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. You can order the latest issue of Pixel Addict fresh and wrinkle free, with the optional physical cover-disk, direct from the source by visiting https://www.addict.media/ 00:00 - Show Opening 02:15 - Arcade2Up Story Link: https://insider-gaming.com/arcade1up-reportedly-closing-operations-very-soon/ 18:18 - Sad Duties To Inform Story Link: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/jan/05/sega-co-founder-david-rosen-dies Additional links: https://bsky.app/profile/playhistory.bsky.social/post/3mbwx2gijrc27 https://memoritree.com/memorial/david-m-rosen https://www.gamedeveloper.com/console/obituary-sega-co-founder-david-rosen-has-passed-away-at-age-95 https://www.replaymag.com/segas-dave-rosen-passes-on-christmas-day-in-l-a/ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/hpux_end_of_life/ https://www.osnews.com/story/144094/hp-ux-hits-end-of-life-today-and-im-sad/ 29:46 - Housekeeping - News links found below 39:03 - Is Bigger Better? Story Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0tjYCw4yjM 50:35 - Community Question of the Week 🏆Your monthly support helps us keep the retro news flowing! https://www.patreon.com/thisweekinretro 🕸 TWiR Sub Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekinretro/ Follow your hosts! Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/davevelociraptor.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/jasoncompton.bsky.social Youtube: Chris - https://www.youtube.com/@005AGIMA Jason - https://www.youtube.com/@jpcompton Audio Podcast: https://retroadventurers.podbean.com/ 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 📻 Podbean: https://twir.podbean.com 📻 Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/en/show/5734337 📻 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/TWIR/feed.xml 📻 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@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 Chris from 005 AGIMA, Jason from The Retro Adventurers and Dave. Edited by Duncan Styles. News In Brief Links PicoPCMCIA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-04EoGlayY GX4000 One Good Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlfarIWjfGQ 1972 Computer Giveaway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRc5BXn_SsE Amiga Mouse Pointers: https://heckmeck.de/pointers/  1999 Retro Consoles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3p76ryEb_c Amiga Sprite Trick: https://www.techeblog.com/amiga-sprite-mechanics-snes-hardware/