With the imminent release of Ridge Racer on the Arcade Archives series, Drisky and Kingy thought it would be a good idea to peruse all the games on offer in this collection and recommend some of their favourites in it. Of course, there are so many games to choose from, but the lads managed to settle on six fantastic ones for everyone to play along with the episode. Games on the show: Circus Charlie Jackal Overtop Butasan Shock Troopers: 2nd Squad Shao-Lin's Road Show notes: Arcade Club meetup 10/11th October @ Arcade Club in Bury San Francisco PC Mod - https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/05/one-of-the-best-non-sega-arcade-racers-just-got-a-recompiled-pc-port
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358 - Colecovision: Arcade Conversions
Released in 1982, the Colecovision was a direct contender to the Atari 5200, yet no one really speaks about it - especially in the UK. Join Almac and Kingy as they chat about the system and go through a list of a dozen games they deem worthy of everyone playing. The games are: Donkey Kong Jr. Mr. Do Gyruss Bump ‘n’ Jump Jungle Hunt Carnival Congo Bongo Matt Patrol (unreleased version of Moon Patrol) Spy Hunter Frenzy Time Pilot Zaxxon Show notes: Homebrew games - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8vFgMBFhYI Flashcart! https://github.com/aotta/PiCOLECO Convert your NES controller https://yesterware.blogspot.com/2020/06/turn-nes-controller-into-colecovision.html https://github.com/samson7point1/coleco_to_nes https://www.pcbway.com/
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357 - Dreamcast: Voyage Of Discovery - Vol 1
Drisky and Garron begin a retro journey with the SEGA Dreamcast, picking out ten interesting games as they begin their alphabetical journey through the systems wonderful library. So sit back and enjoy as we take you through 10 awesome titles. Don't forget to check out our YouTube channel with video versions of the podcast https://www.youtube.com/@RGDSPodcast-qw6mw We have loads of cool stuff already and stacks of great new content on the way, so please consider subscribing, watching, and liking to help our fledgling new YouTube channel become better known. Also please join us on Discord and chat with us and other listeners here: https://discord.gg/HzGAZ5FV7u
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356 - Amiga Platformer Hidden Gems
Drisky and Kingy look through some obscure but awesome Amiga games that Kingy had never tried before. Don't forget to check out our YouTube channel with video versions of the podcast https://www.youtube.com/@RGDSPodcast-qw6mw We have loads of cool stuff already and stacks of great new content on the way, so please consider subscribing, watching, and liking to help our fledgling new YouTube channel become better known. Also please join us on Discord and chat with us and other listeners here: https://discord.gg/HzGAZ5FV7u
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355 - Firebird: The Silver 250 Range
Almac and Kingy take a trip back to the era when budget games for 8-bit micros had us kids impulsively spending our pocket money on these affordable cassettes. Firebird was Telecomsoft's foray into the world of video games, eventually growing into a company that released both budget and full-price titles. The games covered in this episode: Zulu (C64) Booty (ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore 16) Bird Strike (BBC Micro) Run Baby Run (ZX Spectrum) Viking Raiders (ZX Spectrum) Byte Bitten (ZX Spectrum) The Wild Bunch (ZX Spectrum) Mr. Freeze (Amstrad CPC) Headache (C64) Gogo the Ghost (C64) 1985 Releases: Don’t Panic (Amstrad CPC) Chickin Chase (C64) Don’t Buy This (ZX Spectrum) A compilation of 5 bad games: Race Ace Fido Weasel Willie Fido 2 Fruit Machine Circus Circus (C64) Short Fuse (Amstrad CPC) Fahrenheit 3000 (ZX Spectrum) Spike (ZX Spectrum) Caverns of Eriban (C64) Show Notes: Master Key - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1763030/Master_Key/
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