DiscoverThe Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)506: “Atari’s Actually Doing Things RIGHT?!” – Ctrl-Alt-Rees - The Retro Hour Podcast EP506
506: “Atari’s Actually Doing Things RIGHT?!” – Ctrl-Alt-Rees - The Retro Hour Podcast EP506

506: “Atari’s Actually Doing Things RIGHT?!” – Ctrl-Alt-Rees - The Retro Hour Podcast EP506

Update: 2025-11-14
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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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506: “Atari’s Actually Doing Things RIGHT?!” – Ctrl-Alt-Rees - The Retro Hour Podcast EP506

506: “Atari’s Actually Doing Things RIGHT?!” – Ctrl-Alt-Rees - The Retro Hour Podcast EP506

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