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Retro Spectives

rspodcast.net

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Are classic games deserving of their praise? Or have the unwashed masses been blinded by nostalgia? On the Retro Spectives Podcast, we tell you why you're wrong about the games you love.
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Retro Game Club

Hugues & Rob

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Retro Game Club is a podcast about retro gaming with a focus on programming, emulation, and projects you can do at home. Each episode, we will have two games you can play with us and give us feedback before the next episode. We will also have a topic or project of the week that will be the focus of the conversation.
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Retro Warriors

Justin Baker

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Retro Warriors is a podcast about retro games hosted by Justin Baker and Chris Saturn. We cover all things retro, with a passion for the 8-bit and 16-bit eras of gaming.
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Retro Gaming Podcast about the best of gaming from the 80s, 90s, and 00s 🎮 Each episode covers a single retro video game. Not a review show, but a celebration of why these games deserve your attention, with some nostalgia and personal memories thrown in! Patrick Brickhouse hosts as special guests from all over the gaming community join in on the cozy conversation. If you're a fan of gaming on platforms such as NES, SNES, Sega Genesis or Mega Drive, PlayStation, N64, Saturn, GameCube, XBOX an ...
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A podcast which shares, discusses and analyzes the best in video game music from all different generations. Topics of discussion include: composition, melody, harmony, chords and rhythm, as well as technical aspects, such as hardware limitations and production. Enjoy a new episode every Monday!
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Retronauts

Retronauts

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The original classic gaming podcast continues its endless quest to explore the history of video games, one game at a time. Join hosts Jeremy Parish and Bob Mackey each week as they team up with a host of expert guests to chronicle the creations that have paved the way for today's hits. From forgotten black-and-white arcade machines to modern-day remakes, Retronauts spans more than four decades of vintage gaming greatness!
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A chapter by chapter, beat by beat analysis of classic Japanese Roleplaying Games (JRPG). We delve deep into the story, dialogue, game mechanics, music, influences, and themes. We've covered Xenogears, Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy VIII, Suikoden, Suikoden II, Xenosaga Episode I, Final Fantasy Tactics, and Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete. Yes, we will kill god.
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A quarterly podcast featuring roundtable discussion about retro and classic video games from the 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32/64-bit eras. Each episode, our crew picks a theme and reviews a selection of games that fit within said theme. Join us as we strive to bring you a great show that's both informative and entertaining.
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Dev Game Club

Brett Douville and Tim Longo

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Join hosts and industry veterans Brett Douville and Tim Longo as they discuss older titles and the impact they had on the games industry, as well as any lessons that could be taken away even today. Play along!
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An exploration of the history of video games told through the stories of the every day people who lived it. Join me along with a rotating cast of friends, family, gaming journalists, and industry types as we share personal recollections from the last thirty years of gaming, one story at a time.
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Square Roots - THE Classic RPG Podcast

John Brandon, Jim Banks, Matthew Van Zandt, Vanessa

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Square Roots is like a book club, but for classic RPGs! Each episode John, Matthew, Jim and Vanessa play through a chunkerino of one of your favorite RPGs, from Final Fantasy through Chrono Trigger. Are they experts? No. Are they qualified? Absolutely not. Are they good at RPGs? Probably not. But they're the fun kind of dumb, and that's what counts.
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A fun and silly discussion about video games (both retro and contemporary), video game movies, and pretty much anything related to video games. It is hosted by brothers Jay and Squidge (who may or may not be a cartoon wolf), and featuring the best guests around - including some real video game development legends. Whether it's an in-depth discussion about video games, films surrounding video games, or light-hearted nonsense and tangents, this may be the pod for you.
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Hinge Problems

Chris Pinner, Rudie Overton

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An hour-long discussion of war movies by 4 avowed leftists. A custom review system with every movie. War is bad, and yet movies show it, interesting. Previously: An obscure video games podcast.
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Everything 80s

Jamie Logie | 1980s Pop Culture & Nostalgia

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Welcome to Everything 80s — the ultimate podcast for fans of 1980s pop culture and retro nostalgia. Each week, we'll dive deep into the most iconic parts of the 1980s: unforgettable movies, legendary TV shows, classic toys, groundbreaking music, and the cultural moments that defined a generation. From Back to the Future to The Breakfast Club, from Transformers and He-Man to MTV, Nintendo, and Michael Jackson — if it happened in the 80s, we’re talking about it. Whether you grew up in the 1980 ...
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Retro Ramble

