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Castlevania 2 (NES) and the Summer Game Fest Recap
Jun 9, 2026
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Blast Corps (N64) and the Backlash Debate
May 26, 2026
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Wario World (GC) and the StarFox Re-Re-Re-Remake
May 12, 2026
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Mendel Palace (NES) and the Famicom BASIC
Apr 27, 2026
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Castlevania (NES) and the Lords of Shadow Spoilers
Apr 14, 2026
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| 6/9/26 |  Castlevania 2 (NES) and the Summer Game Fest Recap | Wow that is a lot of game news, and we're absolutely not covering all of it, but we talk about what interests us, and also Grand Theft Auto 6, which does not interest either of us.Castlevania 2 is a game preceded by its reputation, which honestly is sort of unfortunate because it really isn't as bad as that reputation makes it out to be. While far from perfect, it's ambitious and interesting, and also the victim of an infamously poor localization, documented in painstaking detail here: https://bisqwit.iki.fi/cv2fin/diffSend us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
| 5/26/26 |  Blast Corps (N64) and the Backlash Debate | Is the Backlash the worst vehicle in Blast Corps, singlehandedly responsible for detracting from the overall experience?Or is it merely misunderstood, a tricky but ultimately rewarding mechanic to finally wrap your head around?Your answer to this question probably aligns closely with whether or not you enjoy this video game.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
| 5/12/26 |  Wario World (GC) and the StarFox Re-Re-Re-Remake | According to Nintendo, there is one StarFox game. And that game is whichever remake of the original one they are currently selling.Meanwhile, Treasure made a Wario game, and it feels more like a Treasure game than a Wario game. But honestly, both of those things are still okay? Apparently this game caught a lot of flak for being short, even though that is probably one of its better features.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
| 4/27/26 |  Mendel Palace (NES) and the Famicom BASIC | Game Freak's very first game has a great story behind it, and some really interesting stuff, but somehow we end up talking about Activision and I promise it makes sense.Also, we do a rare look-ahead to big budget games that people are looking forward to this year, and realize we mostly don't care about them.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
| 4/14/26 |  Castlevania (NES) and the Lords of Shadow Spoilers | We absolutely talk about Castlevania on this podcast. We should maybe have focused a little bit more on Castlevania 1, the supposed focus of this podcast, but apparently it was time to talk about every other game in the series and also my new indie obsession, Zexion.THE SOUNDTRACK REALLY SLAPS SO HARD THOUGH OH MY WORDSend us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
| 3/31/26 |  Mario Clash (Virtual Boy) and the Nintendo Cinematic Universe | The first episode of many recorded from my new place in Korea, and it's a Virtual Boy game because why not?Star Fox in the new Mario movie implies that you reasonably could set up a Star Fox movie off of this and create a whole Nintendo Cinematic Universe so WE TALK ABOUT THIS FOR A BIT.NOTICE: Episodes will be bi-weekly for a while - I'm moving and it's going to mess with the schedule for a month or two. In fact, by the time you read this, I will be on the other side of the planet! So that's cool.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
| 3/17/26 |  Balloon Kid (Game Boy) and the Final Ohio Podcast | This podcast has always been recorded remotely, but this is the last one, at least for a long while, that will be at least half-recorded in Ohio.Perhaps appropriately, it's about a kid going on a flying adventure.NOTICE: Episodes will be bi-weekly for a while - I'm moving and it's going to mess with the schedule for a month or two. In fact, by the time you read this, I will be on the other side of the planet! So that's cool.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
| 3/3/26 |  Mega Man ZX (Nintendo DS) and the Not Miis | The absolute best Mega Man power ever created exists in this game, which is... pretty good. It has flaws, but this series works pretty well in an open map structure.OR IT WOULD IF THE MAP WASN'T AGGRESSIVELY TERRIBLENOTICE: Episodes will be bi-weekly for a while - I'm moving and it's going to mess with the schedule for a month or two. In fact, by the time you read this, I will be on the other side of the planet! So that's cool.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
| 2/17/26 |  A Boy and His Blob (NES) and the Final Fantasy 15 Apologist | It seems that the standard experience with this game is "rented it as a kid, couldn't figure out what to do, took it back."It turns out the reason for that is the the intended first step is to no-clip through the floor, and that was maybe just a little obtuse.NOTICE: Episodes will be bi-weekly for a while - I'm moving and it's going to mess with the schedule for a month or two.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
