Retro ’Rents

Hosts on Deck: Al and Travis   Games We've Been Playing: Pinball FX3 - Al's in a tournament! No Man's Sky Dwarf Fortress: Adventure Mode   Upcoming releases of interest: Games with Gold- Prison Architect (Interested to see the console version), Livelock for XB1, Lego Starwars 3 and Sega Classic Collection: Monster World (this one sounds cool) Dragon Quest 11 (coming to PC and PS4...innnteresting)...

Hosts on Deck: Al, Kyle and Travis   Games We've Been Playing: Guns, Gore and Cannoli 2 Dead Cells  No Man's Sky Autoduel - Origin Classic! ESO News! (newwws newwws newws echo echo) ESO: Wolfhunters hits this week  eSports - Smash Con this past weekend Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth hits this week.  Question of the Bi-Week: What retro arcade experience do you want to share with your children/loved o...

Hosts on Deck: Al and Kyle (Travis is on vacation!)   Games We've Been Playing: Star Tropics (via the NES Classic) Super Mario 3D World (Wii U) Titan's Quest Eternal: The Card Game News! (newwws newwws newws echo echo) No Man's Sky Next (Al's take after 15 hours of play)  eSports - Overwatch Finals LIVE on ESPN! Switch Online Pre-Order available on Amazon/Gamestop Question of the Bi-Week: What vid...

Hosts on Deck:  Al, Kyle, and Travis together again!  Mag Games we're playing and things we're watching:  FF7, Moss, Hero-U, Magic the Gathering, America's Got Talent, Ken Burns documentaries Upcoming releases of interest: Game Pass - Vermintide 2, ES: Oblivion and ESO EA Access - Sims 4, Battlefield 1 upcoming: Madden 19 (8/2), NBA Live 19 (8/31) Switch - Octopath Traveler out today! My brother i...

Hosts on Deck:  Al, Other Al, and Travis   Games we're playing:  Quest for Glory Anthology, Vampyr, Sea of Thieves, Knights of the Old Republic, Final Fantasy 7   News:     This week we cover everything that caught our eye at E3 this year. Al covers the XBox, Al V (special guest) covers Switch and other items that got his attention, and Travis handles the Sony reveals. So much cool stuff coming, a...

Hosts on Deck:  Al   What's up everyone! In our first of soon-to-be-many special episodes, I take some time out from our usual podcast to sit down with some of the awesome minds that bring us the games we grew up playing or the games released today that have been inspired by them. This episode I shoot the breeze with Dave Welch, Lead Developer and Mastermind behind the Boot Hill Heroes series, a w...

Hosts on Deck:  Al, Kyle, and Travis   Games we're playing:  Final Fantasy VII, SF2 Turbo,  Elder Scrolls Online   News:    Upcoming releases of interest: Hyrule Warriors - Switch (definitive edition, includes 3ds material) Little Nightmares Complete edition (switch) Megaman 2 and X re-release on carts from iam8bit - NEAT!.but 100 BUCKS?! State of Decay 2 next week News NES Maker for NES games (no...

  Hosts on Deck:  Al, Kyle, and Travis   Games we're playing:  Final Fantasy VII, Total War: Thrones of Britannia, Elder Scrolls Online   News: Billy Mitchell’s scores erased UPDATE: Billy has reached out on various social media about some upcoming event where he plans on showing evidence to clear his name. Nintendo getting sued over the design of the swithc https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017...

Hosts on Deck:  Al and Kyle (Travis out sick, feel better homie!)   Games we're playing:  Skyrim VR, Pillars of Eternity, Shroud of the Avatar!   News Billy Mitchell’s scores erased Officially makes Steve Wiebe the FIRST person to do a million point game Neo Geo releasing a ‘Classic’ Edition! HYPED (kyle is anyway....and Al too!) Would love a TG16 one :) n64 RetroBlaster - Thoughts (We think it’s...

Hosts on Deck:  Al, Travis and Kyle   Games we're playing: Beyond Oasis, Ni No Kuni 2, Final Fantasy 7, Disgaea, Pillars of Eternity   News:    PAX East this week! - Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze on Switch, along with the new Wolfenstein. Cosmo’s Quick Stop (Time Management, Truck Stop in Space game, looks like loads of charm and fun) Beamdog releases Neverwinter Nights Enhanced Edition (sam...

Hosts on Deck:  Al, Travis and Kyle   Games we're playing: Sea of Thieves, Pillars of Eternity, Beyond Oasis, Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank   Retro News:  Sea of Thieves Launches! Server overload and launch nite issues. Breath of the Wild wins Game of the Year at Game Dev awards Ni No Kuni 2 racking in great reviews Hitman Spring Pack free, second chapter of the game taking place in italy, rel...

