It Is Time To Un-Eliminate CRT Monitors! - This Week In Retro 136

Have you ever thrown away your game boxes only to wish you hadn't? What if we could revive all those dead CRT screens? Did you ever see the DVD player that though it was a gaming console? All this plus the Community Question Of The Week AND a special guest! This is your weekly look at some Retro Gaming stories. Please check out our guest's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ctrlaltrees 00:00 - Show Opening 06:56 - Best Boxes Banished Story Link: https://www.nintendolife.com/features/talking-point-the-games-we-got-rid-of-what-were-we-thinking Big Big Collection: https://bigboxcollection.com/#CollectionOverview 28:29 - Adrian Black Says CRTs Are Back Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoqflFfvkR0 Link to the product: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/1005005439371756.html?gatewayAdapt=4itemAdapt 39:58 - What Nuon About? Story Link: https://www.timeextension.com/features/ultimate-guide-nuon-the-dvd-player-that-tried-to-be-a-games-console-and-failed Nuon Specs: https://www.videogameconsolelibrary.com/pg00-nuon.htm#page=specs PlayStation 2 Specs: https://www.videogameconsolelibrary.com/pg00-playstation_2.htm#page=specs 51:18 - Community Question of the Week Our sponsor, Pixel Addict magazine, has just released issue 14.  Some of the included articles are: • The cover story this issue observes the relationship celebrities have had with computers and gaming. • BeOS and Haiku OS alternative operating systems. • Alex Lee interviewed about his time working on classic gaming magazines like Games-X, GB Action, Super Action, Amiga Action and Control. • Rare vintage computer hardware: Casio PV-2000, Handspring Visor and Power Mac G4 Cube. Visit https://www.pixel.addict.media/ for current and back issues as well as storage binders for your collection. 🏆Your monthly support helps us keep the retro news flowing! https://www.patreon.com/thisweekinretro ☕Or just buy us a coffee! https://ko-fi.com/thisweekinretro 🕸 TWiR Sub Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/ Follow your hosts! Twitter: https://twitter.com/rmcretro Youtube https://youtube.com/rmcretro https://www.youtube.com/005agima Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/rmcretro Subscribe to the audio version of the show! 📻 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-retro/id1526487568?uo=4 📻 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2OPQ3cADaB92E9SpRdTe5y 📻 Deezer: www.deezer.com 📻 Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8yZjQ5ODlmOC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw 📻 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2f4989f8/podcast/rss 📻 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFMx-JitepTttWc-ABHhu8A/ 📻 All other services: https://anchor.fm/thisweekinretro 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 Neil from RMC, Chris from 005 AGIMA and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles.