The Retrograde: A Video Game Podcast!

Warning: this one gets sloppy.

Let's have another round (of Goldeneye 007), D-Pads!

This week we aim to answer the age old question: are we better at gaming when we're drunk, or sober? And what better game to test this out on than one of the greatest multiplayer experiences of all time: Goldeneye 64!

After catching ourselves up on our recent gaming habits, including Andrew's new obsession with Mario Kart 8, and Mikey's first foray into God of War: Ragnarok, we face off in a sober best 2 out of 3 matchup in Goldeneye before drinking our faces off, and trying it out all over again after we've had some time to get... loose.

Let us know which other games you'd like us to test this out on!

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Happy New Year, everyone!

Since we capped off 2022 with some backwards-looking lists, we figured we'd start off 2023 with a conversation about what we're most excited about in the gaming realm!

Sure, some of these games may have appeared on PREVIOUS "Most Anticipated" lists from prior years, but that doesn't mean we aren't still very excited for them!

But with 2022 having so many heavy hitting sequels from Triple A developers like God of War: Ragnarok and Horizon: Forbidden West, will 2023 be the year where indie games like Cocoon and Hollow Knight 2 reign supreme?

Or will the favourites like Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Spider-man 2 run away with the glory? There's only one way to find out: listen to this week's episode, then talk to us in another 365 days!

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We may have started this podcast as an excuse to revisit retro games, but one game has loomed over our conversations almost every single month: Overwatch.

With Overwatch 2 entering our lives a few months ago, we've had plenty of time to let the changes sink in, and reminisce over some of the elements of Overwatch 1 which we find ourselves missing.

Given the prominence of Overwatch in our lives, we wanted to spend a full episode at the end of the year looking back on the game we've been dumping countless hours into since 2016. How does Overwatch 2 compare to Overwatch 1?

What are some of the changes we like or dislike the most? How much longer do we imagine we'll play this game? Let us know your thoughts, and Happy New Year!

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We spent ALL YEAR talking about video games so for one of our final episodes of the year, we wanted to open up the conversation to include ALL of our favourite things we've experienced in the year 2022.

This week we take a page out of Oprah's notebook and count down our 10 favourite things, from movies, to TV, to music... and maybe even a book?

Before we get started with the lists, we recap some of the best moments from the Video Game Awards and catch up on our progress with God of War: Ragnarok, and Elden Ring!

Let us know your top 10 lists, and if there's anything we missed!

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Hakuna Matata, everyone!

This week we decided to venture back to Pride Rock to revisit one of our favourite movie based games of all time: The Lion King on the Sega Genesis!

It's up there as one of the most brilliant adaptations of an animated movie, but it's also notoriously difficult. Will our memory serve us correct, or is this game not worth keeping inside the circle of life?

Before pouncing on the game, we take some time to talk about our anticipation of High on Life, the brilliance of God of War: Ragnarok, and our most embarrassing gaming icons in Overwatch 2!

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This week we're breaking down the greatest Video Games based on movies OF ALL TIME! NOTE: We had to use a backup video recording, so it's a bit choppier than usual.

You've all heard the old trope that games based on movies are notoriously trash, but surely that can't mean they're ALL worth avoiding.

In fact, we believe some of the best games ever made got their source material from a movie. Sure, there are some stinkers out there like Enter the Matrix, but this week we sit down to remind our listeners of some of the best video games of all time based on movies.

Before we get started on our lists, we provide some updates on God of War Ragnarok, and some of our holiday gaming plans! Let us know your lists, or which games we missed!

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Sure, God of War: Ragnarok has made Norse Mythology all the rage, but what about the cool, hip side of Christianity?

We aim to find out how Christian Theological games stack up with a look at Bible Adventures on the NES!

It may have made its way to the Sega Genesis by 2005, but the most interesting story is how the developer Wisdom Tree managed to sell hundreds of thousands of copies of this unlicensed game on the Nintendo Entertainment System without needing to go to confession or say a singled Hail Mary!

But before we set off to gather all the animals for the Ark, we check in on Andrew's progress with God of War: Ragnarok, and Mikey gushes about one of his games of the year in The Curse of the Golden Idol!

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This week we're not playing any games!

That includes "on the podcast" and "in our search for the top 10 greatest video game protagonists of all time!"

It's a no-holds-barred conversation about some of the most impactful, most influential, funniest, and most personable player avatars we've ever come across in this medium we know and love.

But before we dive into our lists, we take some time to talk about God of War: Ragnarok, Elden Ring, and talk conceptually about what exactly makes a "good" protagonist! Let us know your lists, and who we might have missed!

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Happy Pokemon week, everyone!

With Pokemon Scarlet and Violet hitting the Nintendo Switch this week, we took the opportunity to talk about one of our favourite franchises of all time for over an hour straight! It's Pokemon Pinball on the Gameboy Colour!

This was one of Mikey's favourite handheld games as a kid, but we aim to find out if it's just a boring game with a Pokemon skin, or if it actually holds up in the modern day.

But before we tilt the pinball table, we take a quiz to find out which pokemon type we are (you can play along here: https://play.nintendo.com/activities/personality-quizzes/what-pokemon-are-you/), discuss the worst pokemon from the original 151, and question why there's a pokemon which crosses over a kangaroo with one of the most notorious warlords of all time!

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This week we celebrate our escape from the hell that is RetroGrave by venturing into the bowels of hell in the modern Boomer Shooter darling Proteus!

This Bounding Box Software title has been in early access for about 2 years, but finally received an official release and is available now on Xbox Gamepass and Steam!

Before finding out whether this modern reimagination of first person classics like Doom, Duke Nukem, and Quake is the game we've always wanted, we talk about some of the initial reviews of God of War: Ragnarok, the most popular games we HAVEN'T liked, and question whether variety in games is always a good thing.

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