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"Keep a copy of what's important to you."
"Punish your children one day."

With these bullet points (provided by special guest ‪@RonsCompVids‬) in mind, we take a critical look at a Philips CD-i retrospective, discuss a substantial update to the Stop Killing Games movement, and dig into the fundamental right of physical media ownership. We share your top tips to avoid doomscrolling and introduce a new Community Question of the Week: what retro technology would you resuscitate with a one BILLION dollar budget?

00:00 - Show Opening

05:18 - Was The CD-i Doomed From The Start?
Story Link:    • Philips CD-i: The $1 Billion Failure - Kra...  

30:54 - Ross Has Saved Your Game
Story Link: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/stop-ki...

48:53 - Housekeeping - News links found below

58:51 - Streaming Is So Last Year
Story Link: https://www.whathifi.com/streaming-en...

01:15:02 - Community Question of the Week

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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 Chris from 005 AGIMA, Jason from The Retro Adventurers and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles.

News In Brief Links

SDF Public Access UNIX: https://connect.sdf.org/

Commercial Availability Of Pre-2010 Games: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=http...

THEA1200 Preorder: https://retrogames.biz/products/thea1...

Dolphin Emulator: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2026/02/...

Lemmings 35th Anniversary:    • The Making of Lemmings (1991) | 35th Anniv...  

ATABoy:    • Introducing ATAboy!  An Open Source IDE US...  

Echo Aviation Controller: https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming...

Games You Missed:   / new_column_from_itsmethyroid_games_you_missed  

Giant Macintosh: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-compo...

Episode Credits

Parts of "Philips CD-i: The $1 Billion Failure - Krazy Ken’s Tech Talk" courtesy of Computer Clan
See the full video here:    • Philips CD-i: The $1 Billion Failure - Kra...  
CD-i unit image buy Evan-Amos - Own work - Public Domain
CD-i logo uploaded by Alpha200807 -a work by Данасул - Public Domain