Cocktail Mode: Retro Games, Cocktails and Banter

We welcome a guest co-host to Cocktail Mode this week with the aim of bringing some insight to the sport behind the game as we talk about the BTCC in both it's video game and real world variants. Cocktails this week: Andy's Cocktail Dave's Cocktail Chris's Cocktail

You may not know of Football Champ (AKA Hat Trick Hero) but rest assured we spend plenty of time talking about FIFA, ISS, Sensible Soccer, and just about every other football game of the previous century - and a couple from this - before eventually choosing two drinks to accompany Taito's bonkers arcade soccer game. Andy's Cocktail Dave's Cocktail #Podcast #Cocktails #RetroGames

We're of to Strangereal to visit Mobius 1 and the rest of the Ace Combat crew this episode, with the usual few detours en route - that this week include, among others, the musical stylings of Roxette! Andy's cocktail this week And Dave's   #Retrogaming #Cocktail #Podcast  

Alongside the beast riding adventures of Ax Battler et al we'll be discussing all the usual beat-em-up suspects and some much less well known examples of the genre. Cocktails this episode: Andy's Cocktail Dave's Cocktail #Retrogaming #Cocktail #Podcast

This time round we've experimented by choosing a game that neither of us had played before - Konamis 'hidden gem': Rocket Knight Adventures! Cocktails this episode: Andy's Cocktail Dave's Cocktail #Retrogaming #Cocktail #Podcast

For the first time on Cocktail Mode we're discussing a game that one of us hadn't played prior to selection for this episode: Toejam & Earl on the Mega Drive! Did we think it was Gnarly (sorry) or Heinous (sorry) and did we both find a bodacious (really, very sorry) cocktail to pair with it? Listen in and find out. Andy's Cocktail Dave's Cocktail #Retrogaming #Cocktail #Podcast

NBA Jam drains it from downtown into our tenth episode that rapid veers from basketball to just about every other sport - videogame and otherwise - under the sun. Basketball fans of a sensitive disposition can look away now! Cocktails in this episode include... Andy's Cocktail Dave's Cocktail #Retrogaming #Cocktail #Podcast

Some say it's the best PC game ever made, some say it's almost a genre unto itself, some say "Why would you make a game this hard? Are you nuts!?". All sorts of other turn based games get a mention as Dave and I discuss, and try to pair a cocktail with, Julian Gollop's strategy masterpiece. Cocktails featured in this episode: Andy's Cocktail Dave's Cocktail #Retrogaming #Cocktail #Podcast

In a change to the advertised episode we're talking about Tetris this time out: The game, the film, the phenomenon. Cocktails this episode: Andy's Cocktail Dave's Cocktail #Retrogaming #Cocktail #Podcast

Dave waves the flag for the glorious PC gaming master-race, Andy rants about the quality of stories in games, and we even take the opportunity to give Portal 2 an off topic piece of our mind... all while discussing as many of the 30 Resident Evil games as possible. Oh... and cocktails!  Andy's Cocktail Dave's Cocktail #Retrogaming #Cocktail #Podcast

Join us on a trip to New Washington and beyond as we follow Conrad B. Hart on his stunningly crafted adventure. We'll discuss ports, remakes, censorship, sequels and - of course - THAT door! Dave and Andy even manage to come from broadly the same direction when choosing their cocktails to pair with this 1992 masterpiece.  Cocktails from this episode: Andy's Cocktail Dave's Cocktail #Retrogaming #C...

Drop in to the late nineties with Andy & Dave as we discuss the beauty of THPS, the art of the 'Strawpedo', the majesty of California Games, and the shear abject horror of having to listen to the The Suicide Machines' "New Girl" for the first time in twenty years.  Cocktails from this episode: Andy's Cocktail Dave's Cocktail   Skol -  https://www.carlsbergbritvic.co.uk/products/skol/skol/?CKey...

Namco's classic lightgun arcade series is the focus of this episode - with Barbarian, Hitman, John Woo movies and Lebowski's bar in Glasgow featuring among the many obstacles to us sticking to the point! Cocktails from this episode: Andy's Cocktail Dave's Cocktail #Retrogaming #Cocktail #Podcast

Is Nico Collard really that horrible? Is George Stobbard secretly a pr**k? And are there any cocktails that we can somehow pair with gaming history's most annoying goat? Give us 59 minutes of your time and the answer to all these questions (and more) will become clear! Cocktails from this episode: Andy's Cocktail Dave's Cocktail #Retrogaming #Cocktail #Podcast

Minnie Driver, Motorway Service Stations, and (of course) Turbo Esprit all feature in this episodes conversation about Taito's brilliant cop chase game - we even try and settle the decades old argument of which was better: ZX Spectrum or Amstrad CPC464? Cocktails from this episode: Andy's Cocktail Dave's Cocktail #Retrogaming #Cocktail #Podcast

While reminiscing about the all-conquering fighting game Dave and I touch on Arcade Etiquette, Single Player modes, Kylie's posterior, and THAT movie! We even eventually get around to pairing Street Fighter 2 with a couple of cocktails! Andy's Cocktail Dave's Cocktail #Retrogaming #Cocktail #Podcast