The Retro League

The year was 1984, the video game industry was in a free-fall. Many systems met their demise that year and on this week's episode of The Retro League podcast we're focusing on the Atari 5200's death. Despite its short life it had some memorable games and we're looking at a couple of them. We also talk about Gremlins 2 way more than anyone should.

Episode 164 - They Blaze Rivals

Is 52 weeks ago Retro?

This week we are joined by Dustin from Video Game Rescue to talk about game collecting, Mega Man, and a couple of our favorite arcade games. We also take a look at a new Atari Jaguar game and ponder why Splatterhouse is getting a bad rap today.

This week on The Retro League we're spending the last few hours of our existence playing a couple classic apocalyptic games. We also look at a trio of open-world games being re-released this week and are surprised to learn that Square is still selling PSOne games.

This week on The Retro League we're talking about the many ways all life on Earth could end. Neither of us fear death from above but we sure are terrified of robots masquerading as humans. We also take a look at the early days of dial-up internet and try to pool together enough cash to buy a complete collection of Super Nintendo games.

JCW joins for a great show about the rich man's toy of gaming consoles.

Just one more fantasy, c'mon this will be the final one!

This week on The Retro League we'll try to keep you sane while you're stuck in Thanksgiving traffic with talk about portable Genesis clones, Super R-Type, Joe Montana Sports Talk Football '93, E.T., and truckin' across Canada.

Break out your VHS tapes and put the Eagles Greatest Hits on the turntable because we can't stop thinking about obsolete media formats. We stick up for a couple of paradigm-shifting entries in famous series and lament that they don't make magazines with demo discs anymore. It might be easier to transfer audio cassettes to your iPhone than to copy your virtual console over to the next Nintendo system this week on the Retro League!

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We're either 2 days late for Halloween or 363 days early depending on how you look at it. Either way, this week on The Retro League podcast we're talking about a couple horror themed games of the 32-bit generation and one notoriously difficult spooky game on the NES. If you're all burned out on Halloween stuff that's cool because we also talk about stealing happy meal toys from your kids and review The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses concert.

It's time for some 16-bit horror on this week's episode of The Retro League podcast. We aren't sure what's scarier - battling giant undead dragons or the acting in most Sega CD games. We also look back at the birth (and death) of SNK and share a little good news for fans of classic Mac games.

The last thing that you remember is standing before the wizard Lakmir as he waved his hands.

Episode 151 - Halloween 1981