Original air date: February 11, 2013

This house of podcast cards we’ve built is falling apart around us. Bailey and Jason pick games that Hunter can’t trash talk, Hunter makes a revelation about the Retro Showdown rules, and the union we contracted to make our header images is on strike, so we had to make do. We’ve had a good run, guys.

Our Intro and Outro music is by Ben Landis off his album Adventures in Pixels – “Credits Music for an 8 Bit RPG” (Twitter @thebenlandis)

The musical Interlude was Comptroller “Silver Head”

26:50 – Listener discussion question! “Is there a Retro game that you discovered recently that you loved or hated that you didn’t know about back in the day? “

37:18 – Comptroller “Silver Head”

40:00 – Retro showdown

42:35 – Bailey’s Pick “Batman: Return of the Joker” (NES)

43:44 – Hunter’s Pick “Rolling Thunder” (NES)

44:37 – Jason’s Pick “Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Superheroes” (Sega Dreamcast)

45:14 – Yeah… wow… it’s one of those… show downs…

1:05:42 – And it’s over, cast your vote, comment, email… all that stuff… See you next week!

Original air date: February 4, 2013

DING!

Dr. Juggernaut is DING! here in full force, and he brought DING! along a strong addition DING! to his DING! medical DING! team: a bell. (DING!)

In other news, we make the official decision on the best point-and-click adventure game of all time, and we spend a bit too much time talking about dancing phalli.

DING!

Our Intro and Outro music is by Ben Landis off his album Adventures in Pixels – “Credits Music for an 8 Bit RPG” (Twitter @thebenlandis)

The musical Interlude was OneRom – “The Dark Knight Chiptunes”

12:30 – Email Discussion question “What in your opinion is the best point-and-click adventure game?”

17:25 – OneRom – “The Dark Knight Chiptunes”

19:45 – The Retro Showdown!

21:38 – Bailey’s Pick – “Weird Dreams” (Commodore 64)

22:45 – Hunter’s Pick – “Loaded” (Sega Saturn)

23:50 – Jason’s Pick – “Tetris 64” (Nintendo 64)

24:34 – And the showdown… BEGINS!

54:18 – Cast your vote, leave a comment below, and send us some emails!

Original air date: January 28, 2013

“Stop dribbling, Scottie!” Michael Jordan said as the T-rex stared them down. “Their vision is based on movement!” Charles Barkley mumbled something about chaos theory.

Our Intro and Outro music is by Ben Landis off his album Adventures in Pixels – “Credits Music for an 8 Bit RPG” (Twitter @thebenlandis)

The musical Interlude was “Into Combat” by Gavin Harrison

14:23 – Retro discussion question from a listener’s email “Have you guys considered having an occasional theme for your Retro Showdowns?”

22:28 – “Into Combat” by Gavin Harrison

24:05 – Retro showdown!

26:51 – Bailey’s Pick – “Jurassic Park” (NES)

27:53 – Hunter’s Pick – “The Amazing Spider-Man” (Gameboy)

28:55 – Jason’s Pick – “Super Marathon” (Apple Bandai Pippin)

29:41 – Another showdown begins!

59:02 – Cast your vote, send us questions, and be sure to comment below. You never know who’s watching!