Cocktail Mode: Retro Games, Cocktails and Banter

This week on the Cocktail Mode podcast, Andy and Dave are blasting off into the Sega-blue skies of 1985 to revisit a true arcade behemoth: Space Harrier! We’re taking a deep dive into Yu Suzuki’s psyc...

3 Feb 1h 24min

This week on the Cocktail Mode podcast, Andy and Dave are warping back to the golden age of 8-bit vector graphics to sit down with a true legend: Ian Oliver, the coding mastermind behind iconic games ...

20 Jan 1h 23min

This week on the Cocktail Mode podcast, Andy and Dave are hitting the high-gloss streets of the year 2000 to revisit the Dreamcast’s definitive urban racer: Metropolis Street Racer (MSR)! We’re diving...

6 Jan 1h 10min

Merry Christmas! The season of giving is here, but which games deserve a spot under your Christmas Tree? This week on Cocktail Mode, Andy and Dave are getting festive for the annual Holiday Special! T...

23 Des 20251h 31min

So it's come to this: A Cocktail Mode list episode! Andy and Dave are ready to unleash their most ambitious, potentially most divisive, and almost certainly most overlong episode yet: Our Top 50 Retro...

9 Des 20251h 39min

This week on the Cocktail Mode podcast, we're bowing to one of the most unique and respected fighting games ever made: Bushido Blade on the original PS1! Andy and Dave explore why this One-Hit Kill Sa...

25 Nov 20251h 2min

19 Nov 20251min

Welcome back to the Cocktail Mode podcast, where we're pairing the ultimate dystopian action experience with a dangerous drink! This week, we’re loading up on VCRs and Toasters to cover the bloody cro...

11 Nov 20251h 26min