Games We Grew Up With

It’s a very special NEW EPISODE DAY! Check out the first episode of our new bonus series, “Chris’s Tech Talk”! In these episodes, Host Chris will be joined by various guests to talk about the technology that goes into video games, and the challenges that developers face bringing their visions to reality! For our first installment, Chris is following up our Chuck Yeager’s Air Combat episode with a...

HIYAAA!  To quote Tank from The Matrix, “It’s a very exciting time!”  This episode is the reason that GWGW exists in the first place, as Hosts Chris and Katie review one of their all-time favorite games from their childhood, Gunstar Heroes on the Sega Genesis! Jump in and take a listen as they break down the Clue-style cast of characters (Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Black… such cre...

Round One… FIGHT!  It’s into the battle arena for Hosts Chris and Katie, as they foray into a fighting game for the first time on the show.  Yoshimitsu pogo-sticking on his sword, Nightmare being a… well, nightmare, and Voldo being whatever the heck Voldo is. This one is more in Katie’s wheelhouse, and was a much larger part of being a game she grew up with, so it’s a chance for Chris to...

Our throttles are at 100%, afterburners are on, and we’re back with a special guest to talk about one of the best flight simulators of all time, Chuck Yeager’s Air Combat! This episode, we’re chatting with the host of a great retro gaming channel on Twitch, GamingAtTheEdge, who brings us a perfect background of video gaming and real-world flying to break down all of the great things about this cla...

Donkey and Diddy!  Cranky and Candy!  The whole Kong crew!  (And hey, don’t forget Funky!)  It’s DONKEY KONG COUNTRY time, on the Super Nintendo!  We’re rolling and jumping and launching our way through this jungle classic this week, and it’s barrels of fun (ba-dum-tss!). Swing on by as hosts Chris and Katie break it down, with a special guest-hosting appearance from Produ...

It’s here!  Episode 10!  Double digits!  And what better way to handle that than to dive into one of the greatest game series out there, right from the very beginning?  It’s FINAL FANTASY, 1 and 2!  For some reason, we decided it would be great to celebrate it by doing TWO different 25-hour RPGs and shove them into one big episode! These are classic games from a classic se...

And now, for a very special episode of Games We Grew Up With… FINAL FANTASY!  All of them! From Firion in FF2 to Cloud in FF7, Terra in 6 to Lightning in 13, and Tactics to the MMOs, Final Fantasy has been impacting the world of RPGs for nearly 35 years. As our Hosts Chris and Katie have played many of them over the years, they decided to do one giant “rose-tinted episode” about the series as...

“Ecco, PLEASE!” … for those who watched Host Katie stream this episode’s game, Ecco the Dolphin for the Sega Genesis, you heard that phrase MANY times.  After many (many) weeks of putting it off, Chris and Katie are diving in and learning the ins and outs of this classic.  The beautiful music and the playful graphics, of course!  But also, the incredibly frustrating controls and lac...

Hit that skate, bro! Chris and Katie are back to take us on a nostalgic journey down the half-pipe and grinding the rails on Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, the absolute classic skateboard and skate-punk game for the Playstation 1 in 1999 (and the brand-new remake!).  Going through the skate park, downtown San Francisco, Area 51, and more, they’ll break down the grab tricks, the kickflips, and all th...

The name’s Up With… Games We Grew Up With. It’s Episode 007, which of course means we HAD to revisit the absolute classic multiplayer shooter from its era, GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo 64!  From Severnaya to the Facility, the Klobb to Proximity Mines, Paintball Mode to Golden Guns, hosts Chris and Katie dive deep into this game that took the world by storm in 1997. Sit back, relax with your...

Welcome to the show!  If you love retro video games, if you love some good banter, and you love laughing at people occasionally making fools of themselves, this is the podcast for you!  Subscribe and give it a listen!

It’s time to hop onto our motorcycles (whether the Shuriken 400 or Diablo 1000 N) and hit the road for some high-speed, chain-whipping, cop-avoiding, bike-popping action with 1992’s Road Rash II on the Sega Genesis! In this episode, Chris and Katie navigate us through this classic and its blend of adrenaline, frustration, and yelling at the TV and each other growing up.  Take a listen as they...

It’s-a me, Mario!  Chris and Katie are back and this time it’s to jump into the adventures of the world’s most popular plumber as he makes his first foray into a Role-Playing Game! In this extra-long special episode, our hosts talk about our team of heroes (Mario, Bowser, Peach, and new additions Mallow and Geno) as they work to defeat Smithy, but also discuss RPGs in general, the influence t...

It’s time for Chris and Katie to show off their musical chops! This episode, they’re going back to 1999 and rocking out with PaRappa the Rapper’s lesser-known sequel, Um Jammer Lammy for the PlayStation! They’ll be talking about their memories of the game, they might drop a Blockbuster Video reference in there, and they’ll share a bit about just how far rhythm games have come in the years since th...

Chris and Katie are back at it with their retro video gaming nostalgia, this time with a classic PlayStation 2 platformer, Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy! The first installment of one of Katie’s favorite trilogies of all time, this 2001 Naughty Dog-developed title has everything you’d want in a platformer.  Running and jumping, punching and shooting, fire and ice levels… and a healthy a...

Chris and Katie return for another retro game review, and this time it’s Sega’s 1995 run-and-gun platformer hit, Vectorman! Listen as they discuss all of the gritty, green, and gun-slinging action of this console classic. The two hosts will dive back in time in their “rose-tinted glasses” segment and share their memories of the game, how they think Young Chris and Young Katie would have scored it,...

Welcome to the show!  As Chris and Katie kick off their journey through their video-gaming youth, they are starting with a classic… Earthworm Jim.  This Sega Genesis title from 1994 is full of vivid colors, cartoony artwork, fantastic music, strange enemies, and above all… a giant worm in a super-suit! In this episode, we learn about our two sibling hosts, why they’re starting a podcast,...