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Remember The CD-i? - This Week In Retro 257

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28th February 2026 1 hr 21 min

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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?

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30:54 - Ross Has Saved Your Game

Story Link: https://www.pcgamer.com

48:53 - Housekeeping - News links found below

58:51 - Streaming Is So Last Year

Story Link: https://www.whathifi.com

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

THEA1200 Preorder: https://retrogames.biz

Dolphin Emulator: https://dolphin-emu.org

Lemmings 35th Anniversary: https://youtu.be

ATABoy: https://youtu.be

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

Games You Missed: https://www.reddit.com

Giant Macintosh: https://www.tomshardware.com

Episode Credits

Parts of "Philips CD-i: The $1 Billion Failure - Krazy Kenโ€™s Tech Talk" courtesy of Computer Clan

See the full video here: https://www.youtube.com

CD-i unit image buy Evan-Amos - Own work - Public Domain

CD-i logo uploaded by Alpha200807 -a work by ะ”ะฐะฝะฐััƒะป - Public Domain

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