Clubul Retro - Arcade

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DF Retro Marathon: The Gran Turismo Saga - The Classic PS1/PS2 Era Revisited:

In a marathon 113 minute video, combining two DF Retro episodes, 'remastered' at 4K, John Linneman goes back in time to the original PlayStation era, revisiting the origins of Polyphony Digital, the debut of the first Gran Turismo on PS1, the evolution of the game and its technology onto PS2 - plus how industry rivals scrambled to compete with The Real Driving Simulator.

00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:48 - Chapter 1 - The Birth of Sim Racing
00:08:57 - Chapter 2 - The Real Driving Simulator
00:21:40 - Chapter 3 - Of Mecha and Men
00:28:38 - Chapter 4 - The Perfect Sequel
00:43:08 - Chapter 5 - PlayStation 2
00:55:37 - Chapter 6 - Polyphony Unleashed
01:16:15 - Chapter 7 - Driving the Next Generation
01:34:44 - Chapter 8 - Fourth Gear

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Analogue Pocket’s Aluminum Edition – The Ultimate Luxury Retro Handheld:

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Analogue 3D - $250:

Introducing Analogue3D.

The future is here.

A reimagining of the N64. In 4K resolution. 10x the resolution of the original N64.* The first and perhaps greatest multiplayer system of all time. Analogue3D is 100% compatible with every original N64 game ever made. Region Free. Bluetooth LE. Dualband Wifi. Four original-style controller ports. Entirely new, next generation Analogue hardware featuring 3DOS. Engineered entirely in FPGA. No Emulation.

100% Compatibility. For the first time ever.

Analogue3D represents a milestone in video game preservation: its not only the world's first reimagining of an N64 - but the worlds first 100% compatible recreation of an N64. Analogue spent nearly 4 years engineering it in FPGA. No more incompatibilities found in software emulation like input lag, graphic/audio inaccuracies, timing/frame rate issues and more. For the first time, you can re-experience the N64 exactly as it was meant to be, without compromise.

3D - Analogue

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DF Retro: Sega Saturn vs Sony PlayStation - The Driving/Racing Game Face-Off:

This has been one of the ambitious DF Retro projects we've ever undertaken.

What if Digital Foundry - with all of the modern tools at its disposal - could have covered the mid-90s Sega Saturn vs Sony PlayStation cross-platform releases?

We have a general idea of how the systems compared, but does the modern DF methodology make the case or bust the myths?

It took time for our digital-based workflow to adapt to the analogue days of yesteryear - particularly on Saturn where no HDMI mods exist - but here we are, and we think you're going to enjoy it.

John Linneman kicks off proceedings with a look at the fifth generation consoles' line-up of driving and racing games.