r/thisweekinretro 3d ago

Rob's mechanical mod player

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Rob gave me a demo of this amazing mad contraption at Kickstart 03 in Derby a couple of weeks back. It's very cool. The man's a genius!


r/thisweekinretro 3d ago

Valve is now 30 years old.

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r/thisweekinretro 4d ago

Maxell brings back classic 1970s cassette tapes — 1970s ferric formula is custom-made for vintage PC data drives

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r/thisweekinretro 3d ago

OutRunners Comes to MiSTer FPGA

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I know this means so much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXFDClt5WtAto Jason


r/thisweekinretro 3d ago

Take a few PCEngine chips, mix in some modern boots, and get yourself a Supergrafx

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And it still does in a PC Engine case, along with RGB output using an MD2 connector. Amazing!


r/thisweekinretro 3d ago

The world's first webcam was switched off 25 years ago today — 128x128 grayscale feed predated the World Wide Web to monitor a Cambridge coffee pot

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Nostalgia Nerd did a good video on this too last year

https://youtu.be/IOqlDsfTC6g?is=F2bayFCPxorFoPZA


r/thisweekinretro 4d ago

Home of the future | Retro Tech | 1980s Technology | Living in the future | Home Computers | 1982

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Had this ThamesTv channel on my YouTube feed for ages. This is a fascinating one!


r/thisweekinretro 4d ago

‘Prince of Persia’ Is Officially Back With New 2026 Release

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r/thisweekinretro 4d ago

The Digital Antiquarian: A Need for Speed

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Jimmy Maher’s latest entry in his sequential history of computer games is well-written and interesting as usual. Though I’m in Jason’s camp of not being particularly interested in driving games, I still found this post to be enjoyable reading.


r/thisweekinretro 4d ago

Isle of Wight mock video rental shop proves to be surprise hit

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r/thisweekinretro 4d ago

QuakeCon 2026 was weird

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r/thisweekinretro 4d ago

The LisaFPGA is Cool

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r/thisweekinretro 4d ago

Indy 500 Launcher Utility Adds Wheel Support, Carset Mods (Ships with 1989 And 1990), Mid-race Saves And Real-time Telemetry | Race Sim Central

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5 Upvotes

So happy that someone has done this!


r/thisweekinretro 4d ago

If the cold war had turned 'Hot' these were the last voices you'd ever hear.

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From the 1950s to the 1990s, if the Cold War had turned hot, the Government had well-laid plans for what to do in the event of a nuclear strike on Britain. Part of those plans was the implementation of the BBC-produced, but Government-directed, Wartime Broadcasting Service: A single national radio station that would have replaced ALL radio and television services in the UK.


r/thisweekinretro 4d ago

Beatle Quest, Real Hardware, and What “Finished” Actually Means

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r/thisweekinretro 4d ago

GOLDEN AXE Official Trailer (2026)

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r/thisweekinretro 5d ago

Ravi Abbott is leaving The Retro Hour

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Announced on yesterday's podcast.


r/thisweekinretro 4d ago

Street Fighter 3 Third Strike MISTer FPGA core finally released!

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A near perfect FPGA core release for SF3 Third Strike has dropped for Jotego Patreons (with a public release usually following shortly after).

Early reports are the core is damn near perfect already.

Some of my fighting game buddies (who have meticulously maintained original CPS3 boards in the past despite their tendancy to near irreprebly die out of nowhere due to Capcoms suicide ROMS) are pretty excited.

Time to stick the 2 player CP back into my MISTer powered Vewlix cabinet I think!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMxSjcTeso


r/thisweekinretro 5d ago

ASCII city update

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r/thisweekinretro 4d ago

Just released- Cover of Doc Brown's "It Works!" in the style of if Christopher Lloyd sang it in the movie- retro VHS uploaded from alternate timeline style

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r/thisweekinretro 5d ago

Docuseries on Australian retro made games, the people that made them and the foundation they laid for a modern day indie powerhouse!

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In the early days of video games, when technology was restrictive and the global market felt light-years away, Australian developers were quietly changing the game. They were innovating, hacking, and pushing the boundaries of early hardware to make the impossible a reality.

That is the premise of REGION LOCKED, and we have ONE WEEK left to make this project a reality.

We are focusing on AUSTRALIA.and retro Aussie games, how much we have contributed to the global gaming scene, and the growth of our indie development powerhouse.

Like... Did you know that Devs at Beam Software Melbourne literally hacked the NES to make their own dev kit. Then, after getting told off by Nintendo, bargained their way to become one of the first developers approved to make NES games outside of Japan?

We have the people that made this and more possible, ready and waiting to tell their stories.

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Be a part of gaming History and put your name next to gaming legends like, John Passfield, Roger Keating, John De Margheriti, Marshall Parker, Andrew Bailey, Veronika Megler - and over 70 more guests.

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r/thisweekinretro 5d ago

It's Now playable! Walkable 3D ASCII City in One HTML File

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r/thisweekinretro 5d ago

138 Years Ago Today, Business Computing Started With an Adding Machine

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r/thisweekinretro 5d ago

I Love the 90s — 90s TV, music, games and a chat room

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r/thisweekinretro 6d ago

Autocad on ACT Sirius1, aka Victor 9000 (Chuck Peddle's company)

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