A loose live awards show where Tiny Dungeons carries the room, the vote, and the ZX Spectrum case.
ARG Presents frames its 2025 year-end awards as a relaxed live studio hang, roaming across the Amigo network before landing on the ZX Spectrum field.

Retro games, bad plans, strong opinions.
ARG Presents turns retro gaming into a noisy group argument with a wheel, a deal, and a pile of strange assignments. Episodes chase obscure hardware, impossible ports, celebrity-adjacent games, awards debates, and bad ideas that sometimes reveal a hidden gem.
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ARG Presents is built around retro-gaming assignments that feel half scholarly and half dare. A wheel gets spun. A deal gets made. Then Amigo Aaron and The Brent have to make sense of whatever strange category lands in front of them. That can mean impossible-looking ports on the ZX Spectrum and GBC. It can mean asking whether a rare old computer can game at all. It can also mean vehicle-free racing games, celebrity games, simple-but-deep designs, Gremlin Graphics highs and lows, or a year-end awards argument across the wider Amigos Retro Gaming Network. The show is not polished in the tidy review-show sense. It moves like a long-running hangout where research, memory, irritation, and jokes keep colliding. One person makes a claim. The other pushes back. The verdict arrives through teasing, examples, and repetition rather than a clean thesis. That looseness is the point. Hardware trivia becomes comedy, fan requests become traps, and a bad pick can still produce a good segment if the argument is lively enough. The recent episodes show a particular appetite for obscure systems and unlikely constraints. The Simple Plex 6080 squared, UltraVision computer video system, Tektronix 4051, ZX Spectrum, Dragon's Lair for the GBC, Punch-Out!, Zoo Keeper, Jet Li's Rise to Honor, and Edward O. Thorp's Real Blackjack all sit comfortably in the same messy archive. The hosts are affectionate toward retro gaming without treating every old thing as sacred. They will praise a game for making a machine hum, then turn around and complain about controls, category logic, or the sheer effort required to emulate the thing. Listeners get recommendations, warnings, memories, and arguments in one package. ARG Presents is best when the topic sounds too narrow to work and the conversation proves otherwise.
Made for: For retro-gaming fans who enjoy obscure hardware, odd ports, fan-suggested topics, and opinionated back-and-forth more than polished review segments. It especially suits listeners who know the fun of arguing over why a strange old game works or fails.
What sets it apart: ARG Presents makes its constraints part of the entertainment: wheel-spun topics, fan suggestions, rare machines, and deliberately awkward categories shape the conversation. The show stands out by treating deep retro knowledge and chaotic banter as the same sport.
From the hosts of Amigos: Everything Amiga, the other side of retro gaming. Focused on obscure consoles and games. If you know what the Acorn Archimedes and Odyssey^2 are, you're in the right place.
This is the show that turns a Tektronix terminal into grounds for Aaron and Brent to bicker.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose live awards show where Tiny Dungeons carries the room, the vote, and the ZX Spectrum case.
ARG Presents frames its 2025 year-end awards as a relaxed live studio hang, roaming across the Amigo network before landing on the ZX Spectrum field.
A celebrity-game prompt becomes a lively argument over Edward O. Thorpe, blackjack details, and how far the premise can stretch.
ARG Presents takes a simple request for games with celebrities and turns it into a funny, loose debate over what celebrity even means. The hosts needle each other over the "still living" caveat, then stretch the premise toward a blackjack game connected to Edward O.
A spinning wheel turns Boat Fest regulars, the hosts, and the audience into affectionate live targets.
ARG Presents Live from Boat Fest uses a spinning wheel as a neat excuse to size up John, Boat of Course Schaller, Amiga-thon, Rob Flack O'Hara, and eventually the audience.
A warm, slightly wandering look at Captain Power, its toy line, and the game tied to its kids-TV world.
ARG Presents revisits Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future with an affectionate focus on the kids-TV series, the game connected to it, and the hardware that made the whole thing feel unusually tangible.






ARG Presents hosts Aaron and Brent record live from Boatfest 2024, using a prize wheel to review friends and events.
Hosts Amigo Aaron and Brent review the obscure 1987 interactive TV show and toy Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future.
ARG Presents 335 covers the Amstrad CPC 464, which launched in June 1984 at 199 pounds with a monochrome monitor or 299 pounds with a color one.
Aaron and the Brit discuss games that were claimed to be impossible, focusing on Sweet Fightin'+2 for the ZX Spectrum and Dragon's Lair for the Game Boy Color.
Two hosts discuss rare and goofy vintage computer systems, focusing on the Simple Plex 6080 squared and other obscure hardware.
A humorous retrospective on the highs and lows of Gremlin Graphics games, featuring banter about the Gremlins movies and a wheel-spin deal.
ARG Presents examines how Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!
Amigo Aaron and Brent examine the Tektronix 4051, a 1978 workstation described with a Motorola 6800 processor, 1 megahertz speed, 8K of RAM, and a $5,995 base price.
ARG Presents turns into a year-end awards rundown for the Amigos Retro Gaming Network, with the hosts counting 113 games and about 96 hours across 2025.
ARG Presents 323 compares two celebrity-linked games: Edward O.
Amigo Aaron and Brent examine 8-bit Tarzan games selected after Pajaco's request, excluding Jungle Hunt and Jungle King derivatives.
ARG Presents hosts Aaron and Brent open with ports that should never have been made, naming Atari 2600 Pac-Man, Game Boy Color Mortal Kombat, and the Super Nintendo version of Pit Fighter.
ARG Presents episode 320 asks which home ports beat their arcade originals, with hosts Aaron and Brent weighing extra modes, higher resolutions and added two-player options.
Aaron and Brent open ARG Presents with the ethics of ROM hacks, including Brent's admission that he 'bootlegged VHS tapes for a decade on eBay' and the $50 eBay listings for hacked cartridges.
Amigo Aaron and Brent discuss playing racing games without vehicles, a challenge suggested by listener Rooster, and share their approaches to finding such games.
A bonus episode featuring interviews from Boatfest 2024, starting with Paul from Woking, UK, discussing his return to the event and his first baseball game.
Dean Bent discusses his early gaming career, starting with a Dragon 32 and eventually joining US Gold.
The hosts review and demonstrate the 1980s show and game 'Captain Power' on ARG Presents.
A discussion about games made entirely with text graphics like ASCII and PETSCII, focusing on Digiloi for C64 and Candy Box.