This week, we catch up with the ever-inventive Ctrl-Alt-Rees in his brand new studio. Rees shares his latest projects, retro tech obsessions, and the bizarre story of a Japanese teaching computer with a paper screen. We hear his thoughts on modern Atari’s surprising comeback, his favourite (and most hated) handhelds, the quirks of the Jaguar scene, and why Windows 95 still holds up 30 years later.

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Contents:

00:00 - The Week's Retro News Stories
56:32 - ctrl-alt-rees Interview

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Show notes

GameTank: Next-Gen 8-Bit Hardware: https://tinyurl.com/25fvsyku
Atari 50: Namco DLC: https://tinyurl.com/47w8ztfc
Eternal Hunters: New SNES RPG Revealed: https://tinyurl.com/mt6s387t
Taito Offers $650 Bounty on Lost Tech: https://tinyurl.com/npr3m35b
Commodore Name Battle Heats Up: https://tinyurl.com/46n7c3za
Jurassic Systems Revives 1993 Hacker Vibes: https://jurassicsystems.com/

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