Long Live Home Arcade Gaming! - This Week In Retro 251

It's a bonanza of stand-up arcade feature stories this week. Will Basic Fun! give Arcade1Up a powerful next stage? We also remember the life and career of Sega legend David Rosen and look at the latest in miniature cabinets from My Arcade including Sonic the Hedgehog, Galaga, Pac-Man, and Atari hits. In other news a Sega racer achieves a rare trifecta on the show, the origins of PCMCIA are discussed, and we follow up on Stunt Car (Track) Racer and Freescape from last week's show.

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00:00 - Show Opening

02:15 - Arcade2Up

Story Link: insider-gaming.com/arcade1up-reportedly-closin…

18:18 - Sad Duties To Inform

Story Link: theguardian.com/games/2026/jan/05/sega-co-foun…

Additional links:

bsky.app/profile/playhistory.bsky.social/post/…

memoritree.com/memorial/david-m-rosen

gamedeveloper.com/console/obituary-sega-co-fou…

replaymag.com/segas-dave-rosen-passes-on-chris…

theregister.com/2026/01/05/hpux_end_of_life

osnews.com/story/144094/hp-ux-hits-end-of-life…

29:46 - Housekeeping - News links found below

39:03 - Is Bigger Better?

Story Link: youtube.com/watch?v=c0tjYCw4yjM

50:35 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

PicoPCMCIA: youtube.com/watch?v=e-04EoGlayY

GX4000 One Good Game: youtube.com/watch?v=JlfarIWjfGQ

1972 Computer Giveaway: youtube.com/watch?v=JRc5BXn_SsE

Amiga Mouse Pointers: heckmeck.de/pointers

1999 Retro Consoles: youtube.com/watch?v=X3p76ryEb_c

Amiga Sprite Trick: techeblog.com/amiga-sprite-mechanics-snes-hard…