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

🛠 Check out PCBWay at https://pcbway.com/ for all your PCB needs! 🛠 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:    • WILD GUNMAN: Resurrecting Nintendo's First...   Story Link 2: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-ga... 56:18 - Housekeeping - News links found below 01:02:46 - TV Gets Retro Gaming Story Link:    • The potential health benefits of retro gam...   Story Link 2: https://hackaday.io/project/205522-pr... 01:13:39 - Community Question of the Week 🏆Your monthly support helps us keep the retro news flowing!   / thisweekinretro   🕸 TWiR Sub Reddit:   / thisweekinretro   Follow your hosts! Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/davevelocira... https://bsky.app/profile/jasoncompton... Youtube: Chris -    / @005agima   Jason -    / @theretroadventurers   Audio Podcast: https://retroadventurers.podbean.com/ Subscribe to the audio version of the show! 📻 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 📻 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2OPQ3cA... 📻 Podbean: https://twir.podbean.com 📻 Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/en/show/5734337 📻 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/TWIR/feed.xml 📻 YouTube:    / @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:    • Journalist helped defeat New York City's p...   PC Gamer demo discs: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-int... FAT32 beyond 32GB: https://www.techspot.com/news/112058-... Sun Microsystems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Mic... Nigel Alderton interview: https://metro.co.uk/2026/04/16/nigel-... Moonchild retrospective: https://kotaku.com/developers-of-moon... DOOM chainsaw: https://www.gamesradar.com/games/fps/... 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/... "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:    • Retro gaming for the rich with the Neo Geo...   Parts of "WILD GUNMAN: Resurrecting Nintendo's First Coin-Op on its 50th Anniversary" courtesy of 74XX Arcade Repair See the full video:    • WILD GUNMAN: Resurrecting Nintendo's First...