Falcon Crash Lands Back at Microprose - This Week In Retro 124

Jason from Mr Lurch's Things joins us once again for this longer than usual chat about retro gaming, old tech and more. Microprose has reacquired the Falcon series of flight sims. Classic game Mercenary has been given a modern makeover which doesn't spoil its wireframe looks. Finally, we think back to those tabletop games as found in the Argos catalogue of old. Could LCD gaming hope to come close arcade classics?

All this and our Community Question Of the Week.

Please visit https://mrlurch.com/ to see everything Jason has to entertain you.
(Sorry for the spelling error in the video Jason)

We are sponsored by Pixel Addict magazine. They are getting ready to publish a new issue and our guest this week has read it and has some thoughts. Please visit https://www.pixel.addict.media/ for more info.

00:00 - Show Opening

12:35 - Returning To Base
Story Link: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/mic...

40:30 - Merc Rework
Story Link: http://mercenaryrestart.com/?fbclid=I...
Additional Mercenary Link: http://mercenarysite.free.fr/mercfram...

52:50 - The Book Of Dreams
Story Link: https://amp.theguardian.com/games/202...
Toys R Us Footage:    • Toys "R" Us Retro Walkthrough and Footage ...  

1:16:58 - Community Question of the Week
Vic20 port of Cruising by Ponder65: https://ponder65.itch.io/cruising-on-...
Source code Link: https://colinjones.co.uk/files/cruisi...

Python port of Super Sprint by Salem_ok: https://github.com/salem-ok/PySprint/...


🏆Your monthly support helps us keep the retro news flowing!
  / thisweekinretro  

☕Or just buy us a coffee!
https://ko-fi.com/thisweekinretro

🕸 TWiR Sub Reddit:   / thisweekinretro  

Follow your hosts!
Twitter:
  / rmcretro  

Youtube
   / rmcretro  
   / 005agima  

Twitch
  / rmcretro  


Subscribe to the audio version of the show!
📻 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...
📻 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2OPQ3cA...
📻 Deezer: www.deezer.com
📻 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0...
📻 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2f4989f8/podcast/rss
📻 YouTube:    / @thisweekinretro  
📻 All other services: https://anchor.fm/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 Neil from RMC, Chris from 005 AGIMA and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles.

Episode Credits

"Retro Gaming!" by jeffedoe is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/....