Three life long gamers deep dive and analyse games, one letter at a time. Also cover the cultural landscape in and around the game release. Contains silliness and daft bits. #retrogaming #podcast
Episodes
Saturday Mar 02, 2024
Saturday Mar 02, 2024
As we come to the end of World 2 we look back over the highs and lows of our Mega Drive / Genesis journey and the gems we endured thanks to belligerent Randomiser's Dad. Bring on World 3! PLAYSTATION!
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- Blasphemous
- The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
- The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
- Beneath a Steel Sky
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Saturday Jan 13, 2024
Saturday Jan 13, 2024
Ey up! We've reached a Mega Drive number this time with 3 Ninjas Kick Back. Stick with it or kick it?
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Cultural Interlude June 1st 1994
UK Singles Charts
- No. 6 - Inside - Stiltskin
- No. 2 - Come on you Reds - Manchester Utd and Status Quo
- No. 1 - Love is all Around - Wet Wet Wet
UK Singles Charts
- No. 10 - Ill Communication - Beastie Boys
- No. 6 - Lifeforms by Future Sound of London
- No. 1 - Seal II by erm…..Seal
Fillums
- No 5 - Prank pulling cantankerous fogies mutual antagonism becomes friendship after flirtatious GILF moves to town.
- No 3 - Frank, puns and boob jokes for the last time in…
- No 1 - Awkward foppish hunk fails for well-seasoned beauty in standard setting, endearing British comedy of intimate errors.
And what we’ve all been waiting for!!!!! - Games
What could we have been playing?
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Saturday Nov 18, 2023
Saturday Nov 18, 2023
Ey up! We've reached Mega Drive letter Z this time with Zoom. Was it decent or did it pass us by...?
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Cultural Interlude January 13th 1990
UK Singles Charts
- No. 7 - De La Soul - The Magic Number
- No. 3 - Soul II Soul - Get a Life
- No. 1 - New Kids On The Block - Hangin' Tough
UK Singles Charts
- No. 7 - Affection - Lisa Stansfield
- No. 5 - Ten Good Reasons - Jason Donovan
- No. 1 - But Seriously - Phil Collins
Fillums
- No 7 - Slinky straightening scientists save city from evil art's baby possessing slimepocalypse in endearing feelgood fun
- No 3 - Couple are drawn together & pushed apart by the notion that paragender platonicism is a myth- orgasmic comedy
- No 1 - Family fumble through teen sex, gambling addiction & growing pains in unusually observant & equally uplifting comedy
And what we’ve all been waiting for!!!!! - Games
- Chase HQ - Spectrum
- Chase HQ - Amiga
- Chase HQ - Atari ST
- Cabal - C64
- It Came From The Desert - Amiga
What could we have been playing?
- Zany Golf
- Zaxxon's Motherbase 2000
- Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel
- Zero Tolerance
- Zero Wing
- Zombies Ate My Neighbors / Zombies
- Zool
- Zoop
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What did YOU think of Zoom? How many AWOOGAS would you give it? How was Jan '90 for you?!
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Saturday Oct 21, 2023
Saturday Oct 21, 2023
Ey up! We've reached Mega Drive letter Y this time with Yogi Bear Cartoon Capers. Was it Bearly decent or just plain boo boo?
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Cultural Interlude October 1st 1994
UK Singles Charts
- Number 6 - Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories
- Number 3 - Bon Jovi - Always
- Number 1 - Whigfield - Saturday Night
UK Album Charts
- Number 4 - Kylie Mingue - Kylie Mingoue
- Number 2 - Cyndi Lauper - Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some
- Number 1 - Songs - Luther Vandross
Fillums
And what we’ve all been waiting for!!!!! - Games
What could we have been playing?
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What did YOU think of Yogi Bear? How many AWOOGAS would you give it? How was October 94 for you?!
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Next Episode's game - Zoom
"Playing the games so you don't have to!"
Saturday Sep 09, 2023
Saturday Sep 09, 2023
Ey up! We've reached Mega Drive letter X this time with X-Men 2: Clone Wars. Was it Xcellent or Xtra rubbish?