George McGhee & Charlie McGhee

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Retro Ramble is a movie podcast and blog from the Brothers McGhee. Join George and Charlie McGhee as they review the TV and Films of their youth and discuss why many are still relevant and worth revisiting today. Warning: contains explicit language and poor impressions.
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ATARI BYTES

William Pepper

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Remember those classic Atari 2600 games? They were sure fun to play, but didn't you ever wonder why they sent a plumber to take out Donkey Kong? What Yar was seeking revenge against? What made those robots go berserk? Me too? ATARI BYTES is more than a game review podcast. It's an exploration of the games to divine what exactly the story within the game is. And if we can't find those answers, we'll make 'em up.
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Two Guys & the '80s™

Two Guys and the '80s

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Welcome to Two Guys and the '80s™ - The ultimate podcast for 80's lovers! Lifelong friends Greg Rivera and Tom Salta take you on a journey through some of their favorite memories discussing what it was like for them growing up in the 1980's. Travel back in time as they have lively discussions about everything from early Video Games to TV shows, Movies, Toys, Commercials, Pop Culture and everything in between enhanced with entertaining sound clips that will transport you back to your favorite ...
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The official podcast of GameCola.net. Join our rotating cast of videogame fans as they laugh, cry, and sometimes even sing! Oh, and they occasionally talk about videogames. When they're not talking about Nicktoons or Nancy Drew.
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Outdated References is a show about all the old things that we love like retro video games, television and movies. Being busy with our day to day life, OutDateRef is an opportunity for long distance friends to gather, catch up, and share whatever interesting tibits that pop up every week.
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Dueling Decades

Dueling Decades

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Dueling Decades is the totally awesome adult retro game show you've been looking for! Listen as the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s square off and do battle! Because it's your history, we just fight for it! The rules of our game are simple! A coin flip shall decide who picks first, out of the 5 dueling decades categories (Movies, TV, Music, News, & Hot Products). The judge’s ruling will determine who wins each round, allowing the victor to choose the next available category. The first 3 rounds are w ...
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Fresh Quest

