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A (very late) Retrograde Gift Exchange
Jan 30, 2026
39m 40s
New Year's Eve Power Hour Countdown 2025 (plus 2026 Predictions AND Dispatch)
Dec 31, 2025
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Top 10 Favourite Things of 2025
Dec 22, 2025
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Silksong, Peacemaker, One Battle After Another, and more! October Check-In
Oct 26, 2025
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Death Stranding 2, The Switch 2, The Last of Us Season 2 - July Check-In!
Jul 5, 2025
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 1/30/26 | A (very late) Retrograde Gift Exchange✨ | gift exchangevideo games+4 | — | Arc RaidersMarty Supreme | — | Retrogradegift exchange+5 | — | 39m 40s | |
| 12/31/25 | New Year's Eve Power Hour Countdown 2025 (plus 2026 Predictions AND Dispatch) | Back so soon, D-Pads?This week we return with our most anticipated episode of every year: the New Year's Eve Power Hour Countdown. Join us as we do a shot of beer every minute for 60 minutes to ring in 2026. Plus: we talk Dispatch, Arc Raiders, and make some predictions about what's to come in the new year. Thanks again for making our year so special, and showing us support even while we've put a pause on the weekly content. Join us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent to theretrogradepodcast@gmail.com | — | ||||||
| 12/22/25 | Top 10 Favourite Things of 2025 | Another year is in the books, D-Pads!Join us as we turn the mics back on to discuss what we consider to be one of the greatest years in recent memory.Sure, the world feels like it's burning alive... but the CONTENT!Let us know what we missed, and what are some of the TV Shows, music, movies, and games from this year you spent the most time with!Join us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Or visit our website at www.theretrogradepod.com/Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent | — | ||||||
| 10/26/25 | Silksong, Peacemaker, One Battle After Another, and more! October Check-In | Where have you been, D-Pads?We've been here, but we haven't seen you? Have our episodes not been posting, or have we just not had time for a check-in in a few months?You be the judge! This week we were stoked to find some time to recap one of the greatest years in gaming history including Hollow Knight: Silksong, a few must-see movies like One Battle After Another, and some split opinions on TV Shows like Peacemaker!Join us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent to theretrogradepodcast@gmail.com | — | ||||||
| 7/5/25 | Death Stranding 2, The Switch 2, The Last of Us Season 2 - July Check-In! | We're coming back 2 Fast, D-Pads!This week, there are too many 2's to talk about! Death Stranding 2, Switch 2, The Last of Us Season 2... and more!We couldn't hold it in any longer, so we decided to dust off the microphones and hit record for your listening pleasure. Join us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Or visit our website at www.theretrogradepod.com/Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent to theretrogradepodcast@gmail.com | — | ||||||
| 5/24/25 | The Last of Us Season 2 - Better than the Game? (A Retrograde Check-In!) | You haven't heard the last of us, D-Pads!That's right, we're back with another bonus check-in to discuss how season 2 of The Last of Us has been progressing. Plus: Blue Prince, Clair Obscure: Expedition 33, Thunderbolts, and more!We've missed every single one of you, and can't wait to come back soon with some more exciting news!Join us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent to theretrogradepodcast@gmail.com | — | ||||||
| 3/15/25 | Gaming Check-In PLUS Death Stranding Trailer Impressions | Did you miss us, D-Pads? Well we missed you! We couldn't wait to turn the mics back on and start shootin' the poop. It's been months since we were able to sit across a small room from one another and have our favourite para-social listeners voyeuristically consume everything we had to say. We're well on our way to planning the next step of our content journey, but in the meantime we figured we'd bring everyone up to speed with our experiences playing games like Civilization 7, Mouthwashing, and Citizen Sleeper, PLUS our impressions of the recent Death Stranding 2 launch trailer!Join us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Or visit our website at www.theretrogradepod.com/Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent to theretrogradepodcast@gmail.comShow Notes: https://www.theretrogradepod.com/episodes/march-gaming-check-in-death-stranding-2 | — | ||||||
| 12/29/24 | New Years Eve Power Hour Countdown (...with 2025 predictions) | Happy New Year, D-Pads!We're back with one of our most highly demanded episodes ever: New Years Eve Power Hour!Whether you're looking to drink along with us (one shot of beer per minute for 60 minutes leading up to Midnight) or just listen along as we recount some of our 2024 predictions, gaming's best moments of the year, and rattle off some new 2025 predictions, you're not going to want to miss this one.It's always a little funny, a little informative, and inevitably a little sappy as we get closer to that countdown. Thanks again for another monumental year in The Retrograde's history, and Happy New Year!Join us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Or visit our website at www.theretrogradepod.com/Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent to theretrogradepodcast@gmail.comShow Notes: https://www.theretrogradepod.com/episodes/New-Years-Eve-Power-Hour-Countdown-2025 | — | ||||||
