The Retrograde: A Video Game Podcast

March is the month of food-based videogames as we open up the #BattleRoyaleWithCheese with a look at the fabled McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure! Is this romp with Ronald a worthwhile adventure, or should it be left in the forest to be lost to time along with the rest of the Fry Kids? Along the way we find time to recap WandaVision, and talk about our growing obsessions with Valorant and Call of...

For our last week of FeBOOary we bunker up in Antarctica as we look back at the 2002 game based on the 1982 John Carpenter classic: The Thing! Can we trust this game to be as great as we remember, or was there always a bad time lurking somewhere beneath the surface? Before we decide, we make time to recap the recent Nintendo Direct, draw a winner for our Little Nightmares 2 giveaway, and try to ho...

In our third week of FeBOOary -- the scariest month of the year -- we choose to look past our retro collection to try out a brand new release: it's Little Nightmares 2! With all of its hype this week, we figure out whether this Tarsier Studios release would've been a classic game back in our childhood. But before attempting our escape we recap Hitman 3, give our thoughts on the upcoming Last of Us...

For the second week of #FeBOOary (the SPOOKIEST month of the year) we take a ferry ride to Bright Falls for a look back at Alan Wake on the Xbox 360! Join us as we find out if this Remedy Entertainment classic maintains its legacy in the modern day, of if the batteries have run out of its spotlight. Along the way we give our thoughts on Hitman 3, the newest episode of Wandavision, and talk about t...

Welcome back to the spookiest month of the year! It's our second annual FeBOOary as we peek through our fingers at the EA classic Dead Space! Along this space odyssey we take some time to weigh in on the Godzilla versus King Kong debate, catch up on Wandavision, and tell you what you need to know about the GameStop/GameStonk situation. Plus, would we all be a bit better off with a Diet Coke button...

Hot on the heels of its long-awaited re-release, this week we take to the mean streets of Toronto to look back at the now legendary game Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game! Bryan Lee O'Malley started things off with a masterpiece series of graphic novels which was followed up by a classic Edgar Wright movie, but was Ubisoft able to live up to the hype with this 2010 beat-em-up? Along this Toron...

This week we rediscover The Lost Vikings on the SNES! Was this pre-Blizzard puzzle platformer worth the journey, or should it have been left in the Lost and Found? Along our hunt for this lost game we find time to talk about Andrew's commitment to Death Stranding, experiencing motion sickness in video games, the announcement of a new Indiana Jones game, and we give our thoughts on whether Star War...

This week we probe the "Flash Game Turned Console Behemoth" Alien Hominid on the Gamecube! Does this Newgrounds-era side scroller still crash-land as well today as it did back in 2004? Along the way we make sure to press F to pay our respects to Flash, preview Tiger Woods' documentary "Tiger," and Mikey tries to convince Andrew to walk a mile in Death Stranding's shoes. Plus: Is Jar Jar Binks just...

For our first episode of 2021 we bring it back to the days of good old fashioned couch co-op with Kirby Super Star! Since many of us spent our New Years in relative isolation, we wanted to find out if this SNES classic was enough to remind us of the good old days of sitting down with pals! We also catch up on our revisit of Death Stranding, Mikey's deep dive into Star Wars: Clone Wars, and take a...

On this week's episode we count down our top 10 things from this past year! Andrew wanted to call it "Top 10 good Things from a Bad Year" but Mikey insisted on complicating it by calling it "10 Things I Loved About Two... Thousand Twenty" after his favourite Julia Stiles movie. We're including all sorts of media in this list, so it's not just about games this time around. Come wrap up this questio...

On this week's episode we spy with our little eyes Goldeneye for the N64! It's been a long time coming, but we're finally ready to replay the game that changed the medium, as well as our lives. We already know it's a bona fide classic, but in spite of its impact, is this game worth playing today? Apart from doing a deep dive into the history and impact of this gem and comparing its story beats to...

JACK ME IN! This week we Enter The Matrix in our look back at the first video game based on the Matrix universe! Was this game truly the E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial of the 2000s, or was it really not as bad as its reputation made it out to be? Before getting Jacked In, we make sure to talk about the cyber elephant in the room with a breakdown of the Cyberpunk 2077 launch, revisit to possibility of...

