Every week we take a look back at some of the most beloved or infamous video games which shaped our childhood and rate them in the modern day.
Is hindsight 20/20, or do these games still deserve their perfect 10/10?
We also find time to nerd out on current games and all the goings-on in the world of controllers!
Find us on your favourite platform by clicking the podcast icon below, or choose from any of our past episodes!
Where would you go if you had the chance to visit ANY AREA from a video game?
This week we compiled our personal Top 10 lists for video game worlds we'd like to live in!
Are we looking for the chaos and violence of a Grand Theft Auto city, or do we want to settle down somewhere tranquil in Hyrule?
Our lists cover everything from Pokemon to Bioshock, and we want to hear from you what we missed!
Plus: we talk about some of our recent gaming adventures!
Read MoreWith the release of Guardians of the Galaxy 3 reminding us that Marvel still has tonnes of great stories to tell, we decided to spend this week looking back at all the most iconic Marvel Video Games we've played in our lives!
We compiled a list of the most significant Marvel Games ever made and ranked them according to the classic S to D tier system.
Will Spider-Man: Miles Morales rank higher than The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction and Marvel's Midnight Suns?
Only one way to find out! Let us know which games you wanted to see ranked, and where you think these ones should have been slated!
Read MoreWould you believe us if we told you that one of us lifelong gamers has NEVER played a Zelda game?
With the release of Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Andrew has decided to enter the land of Hyrule for the first time ever!
Join us as we play through the first hour of what is being reviewed as one of the greatest games of all time.
Is it possible that Zelda as a franchise lives up to the hype?
Or have we all been so blinded by nostalgia that we can't see its flaws?
Read MoreBack by popular demand!
This week we're taking some of the most beloved video game franchises of all time and pairing them up with a completely randomized genre.
That's right! Your Game is Perfect: We've Changed Everything, part 2.
The premise is simple: we randomly select a game (Metal Gear, Zelda, Guitar Hero, etc.) then randomly select a genre (Puzzle Game, Vehicular Combat, Real Time Strategy, etc.) and pitch how in the world that game might work.
We want to hear which game sounds the best: Dance Dance Revolution as a Vehicular Combat game, Hitman as a beat-em-up, or Metal Gear Solid as a puzzle game.
Plus: which well known gaming icons would be better off in other games?
Read MoreSure, everyone has a favourite hero.
Who wouldn't want Joel from The Last of Us, or Mario from... Mario joining them on a journey?
But where's the love for the bad guys?
This week on The Retrograde: A Video Game Podcast we count down our top 10 villains in gaming history!
Is Bowser more evil than Wario? Would Dutch van der Linde be able to outsmart GLaDOS? Could Psycho Mantis predict Odin's next move?
Let us know your favourite villains from video games, and we may read your selections in the next episode!
Read MoreWhat would our Month of Mario be without a retrospective on what many consider to be the GREATEST Mario game of all time?
It's Super Mario World on the Super Nintendo! Super Mario World has always been one of the White Whales of our podcast, but with such attention behind the game that Shigeru Miyamoto often calls his favourite Mario game in the franchise, when could we POSSIBLY find the right time to review it?
Well, with the release of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, we jumped at the opportunity.
But surely a game from over 20 years ago can't hold up today as one of the greatest ever, right?
RIGHT?
Listen along to find out!
Read MoreThis week we continue our Month of Mario with a look at one of the LEAST known Mario games of all time: Mario Teaches Typing.
Before Nintendo learned to be overly protective over their properties, they let all sorts of companies get their hands on their mascots.
The results varied, but occasionally the world got a game which was too strange to forget.
But is this Mavis Beacon inspired game worth picking up, or is it nothing more than a shiny coat of Mario coloured paint on an otherwise lackluster piece of software?
Before giving our impressions of the game, we give our final thoughts on The Super Mario Bros movie, and talk about the strange development history of Mario Teaches Typing.
Read MoreThis week we rushed out to theatres to watch The Super Mario Bros. Movie just for you! Join us for one of the first podcasts out there offering a full review, breakdown, and spoilercast of the Super Mario Bros. Movie! From the release of the first trailer, one of us was pretty excited about the potential of the movie, but the other was much more skeptical. We sit down to discuss how the movie actually turned out, and whether or not it was worth rushing out to go see it opening weekend. Apart from discussing Chris Pratt's performance as Mario, the jokes, the lack of risks, what worked, and what didn't, we jump into full spoiler territory in this episode. We'd recommend you watch the movie before listening unless you don't mind having the plot and some of the story beats spoiled. We're releasing this out of sync with our regular release schedule, so we won't have another episode posting on this coming Tuesday, April 11th.
Read MoreYou can't think about video games without thinking about Mario.
He's become synonymous with the hobby, and over the years he's done more than just star in his own line of games.
This month to celebrate the release of The Super Mario Bros Movie we've got 4 weeks of Mario themed content!
To start things off, we're counting down our top 5 Mario appearances in a non-mainline Mario game.
Believe it or not, there were almost too many to choose from!
Let us know your favourite Mario appearances!
Read MoreWhat's better: the banana from Mario Kart, or the Blades of Chaos from God of War?
Between the two of us we've got a combined 60 or so years of demolishing enemies in video games.
Over the course of that time, some of the tools we've been given in gaming have really stuck out to us.
This week we sit down to run through our top 10 favourite weapons in games!
Before we get to our lists, Andrew updates us on his progress with Far Cry 6, and Mikey goes on a melodic journey in Unpacking on the Nintendo Switch.
Let us know which weapons we missed!
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