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Original air date: Original air date: April 1, 2013

O Canada! Our home and sentient land!

True patriot blood, will be spilled by command.

With beating hearts, we sacrifice,

The humans to the maw.

From far and wide,

O Canada, the meat found will be raw!

Our Intro and Outro music is by Ben Landis off his album Adventures in Pixels – “Credits Music for an 8 Bit RPG” (Twitter @thebenlandis)

The musical Interlude was Fatnick “Monkey Man”

16:37 – Listener email discussion question “What retro game do you hate that everyone else seems to love?”

26:15 – Fatnick “Monkey Man”

28:39 – The Retro Showdown!

30:40 – Bailey’s Pick “Rampage” (NES)

31:36 – Hunter’s Pick “Saturday Night Slam Masters” (Super NES)

32:26 – Jason’s Pick “Yukon Trail” (PC/DOS)

33:03 – Our theme for this week were games that referenced Canada (guess who’s choice that was). Let’s get it on!

53:20 – Cast your vote, leave us a comment, email us a discussion question, check out our sweet new forum on the Retroids website, and keep on doing that beautiful thing you do.

Original air date: March 25, 2013

This week, the Podcastle is all about the hutts, the touchdowns, the spirit of teamwork, and the buried explosive ordnance. We also cover a great listener question that invites us to list our hangups with the RPG genre.

Our Intro and Outro music is by Ben Landis off his album Adventures in Pixels – “Credits Music for an 8 Bit RPG” (Twitter @thebenlandis)

The musical Interlude was Doppelgengar “Dungeon Crawl”

13:22 – Retro discussion email (that’s right! We got one!) “What is in your opinion, the most annoying aspect of an RPG modern or retro?”

26:10 – Doppelgengar “Dungeon Crawl”

27:11 – The retro showdown!

29:31 – Bailey’s Pick “Demon Sword” (NES)

30:32 – Hunter’s Pick “Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker” (Sega Genesis)

31:29 – Jason’s Pick “Silver Surfer” (NES)

31:57 – And the theme for this week’s retro showdown is games released in the year 1990. Let’s get it on!

54:31 – Cast your vote, leave us a comment below, send us some email with questions/possible themes. We’ll read them. We might not use them but we will read them! I promise.

Original air date: March 18, 2013

Listeners, look at this Podcastle. Every week, this Podcastle needs to fill time talking about nothing in particular for 20 minutes. For just an email a week, this Podcastle would receive the full benefits of a Listener Discussion Question. No more would it have to create meta conversations about the lack of listener discussion questions; it would be free to answer questions, just like the other podcasts.

Please email generously to [email protected].

Thank you.

Our Intro and Outro music is by Ben Landis off his album Adventures in Pixels – “Credits Music for an 8 Bit RPG” (Twitter @thebenlandis)

The musical Interlude was Fox Synergy “Back Alley Hero”

19:09 – Listener discussion question “…” <— we didn’t get one :(

24:20 – Fox Synergy “Back Alley Hero”

26:41 – The Retro Showdown!

29:20 – Bailey’s Pick “Purple Turtles” (Commodore 64)

30:42 – Hunter’s Pick “Greendog: Beached Surfer Dude” (Sega Genesis)

31: 38 – Jason’s Pick “Blue Thunder” (Action Max)

32:19 – That’s right, we did a theme this week! And it recorded! Also, let the showdown begin!

53:58 – Cast your vote, share a story/comment with us below, and follow us on twitter!

Original air date: March 11, 2013

Jason’s back from Olde Englande, and he has brought the class. Prepare for a refined, proper, and regal podcast. As it was the olde fashione, with Jim the Dolphin.

Our Intro and Outro music is by Ben Landis off his album Adventures in Pixels – “Credits Music for an 8 Bit RPG” (Twitter @thebenlandis)

The musical Interlude was Casval – “After All This Time, Nothing’s Changed”

20:46 – Listener discussion question – “How do you feel about video game soundtracks?”

27:42 – Casval – “After All This Time, Nothing’s Changed”

30:14 – Retro Showdown!

32:14 – Bailey’s Pick – “Wacky Worlds” (Sega Genesis)

33:22 – Hunter’s Pick – “F-1 Race” (Gameboy)

34:17 – Jaosn’s Pick – “World Court Tennis” (Turbografx-16)

35:00 – And the showdown begins!

57:52 – Cast your vote, leave a comment, follow your favorite debater (ha ha ha) and send us some emails!

Original air date: March 4, 2013

Guest host: Ryan Bunting

Since Jason was out committing regicide, we’ve got Ryan of Retro Rampage filling in. He may be a robot. Then again, Hunter may be a clone and Bailey, well… let’s just say we wouldn’t not not not not be not not surprised if he wasn’t not an alien.

Our Intro and Outro music is by Ben Landis off his album Adventures in Pixels – “Credits Music for an 8 Bit RPG” (Twitter @thebenlandis)

The musical Interlude was iSv – “LIL 500”

17:34 – Listener discussion question “Do any of you like robot games? Or games with robots in them?”

23:57 – iSv – “LIL 500”

26:03 – Retro Showdown

27:03 – Ryan’s pick “Rudra no Hih? [Treasure of Rudra]” (SNES)

28:30 – Hunter’s pick “Ninja Warriors” (SNES)

30:01 – Bailey’s pick “Red Alarm” (Virtual Boy)

30:40 – And the showdown begins!

