We chat to the wonderful James Schall about working at classic gaming shops like Virgin Games and Future Zone, his time as product marketing manager at Sega in the post Dreamcast era, and his current work resurrecting retro games at Secret Mode.

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Show notes:

New Atari consoles annouced: https://bit.ly/3W81KqU
New Turrican 2 Amiga release: https://bit.ly/3WZyzHX
Starfox previewed on Sega Megadrive: https://bit.ly/3GCZyCj
MSX0 handheld: https://bit.ly/3ZBfflV
PS3 emulator can now boot every game: https://bit.ly/3GBsryA
Mastodon on MS-DOS: https://bit.ly/3ZAbddy