Hosted by TimeWanderer · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 272 episodes
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Every week, Dean (twitch.tv/timewanderer) and Tom discuss current gaming news, and then check out some old (or sometimes new) piece of gaming history to see how it holds up, and test the strength of nostalgia.
TimeWanderer hosts The Retro Breakdown, a leisure show with 272 episodes published.
We're doubling up on Castlevania because I got this in a Kusogrande match! Also in this episode: There is a new live-action He-Man movie out and it is directed by a blatant nepo-baby. The Nintendo Direct that was announc
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
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
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 War
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
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
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
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. NOTIC
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 TERRIBLE NO
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,
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
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!
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 actua
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
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! ther
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 t
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 t
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
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!
"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!
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