Neo-Geo is Back! – This Week In Retro 265

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Welcome Andrew Borman, Director of Digital Preservation at The Strong @MuseumofPlay 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/

Episode Credits

"The Neo Geo AES video game console, released by SNK in 1991." courtesy of Evan-Amos – CC BY-SA 3.0 – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

"Neo Geo" courtesy of Evan-Amos – Public Domain

Parts of "Retro gaming for the rich with the Neo Geo (1990) | Show & Tell" courtesy of The Retro Collective
See the full video: https://youtu.be/q5IgByNw_6s?si=Qa_mXXCHusYXje4-

Parts of "WILD GUNMAN: Resurrecting Nintendo’s First Coin-Op on its 50th Anniversary" courtesy of 74XX Arcade Repair
See the full video: https://youtu.be/TOfqnomGPkM?si=v7hHnpJOCYzwULq5

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