| 11/22/24 | BONUS: A Retrograde Check In | Did you miss us, D-Pads?Well, we missed you. And we missed each other! We decided to check in JUST as we promised to give everyone a quick update on what we've been up to since changing from our old weekly schedule.We discuss: Silent Hill 2, Return of the Golden Idol, Star Wars: Outlaws, Overwatch, Mario Party 8, and more!Plus: Find out how the movie The Substance got Mikey in trouble with his girlfriend. Join us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Or visit our website at www.theretrogradepod.com/Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent to theretrogradepodcast@gmail.comShow Notes: https://www.theretrogradepod.com/episodes/retrograde-check-in | — | ||||||
| 9/24/24 | The Retrograde Retrospective (We're Changing!) | It's time to turn a new page, D-Pads!This is the week we usher in a new change to The Retrograde: A Video Game Podcast!It's been an unbelievable 6 (plus) years, but we've decided to make a change to our regular weekly main feed episodes. You'll still get all the Retrograde content you love, but at non-regular intervals, and in slightly different formats. To celebrate, this week we're doing a full retrospective on all 333 previous episodes of the podcast you've all come to know and love. Thanks to all of our listeners and viewers who have supported us over the years!This podcast has grown far larger than we ever could have expected, and we have you to thank for that. We're opening up our complete backlog of episodes on all podcast platforms, too! So if there's an episode you missed, now is your chance to check it out. This is NOT goodbye! just the beginning of a new era for your two favourite Retrograders. Keep us in your hearts, and in your feeds. hearts, and in yourfeeds. Join us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Or visit our website at www.theretrogradepod.com/Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent to theretrogradepodcast@gmail.comShow Notes: https://www.theretrogradepod.com/episodes/the-final-retrograde-retrospective | — | ||||||
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| 9/17/24 | Chained Together (PC) Review | Time to Climb, D-Pads!This week we made the awful decision to try to claw, jump, (and drive?) our way out of hell in Chained Together!It's a game that's been taking the streaming world by storm, so we figured it'd be a great way to test our "friendship" (read: six year podcasting relationship). We tackled the first 45 minutes of the game over on our YouTube channel, so make sure to check that out here: https://youtu.be/eUl1aGB2a6EIn this episode we give our full thoughts on the game, PLUS some impressions of the latest sensation Astro Bot as well as Star Wars: Outlaws. Join us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Or visit our website at www.theretrogradepod.com/Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent to theretrogradepodcast@gmail.comShow Notes: https://www.theretrogradepod.com/episodes/chained-together-review | — | ||||||
| 9/10/24 | Top 10 Games of All Time | This is a big one, D-Pads!We've finally decided to tackle the list to end all lists! We've danced around it since the beginning of our podcast, but now that we're 6 years deep and just around the corner from a massive change to our release schedules, we decided to give the people what they want: our lists of the top 10 games of all time!Is it subjective? Sure! Does that mean you'll still get extremely upset with us for not including Final Fantasy? Also sure!Before getting into the lists, Andrew breaks down his first impressions of Star Wars: Outlaws, and Mikey turns his nose up at Lies of P. Join us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Or visit our website at www.theretrogradepod.com/Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent to theretrogradepodcast@gmail.comShow Notes: https://www.theretrogradepod.com/episodes/top-10-video-games-of-all-time | — | ||||||
| 9/3/24 | Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Review | Hey! Listen, D-Pads!This week we tackle one of the most celebrated video games of all time. It's The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past!The Super Nintendo didn't know what hit it when this game launched way back in the early 90's, and to be honest: neither did we!Somehow neither of us played this video game back when it came out, so in spite of our growing love of Zelda, this marked our FIRST experience with what some consider to be the best video game of all time. Plus: Andrew has finally finished Alan Wake 2, so we take some time up top to share our thoughts!Make sure to catch the gameplay segment for today's episode where we play the first 45 minutes here: https://youtu.be/5oKXrvanyd0 | — | ||||||
