Original air date: May 5, 2014

Would you accept your new robot overlords so long as they played the Moon theme on speakers citywide from time to time?

Our Intro and Outro music is by Ben Landis off his album Adventures in Pixels – “Credits Music for an 8 Bit RPG” (Twitter @thebenlandis)

Our interlude track was Scott Xylo “Contra88”

Show Notes

16:41 – Listener discussion question “If it was Nintendo who put out an add-on for their 16-bit console, would it have been well-received and how would the momentum have changed going into the next generation?”

31:24 – Scott Xylo “Contra88”

33:22 – Retro showdown!

36:25 – Bailey’s pick “Super Mario Bros 2” (NES)

37:43 – Hunter’s pick “Street Fighter 2” (Arcade)

39:19 – Jason’s pick “Counter Strike” (PC)

40:12 – It’s “games that we hate when other people talk about them because they always get it wrong” time here on 1 More PodCastle. Let the elitists through!

1:08:16 – Indy Pop Con is right around the corner and boy do we have some great things planned for the occasion. Please be sure to say hello at the end of May, but before you do, vote in the showdown poll and leave your comments.

Original air date: April 28, 2014

Bonus points to whomever can identify the sprites used in the header image!

Our Intro and Outro music is by Ben Landis off his album Adventures in Pixels – “Credits Music for an 8 Bit RPG” (Twitter @thebenlandis)

Our interlude track was Mark (TDK) Knight “Hoovering With a Hangover”

Show Notes

14:08 – Listener email discussion question “What’s your opinion on modding existing retro consoles or just waiting for Retron 5 and other methods of playing carts?”

24:22 – Mark (TDK) Knight “Hoovering With a Hangover”

26:48 – Retro Showdown!

29:23 – Bailey’s Pick “Ristar” (Sega Genesis)

30:34 – Hunter’s Pick “Skitchin’” (Sega Genesis)

31:46 – Jason’s Pick “Mail Order Monster” (Commodore 64)

32:41 – Sequels are great aren’t they? Empire Strikes Back, Terminator 2, the Last Crusade. But sometimes, great games don’t get the sequels they deserve and that’s our theme for this week’s Retro Showdown!

49:44 – A moment of silence for the fall of Jason’s reign in the showdown… YAH! It’s finally over! To continue to help (or hurt) your favorite picks and hosts, please be sure to vote in the Retro Showdown poll and leave us comments in the section below on whether you enjoy things. We certainly do.

Original air date: April 21, 2014

BEAR_LOAD_ERROR. PLEASE OPEN TRAY 1 AND RE-ALIGN URSINE INPUT

Our Intro and Outro music is by Ben Landis off his album Adventures in Pixels – “Credits Music for an 8 Bit RPG” (Twitter @thebenlandis)

Our interlude track was RushJet1 “Unlikely”

Show Notes

23:06 – Listener email discussion question… well… we didn’t get any for this week. So instead, we played a little game of “Game ideas created out of Jason’s head using word association”. It doesn’t end up like you think it would.

32:38 – RushJet1 “Unlikely”

35:25 – Retro Showdown!

38:05 – Bailey’s Pick “Castlevania” (NES)

39:11 – Hunter’s Pick “Monster in the Pocket” (NES)

40:33 – Jason’s Pick “NBA Showtime: NBA on NBC” (Arcade)

41:33 – Boo! It’s all about games that feature Universal Monsters in them. We have some fierce competition today. And by fierce I mean that Bailey has officially snapped and can’t stand to lose against Jason for another week.

59:23 – Man, the show is a little different without some listener email questions. Maybe you could help us out with that? Also, please vote in the poll and leave us some comments. That stuff is good too. Totes.