Now THAT'S Podracing! This week we revisit the break-neck speeds of Star Wars Episode I: Racer! Does this 1999 N64 classic maintain its pace in the modern day? We also take a pit stop to talk about Demon's Souls, the embarrassment of Spotify Wrapped, and struggling to beat our parents at Pac-Man and Pinball. Plus, would Mikey have made a better Anakin Skywalker than Jake Lloyd?

This week we sneak up on the original Assassin's Creed on Xbox 360! Is this initial entry to the now iconic franchise worthy of replaying, or should it stay hidden in the shadows of time? Along the way we gush over the Playstation 5, hype up Cyberpunk 2077, and try to find time to play more Demon's Souls. Plus, what does Andrew mean when he says "It's been a real Shrimp Pasta kind of day?"

For our final Americana week, we take back the nation from the clutches of a renegade Vice President in Metal Wolf Chaos! Before Demon's souls and Dark Souls, was From Software able to make this absurd concept work, or is it little more than a crazy idea with poor execution? This is a huge episode, as we have some MAJOR announcements which some of you may not believe. We also review the Playstatio...

We continue our Americana month with one of the most patriotic games of all time: Bad Dudes vs. DragonNinja! What's more American than being rewarded for saving Ronald Reagan from an outside threat by getting to eat hamburgers with the president? More importantly: is this iconic arcade classic worth getting pumped about? Or does it show its age more than Sylvester Stallone rebooting Rambo? It was...

We're continuing our Americana month with a journey westward on the Oregon Trail! Is this 1971 game about life in 1848 truly dated, or is this trail still worth blazing? We also take some time with Ghost of Tsushima Legends, debate the quality of On the Rocks, and explore Andrew's experience with Civilization 6. Plus, we contemplate whether our parents are alcoholics, and Mikey gets speech therapy...

This week we pair up the anxiety of a monumental election with Civilization 3 so you can feel like you have a bit more control in the growth of world politics! Will Mikey and Andrew finally be able to get the hang of what is largely viewed as one of the greatest videogame franchises of all time? Or are they STILL too stupid to figure it out? Also, we pity the life of a Disney Parks designer, drag...

Welcome to The Retrograde: A Video Game Podcast! Every week we take a look back at some of our the most beloved or infamous video games which shaped our childhood. But is hindsight 20/20, or do these games still deserve their perfect 10/10?

In our final entry of #RetroGrave we watch over the haunted halls of Five Nights at Freddy's! Will Mikey and Andrew survive the first entry of this now-infamous horror series? Is this game actually as un-BEAR-ably scary as we've heard, or is it just another jump-scare infested misadventure? Before getting into the game, we give our thoughts on the season finale of Lovecraft Country, debate what ma...

In our third entry of #RetroGrave we get smacked upside the head by Condemned: Criminal Origins! It's a celebration of Sega's 60th anniversary, and a solemn plod through the derelict buildings of Metro City as we figure out whether this lead pipe still slaps, or if it's gotten a little rusty with time. Along the way we recap Amazon Prime's The Boys, Andrew recommends some underrated horror movies,...

In our second week of #RetroGrave we're joined by comedian Jacob Sharpe (@JacobSharpe) as we revisit 1993's Zombies Ate my Neighbors! Does the B-Movie aesthetic do enough to keep this game exciting in the modern day? But before that, we compete against one another to draft our most iconic Horror villains to make our ideal neighbourhood. We also review Raised By Wolves, and catch up with Jacob on w...

This week we kick off the spookiest month with #RetroGrave! For our first game we run all the way back to 1991 with a look back at Capcom's Super Ghouls N Ghosts! Can we crack the armour of this notoriously difficult side scroller, or is it too frustrating to hold up in the modern day? We also make time to talk about Raised by Wolves, What We Do in the Shadows, and we debate how a game can walk th...

This week it's no holds barred as we look back at WWF: No Mercy on the N64! Right around the release of WWE 2K Battlegrounds, we find out if any wrestling game will ever live up to the greatness of No Mercy. We also catch up on The Boys, and The Third Day, and Mikey finally gets around to playing Hyperlight Drifter. Plus, if Andrew were a wrestler, what kind of wrestler would he be?

This week we tip our fedoras to the iconic open world period piece: Mafia on the Playstation 2! Just in time for the Mafia: Definitive Edition remake, we find out if we should kiss the ring of the original, or leave it sleeping with the fishes. We also talk "realism" versus "fun" in gaming, Mikey's adoration for Hyperlight Drifter, and updates on Marvel's Avengers and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2. P...