Retro Game Fix Video Game Podcasts

Podcast 50 is in the books and this we go for almost two hours covering pretty much everything.  In the first segment we discuss the Sega Game Gear, Nintendo vs. Sega, and Mario vs. Sonic.  In the second segment we move onto all things metal gear.  In the third segment we talk about the Nintendo NX, the digital future, retro gaming prices, and what collecting will look like years from now. Start - Sega Game Gear, Nintendo vs. Sega, Mario vs. Sonic 31:30 - Metal Gear 56:00  - Nintendo NX, retro collecting, gaming prices, digital future, game preservation

What better week to talk about sports than Madden week?  We talk about our favorite sports games, your favorite sports games, our favorite types of sports games, and why we don't think football makes a particularly good video game. The entire episode is dedicated to sports games new and old. Games Discussed Madden, NHL Hitz, NFL Blitz, NBA Jam, NBA Street, NCAA Basketball, Tony Hawk, Mike Tyson, NFL 2k5, MVP Baseball 2005, RBI Baseball, Tiger Woods, NES Golf, NES Ice Hockey, Virtua Tennis, Birdie King, Hat Trick

This week Mike is tackling the show solo and will cover a variety of topics including his reactions to the Destiny Taken King Reveal, Madden NFL 16, upcoming 2015 releases, and the podcasts he listens to, and podcasts he will miss. Start - Destiny Taken King29:40 - Listener E-mail, what games are we(Mike) looking forward to most.  40:00 - Madden 16 Initial Impressions51:25 - One of Mikes favorite podcasts calls it quites, he discusses his current podcast playlist.    

We talk about our Sega Game Gear giveaway, we talk more Sega Game Gear, we then move on to the question of the week, and finish up with Mike's modern gaming evolution. - Start - Game Gear Giveaway- 31:40 - Question of the week | Which retro arcade port was your favorite? Which was the worst? TMNT, RBI Baseball, Street Fighter, Food Fight, Pacman, Virtua Racing,Daytona USA- 55:40 - Current generation console gaming

This we announce a giveaway to win a fully funcitonal fully modified Game Gear with LED backlighting and fully restored capacitories. The first half of the show we discuss Retro Replay, and then during the second half of the show we cover our tiwtter question of the week, "What terrible games were you in total denial about that you first bought them?" Start - Retro Replay on Xbox One 37:00 - Our Game Gear Giveaway 44:30 - Question of the week.

This week we talk your favorites and our favorite arcade games start to finish. - The Simpson - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade TMNT - Bump 'n Jump - Pole Position - Mortal Kombat - Power Drift - 720 - Track and Field - Street Fighter - Joust - Crazy Taxi - X-men - NBA Jam - Donkey Kong and DK Jr. - Ms. Pacman - Pacman  

This week we talk a bunch of Game Gear, Pixels the movie, Billy Mitchell, where our collections go from here, and some video game stories from yesteryears.  Start - Sega Game Gear collecting 18:40 - Pixels, the Adam Sandler Joint, Billy Mitchell inspirations and our early thoughts.  33:50 - Where our gaming collections go next, Sega, Game Gear, Genesis, SNES 47:00 - A couple nostalgic Mitch and Mike retro gaming moments growing up Subscribe:| iTunes| Android| RSS| Youtube

This week we talk retro mobile gaming and collecting; some of our memories with the Sega Game Gear and Nintendo Game Boy.  We talk some arcade games and finish it up with our twitter question of the week.  Start - Arcade warehouse raid, Nintendo Vs Cabinet 15:30 - Mobile retro gaming and collection with the game gear and the gameboy.  Plus some gener retro collecting thoughts.  45:45 - Twitter question conversation, what is or was the most valuable game in your collection, we discuss. 

Big news in gaming this week; the unfortunate passing of Satoru Iwata.  We also talk sega master sytem, playstation vue and on-demand television, and the state of podcasts and internet media.  Start - Sega Master System 37:30 - Playstation Vue, On-demand TV 57:10 - Satoru Iwata, the President of Nintendo, dies at age 55 1:07:30 - The state of podcasts and Patreon.

