Retroquest

On this week’s episode of Retroquest Erron and I take a trip back to the early ’90s to discuss Sonic the Hedgehog 2, the game that we both feel represents the high water mark of the Sonic series.  Later games would start adding a ridiculously large cast of characters and suffer from blatant money grabs [...]

This week on Retroquest I dive into the original Super Mario Brothers for the NES.  Shigeru Miyamoto’s sidescrolling platformer was the killer app of the late 80s that almost singlehandedly sold the NES as the tie-in game that came with the system.  It’s also, by extension, largely responsible for rescuing the slumping video game market [...]

Presented for your listening pleasure is the first episode of the Retroquest podcast where Erron and I discuss the first Commander Keen game: Marooned on Mars. You can listen to or download the podcast directly from this page, or you can subscribe to the Retroquest feed with your podcatching software of choice. This week’s podcast comes [...]