🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 Welcome Andrew Borman, Director of Digital Preservation at The Strong ( https://www.museumofplay.org/ ) 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 🏆Your monthly support helps us keep the retro news flowing! https://www.patreon.com/thisweekinretro 🕸 TWiR Sub Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/ Follow your hosts! Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/davevelociraptor.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/jasoncompton.bsky.social Youtube: Chris - https://www.youtube.com/@005AGIMA Jason - https://www.youtube.com/@TheRetroAdventurers Audio Podcast: https://retroadventurers.podbean.com/ Subscribe to the audio version of the show! 📻 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-retro/id1526487568?uo=4 📻 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2OPQ3cADaB92E9SpRdTe5y 📻 Podbean: https://twir.podbean.com 📻 Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/en/show/5734337 📻 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/TWIR/feed.xml 📻 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThisWeekinRetro This Week in Retro is a weekly roundup of the hottest stories from the world of retro gaming and computing, voted on by you, the listener! Hosted by Chris from 005 AGIMA, Jason from The Retro Adventurers and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles. 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/