In this episode, Lee justifies his newest purchase—the Retroid Pocket 6—while immediately experiencing buyer's remorse over the newly announced Pocket Nova. Ross takes a break from the big titles to find his zen managing a virtual pizzeria in Good Pizza, Great Pizza (strictly no cheese, please). Meanwhile, El brings her usual dark vibes to the table, raving about her 200+ hours surviving the grueling, mod-heavy zombie apocalypse of Project Zomboid. 

To cap it all off, we play the highly stressful Random Game Name Game and Lee teases a broken 1982 Vectrex museum pickup that he plans to fix up. 

Games discussed include: The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, Need for Speed Most Wanted, Good Pizza Great Pizza, Project Zomboid.

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We've dropped the 'Continue' because Rich couldn't remember it. So this is Ready Player 2, episode 4. Or episode 102, if you're feeling pedantic.

Rich finally plays The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe, roughly a decade late, and falls hard for its lilting narrator, its forty-odd endings, an achievement for not playing for ten years, and a bucket he point blank refuses to explain.

Ross wades into FC26 (formerly FIFA, now a card-pack gambling machine with football attached), where the base pack costs 100,000 coins, the FIFA licence has wandered off to Netflix, and saying "GG" earns you a torrent of abuse from teenagers with better strikers than you.

El champions The Drifter, Powerhoof's stunning 2D point-and-click of conspiracies, time-travelling agents and a genuinely awful bit with a lake, then digs out the bargain-bin brilliance of Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive.

Lee has bought a TrimUI Brick second hand off eBay, declared gaming fixed, and now carries it everywhere to play The Minish Cap in car parks. His long-awaited Retroid Pocket 6 shipped the same day. It may never leave the drawer.

Along the way: what actually counts as retro, the slow death and quiet survival of the point-and-click adventure, Rich's stint writing for the Australian Nintendo Magazine System (and the final issue that was never printed), why old gaming mags were quite so unpleasant, and an update on Lee's hacked Discord — the servers are back, the members came with them, and Discord even gave him his money back.

Ross finishes with Happy Side of Par, a golf game with no microtransactions in it whatsoever, which in 2026 counts as a plot twist.

Games discussed: The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe, EA Sports FC26, The Drifter, Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive, The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, A Link to the Past, Dispatch, Disco Elysium, Monkey Island, Broken Sword, Day of the Tentacle, Discworld II, Path of Exile 2, Arc Raiders, and a whole lot more.

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GAMES DISCUSSED

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1703340/The_Stanley_Parable_Ultra_Deluxe/
Official site: https://stanleyparable.com/

EA Sports FC 26
https://www.ea.com/games/ea-sports-fc/fc-26
Ultimate Team features: https://www.ea.com/games/ea-sports-fc/fc-26/features/fc-26-football-ultimate-team

The Drifter (Powerhoof)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1170570/The_Drifter/
Developer: https://www.powerhoof.com/

Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive (scriptwelder)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/611760/Dont_Escape_4_Days_to_Survive/
Don't Escape Trilogy: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1070550/Dont_Escape_Trilogy/

The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/Game-Boy-Advance/The-Legend-of-Zelda-The-Minish-Cap-267486.html

Dispatch (AdHoc Studio)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2592160/Dispatch/

Happy Side of Par
https://happysideofpar.com/

HARDWARE

TRIMUI Brick — official site
https://trimui.pro/brick/
Official store: https://trimui.net/collections/trimui-brick

NextUI (the custom firmware on Lee's Brick)
https://github.com/LoveRetro/NextUI
Docs: https://nextui.loveretro.games/docs/

Retroid Pocket 6
https://www.goretroid.com/
US store: https://goretroidusa.com/retroid-pocket-6/

MAGAZINES

Fusion Retro Books — publishers of the relaunched CRASH, ZZAP! 64, ZZAP! AMIGA and Amtix CPC
https://fusionretrobooks.com/

Amiga Addict
https://amigaddict.com/

Lee
 @MoreFunRetro  

Ross
https://bsky.app/profile/therossbell.bsky.social

El
Search for EscapingIRL

Rich
 @newbe5 ​but he wont see it for 5 years

Starting off Lee talks about a trip to The Retro Computer Museum, and a dismal example of Discord's customer service.

Ross kicks off a spirited debate about physical media and the skyhigh preorder price of Grand Theft Auto 6.

El shares knowledge of a controversial wolf man and how fans of Love and Deepspace have responded around the globe. (Conveniently forgetting that monsters are called 'wanderers'. We'll blame the heat.)

Rich brings us back to games talking through his experience with Path of Exile 2 and the glorious skills tree within.

Lee talks about his newest purchase, the Retroid Pocket Six.

Ross takes us back to Cyberpunk 2077, and how it's improved since day 1.

El wraps it up through her love of the dark aesthetics of the Blasphemous franchise.

Games discussed: GTA 6, Blasphemous 2, Path of Exile 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Love and Deepspace, and many more.

Subscribe, comment, and let us know what you've been playing. Swears included. Obviously.

Lee
 @MoreFunRetro  

Ross
https://bsky.app/profile/therossbell.bsky.social

El
Search for EscapingIRL

Rich
 @newbe5 ​but he wont see it for 5 years

#GamingPodcast #DigitalOwnership #retrogaming 

In this episode, we dive into the nostalgia of chunky retro handhelds like the original Game Boy and the PSP, and Lee shows off a very cool PC Engine Briefcase repair project alongside a custom ZX81 mechanical keyboard.

Lee also does a taste test of some questionable Japanese snacks  (yes, Lee actually ate "Creamy Colon" and accidentally got buzzed on whiskey jellies). 

On the gaming front, El is bursting at the seams with upcoming gaming news, and ends up waxing lyrical about the immaculate, terrifying vibes of Still Wakes the Deep.

While Ross takes us on a nostalgia trip with the 90s-infused indie game Mixtape and drifts around Mount Fuji in Forza. 

Games discussed include: Still Wakes the Deep, Silent Hill: Townfall, God of War: Laufey, Alien: Fireteam 2, Alien: Isolation 2, Until Dawn 2, Forza, Spyro, Gundam, Rayman, and a whole lot more.

Swears included free of charge. 
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro: Where is Rich?
2:00 - The Golden Era of Retro Handhelds (Game Boy, PSP & Hand Cramps)
9:30 - Taste Testing: Creamy Colon & Whiskey Jellies
12:30 - Lee’s Workshop: PC Engine Briefcase & ZX81 Keyboard
18:00 - Gaming News: Until Dawn 2, Alien Isolation, and Silent Hill
24:00 - El Reviews Still Wakes the Deep
31:00 - Ross Plays Mixtape & Forza
47:00 - Outro & Social Links

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Lee goes full retro with ZX Spectrum classic Atic Atac, Rich has been living his best medieval life in Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Ross deviates from his usual sportsball titles and saddles up with Red Dead Redemption II (yes, really), and El has unsurprisingly been haunting the horrors of Silent Hill F.

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