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- Horizon Forbidden West
- Rogue Legacy 2
- PGA Tour 2K23
- Uno
- Marvel Snap
- Succession
- The Flash
- No Hard Feelings
- Across The Spiderverse
- How Spider-Verse Broke The Rules of 3D Animation
- Oppenheimer
What Mark Did
What Sull Did
Cultural Interlude May 15th 1995
UK Singles Charts
- Number 4 - Scatman John - Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop)
- Number 3 - Pérez Prado and His Orchestra - Guaglione
- Number 1 - Robson Golightly Green & Jerome Patrick Flynn - Unchained Melody
UK Album Charts
- Number 8 - Portishead - Dummy
- Number 7 - No Need To Argue - Cranberries
- Number 1 - Take That - Nobody Else
Fillums
And what we’ve all been waiting for!!!!! - Games
What could we have been playing?
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What did YOU think of X-Men 2? How many AWOOGAS would you give it? How was May 95 for you?!
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Next Episode's game - Yogi Bear - Cartoon Capers
"Playing the games so you don't have to!"
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Ey up! We've reached Mega Drive letter W this time with Wrestle War. War it any good?
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- Horizon Forbidden West
- Rogue Legacy 2
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
- NERG
- Ryan Swales' Youtube
- Gary Delaney
What Mark Did
What Sull Did
Cultural Interlude Jun 28th 1991
UK Singles Charts
- Number 6 - Bette Midler - From A Distance
- Number 4 - Kenny Thomas - Thinking About Your Love
- Climbing 1 to the top spot - Jason Donovan - Any Dream Will Do
UK Album Charts
- Number 8 - Fellow Hoodlums - Deacon Blue feat Your Swaying Arms & Twist and Shout
- Number 5 - Stranglers Greatest Hits - 1977 - 1990
- Number 1 - Cher - Love Hurts
Fillums
- No 7 - Matt Dillon - Sean Young - Ruthless student fakes fiancé's suicide after an unexpected pregnancy to gain her inheritance- top thriller.
- No 2 - Jailed for his revolutionary recipes, a maverick chef must mastermind his escape- delicious prison breaker.
- No 1 - Frank Drebbin saves the world from environmental disaster & delivers more one liners than is humanly possible.
And what we’ve all been waiting for!!!!! - Games
- Sim City - SNES - 93
- Solstice - NES - 93
- Star Control - Megadrive - 90
- Arcade Action - Simpsons - 91
What could we have been playing?
- Wardner
- World Class Leaderboard
- Whip Rush
- World of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck
- Where in the World is Carmen Sandiago
- Wonder Boy III : Monster Lair
- Wonder Boy in Monster World (Wonder Boy V: Monster World III)
- Worms
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What did YOU think of Wrestle War? How many AWOOGAS would you give it? How was June 91 for you?!
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Next Episode's game - X-Men 2: Clone Wars
"Playing the games so you don't have to!"
Friday Jun 30, 2023
Friday Jun 30, 2023
Ey up! We've reached Mega Drive letter V this time with Vectorman. Is it the Amber Vector?
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- Be More Productive
- The Flash
What Sull Did
- Ricky Gervais - Armageddon
- Star Control 3
- Banjo Tooie
- Skies of Arcadia
- Resident Evil 5
- Queens of the Stone Age - Halifax
Cultural Interlude November 30th 1995
UK Singles Charts
- Number 3 - Missing - Everything but the Girl
- Number 2 - Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise (feat. L.V.)
- Holding on to the No 1 Spot for a fourth week… Robson & Jerome - Up On The Roof
UK Album Charts
- Number 3 - Oasis - (What’s the Story) Morning Glory
- Number 2 - Beatles - Anthology 1
- Number 1 - Robson & Jerome - Robson & Jerome
Fillums
- No 9 - Vapid high school socialite's shidduching reveals her naïveté as #JaneAusten's Emma gets a 90s makeover- erudite comedy
- No 2 - Hawkish submarine captain & cerebral commander clash as communications collapse causes mutiny & mayhem
- No 1 - Defining a generation of N64 gamers, Bond turns on cheats & shoots giant headed henchmen in the groin with a golden PPK
And what we’ve all been waiting for!!!!! - Games
What could we have been playing?
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What did YOU think of Vectorman? How many AWOOGAS would you give it? How was November 92 for you?!
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Next Episode's game - Wrestle War
"Playing the games so you don't have to!"
Friday May 12, 2023
Friday May 12, 2023
Ey up! We've reached Mega Drive letter U this time with Universal Soldier. Universal love or what?