| 8/27/24 | Top 5 Gaming Soundtracks of All Time | Listen up, D-Pads!We're going heavy on the audio this week as we sit down to iron out our lists of top 5 Gaming Soundtracks of all time!There's a hefty helping of subjectivity in this episode, so bear with us as we try to justify our picks with a single song off of each soundtrack to justify our love. Plus: we explain how ghosts are real, and Mikey tries Sifu. Join us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Or visit our website at www.theretrogradepod.com/Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent to theretrogradepodcast@gmail.comShow Notes: https://www.theretrogradepod.com/episodes/greatest-gaming-soundtracks | — | ||||||
| 8/20/24 | Gaming's Hottest Takes (Part 2) | Earmuffs, D-Pads!This week you might not want to hear some of what we have to say. Back by popular demand, we decided to sit down and rattle off some of our biggest gripes and hottest takes from the world of gaming. Which game franchise fumbled the ball the worst?Does we need achievements in games?What game mechanics need to GO? Plus, we give some impressions on Deadpool & Wolverine, and get a bit farther in Alan Wake 2!Join us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Or visit our website at www.theretrogradepod.com/Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent to theretrogradepodcast@gmail.comShow Notes: https://www.theretrogradepod.com/episodes/gaming-hot-takes-part-2 | — | ||||||
| 8/13/24 | The Best (and worst) of Gaming's Greatest Franchises | Bring in the behemoths, D-Pads!This week we're digging into some of the greatest franchises in gaming!But it wouldn't be enough for us to praise them endlessly, would it? Instead we've challenged ourselves to crown the Best, Worst, and Most Underrated of each franchise. We all love Metal Gear, but even in a franchise full of bangers one of them has to be crowned the "worst!" Feel free to let us know where we got it wrong (we know you will).Join us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Or visit our website at www.theretrogradepod.com/Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent to theretrogradepodcast@gmail.comShow Notes: https://www.theretrogradepod.com/episodes/best-video-game-franchises-breakdown | — | ||||||
| 8/6/24 | Olympics Go! Paris 2024 Review | Skip this one, D-Pads!Sorry to be the bearers of bad news, but this week we played through all that this year's Olympics video game had to offer, and we regret to inform you it MIGHT NOT be worth playing. Olympics Go! Paris 2024 may sound like a confusing title (and that's because it is) but that's not where the pain ends. Join us this week as we break down our entire experience playing the game, and try to come up with some positive things to say about it. Make sure to catch the full gameplay segment where we play through each and every event this game has to offer here: https://youtu.be/nYcPrZ0M0wMJoin us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Or visit our website at www.theretrogradepod.com/Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent to theretrogradepodcast@gmail.comShow Notes: https://www.theretrogradepod.com/episodes/Olympics-Go-Paris-2024 | — | ||||||
| 7/30/24 | The Video Game Olympics: Paris 2024 | Games Wide Open, D-Pads!(That's the motto for this year's Olympics, for some reason!)This week we get into the Olympic Spirit to celebrate everyone's favourite "once every four years" event!While the world's greatest athletes descent upon Paris to test themselves against one another, we descend upon our podcast studio and sit on our butts to discuss which video game characters we think would be best suited to bring home medals of their own! Can Luigi jump higher than Mario?Would Kratos outbox Arthur Morgan? Is Ecco the Dolphin a better swimmer than Sekiro? Plus, Andrew has started his journey into Night Springs so we spend some time up front discussing his thoughts on Alan Wake 2!Join us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod,@RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Or visit our website at www.theretrogradepod.com/Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent to theretrogradepodcast@gmail.com | — | ||||||
| 7/23/24 | Best Years in Gaming: 2000 | Y2K is real, D-Pads!This week we celebrate surviving the turn of the new millennium with a look back at what many consider to be one of the greatest years in video game history: 2000!Every time we do a deep dive on one of the great years in gaming it feels like we further complicate the debate as to which year was the best, and this time it's no different.Join us as we each draft a team of 6 games to represent the best of what this year had to offer. Plus: Andrew is finally touring Night City so we spend some time chatting about Cyberpunk 2077!Join us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Or visit our website at www.theretrogradepod.com/Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent to theretrogradepodcast@gmail.comShow Notes: https://www.theretrogradepod.com/episodes/best-year-in-gaming-2000 | — | ||||||