| 2/3/26 |  Bionic Commando (GB) and the Age of Imprisonment | Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment is a lot of fun, but I have some gripes.Bionic Commando for Game Boy, however, is black magic and I have no idea how or why it is works as well as it does on this system, it does not make sense.NOTICE: Episodes will be bi-weekly for a while - I'm moving and it's going to mess with the schedule for a month or two.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
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| 1/20/26 |  Fatal Fury Special (SNES) and the Grand Theft Auto 6 Failure | This week, we talk about fighting games, Mai Shiranui, and the absolute best thing that could possibly happen to the video game industry in 2026.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
| 1/13/26 |  Battletoads (NES) and the Air Bud Retrospective | I like hard games. I think hard games are often very good. Here are a bunch of reasons we don't think Battletoads is very good beyond the first 3 stages.Consequently, this also coincides with the reason why people actually think Battletoads is good, because the first three stages - the good ones - are the only ones most people actually ever saw.Also they are rebooting Air Bud, I learned that today and now you have to as well.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
| 1/6/26 |  Resident Evil (PS1/GC) and the Farting Clowns | It must be a new year because we're doing survival horror! This is my actual first time with Resident Evil, and to get the full picture, I played both Chris and Jill's routes, and also played Jill's route in the Gamecube remake (even though I played the PC ports for all of them).Maybe the world of survival horror isn't so bad.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
| 12/30/25 | The Retro Breakdown 2025 Tier List | From Cool Spot to Mr. Driller 2 with a bunch of Mega Man games in between, we recap every game we played and podcasted in 2025!Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
| 12/23/25 |  Home Alone (Sega Master System) and the 85% of Hot Topic Sales | Somehow, against all odds, Home Alone for the Sega Master System is one of the best Home Alone games I've ever played. I know that's a low bar, but still, this game came out in Europe in 1993, well after the release of the second movie and an entirely new console generation, and somehow it hits.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
| 12/17/25 |  Mr. Driller 2 and the Resident Evil Bulk Purchase | The point of this week's episode is that Mr. Driller as a game is whatever, but the LORE IS DEEPER THAN YOU COULD POSSIBLY IMAGINE.Also, I guess I'm just gonna play all the Resident Evil games now? I bought a bunch of them mid-podcast and am getting ready to stream the first one as I publish this.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
| 12/9/25 |  Alleyway (Game Boy) and the Lazy Breakout | It's Breakout but if you put absolutely no effort into doing anything interesting or unique at all.Ironically, this leads us into a whole discussion about how lazy game design was totally okay in 1989 because the unique thing about it was just the fact that you could play it on the go at all.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
| 11/25/25 |  Chibi-Robo! (GC) and the Black Friday Work Stories | Before playing this game, the only thing I knew about it was "Divorce."After playing this game, that may actually still be the only thing I remember.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
| 11/18/25 |  Mega Man Zero 4 (GBA) and the Kojima AI Friends | "I don't want to use AI, I just want it to be a friend that does my work for me, like a co-creator."My Brother in Christ, that is WHAT USING AI IS. Have we learned NOTHING from Metal Gear Solid 2?Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
| 11/4/25 |  Mario's Picross (Game Boy) and the King's Field | We played a bunch of different things for small amounts of time this week, so let's talk about Picross, random New York Times puzzles, King's Field, and a bunch of other things?Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
| 10/28/25 |  The Adventures of Batman and Robin (Genesis) and the Clockwork Tortoise | One of the most impressive games on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive could have been one of the best of all time with the power of a good project manager or producer.Alas, we'll settle for "really impressive and flawed in easily-fixable ways."Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
| 10/21/25 |  D2 (Dreamcast) and the Hundred Line Second Playthrough | There's so much to unpack here we had to come back and add another 20 minutes after we thought we were done.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
| 10/16/25 |  Mega Man X8 (PS2) and the Mavericks at Will | THAT IS LITERALLY THE WHOLE POINT OF A MAVERICK(Reupload)Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
| 10/7/25 |  Drake of the 99 Dragons (Xbox) and the Blue Prince Spoilercast | I haven't played a game with this much edge since my last playthrough of Catherine.Also, I am absolutely going to spoil the ending of Blue Prince, so be warned if that's something you would like to avoid.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
| 9/23/25 |  No One Can Stop Mr. Domino (PS1) and the Collection Culling | I'm getting rid of a chunk of my retro games collection, and with the money I make from it, maybe I'll buy more games like this.Send us mail! theretrobreakdown@gmail.comTW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruGPodcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewandererTW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer | — | ||||||
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