Fresh Quest

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Three great friends sort through the old bag of games that we feel nostalgic about from our childhood and determine how they have held up over the years. Out goal is to decide if they are still as Fresh as the day they came out, if they have gotten Stale, but still are okay, or if they have gotten Moldy and belong in the garbage can of history. Check in with us every 2 weeks on Wednesday for a new episode!
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It's down, down to wire, as Charlie and George are back in Bond territory, tackling 1987's The Living Daylights! They discuss the debut of (the very underrated) Timothy Dalton and taking Bond back to his gritty roots. There are the typical Bond tropes to cover, including memorable action sequences, dastardly henchmen, and a synth-heavy John Barry s…
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For our 200th episode Adam decided to join Russ and Nathan as we get a crash course on the Star Wars TCG and about his experience at the Star Wars Unlimited Galactic Championship 2025 in Las Vegas, then schools up about World of Warcraft gold. We also get Adam’s take on the Fantastic Four, Gilded Age (Squee,) and of course, this episode takes on St…
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Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we complete our series on a pair of empathy games, Papers, Please and Cart Life. We spend some more time with Melanie and her coffee hut before turning to our takeaways, shared between both games. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. …
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The Care Bears weren't just colorful, stuffed animals--they were one of the biggest cultural and business success stories of the 1980s. From a simple sketch to the eureka moment of their final creation, the story of the Care Bears is a testament to how to launch a child's brand with surgical precision. When they finally hit shelves in 1983, it didn…
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LATE SUMMER/EARLY AUTUMN OF ARCADE CONTINUES! Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Taito's spy action thriller that will literally crush you with excitement. Then stick around for Bonanza Bros., Sega's multiplayer co-op heist game! This weekend's Patreon Bonus Get episode will be BARADUKE — Namco's sci-fi action game, that introduced us all…
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It's been 8 years since the last podcast... or something like that. Anyway, sometimes we have to wait a long time to get our videogames, and that makes us have thoughts when they eventually come out. Join Joseph Martin, Blu Ryder, and James Pelster as they ponder such related topics as:- James gives a summary on Hollow Knight to get us up to speed …
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All that glitters! Join Stuart Gipp and Dave Bulmer for a casual, free-wheeling discussion of the wacky world of gaming’s greatest collectables. Retronauts is made possible by listener support through Patreon! Support the show to enjoy ad-free early access, better audio quality, and great exclusive content. Learn more at http://www.patreon.com/retr…
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Kat, Nadia, Eric, and Victor discuss their favorite weddings in RPGs, whether they serve the plot or they just think they’re neat! If you get married in FFXIV you get a sick Chocobo mount (the good kind of sick). Does marrying Shane in Stardew Valley fix him? No, girl, run! Tune in to live recordings of the show every Saturday morning at https://ww…
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Heavy Rain: Part 3 - Left Trigger Inner Monologue About Ball Crushing Square Roots - Episode 479 Quest Log: 0:19:10 Level Up: 2:11:00 It's Final Fantasy Heavy Rain Time. It's what Strangers in Paradise is like. It's also a prequel to Final Fantasy X. The Origami Killer is secretly Sin. And this time you can seduce Louis CK! And dance sexy for him! …
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This is not a place of contention. It’s a place of listening, and learning while we’re removing the lesbians, damseling workers, assuring the quality of our plumbing, destroying a different black dragon, growing dirt guys, talking to eggs, waiting for a heel to turn face, requiring god juice to live, seeking Althena’s light, understanding the gobli…
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A huge part of video game history is context. Context surrounding a game's development, context surrounding a game's release, context of the time and place the game was made during. Context informs how we interpret the past. This week on the show I am joined by author and journalist Ross Benes to talk about his book "1999: The Year Low Culutre Conq…
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Tails is going on an Adventure in the book club this month, and he's bringing all his (game) gear with him! Find out more about this curious and rarely discussed foray into the metroidvania genre, where no other Sonic the Hedgehog game has been before, or since. Plus, we do our usual Pod 'em Up appraisal of Gamescom (i.e. mostly just listing some b…
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is without a doubt one of the most influential video games ever made. Unlike some titles that struggled with the transition to 3D, Zelda absolutely smashed it, setting the blueprint for what successful open world level design looked like for many years to come. It introduced (or popularised) many mechanics, incl…
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You're listening to a free preview of Retronauts 712: Steven Spielberg's Gaming Fascination. To hear the rest, and get two exclusive extra episodes every month, access to our previous Patreon-exclusive episodes, and early access to ad-free podcasts, please visit the official Retronauts Patreon at patreon.com/retronauts.…
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It's again the doldrums of summer this week, so we are reaching into the Discord Game Club interview archive. This time around, BioStats and Calamity Nolan interview one Timothy Longo, who happens to also co-host Dev Game Club. Funny how that works. We expect to return next week. Twitch: timlongojr and twinsunscorp Discord [email protected]
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When it came out in the summer of 1983, War Games was seen as a fun, summertime popcorn movie. But was the premise of this film starring Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy more realistic than we realized? Welcome to a free preview of the Everything 80s Movie Review Podcast, which you can find at Patreon.com/80s. In this episode, we look back on the …
