Episode 28: Katamari Damacy
In 2004, an insane man named Keita Takahashi was given an enormous bucket of money and was told he could make a video-game with it. He decided to make a game about God getting drunk and destroying eac...
27 Tammi 20201h 5min
Episode 27: The Best Games of Our First Year
In 2019 we played a lot of games. Some of them were brilliant classics that easily stood the test of time. Others were mediocre and outdated, and deservedly forgotten. Most of them, however, fall some...
13 Tammi 20202h 8min
Episode 26: Mail Bag
Over the past year, the Retro Spectives Podcast has started to see a small community of gamers join up to our discord server. We talk old video-games, new video games, and tend to get into a lot of a...
30 Joulu 20191h 41min
Episode 25: Armored Core
From Software is amongst the most critically acclaimed software developers of all time. Since 2009’s Demon’s Souls, they’ve released nothing but incredible titles and Dark Souls 2. But long before Hid...
16 Joulu 20191h 12min
Episode 23 - Halo: Combat Evolved
On the 15th of November, 2001, the Xbox launched with a tremendous bang. Not since Super Mario World for the SNES had a launch title been so well regarded. Halo invented, and went on to define how c...
18 Marras 20191h 36min
Episode 22 - Vagrant Story
Vagrant Story is one of the dark horses of the JRPG genre. Its exposition-light storytelling is rooted in Shakespearean dialogue rather than adolescent chosen ones. Its RPG systems are complex, but ...
4 Marras 20191h 50min
Episode 21 - Call of Duty
Back in the early 2000s, World War 2 shooters were in vogue. The broader gaming audience had moved on from the more abstract settings of Quake or Doom, and were demanding real world locations, guns a...
21 Loka 20191h 29min
