Commodores Under the Christmas Tree - This Week In Retro 249
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What are the hosts introducing in the show opening and who are the special guests?
Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas!
We're keeping up with the Commodore.
Christmas presents for some!
Snow day diversions, some ideas for your holiday downtime.
All I want for Christmas. We talk Christmas catalogs and standout presents.
And more big joystick news along with home arcade worries coming up on this week's show for the week of Saturday, the 20th of December, 2025, which is practically Christmas as far as Chris is concerned. Up-to-date news for out-of-date tech.
Hello, everyone. Welcome to the final show of the year from us. We expect there will be the usual outtakes to look forward to, but this will be your last show until the first show next year after a two-week break. There's no outtakes, Dave.
We're too pro these days. There's no outtakes.
There might not be any outtakes because we're so professional and we've never made a mistake. We've never... burst out laughing. We've never had to go to each other to throw each other under the bus. No, not at all. Welcome, everyone. Welcome to two special guests. As is tradition, we've got Aaron back, Father Christmas himself for Christmas. Hello, everyone. Merry Christmas. And we have Neil back because he was itching to come back on after being on as a guest. Neil has found his mojo again after finally finishing the pump house and having actual time on his hands. How are you, Neil?
It's nice to have time on my hands, yeah. I'm very well, thank you. And I've just noticed as Aaron sat up there, he's wearing a Top Banana top, which is the king of all Amiga games, as he'll attest.
Yeah, Top Banana is something. Absolutely. How have you been, Aaron? What's been happening at Amigos Retro Gaming?
Well, it's been cold here at Amigos Retro Gaming. We had a big snowstorm over the weekend that froze my door shut, so I couldn't even get out of the house. That's so creepy, Dave, when you hold that up. You probably dress up with me. You'd probably get better clothes for that thing than I got, to be honest with you. But we've been busy, man, just doing what we've been doing for the last 11 years. playing a bunch of games, posting them up. I'm going back and forth, Britain boat, having a good time, looking forward to the Christmas season. And if anything, to get past it without screwing up, that's my goal. Every, every Christmas time.
I have a union. What's been good on me. You in the cave.
Pump house, pump house, pump house. But I have been Christmas shopping for you guys. I've got you some gifts, but I couldn't decide. So I'm going to hold some things up and I need you each to decide what you want. Okay. Can I do that now? Yeah. Right. I'm going to start with you, Dave.
When you describe it for audio listeners.
Yeah. Your choice of Christmas present is Zenon 2 for the Atari ST or Dungeon Master for the Amiga.
Ha!
Oh, I'll take Dungeon Master. Oh, you'll take Dungeon Master on the Amiga. Okay, you've got that. And then your choice of joystick. Do you want a Speed King, a Bug, a Competition Pro, a Zipstick, a Cheetah, or the multicoloured Power Stick?
There's two reasons I want to pick the Zipstick. First, it's my preference. And second, it takes it away from Chris.
There you go. Yeah, nobody else can pick that now. So you've got Dungeon Master and a Zipstick. You happy with that? Delighted. Let's go on to Chris then. Chris, you've got... Barbarian 2 for the BBC Micro with no poster.
so much promise and then outrun for the atari st what are you going for oh no oh dear um i think i think it's gonna have to be barbarian because i've never played the bbc micro version not that i have one okay and at least i can scan in the box art and then blow that up into a post okay i'm gonna choose your stick for you you're gonna get the cheetah bug to play with that i have to play barbarian with the cheetah bug
that's not going to go well jason i think i'm going to know the answer to this but you've got the choice of infocom solid gold three hits which is leather goddesses of phobos or ultima the second trilogy oh four five and six yeah no definitely infocom solid gold that's a package i haven't seen okay um you don't really need a joystick for that but um saves on postage you can have the speed the first game you do
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What are the hosts introducing in the show opening and who are the special guests?
0:01–29:53
2
How has the new Commodore (CIC) launched the C64 Ultimate and what are the shipping and pre-order updates?
29:53–46:49
3
What legal trademark dispute exists between Commodore International Corporation and Commodore Industries?
46:49–1:13:38
4
How might Commodore monetise its brand—will licensing, subscriptions or new hardware work?
1:13:38–1:24:33