Internet Archive Could this be the height of our civilization? The best year? The beginning of the end?
May 27, 2024•49 min•Season 6Ep. 10
Season 6 Episode 9 Episode 172 This episode, we interview Aaron Nanto, the creator of the first and most popular PCEngine website PCEngineFX.com. We talk about the early internet, the start of PCEngineFx, TTI, TurboGrafx, PCFX and Saturn gaming. We also talk about his testing work on a few games as well as the first Xbox. Aaron is originally from North Pole, Alaska. He tells us about what the gaming, import and Anime scene was like back then. Aaron's Game Club pick: Lords of Thunder Find Aaron a...
May 13, 2024•40 min•Season 6Ep. 9
Season 6 Episode 8 Episode 171 News Hardware PICONTROL BRINGS MODERN CONTROLLERS TO ATARI 2600 NES-slotmaster Emulation / hacks / translations / homebrew games Pretendo network re-creates 3DS and Wii U servers Game Boy Emulator for iPhone Now Available in App Store Following Rule Change NES emulator called Bimmy briefly available too The Storied Sword NES Homebrew Kickstarter Doom Running on Things Enthusiast adds microtransactions to DOOM — QR codes direct to payment UI every time you pick up a...
Apr 29, 2024•58 min•Season 6Ep. 8
