2012 Year-in-Gaming Retrospective

About this episode

The episode reviews the gaming landscape of 2012, highlighting significant events and releases.

To kick off season 4, it's time for a bread-and-butter of GamingStooges: Year-in-Gaming Retrospectives! This episode, we take it back to the last year of the Mayan calendar, 2012. A year when the world was supposed to end, but at least gaming sure didn't. Find out how stacked this year really is! Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio; 80s Synthwave Retrowave - Dangerous, 4 Hour Cyberpunk Darksynth Mix - Plasma Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GamingStooges Join us in our Discord server: https://discord.gg/5TCSnuN​ Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/gamingstooges Podcast Feed: https://rss.com/podcasts/gamingstooges/

People in this episode

Host: GamingStooges

Topics covered

• gaming retrospective
• 2012 gaming
• video games
• Mayan calendar
• season premiere

Keywords

• 2012
• gaming
• retrospective
• video games
• Mayan calendar

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: 80s Synthwave Retrowave - Dangerous, 4 Hour Cyberpunk Darksynth Mix - Plasma

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