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Sprite Castle 045: Mancopter

Steal fish from pelicans and mermaids while avoiding squids, dodo birds, sharks and aggressive racers in pedal-powered personal aircraft in this week’s wacky game from DataSoft, MANCOPTER!

Sprite Castle Plays Mancopter: YouTube
Support Sprite Castle at Patreon.com/RobOHara

Video: 8-Bit Show & Tell / Commodore 64 Programmer’s Reference Guide (YouTube)
Link: The Retro Hour – The Games That Weren’t
Game: GridPix (itch.io)
Game: Planet Balls
Game: Quick War (indieRetroNews)
Game: Miner 2019er (indieRetroNews)

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YDKF Episode 189: Joysticks

If you’ve ever wanted to hear a grown man talk about joysticks for over an hour, boy are you in luck! From old Atari joysticks to modern USB controllers, I run through all my favorites on this week’s You Don’t Know Flack. I also talk a bit about the MiST, supporting local arcades, and Retrobriting without Retrobrite.

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Yie Ar Kung-Fu arcade game at Arkadia Retrocade

Sprite Castle 043: Yie Ar Kung-Fu

Swords to the left of me! Nunchucks to the right! Become the Kung Fu master you were born to be in this week’s game, YIE AR KUNG-FU!

YouTube: Amigos Retro Gaming / Sprite Castle (Yie Ar Kung-Fu game play)
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Link: Brandon Stagg’s Stereo SID Configuration
Link: Twitter — @FixYourC64
Link: Dir Plus 4.0 (SD2IEC)
Link: SideKick64 (GitHub)
Link: NoSwearGamer’s Konami review (YouTube)

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Sprite Castle 042: Fix-It Felix, Jr

Use your magic hammer to fix the things Ralph wrecks in this week’s game, FIX-IT FELIX, JR!

Show Link: 8-Bit Show and Tell
Show Link: Growing up 80’s Podcast
Show Link: SmokerDore 64
Show Link: J-CIA (FPGA CIA Replacement)
Show Link: TwoBit Joystick Doubler
Show Link: PunyInform (Inform)
Show Link: Naddando (Game)
Show Link: The Last Amazon Trilogy (Game)
Show Link: Fix-It Felix, Jr. (Itch.io)

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YDKF Episode 185: My Current State of Affairs

In this episode of You Don’t Know Flack I’ll catch you up on where I’ve been and what I’ve been up to. I talk about what it’s like to have two mortgages, planning my new retro man cave, and what my retro collection has to do with Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Show Link: Disk Images

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