| 7/16/24 | Would You Rather (Gaming Edition) | Time to make some decisions, D-Pads!This week we decided to have a little fun by posing some of the most difficult, quirky, and downright nonsensical Would You Rather questions we could think of. Would you rather always be star powered, or always be mini?Would you rather spend your life in a Poke Ball, or inside Kirby's body?Would you rather cure your ailments by eating hearts or rotisserie chickens?All of these, and more!Plus: Andrew got a PS5!Send us your Would You Rather suggestions for future episodes!Join us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Or visit our website at www.theretrogradepod.com/Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent to theretrogradepodcast@gmail.comShow Notes: https://www.theretrogradepod.com/episodes/gaming-would-you-rather | — | ||||||
| 7/9/24 | Stephen's Sausage Roll Review | Order up, D-Pads!This week we decided to take some advice from the prolific game designer Jonathan Blow and try out what he described as one of the greatest puzzle games of all time: Stephen's Sausage Roll!Back in 2016 it was more of a critical darling, but should this game have had more mass appeal? Or is it too hard to hold the attention of a casual gamer? Make sure to catch the gameplay segment where we nearly have our brains broken: https://youtu.be/zCcjdRtOM74Join us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Or visit our website at www.theretrogradepod.com/Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent to theretrogradepodcast@gmail.comShow Notes: https://www.theretrogradepod.com/episodes/stephens-sausage-roll-review | — | ||||||
| 7/2/24 | First Person Shooter Genre Draft | Look here, D-Pads!Whether you got your start with old PC games like Duke Nukem 3D, or huddled around a CRT screen with 3 of your buddies playing Goldeneye, First Person Shooters make up some of the most iconic and highly appreciated games of all time. As games began the shift from 2D to 3D, icons of the industry like Doom and Wolfenstein appeared to be the front-runners in the ever evolving landscape of gaming perspectives. This week we sat down to draft a team of our most highly appreciated First Person Shooters of all time! Balancing single player stories with the likes of multiplayer mayhem and inarguable innovation, we try to pick the 5 most iconic games from the genre!Join us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Or visit our website at www.theretrogradepod.com/Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent to theretrogradepodcast@gmail.comShow Notes: https://www.theretrogradepod.com/episodes/first-person-shooter-genre-draft | — | ||||||
| 6/25/24 | Braid, Anniversary Edition | Let's go back in time, D-Pads! But this time, it's not JUST to look at a retro game. It's to look at a now-sixteen-year-old game with rewind mechanics at its core. Braid first hit the scene in 2008 as a darling of the Indie Game community, and set Xbox Live Arcade up for a run which would change console gaming forever. However, we didn't ALL get a chance to play it, so this week in celebration of the recent release of Braid, Anniversary Edition, Mikey guides Andrew through Jonathan Blow's masterpiece for the very first time. Make sure to catch the gameplay portion of this week's episode where we play through the first few worlds of Braid here: https://youtu.be/fJQXXHP-hrEJoin us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Or visit our website at www.theretrogradepod.com/Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent to theretrogradepodcast@gmail.comShow Notes: https://www.theretrogradepod.com/episodes/braid-anniversary-edition | — | ||||||
| 6/18/24 | Summer Game Fest 2024: Everything You Need to Know | It's that time of year, D-Pads!The summer is upon us and that means one thing: new game announcements!While we're still a bit upset about the passing of E3, Summer Game Fest and its satellite showcases have done a great job picking up where it left off. This week we sit down to discuss all of our favourite trailers and announcements from Summer Game Fest, Xbox Games Showcase, Sony's State of Play, Devolver Direct, and more!Let us know which trailers we missed, and which games you're most excited about!Join us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Or visit our website at www.theretrogradepod.com/Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent to theretrogradepodcast@gmail.comShow Notes: https://www.theretrogradepod.com/episodes/summer-game-fest-2024-recap | — | ||||||
| 6/11/24 | Gamer Shame | Time for confession, D-Pads!This week we sit down to discuss our biggest "Gamer Shames." Sure, we've played a lot of games over our lives, but every so often we find ourselves ashamed of our own habits. Whether it's a franchise we've never actually played, a game we hate which others seem to love, or a lie we've told others to make ourselves feel better: we're here to unleash it all on you!We also took some responses from the community and the results were... unnerving. Join us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Or visit our website at www.theretrogradepod.com/Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent to theretrogradepodcast@gmail.comShow Notes: https://www.theretrogradepod.com/episodes/gamer-shame | — | ||||||
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