Original air date: September 2, 2013

30 games in one!

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

Our interlude track was Shin Phatman – Oh Yeah

11:40 – Listener discussion email questions “Q1: last year I was lucky enough to spend a couple of weeks in the US. Disappointingly, however, it turns out that you can’t give yourself comprehensive knowledge of the US road network simply by playing Cruisin’ USA and Turbo Outrun. Are there any ill-advised life lessons you guys have tried to take away from retro games?

Q2: With flash memory now so cheap, are console manufacturers missing a trick by ignoring the possibility of returning to cartridge-based consoles? How many gamers would be willing to pay a small premium for a console/game collection that was practically indestructible?

23:14 – Shin Phatman – Oh Yeah

25:33 – Retro Showdown!

29:07 – Bailey’s Pick “Super Mario RPG” (SNES)

30:59 – Hunter’s Pick “Wizards & Warriors” (NES)

32:23 – Jason’s Pick “Super Smash Bros.” (N64)

33:02 – Our theme for this week’s retro showdown are games that we believe have some of the best soundtracks.

53:58 – So wow… 51 episodes… almost a full year of retro gaming. Keep those comments coming and make sure you help yourself to the poll below. We do need a winner or why else would we put it there?