59:54 – Cast your votes, leave us a comment below, and keep on keepin’ on.

Original air date: February 23, 2013

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Our Intro and Outro music is by Ben Landis off his album Adventures in Pixels – “Credits Music for an 8 Bit RPG” (Twitter @thebenlandis)

The musical Interlude was Fatnick – “Downtown (8-bit version)”

17:08 – Our retro discussion question! “do you ever incorporate video game music into real life circumstances? If so, how?”

24:32 – Fatnick – “Downtown (8-bit version)”

27:05 – Retro Showdown

28:49 – Bailey’s Pick – “The Punisher” (NES)

29:53 – Hunter’s Pick – “The Super Spy” (NEO GEO)

31:17 – Jason’s Pick – “Snake” (Nokia 6110, yeah a cell phone…)

31:59 – Well… at least it’s better than last week… LET THE SHOWDOWN BEGIN!!

57:13 – Cast your vote, leave us a comment, and have an overall great day!

Original air date: February 25, 2013

Do you know why pi is an irrational number? Because it loves you unconditionally. It doesn’t care who you are, where you’re from, what you did, so long as you’re not a prime number (old hatreds die hard).

Our Intro and Outro music is by Ben Landis off his album Adventures in Pixels – “Credits Music for an 8 Bit RPG” (Twitter @thebenlandis)

The musical Interlude was Super Fantastic Turbo Magical 2 Player Love Game Adventure Called Happiness

15:25 – Listener discussion questions “In general, what do you like the least about retro games?”

23:43 – Pixelh8 “Super Fantastic Turbo Magical 2 Player Love Game Adventure Called Happiness”

27:18 – Retro Showdown!

32:10 – Bailey’s Pick – “Sky Shark” (NES)

33:59 – Hunter’s Pick – “Space Channel 5” (Dreamcast)

35:09 – Jason’s Pick – “Ken’s Labyrinth” (PC/DOS)

35:55 – And the showdown begins!!

Cast your vote, leave a comment below, and keep on retroin’

Original air date: February 11, 2013

This house of podcast cards we’ve built is falling apart around us. Bailey and Jason pick games that Hunter can’t trash talk, Hunter makes a revelation about the Retro Showdown rules, and the union we contracted to make our header images is on strike, so we had to make do. We’ve had a good run, guys.

Our Intro and Outro music is by Ben Landis off his album Adventures in Pixels – “Credits Music for an 8 Bit RPG” (Twitter @thebenlandis)

The musical Interlude was Comptroller “Silver Head”

26:50 – Listener discussion question! “Is there a Retro game that you discovered recently that you loved or hated that you didn’t know about back in the day? “

37:18 – Comptroller “Silver Head”

40:00 – Retro showdown

42:35 – Bailey’s Pick “Batman: Return of the Joker” (NES)

43:44 – Hunter’s Pick “Rolling Thunder” (NES)

44:37 – Jason’s Pick “Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Superheroes” (Sega Dreamcast)

45:14 – Yeah… wow… it’s one of those… show downs…

1:05:42 – And it’s over, cast your vote, comment, email… all that stuff… See you next week!

Original air date: February 4, 2013

DING!

Dr. Juggernaut is DING! here in full force, and he brought DING! along a strong addition DING! to his DING! medical DING! team: a bell. (DING!)

In other news, we make the official decision on the best point-and-click adventure game of all time, and we spend a bit too much time talking about dancing phalli.

DING!

Our Intro and Outro music is by Ben Landis off his album Adventures in Pixels – “Credits Music for an 8 Bit RPG” (Twitter @thebenlandis)

The musical Interlude was OneRom – “The Dark Knight Chiptunes”

12:30 – Email Discussion question “What in your opinion is the best point-and-click adventure game?”

17:25 – OneRom – “The Dark Knight Chiptunes”

19:45 – The Retro Showdown!

21:38 – Bailey’s Pick – “Weird Dreams” (Commodore 64)

22:45 – Hunter’s Pick – “Loaded” (Sega Saturn)

23:50 – Jason’s Pick – “Tetris 64” (Nintendo 64)

24:34 – And the showdown… BEGINS!

54:18 – Cast your vote, leave a comment below, and send us some emails!

Original air date: January 28, 2013

“Stop dribbling, Scottie!” Michael Jordan said as the T-rex stared them down. “Their vision is based on movement!” Charles Barkley mumbled something about chaos theory.

Our Intro and Outro music is by Ben Landis off his album Adventures in Pixels – “Credits Music for an 8 Bit RPG” (Twitter @thebenlandis)

The musical Interlude was “Into Combat” by Gavin Harrison

14:23 – Retro discussion question from a listener’s email “Have you guys considered having an occasional theme for your Retro Showdowns?”

22:28 – “Into Combat” by Gavin Harrison

24:05 – Retro showdown!

26:51 – Bailey’s Pick – “Jurassic Park” (NES)

27:53 – Hunter’s Pick – “The Amazing Spider-Man” (Gameboy)

28:55 – Jason’s Pick – “Super Marathon” (Apple Bandai Pippin)

29:41 – Another showdown begins!

59:02 – Cast your vote, send us questions, and be sure to comment below. You never know who’s watching!