Hosts on Deck: Al, Travis, Kyle Games We're Playing: Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Lots of PSVR, Monster Hunter World, SMT: Nocturne    Retro and Game News: - Review of Nintendo Direct Announcements.  - Fortnite pulling ahead in the Battle Royale arena  - The Games Blame Game -- Our take on Washington DC, once again, trying to blame games for everything going wrong.    The Savepoint Question of the W...

Welcome to our Tenth Episode! Lucky number 10 was not the luckiest podcast. Al's mic explodes about a half hour through, quite a thing to hear! We also talk about:  1. Super Bowl anticipation in the first half (then the results in the second half! See? Time Travel.) 1a. Philly's Crisco Challenge! 2. Assassin's Creed Origins, Al beat it, considers it the best in the series (despite his utter love f...

The 'Rents bring in the new year! Kyle, Al and Travis talk about their christmas holiday, their individual game hauls (and that of the kidlets as well!) We review our SavePoint Short Play (Cyborg Justice on Genesis) and our Long Play (Robotrek on Super NES). We also review YOUR answers for our Retro Question of the Bi-Week: What is the first game that had a crafting/cooking system/element that you...

In our eigth episode, we have some fun with our Retro Question of the Bi-Week thanks to our great SavePoint members responses. We talk about the game releases that surprised us in a great way, and the ones that let us down in a bad way. We bust on Kyle for more Dad jokes, and talk about the many shortcomings of our recent SavePoint Short Play: Golgo 13 - Top Secret Episode, and Kyle's complete ina...

In our seventh episode we discuss the recent EA / Bungie Microtransactions debacle, some fun changes ahead at our facebook group The Savepoint (tiny.cc/savepoint) and show some serious love for our SavePoint Long Play this month: Shin Megami Tensai: Nocturne! We chat about our Thanksgiving, fun adventures with the family, and the games we can't get enough of right now! We hope you enjoy it! Don't...

THE TRIO ARE BACK IN ACTION! In our sixth episode we celebrate the return of Travis! We talk about recent games we're playing (PALADINS!!!) Al gives his thoughts on Assassin's Creed: Origins, and how it teaches us to never miss with Hippos, because they WILL rampage through a nearby village. We talk about games that gave us "the real feelz", and dive in to the SavePoint's short and long play's for...

In our harrowing halloween themed fifth episode, we talk about family halloween trips and planning, the unexpected dangers of shower ceilings that rain syringes, Games that kept us up all night back in the day, Smash Brothers fun, the unexpected gem of a long play that was Clock Tower, and the stinker that was Fester's Quest.

In our fourth episode, we talk about the new platformer Cuphead, which leads us into other hard games *coughDarkSoulscough*. We also talk a little Mad Max, the latest short plays and long play at The SavePoint (Neutopia, Monster Party, and Clock Tower) and we also have a new Retro Question of the Bi-Week at The SavePoint! We hope you enjoy it! Once again, big thanks and shoutout to the Everyday Ga...

Tandy 1000?  BBS? Quake 2?! What is the 90s? Retrorents Bonus Mini-Episode 01! We have been having some technical issues and some personal issues causing us to fall behind. We are releasing this minicast episode that was recorded on the fly. We will be recording again Sunday with new releases coming next Wednesdays! Stay tuned and thanks for your patience!!

In Episode 3 we talk about the game Con that Travis and Kyle went to the weekend of Sept 9th, Retro News and the Retro Question of the week. We also review our previous short play, The Guardian Legend, and we talk about our current long and short plays for the next round of games at www.facebook.com/groups/thesavept   Question for the next two weeks: What game gave you the "feels"? As in, what gam...

In our second episode we talk about what we've been watching lately (SPOILER ALERT: Game of Thrones finale and Castlevania (netflix series) are discussed in detail!), River City Ransom (our recent short play on The Savepoint), Sid Meier's Pirates (our long play for last month on The Savepoint), our favorite RPGs, and the upcoming short and long plays for the next play period. Shout outs to Houston...

Welcome to the Rentro Rents episode 800-799! On this exciting episode, our tri-hero team discusses their origin story! We talk parenting with Binding of Isaac, 'Book club for gaming' past quick game picks and current picks. Long play game pick. Some Game of Thrones (no spoilers), Dr. Who and games we currently are playing! Join is in our inaugural episode of the Retro Rents!