Growing Up '80s

Get Spaced-Out with Robin and Darren as they talk about Classic Space LEGO and some of their most favourite "space" video games from the '80s. Join the boys as they hurtle their memories back through the vast void of nothing as the celestial worlds fly past with incredible physics simulation, gadgets and craziness. Maybe they're all part of a modular building system in the heavens... or maybe they're just having too much fun.

Dive deep with Robin and Darren as they explore the 1981 classic video game from Konami, Frogger! Sure, there are nibbles, lilly-pads, lady frogs and all you'd expect. But there are also a few retro '80s home ports and the first ever Growing Up '80s best-of-three tournament!

We're talking about the video games that amazed us when they first saw them. Not the best video games ever, maybe they didn’t end up being our favourite games even. But there was something about them, when we first saw them, that still stays with us.

It’s the summer of 1984 and Ghostbusters is not only the hit movie in the theatres, but the soundtrack featuring Ray Parker Jr’s Ghostbusters Theme is racing up the charts! Join Robin and Darren as they go on a musical journey back to the basement, listening to the Ghostbusters cassette on the old boombox.

The Commodore 64 User’s Guide guides Darren and Robin as they podcast about their favourite 8-bit computer. First steps in learning to program, game development, computer art and music, and lots of other related stories from the ’80s.

It's all about UFO abductions as Robin and Darren talk about the classic Choose Your Own Adventure book "Inside UFO 54-40" and the Atari 2600 game Cosmic Ark.

On the first episode of the new podcast (Growing Up 80s) Robin and Darren get it on like Donkey Kong and then phone-it-home just like E.T. the Extra Terrestrial.