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- Operation Fortune
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie
- The Upside
- Clarkson’s Farm Season 2
- Neuromancer
- Metroid Prime Remake
What Sull Did
Jean Claude Van Damme Universal Soldier Is The Greatest Movie Of All Time
Cultural Interlude November 17th 1992
UK Singles Charts
- No 8 - Be My Baby - Vanessa Paradis
- No 5 - Never Let Her Slip Away - Undercover
- No 1 - Would I Lie to You - Charles and Eddie
UK Album Charts
- No 1 - Greatest Hits 1965 - 1992 - Cher
Fillums
And what we’ve all been waiting for!!!!! - Games
Final Thoughts
What could we have been playing?
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What did YOU think of Universal Soldier? How many AWOOGAS would you give it? How was November 92 for you?!
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Next Episode's game - Vectorman
"Playing the games so you don't have to!"
Saturday Mar 25, 2023
Saturday Mar 25, 2023
Ey up! We've reached Mega Drive letter T this time with Troy Aikman NFL Football Is it NFHell or what?
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- DARQ
- Twilight Princess
- Tapper
- Ridge Racer Type 4
- Man of Medan
- Omnium Gatherum - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Cultural Interlude December 19th 1991
UK Singles Charts
- No 10 - M Beat feat General Levy - Incredible
- No 8 - Boyz II Men - I'll Make Love To You
- No 1 - Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives - Queen
UK Album Charts
- No 11 - Dos Dedos Mis Amigos - Pop Will Eat Itself
- No 10 - Music For The Jilted Generation - The Prodigy
- No 1 - Songs - Luther Vandross
Fillums
- No 9 - Arnie abuses power, foils terrorist plot & survives a nuclear explosion in stupidly fun strip teasing guilty pleasure
- No 8 - Harrison Ford is forced to head a semi-legal operation against Columbian drug lords in the action packed
- No 1 - Keanu Reeves ruins a building, a bus & a train whilst showing off to Sandra Bullock then gives Dennis Hopper a bad hair cut
And what we’ve all been waiting for!!!!! - Games
On the 1st October 1994 C&VG issue 155 was on the shelves in Woolworths
- Dynamite Headdy - Mega Drive
- Road Rash - 3DO
- Inferno - PC
Final Thoughts
What could we have been playing?
- Toe Jam and Earl / Toe Jam and Earl: Panic on Funkotron
- Thunderforce II, III, IV
- Trouble Shooter (Battle Mania)
- Taz-Mania & Taz in Escape from Mars
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist
- Truxton
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What did YOU think of Troy Aikman? How many AWOOGAS would you give it? How was October 94 for you?!
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Next Episode's game - Universal Soldier
"Playing the games so you don't have to!"
Friday Feb 10, 2023
Friday Feb 10, 2023
Ey up! We've reached Mega Drive letter Q this time with Quackshot Is it a load of Quap or what?
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(00:33:20) - Letter Q - Quackshot
(00:55:23) - Cultural Interlude December 19th 1991
UK Singles Charts
- No 7 - Too Blind To See It - Kim Syms
- No 4 - When You Tell Me That You Love Me - Diana Ross
- No 1 - Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives - Queen
UK Album Charts
- No 10 - Together With Cliff - Cliff Richard
- No 2 - Dangerous - Micheal Jackson - feat Black and White, Remember The Time, Heal The World
- No 1 - Greatest Hits II - Queen
Fillums
- No 10 - True story of how an android apocalypse was averted by a boy, his psychotic mum & an Austrian robot
- No 8 - Guilt ridden DJ finds hope of redemption in the lost soul of a deranged man whose life he shattered.
- No 1 - Con artists attempt to defraud freakish family in grave digging, booby trapping, hand scampering murderously gothic fun
And what we’ve all been waiting for!!!!! - Games
On the 19th December C&VG issue 122 was on the shelves in Woolworths
- Robocop 3 - Amiga
- Rolling Thunder 2 - Mega Drive
- Super Castlevania IV - SNES
(01:26:00) Final Thoughts
What could we have been playing?
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What did YOU think of Quackshot? How many AWOOGAS would you give it? How was December 91 for you?!
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Next Episode's game - Troy Aikman NFL Football
"Playing the games so you don't have to!"