Top Gun 2: The Second Mission (NES) Retro Review

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05/24/22 • 63 min

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Strap in, cadets, because this week we celebrate the release of Top Gun: Maverick with a look back at Top Gun: The Second Mission on NES!

Believe it or not, the first Top Gun movie spawned over a dozen video games, most of which weren't actually all that great!

We're not sure whether or not that'll come as a surprise to anyone, but we wanted to see how a flight combat game would hold up on an 8 bit console.

Before taking off we catch up on Disco Elysium, give some initial impressions on Soundfall, and continue talking about Mikey's giant Steam Deck!

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Strap in, cadets, because this week we celebrate the release of Top Gun: Maverick with a look back at Top Gun: The Second Mission on NES!

Believe it or not, the first Top Gun movie spawned over a dozen video games, most of which weren't actually all that great!

We're not sure whether or not that'll come as a surprise to anyone, but we wanted to see how a flight combat game would hold up on an 8 bit console.

Before taking off we catch up on Disco Elysium, give some initial impressions on Soundfall, and continue talking about Mikey's giant Steam Deck!

Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRkbglFPa8g_Jnhxmw_wiGg

Join us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikey

Or on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast

Or visit our website at www.theretrogradepod.com/

E-mails and business inquiries can be sent to [email protected]

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Max Payne 3 (Xbox 360) 10th Anniversary Retro Review

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It's been 10 long years since we first got to control an aging Max Payne in his pursuit of a kidnapped member of the Bronco family in the phenomenal Max Payne 3!

In celebration of this milestone we dusted off our Xbox 360 to see if all the stylized cinematics, gun slinging, and signature bullet time still holds up in the modern day.

But before getting to the review, we catch up on Mikey's experience with his Steam Deck, talk about some of our favourite sequels in gaming history, and give our thoughts on the advancement of storytelling in our favourite medium!

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Yoshi (NES) 30th Anniversary Retro Review feat. Barry Carenza

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Can you believe it's been THIRTY YEARS since Yoshi's first self-titled video game?

Sure: his appearance in Yoshi on the NES isn't his most iconic entry in gaming... in fact, it's not even as iconic as his relatively minor role in Super Mario World two years earlier... but this is the first and only game simply titled Yoshi.

We're joined this week by a gaming historian named Barry Carenza who shares his experiences growing up with now-retro games, and working with Premium Edition Games to help breath a more retro aesthetic into the realm of modern indie games.

Happy Anniversary Yoshi!

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