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Michael Pavone Interview: BlastEm, Genesis Accuracy and the Hardware Hunt

Michael Pavone portrait with Sega hardware and Sonic 3 and Overdrive 2 screenshots in the Retro Replay interview collage

Michael Pavone paid around $2,000 for a copy of Outback Joey while trying to emulate its exercise peripheral. The first copy was a fake. After getting a refund and finding a genuine one, he still had to work backward from the game’s code because the bicycle sensor and heart-rate hardware were beyond his budget. That is one of the more expensive detours in a conversation that also gets into disappearing sprites, frozen… Read more