Retro Spectives

The Civilization series is one of the most consistently successful 4x titles throughout video game history.  It saw its first entry way back in 1991, and would continue to refine its history spanning ...

18 Jan 20211h 34min

2020 saw Pat and James play through another 23 retro games, ranging from the delightful insanity of Katamari Damacy to the far more lukewarm Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.  We played a lot of stea...

4 Jan 20211h 37min

It's time for part 1 of the Season 2 wrapup: The Mailbag!  Year 2 of Retro Spectives saw many new users join our discord server, and even more in depth discussions.  We argued about whether Super Metr...

21 Dec 20201h 47min

Patrick and James have a problem.  Almost every single episode, they’ve brought up Dark Souls.  Level design?  Not as good as Dark Souls.  Combat System?  Not as good as Dark Souls.  Even when they’re...

7 Dec 20202h 25min

In 2004, Relic brought the tabletop game Warhammer 40,000 to life with its real time strategy game Dawn of War.  Fans of the franchise adored it, and it brought in entire legions of new zealots ready ...

23 Nov 20201h 17min

The Metroidvania genre has a long and complicated history, but the game that invented the modern model is without a doubt Super Metroid.  Released in 1994 for the Super Nintendo, it blew critics away ...

9 Nov 20201h 19min

The first Thief game was widely beloved, and critically acclaimed, but not entirely free of criticism.  The gawking masses loved sneaking around the mansions of the wealthy, but were not too hot on th...

26 Okt 20201h 34min

The Super Mario franchise is what many would label as the dawn of videogames. While it wasn't the first, its impact on the infant medium of gaming was certainly the biggest and to this day the franchi...

12 Okt 20201h 16min