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LATE SUMMER/EARLY AUTUMN OF ARCADE CONTINUES! Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Konami's first horizontal shooter, plus its more challenging follow-up. Then stick around for Anteater, a game about an anteater who is incredibly vulnerable for some reason to... ants?! This weekend's Patreon Bonus Get episode will be PU-LI-RU-LA — Taito's s…
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They grow Geoff Keighleys in Europe too?! A bevy of announcements have poured in from Gamescom so Kat, Nadia, and Eric are here to sift through it all and give you the straight dope. Tune in to live recordings of the show every Saturday morning at https://www.twitch.tv/bloodgodpod, subscribe for bonus episodes and discord access at https://www.patr…
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Another year, another sizzling report (plus developer interviews) from Japan’s largest indie game festival from our senior indie game correspondent Diamond Feit. Retronauts is made possible by listener support through Patreon! Support the show to enjoy ad-free early access, better audio quality, and great exclusive content. Learn more at http://www…
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What’s up pixel perverts? Today we’re blighting the surface for undesirables, rapidly switching discs, realizing the guards can hit, scraping metal out of the dirt, locating the only doctor in the world, experiencing goblin poetry, refusing to serve drinks to miners, dreaming of D Block, goofing into a slur, beating the prisoners, staring down a mo…
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Square Roots - Episode 478 Quest Log: 0:23:30 Level Up: 1:51:00 CONTENT WARNING: Suicide talk from 30:00 to 45:00 Today's episode of Square Roots is brought to you by the latest in Bidet technology, BidAi. And once you feel car-wash clean back there, please enjoy this essential chunker of David Cage's bonkers classic adventure game, Heavy Rain. The…
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We delve the depths of Tallon IV on this episode of Still Loading. I'm joined by returning guest to the podcast Chris (aka the British Bond Addict) to talk Metroid Prime. Metroid Prime is a game that has eluded me for a while. I first played it over a decade ago but never got around to beating it even though I made it over 90% through the game. Tha…
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Russ and Nathan catch up with our feelings with James Gun's Superman and Marvels' take on the Fantastic Four. Nathan picks up some comic books and we just talk about the general annoyance with comic book collecting in general. But then we get to talk about the the new season of Star Trek Strange New World. Man I still love that show! --Nathan Apple…
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Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we continue our series on empathy games, returning to discuss a little more about Papers, Please before digging into Cart Life a bit. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: A bit more of Papers, Please and a little bit …
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Even though part of it was considered the Bronze Age, the comic books of the 1980s were like a golden age for kids who grew up during that time. It was the decade that saw massive changes to how comics were distributed, but also a time that saw a significant shift in how comic book stories were told. The big two--Marvel and DC--were still on top, b…
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LATE SUMMER/EARLY AUTUMN OF ARCADE CONTINUES! Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Atari's magnum opus of vector-based gaming. Then stick around for Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters, an isometric Gauntlet-like with a '50s sci-fi theme! This weekend's Patreon Bonus Get episode will be PRISMATIC SOLID — a geometry-destroying verti…
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More like Lame Key Cards. Kat, Nadia, Eric, and Victor discuss the pros and cons of physical vs digital and what it means specifically to the history and culture of RPGs. Could it be that sometimes BOTH approaches are appropriate and that instead of pitting them against each other we should be addressing the underlying corporate systems that preven…
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It’s the revenge of Shinobi… podcasts! Join Stuart Gipp, Diamond Feit, John Linneman and Thomas Nickel for a second look at the far-from-average Joe. Retronauts is made possible by listener support through Patreon! Support the show to enjoy ad-free early access, better audio quality, and great exclusive content. Learn more at http://www.patreon.com…
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You’re prisoners of foolish ambition. You’re consumers of the pod, an episode in which we’re smelling so sweetly, waiting for Kyle to say it, finally realizing what we should have known, using ass-beating thoughts as a coping mechanism, fighting out of duty, living in the present, becoming a character, deploying a maximally appropriate sound effect…
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Heavy Rain: Part 1 - Origammy Square Roots - Episode 477 Quest Log: 0:26:25 Level Up: 2:43:04 Are you ready to be Caged? That's right, it's David Cage time! The notorious director of Quantic Dreams's games! And you all voted for us to play Heavy Rain for some reason when Fable III and Enslaved: Odyssey to the West are right there! But that's okay, …
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Jeremy Parish spins up the turntable to take you—yes, you!—through two hours of recent classic game music releases, including a ton of Konami NES chiptunes, official Super Mario jazz arrangements, Super Hang-On, and more. Play it loud! Retronauts is made possible by listener support through Patreon! Support the show to enjoy ad-free early access, b…
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More Zelda cartoons can't be a bad thing right? Joining me is my co-host with the mo-host Dexter Morrill to break down the 8th episode of the Zelda cartoon, Doppleganger. We talk about goth Zelda, Link's Kink's, uncomfortable kisses and Bob Ducca's list of bizarre ailments. As usual, what does that actually mean!? You will have to listen and find o…
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For various reasons, many RPG franchises have gone dormant over the past decade. In this episode, we discuss the most popular franchises on life support, and which ones we think could potentially get a new release. Don’t have a Patreon account but want more access to more Thirsty Mage episodes? Subscribe to our Spotify Membership and get access to …
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