The Legend of Retro is your source for all things retro gaming. Join Xander, Chops, Craig_WK, and the Glitch as they travel through time to explore games from the Atari generation all the way to the PS3 era. Enjoy Retro Relapse every week when the crew picks a game and gets hands on to discuss it in depth. Join the Discord to have the ability to influence the show and suggest games for the crew to play. Tune in every Thursday for uniquely crafted episodes focusing on specific retro games.
On this week’s episode of The Legend of Retro, Craig WK and Xander team up over the internet to talk about… JET SET RADIOOOO! Lace up your skates, grab your spray cans, and get ready to boogie down while avoiding live gunfire. Music kinda takes center stage here, but there’s still plenty of information on this cult classic game. Retro Relapse takes a break, but we do give you the next matchup in our stage theme bracket!
Read MoreIn this week’s episode of The Legend of Retro podcast, Xander and Craig_WK are reunited over the internet and do their best to avoid the cursed waters of Ranma 1/2 Hard Battle! The guys get a little sidetracked fawning over their love of the manga and anime, but they do (eventually) talk about the game as well. Retro Relapse sets up us the bomb, and the stage theme bracket carries on through the quarantine.
Read MoreFrom the basement studio of the Chops household comes Diddy Kong Racing for the N64. Special guest this week is Chop’s wife Allison and they travel down memory lane when they discuss her favorite childhood video game. Is it better than Mario Kart? What is a Kremlin? And are outer space Pigs secretly trying to take over OUR WORLD!? Listen to this weeks episode of the Legend of Retro podcast to find out!
Read MoreWe take it easy on this week’s episode of The Legend of Retro. Xander is your DJ for a special episode of Rhythm of Retro as he explores some relaxing tracks from some favorite retro games. Maxin’ relaxin’ no retro relapsin’. Just chill tunes to help you relax and take a breather during all the madness. Enjoy!
Read MoreOn this week’s social distanced episode of The Legend of Retro, Xander is joined by his wife, Sarah, to talk about a game they played a lot early in their relationship: Peggle. What house rules did they set for themselves to keep things civil? Does Sarah like any video game music? Is Peggle seriously 10 years old already? All these questions are answered in this week’s episode! Also, Retro Relapse has the little man getting to a golf hole and we hear what deedley dee’s are in the next Stage Theme bracket match-up!
Read MoreWhoa Cave dudes, this week’s Legend of Retro is all about Joe & Mac! Join that bogus bunch of neanderthal nerds, Craig_WK, Xander, Chops, and theGlitch as they scare off the cave babes and dig into this caveman adventure! Retro Relapse takes a wrong turn at Albuquerque, and we take a look at our Stage Theme music bracket!
Read MoreOn this week’s episode of The Legend of Retro, Chops, Craig_WK, and TheGlitch are tasked to sell Xander on whether or not he should purchase the Mega Man Zero/ZX Collection by talking about the first game in the series, Mega Man Zero. Retro Relapse is a virtual nightmare, and we share the next match-up in the Stage Theme music bracket! Is this description enough to sell you on listening? I sure hope so!
Read MoreOn this week’s episode of The Legend of Retro, something’s coming up the plumbing and the guys are in bind as they go way back to talk about the original Mario Bros. arcade game! There isn’t much of a soundtrack but boy is there a commercial! Retro Relapse is themed to heal what ails you and we begin a brand new bracket. The only thing left to ask is “MARIO, WHERE ARE YOU?!”
Read MoreAll throughout the 5th season of The Legend of Retro, Chops, Craig_WK, the Glitch, and Xander have been putting their choices of music up to the vote. Each week, the character theme songs from some of their favorite retro games have battled head to head with the help of the fans, but these were chosen by the hosts, not the fans of the show! In this special episode, the hosts of your favorite retro video game podcast flip things around, and have taken entries from the fans, and do the voting themselves! Special thanks to our fifth person and tie breaker: A-Pez, who won our last fan bracket! Listen in as the hosts of The Legend of Retro critique the songs that were given to them by some of their biggest fans!
Read MoreWhen you need help just call, Ch-ch-ch-CHOPS and Craig! Rescue Rangers! That’s right, this week Chops, Craig_WK, and their handy side-kick theGlitch, bring you Chip ‘N Dales Rescue Rangers with special guest J.J. Bouchard and all the amazing memories we have of our childhood TV shows. We will also play a Retro Relapse game brought to us by our guest that doesn’t fit our normal mold for relapse games…here’s a hint…it was fun! Also, stay tuned until the end of the episode because we reveal the theme for next seasons bracket!!!!
Read MoreThis week Chops, Craig_WK, and theGlitch interview J.J. Bouchard a Patient Technology Coordinator with C.S. Mott’s Children’s hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They cover how therapeutic gaming can be for children recovering in the hospital, how nurses and doctors can use video games to assist in their ability to care for their patients as well as the work J.J. is doing with other non-profits to help promote video games and technology use in hospitals.
Read MoreOn this week’s episode of The Legend of Retro Xander, Chops, Craig_WK, and theGlitch take a look at Complex.com‘s Top 100 Super Nintendo Games of All Time. Hear the heartbreak and confusion as the guys question the integrity of the list and give you their individual top 10 SNES games as well as their predictions of this list’s top 5.
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