It has been a turbulent couple of weeks in the retro gaming world. The Coleco Chameleon controversy exploded in the wake of the New York Toy Fair, and we're ready to pick at the scraps like the vultures we are. In fact, we've got a new hardware announcement of our own! We're also taking a look at our favorite games that epitomized the concept of walking to the right and punching people in the face for this episode's top ten Beat 'Em Ups countdown.

Intro: 0:00
Shovel Knight discussion: 9:32
The bizarre tale of the Retro VGS/Coleco Chameleon: 25:41
Coleco Chameleon updates: 1:48:55
Magnavox Iguana announcement: 1:54:23
Top Ten Beat 'Em Ups: 2:01:45
Top Ten results and farewell: 3:30:39

Episode 33: Top 10 Beat 'Em Ups or "New York Toy Fail"

Tim, Andy, Rod, and Dougie... They're the Super Podcast Brothers! Each monstrous podcast comes packed with hours of lovingly crafted retro gaming content. From obscure Atari 2600 games to Japanese import coin-op, Super Podcast Bros. aims to be an all-encompassing retro gaming audio feast that engages the curiosities of hardcore retro enthusiasts while remaining accessible to younger generations and community newcomers. Stay classic!

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There is a reason you don't often see movie-based video games being included on gaming "best of" lists. More often than not, a movie license is just an excuse for a publisher to make a quick buck off of name recognition alone . The list of crappy movie-based video games is long and varied, but we're aiming to identify the games that did right by their respective cinematic properties; giving fans a quality complement to their film franchise fandom. We're back, and we've added to new voices to SPB crew! Come along for our discussion of the top ten movie based games on this episode of Super Podcast Brothers!

Episode 73: Top Ten Movie Based Games

Over the last two years, the Nintendo Switch has slowly become the go-to source for retro gaming on modern console hardware. Gone are the days of waiting patiently for Virtual Console updates that rarely came. In it's place is a steady stream of arcade gems, an on-demand NES library, and plenty of retro gaming anthologies and compilations.  That's right, we're leaving the comfy confines of our decades old legacy hardware to play some vintage games on modern technology.

Episode 72: Retro Gaming on Nintendo Switch

While 2018 wasn't our most active year, we still have plenty of gaming memories to look back on. Sometimes, it was a newly discovered game, and other times we were falling in love with old favorites all over again. For Tim, it was a questionable 80's movie tie-in, while Andy finally understood why a classic Nintendo franchise is so universally beloved. Come along and join us for our fifth annual end of year special!

Episode 71: 2018 Year End Special

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In gaming's early days, sometimes the only information you could find on a game was it's packaging. The internet wasn't in our pockets with highly analytical reviews just a few button presses away. No, we'd often take a blind leap of faith and hope that our hard-earned cash was going to good use with the latest purchases. On this episode, we're counting down our favorite seventy video game covers. Some of these would lead us to the purchase classic games that would forever be a part from of collections... Others, not so much. Yet, there's still plenty to discuss!

Episode 70: Top 70 Video Game Cover Art

Beware, we live! After another long hiatus, we’re back to do a little podcast housekeeping. This irregular episode of the show sees us catching up on news and happenings from the last three months and discussing what’s in store for the future. You’ll also hear us reveal which games we’d feature in our “dream arcades”; the coin-op titles that we’d choose to play and love forever.

Episode 33: Top 10 Beat 'Em Ups or "New York Toy Fail"

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