Retro Video Game Podcast Episodes — The Retrograde: A Video Game Podcast

Was 2000 The Best Year in Gaming History? (Year 2000 Gaming Draft)

Y2K is real, D-Pads! This week we celebrate surviving the turn of the new millennium with a look back at what many consider to be one of the greatest years in video game history: 2000! Every time we do a deep dive on one of the great years in gaming it feels like we further complicate the debate as to which year was the best, and this time it's no different. Join us as we each draft a team of 6 games to represent the best of what this year had to offer. Plus: Andrew is finally touring Night City so we spend some time chatting about Cyberpunk 2077!

Would You Rather (Gaming Edition)

Time to make some decisions, D-Pads!

This week we decided to have a little fun by posing some of the most difficult, quirky, and downright nonsensical

Would You Rather questions we could think of.

Would you rather always be star powered, or always be mini?

Would you rather spend your life in a Poke Ball, or inside Kirby's body?

Would you rather cure your ailments by eating hearts or rotisserie chickens?

All of these, and more!

Plus: Andrew has a PS5 now!

Send us your Would You Rather suggestions for future episodes!

Stephen's Sausage Roll Review

Order up, D-Pads!

This week we decided to take some advice from the prolific game designer Jonathan Blow and try out what he described as one of the greatest puzzle games of all time: Stephen's Sausage Roll!

Back in 2016 it was more of a critical darling, but should this game have had more mass appeal?

Or is it too hard to hold the attention of a casual gamer?

Greatest First Person Shooters of All Time (FPS Draft!)

Look here, D-Pads!

Whether you got your start with old PC games like Duke Nukem 3D, or huddled around a CRT screen with 3 of your buddies playing Goldeneye, First Person Shooters make up some of the most iconic and highly appreciated games of all time.

As games began the shift from 2D to 3D, icons of the industry like Doom and Wolfenstein appeared to be the front-runners in the ever evolving landscape of gaming perspectives.

This week we sat down to draft a team of our most highly appreciated First Person Shooters of all time!

Balancing single player stories with the likes of multiplayer mayhem and inarguable innovation, we try to pick the 5 most iconic games from the genre!

Is Braid Still Worth Playing in 2024? (Anniversary Edition Review)

Let's go back in time, D-Pads!

But this time, it's not JUST to look at a retro game.

It's to look at a now-sixteen-year-old game with rewind mechanics at its core.

Braid first hit the scene in 2008 as a darling of the Indie Game community, and set Xbox Live Arcade up for a run which would change console gaming forever.

However, we didn't ALL get a chance to play it, so this week in celebration of the recent release of Braid, Anniversary Edition, Mikey guides Andrew through Jonathan Blow's masterpiece for the very first time.

Summer Game Fest 2024: Everything You Need to Know

It's that time of year, D-Pads! The summer is upon us and that means one thing: new game announcements! While we're still a bit upset about the passing of E3, Summer Game Fest and its satellite showcases have done a great job picking up where it left off. This week we sit down to discuss all of our favourite trailers and announcements from Summer Game Fest, Xbox Games Showcase, Sony's State of Play, Devolver Direct, and more! Let us know which trailers we missed, and which games you're most excited about!

Our Biggest Gamer Shames...

This week we sit down to discuss our biggest "Gamer Shames."

Sure, we've played a lot of games over our lives, but every so often we find ourselves ashamed of our own habits.

Whether it's a franchise we've never actually played, a game we hate which others seem to love, or a lie we've told others to make ourselves feel better: we're here to unleash it all on you!

We also took some responses from the community and the results were... unnerving.

Will you Game until you Die? (Listener Questions Part 4!)

Pencils down, D-Pads!

We've received your questions and comments and have built up a backlog rivaling that of our unplayed video games.

We figured we'd take a week to plow through some of the unanswered listener questions which we've been sitting on!

Will we be gaming as old folks? Do we have any peripherals or games we REALLY regret selling?

Which games made us go from hating them to loving them, or vice versa? Plus: Mikey restarted Sekiro, and Andrew might be getting over Fortnite!

If you have questions you want featured on a future episode, e-mail them to us at TheRetrogradePodcast@Gmail.com!

What's Wrong with Sports Games? (...and how to fix them)

Hut hut, D-Pads!

Today we take to the gridiron... and the rink... and the court... all from the comfort of our gaming chairs as we discuss the current state of Sports Video Games!

As two lifelong gamers with a heavy appreciation of their sporting counterparts, we wanted to check in on where the industry is at.

Are games like MLB: The Show, NHL, NBA 2K, and Madden better now than they were 10 years ago?

If not, where did they go wrong?

Crow Country Review (PC / Xbox / PS5)

Time travel back to 1990, D-Pads!

This week we tried out the game that's taking PS1 era survival horror fans by storm: Crow Country! While it only came out recently, this game feels like it was pulled directly from the 1990s.

It's a loving homage to the likes of Silent Hill and Resident Evil, but given the improvements we've made in mechanics and graphics since then, is there really room in our libraries for a game like this?

Join us as we discuss our impressions of the game based on the demo.

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