Retro Blissed

Simpson’s month begins with The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants, the first NES Simpson’s game. Not gonna lie, this one is rough. The episode or the game? Listen to find out. Spoiler: it’s both.

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Not your momma’s Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong for the Gameboy is perhaps the most humbly titled game on the handheld, offering far more than most would expect. In many ways, you could say it’s the exact opposite of Retro Blissed.

The guys cover Captain America and the Avengers for Sega Genesis, and briefly discuss the NES version due to some serious game mix-up on Johnny’s part. Stick around for a “special” bliss quiz at the end, as Marvel Month concludes in a way that most certainly would not make Disney or Stan Lee proud.

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Marvel Month continues with yet another Spider-Man game. This time it’s Mysterio’s Menace, the first Spider-Man game on the Gameboy Advance. Will it be as surprisingly good as Sinister Six for the Gameboy Color? Will it be as infuriating as Silver Surfer? Will it be somewhere in-between, trapped in an eternal Hell known only to Trevor and Johnny and others plagued with gout, plantar fasciitis, peripheral neuropathy, and near crippling arthritis? Man that was a really honest sentence right there. Also this game is Tim’s pick.

Trevor and Johnny tackle the notorious Silver Surfer for NES as Marvel month continues! Will they find the difficulty punishing? And what about that soundtrack? All these questions and more answered on Silver Surfer’s next exciting adventure: The Rise and Fall of Retro Blissed!

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Marvel Month begins with Spider-Man 2 for Gameboy Color, which has you web slinging your way across 6 levels to save poor Aunt May who has been kidnapped. Will Tim, Trevor, and Johnny like it? Will Trevor ever be able to pronounce “sinister six” without screwing it up? Unlikely on that last one.

The Lost Levels, aka Super Mario Bros 2 in Japan, is the hardest Mario game by a massive margin. What happens when Trevor and Johnny face such a formidable challenge? I think we all know the answer to this. Why pretend?

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The guys tackle this launch game for the GBA. Or does F-Zero Maximum Velocity tackle them? Man, these blurbs have gotten very lazy.

In the Hunt is a 1993 Irem arcade game often described as a mix between R Type and Metal Slug, made by the same team who made Metal Slug 3 years later. Will Trevor and Johnny torpedo their way through this game, or sink into despair?

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Join Tim, Trevor, and Johnny as they cover Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, the game that combines Tetris with Street Fighter, sort of. There’s also lots of things said in this episode (only by Johnny and Trevor) that no one should be proud of.