Still a Racing Show - This Week In Retro 250
· 55 min · Episode 247
Episode Still a Racing Show - This Week In Retro 250
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In this milestone 250th episode of This Week in Retro, we celebrate that the more things change, the more they stay the same. A revival of Geoff Crammond's Stunt Car Racer is our top story. That's just the tip of the iceberg in what was a very big week for fans of his game design work. In other news the set-top boxes of the 1990s and early 2000s get another look: the lost treasures of The Sega Channel have been preserved for modern-day Mega Drive/Genesis players, and recent developments have helped WebTV users but hurt those who get their websites from the Sega Dreamcast's PlanetWeb browser. And we remember Stewart Cheifet, the long-time producer and host of The Computer Chronicles.
00:00 - Show Opening
03:07 - Hump Back Is Back Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rFJUb7GQyM - Stunt Car Racer Remake on The New Retro Show
16:17 - New Life For Old Browsers Story Link: https://hackaday.com/2025/12/30/microsofts-webtv-is-being-revived-by-fans/
30:37 - Housekeeping - News links found below
38:16 - Cable TV Relics Restored Story Link: https://gamehistory.org/segachannel/
49:38 - Community Question of the Week
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News In Brief Links
Stewart Cheifet obituary: https://computerchronicles.blog/post/stewart-cheifet-1938-2025
Commodore 64 Ultimate experiences: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1ppdwec/c64u_is_here/
Ben Versteeg passage notice: https://www.reddit.com/r/zxspectrum/comments/1pqubkw/sad_news_good_bye_ben/
Amiga Desktops Worth Seeing: https://www.datagubbe.se/wbshots/
Geoff Crammond F1GP news: https://www.gamespress.com/MicroProse-and-Geoff-Crammond-Reunite-to-Revive-a-Racing-Legend
Mark Moxon's disassembly of Geoff Crammond's The Sentinel: https://github.com/markmoxon/the-sentinel-source-code-bbc-micro
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