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- Fatal Fury Special (SNES) and the Grand Theft Auto 6 Failure
This week, we talk about fighting games, Mai Shiranui, and the absolute best thing that could possibly happen to the video game industry in 2026.
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TW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruG
Podcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewanderer
TW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
1 hr 7 min - Battletoads (NES) and the Air Bud Retrospective
I like hard games. I think hard games are often very good. Here are a bunch of reasons we don't think Battletoads is very good beyond the first 3 stages.
Consequently, this also coincides with the reason why people actually think Battletoads is good, because the first three stages - the good ones - are the only ones most people actually ever saw.
Also they are rebooting Air Bud, I learned that today and now you have to as well.
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TW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruG
Podcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewanderer
TW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
1 hr 17 min - Resident Evil (PS1/GC) and the Farting Clowns
It must be a new year because we're doing survival horror! This is my actual first time with Resident Evil, and to get the full picture, I played both Chris and Jill's routes, and also played Jill's route in the Gamecube remake (even though I played the PC ports for all of them).
Maybe the world of survival horror isn't so bad.
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TW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruG
Podcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewanderer
TW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
1 hr 8 min - The Retro Breakdown 2025 Tier List
From Cool Spot to Mr. Driller 2 with a bunch of Mega Man games in between, we recap every game we played and podcasted in 2025!
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TW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruG
Podcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewanderer
TW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
1 hr 43 min - Home Alone (Sega Master System) and the 85% of Hot Topic Sales
Somehow, against all odds, Home Alone for the Sega Master System is one of the best Home Alone games I've ever played.
I know that's a low bar, but still, this game came out in Europe in 1993, well after the release of the second movie and an entirely new console generation, and somehow it hits.
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TW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruG
Podcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewanderer
TW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
1 hr 19 min - Mr. Driller 2 and the Resident Evil Bulk Purchase
The point of this week's episode is that Mr. Driller as a game is whatever, but the LORE IS DEEPER THAN YOU COULD POSSIBLY IMAGINE.
Also, I guess I'm just gonna play all the Resident Evil games now? I bought a bunch of them mid-podcast and am getting ready to stream the first one as I publish this.
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TW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruG
Podcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewanderer
TW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
52 min - Alleyway (Game Boy) and the Lazy Breakout
It's Breakout but if you put absolutely no effort into doing anything interesting or unique at all.
Ironically, this leads us into a whole discussion about how lazy game design was totally okay in 1989 because the unique thing about it was just the fact that you could play it on the go at all.
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TW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruG
Podcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewanderer
TW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
45 min - Chibi-Robo! (GC) and the Black Friday Work Stories
Before playing this game, the only thing I knew about it was "Divorce."
After playing this game, that may actually still be the only thing I remember.
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TW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruG
Podcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewanderer
TW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
1 hr 26 min - Mega Man Zero 4 (GBA) and the Kojima AI Friends
"I don't want to use AI, I just want it to be a friend that does my work for me, like a co-creator."
My Brother in Christ, that is WHAT USING AI IS. Have we learned NOTHING from Metal Gear Solid 2?
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TW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruG
Podcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewanderer
TW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
1 hr 18 min - Mario's Picross (Game Boy) and the King's Field
We played a bunch of different things for small amounts of time this week, so let's talk about Picross, random New York Times puzzles, King's Field, and a bunch of other things?
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TW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruG
Podcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewanderer
TW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
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About The Retro Breakdown
From the publisher's feed
Every week, Dean (twitch.tv/timewanderer) and Tom discuss current gaming news, and then check out some old (or sometimes new) piece of gaming history to see how it holds up, and test the strength of…
nostalgia.