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: youtube.com/watch?v=5rFJUb7GQyM - Stunt Car Racer Remake

on The New Retro Show

16:17 - New Life For Old Browsers

Story Link: hackaday.com/2025/12/30/microsofts-webtv-is-be…

30:37 - Housekeeping - News links found below

38:16 - Cable TV Relics Restored

Story Link: gamehistory.org/segachannel

49:38 - Community Question of the Week

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News In Brief Links

Stewart Cheifet obituary: computerchronicles.blog/post/stewart-cheifet-1…

Commodore 64 Ultimate experiences: reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/comments/1ppdwec/…

Ben Versteeg passage notice: reddit.com/r/zxspectrum/comments/1pqubkw/sad_n…

Amiga Desktops Worth Seeing: datagubbe.se/wbshots

Geoff Crammond F1GP news: gamespress.com/MicroProse-and-Geoff-Crammond-R…

Mark Moxon's disassembly of Geoff Crammond's The Sentinel: github.com/markmoxon/the-sentinel-source-code-…