Backwards Compatible

Backwards Compatible

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Backwards Compatible episodes

  • Backwards Compatible – Ep 19 – Everybody does what Nintendon’t
    With Aaron back from assignment, we talk ever changing items in Legend of Dungeon, replaying the entire Tomb Raider series, contemplate radical strategies in League of Legends, point and clicking in Broken Age, ghost whales in Paranautical Activity, and what the hell is going on at Nintendo? All this and much more on this week's episode!

     

     
    Theme Music is:
    "Play the Game" by Pocketmaster
    Additional Music is:
    "Do The Mario" from The Super Mario Bros. Super Show
    1 hr 21 min
  • Backwards Compatible – Ep 18 – Kickstart(er) My Heart
    Join the gang this week (sans Aaron) as we take a look at the Kickstarter phenomenon and it's effect on the industry with a specific eye on Double Fine's Broken Age. Plus we discuss Steam's Early Access initiative and wonder if there is anymore room for Minecraft clones. All this and more on this week's episode!

     

     
    Theme Music is:
    "Play the Game" by Pocketmaster
    Additional Music is:
    "Broken Age" Teaser Theme by Peter McConnell
    52 min
  • Backwards Compatible – Ep 17 – Cowboys & Dota 2′s
    With Aaron out on assignment this week; Kyle, David, and Penrod talk Snowmageddon, gun realism in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, our haul from the 2013 Steam Holiday Sale, cloud based gaming with Playstation Now, Valve's master plan for the Steam Machines, and enlist the Overblood Super Replay Group for help deciding our Game of the Year 2013 award. All this and more in this week’s edition!

     

     
    Theme Music is:
    "Play the Game" by Pocketmaster
    Additional Music is:
    "Theme from Call of Duty: Black Ops II" by Trent Reznor from the COD: Black Ops II OST
    1 hr 41 min
  • Backwards Compatible – Ep 15 – The Millennium Falcon
    Join the Millennium Falcon of podcast this week as we look forward to the holidays, laugh at Borderlands 2, cry at Bioshock Infinitie, embrace the calamity of Just Cause 2, bring back the League of Legends hour, and try to figure out what went wrong with Youtube! Plus you are all now honorary members of the Penrod family. One of us! One of us!

     

     
    Theme Music is:
    "Play the Game" by Pocketmaster
    Additional Music is:
    "God Only Knows" from the Bioshock Infinite OST
    1 hr 32 min
  • Backwards Compatible – Ep 14 – Guilty Pleasures
    Join the gang this week as we air out our dirty laundry and discuss the games we don't want others to know we play! It's wood cutting, children's TV shows, dancing, dude-bros, and much more on this week's edition of The Backwards Compatible Podcast you filthy casuals!

     

     
    Theme Music is:
    "Play the Game" by Pocketmaster
    Additional Music is:
    "Moonlight Shadow" by Missing Heart from the DDR 5th Mix Soundtrack
    1 hr 3 min
  • Backwards Compatible – Ep 13 – On A Scale Of One To Irreverent
    Join the gang this week as we discuss what we picked up for the Steam Autumn Sale and introduce our new rating system. Penrod goes from happy to rage in record time in Gotham City Imposters. David puts his sleuthing skills to test in L.A. Noire. Kyle justifies his purchase of Gone Home. Aaron finally plays Skyrim and breaks the fourth wall with The Stanley Parable. Plus everyone can't stop raving about Far Cry 3 and we can't help but discuss the train-wreck that was the VGX awards.

     

     
    Theme Music is:
    "Play the Game" by Pocketmaster
    Additional Music is:
    "Make It Bun Dem" from the Far Cry 3 OST
    1 hr 36 min
  • Backwards Compatible – Ep 12 – A Look Back At The 7th Gen
    Join the gang this week as we bid a fond farewell to the 7th Generation of gaming. We discuss our favorite games of the generation and the worst, plus look at trends that became popular and how they shaped gaming as a whole. And Kyle P. looks on disapprovingly with nothing to say because he's a PC elitist. All this and more on this week's edition!

     

     
    Theme Music is:
    "Play the Game" by Pocketmaster
    1 hr 11 min
  • Backwards Compatible – Ep 11 – These Happy Days




    Join the Gang this week as we discuss what we've been playing. Kyle forces David to buy Fallout 3 (at gunpoint), we continue the Dark Souls/Demon's Souls talk (INVISIBLE WALKWAYS!), keep erections at bay for Trackmania 2 (Hot Wheels for adults!), pronounce Volgarr the Viking (Biking), narrate The Stanley Parable (Blue Grass!), laugh at Crysis 2's A.I. again (Cloak Engaged!), and discuss strategies in Call of Juarez Gunslinger (Shoot 'em in the face!). Plus we determine if the Next-Gen Resolutiongate pandemic is just hyperbole and reminisce on Blockbuster's heyday.

     

     
    Theme Music is:
    "Play the Game" by Pocketmaster
    1 hr 20 min
  • Backwards Compatible – Ep 10 – Prepare to Die Edition
    The boys are back in town and the clown show is off hiatus as the gang regroups after a month long silence. Fear not! We kick things back into gear with another League of Legends hour including talk on new character, Jinx, and test Penrod on his knowledge of the lore of LOL. We also try to make sense of the convoluted Devil May Cry timeline, discuss the hyper-realistic horse controls in Shadows of the Colossus, and aggravating PvP matches in Demon's Souls. And finally we spend the last half of the podcast gushing over 2011's game of the year, Dark Souls. PREPARE TO DIE!

     

     
    Theme Music is:
    "Play the Game" by Pocketmaster

     
    Additional Music is:
    "Ornstein & Smough" from the Dark Souls Original Soundtrack
    1 hr 10 min

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Join four friends every week for a podcast that mixes high brow discussion about video games, both retro and modern, with plenty of low brow humor to reach that coveted wider audience and mass appeal.