This week we are all over the board.  Start – We played Guacamelee and discuss retro video games ties to new platformers 13:00 – Pinballs!!!!  Flash Gordon!!!! 24:00 -  Nintendo/Sony Playstation/Snes 37:00 – Bunch of random stuff, arcade, pc, restorations

This week we cover a variety of topics, from GameStops retro offering, the way of Nintendo, Sega Master System givaway, Virtual Reality and Arcade Restoration. Start - GameStop is in the retro gaming space 13:00 - We give away Rampage on Sega Master System 25:30-  Nintendo past and present 57:40 - Virtual Reality - Oculus Rift - PC gaming 1:15:00 - Mikes Teengame Mutant Ninja Turtles MAME restore

Just got home from the "Southern Fried Gameroom Expo".  Thanks to the coordinators of this epic arcade/pinball expo, we had another amazing weekend packed full of celebrity panels, events, and games.  I was able to participate in an 8 bit discussion panel, and hang out with none other than Billy Mitchell himself!  Check out this weeks podcast (which was done shortly after returning home), where Mike receives a special message from Billy, along with a recap of all the events I was able to attend.  Even though I live no further than 25 minutes from the actual event, we chose to stay at the Marriott the event was held at, and essentially all but forgot about sleep, as the events were scheduled all day and all night ... we even got up early Saturday morning to watch some vintage Saturday morning cartoons.    

Mike is giving his thoughts on the Nintendo Direct E3 conference.  The internet went bonkers over how disappointed they were with Nintendo's offerings, do I agree? Not really.   Amiibo/Skylanders Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival: Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer Fire Emblem Fates Hyrule Warriors Legends: The Legend of Zelda: Triforce Heroes Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash Metroid Prime: Federation Force Star Fox Zero Super Mario Maker Xenoblade Chronicles X Yoshi's Woolly World

The big conferences are over and Mike reacts and discusses the two big console events; Microsoft and Sony.  Microsoft came strong with a good blend of games you can play this year, upcoming games, hardware and services. Sony came strong with games games games.   Microsoft Halo 5: Guardians ReCore Fallout 4 Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2 Forza Motorsport 6 Dark Souls 3 HoloLens Minecraft Demo Backwards Compatibility EA Access Elite Controller The Division Rainbow Six Siege Gigantic Ashen Tacoma Rise Of The Tomb Raider Beyond Eyes Cuphead Ion Teaser Rare Replay Fable Legends Sea of Thieves Gears of War 4 Sony Assassin's Creed Syndicate Batman: Arkham Knight Call of Duty: Black Ops III Destiny: The Taken King Expansion Devolver Digital Sizzle Reel Disney Infinity 3.0 Final Fantasy VII Remake Firewatch Hitman Horizon: Zero Dawn The Last Guardian Morpheus and Other PS Services No Man's Sky Shenmue 3 Star Wars: Battlefront Street Fighter V Uncharted 4: Thief's End World of Final Fantasy

This week we are talking the Steam Summer Sale, Fez(yes Fez), we discuss Microsoft and Oculus Rift partnering for Xbox One support, southern fried gaming expo, E3, Amiibo, Wii-u and Splatoon. 

This week we talk about the Southern Fried Gameroom Expo, Ocuslus Rift, and of course some retro discussion in segment 3. 

This week we went deep into a lot of different topics, specifically what is retro gaming and what is a gamer.  Other show hightlights include the launch of PS4, a Donkey Kong event, Tetris and more….

This week we catch up on our latest retro gaming developments, take a segment to focus on the Sega Master System, and then spend the last half of the show discussing retro gaming and how its defined by us and possibly other generations of gamer.

After a couple month hiatus we are back for a reintroduction episode.  What we’ve been up to, playing, collecting and repairing.

On this episode we touch on our Master System marathon, more talk about what defines retro, retro PC gaming and the story about Mitch punching Mike in the spine.