A boozy TimeSplitters hang that turns dumb banter into real game talk.
Four old friends drink, trade dumb jokes, and eventually settle on TimeSplitters, which gives the episode a loose, messy feel that suits a retro games hang.

Retro Smashed
116 episodes listed below
Retro games, rough banter, zero polish.
Retro Smashed Video Game Podcast turns old-school games into a messy table conversation among friends. Episodes bounce from TimeSplitters, Tony Hawk, Fallout: New Vegas, pause menus, and speedrunning psychology into pop culture memories, weather complaints, concerts, and whatever joke derails the room next.
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Retro Smashed Video Game Podcast is retro-gaming talk with the formal polish deliberately left on the floor. The show has a topic each week, and it usually does get there. First, though, the room has to warm up. Drinks get opened. Someone reports on work, house projects, weather, concerts, birthdays, Twitch plans, or whatever game has been ruining their patience lately. Then the episode swerves into old games with the same energy: part memory lane, part argument, part running joke that nobody fully agreed to start. TimeSplitters becomes a conversation about endless enemy spawns, awkward cover, zombie mansions, and modern rereleases. Fallout: New Vegas opens the door to Celeste B-sides and the pain of shaving long attempts down into cleaner runs. A pause-menu episode somehow becomes an Adult Swim timeline debate, with Boondocks, Metalocalypse, Super Jail, Too Many Cooks, The Oblongs, and Home Movies all passing through the room. The show is strongest when the topic is specific but the conversation refuses to stay fenced in. Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, movies about video games, speedrunning psychology, and games that define the panel all become excuses for personal stories and quick corrections. The tone is blunt, teasing, and proudly unserious. It can be crude. It can be dark. Underneath that, the dynamic feels familiar rather than hostile, like friends who trust the table enough to keep taking shots at each other. The gaming opinions come from memory, repetition, frustration, and affection, not from a museum placard. Listeners looking for clean rankings or solemn preservation talk may bounce off it fast. Listeners who want old games discussed through hangout chaos, pop-culture detours, and half-broken structure will know exactly where they are.
Made for: Built for retro-game fans who like their nostalgia noisy, specific, and full of side conversations. It especially suits listeners who enjoy panel chemistry, crude detours, and old friends arguing through shared gaming memory.
What sets it apart: The show treats retro games as part of everyday life rather than sealed-off collector culture. Its edge comes from the constant collision of real game detail, personal oversharing, drinks, roast-heavy banter, and pop-culture drift.
Some friends hang out, drink a few beers, insult each other a little bit, and eventually talk about retro video games! Play along with our game of the week where we test our knowledge of useless pop culture trivia. We go over some background info about the video game of the week as well as some of our memories of it. We then finish the show with some Happy Time shout-outs to anniversaries of video game releases and other historical pop culture landmarks.
Rare-era nostalgia meets roast-your-friends energy, giving your inner N64 kid a barstool.
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A boozy TimeSplitters hang that turns dumb banter into real game talk.
Four old friends drink, trade dumb jokes, and eventually settle on TimeSplitters, which gives the episode a loose, messy feel that suits a retro games hang.
A loose, personal run through Miis, palette swaps, and retro-game memory.
Episode 101 uses character creation as its way into memory: a studio check-in among old friends turns toward the odd delight of seeing a homemade avatar appear inside a game.
A loose Patreon draft turns game nostalgia into survival debates, drinking advice, and sudden panic.
This Patreon special takes a loose potato-draft premise and lets it sprawl into survival picks, drinking companions, and video-game holy-shit moments.
A loose, affectionate Rare discussion built around Blast Corps chaos, Banjo-Kazooie nostalgia, and retro gaming detours.
Rare receives a lively, slightly unruly survey as the discussion moves from Perfect Dark riffing into Blast Corps, where a runaway nuclear missile carrier makes demolition feel like a puzzle with real snap.

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The hosts of the Retro Smash Video Game Podcast introduce themselves and discuss Weldy's recent experience playing Roller Coaster Tycoon, focusing on marketing aspects and a specific scenario challenge.
The hosts of a retro video game podcast introduce themselves and engage in casual banter while setting up for a discussion on speed running psychology.
The hosts of Retro Smash Video Game Podcast introduce themselves, joke about New Year and pop culture references, and discuss starting fresh for the new year.
The hosts transition from Christmas greetings to discussing a conspiracy theory about O.J.
The hosts discuss playing the 2012 Telltale Walking Dead game, with one sharing a more aggressive playthrough approach.
The hosts and a special guest introduce themselves and start catching up, with Weldy mentioning his time-consuming public relations class and papers.
The hosts of the Retro Snatch Video Game Podcast introduce themselves and catch up on recent activities, including work, weather, and attending concerts.
The hosts of the Retro Smash Video Game Podcast introduce themselves and banter about Castlevania, referencing vampires, Medusa heads, and pop culture tangents.
The hosts of the Retro Smash video game podcast introduce themselves and reminisce about late-night Adult Swim cartoons like Boondocks, sharing personal memories from college and high school.
Luke shares his retro gaming background, starting with PlayStation and Atari, and highlights his enduring love for God of War and Tony Hawk Pro Skater series.
The hosts discuss personal updates, including playing God of War 3 and planning a Twisted Metal Black drinking game.
The hosts discuss Dante's Inferno's nine stages of hell while joking about personal anecdotes and video games like Spider-Man 2.
The hosts of the Retro Smash Video Game Podcast introduce themselves and chat about recent events like a birthday celebration and emo night before transitioning to discuss the episode's topic, Crash Bandicoot.
The hosts of Retro Smashed Video Game Podcast start with lively banter and jokes, then shift to a tribute for Ozzy Osbourne, discussing his impact and sharing humorous comparisons with other pop culture figures.
The hosts open with a humorous bit about VPNs and historical shock, then introduce themselves and the podcast's casual, beer-fueled retro gaming discussions, while also acknowledging Pride celebrations.
The hosts introduce themselves and catch up on personal gaming updates, including playing Celeste B sides and discussing Twitch streaming, before transitioning to the main topic of Fallout: New Vegas.
The hosts of Retro Smashed Video Game Podcast open with casual banter, birthday jokes, and a humorous digression into a conspiracy theory about Stevie Wonder's sight, dubbing him the 'musical Daredevil.' The episode sets a lighthearted, beer-fueled tone for discussing retro gaming topics.
Retro Smashed Video Game Podcast Episode 101 examines character and level creation through games including Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, Morrowind, Saints Row, MUGEN, and Halo Forge.
Retro Smashed Video Game Podcast's Episode 100 uses a hat of roughly 30 subjects to generate rapid-fire video-game rankings and hypotheticals.
Ricky, Welderson, Alex, and Andrew examine Rare Limited, the British developer associated with Battletoads, Donkey Kong, Banjo-Kazooie, GoldenEye, Perfect Dark, and Sea of Thieves.
Retro Smashed Video Game Podcast Episode 106 examines Soulcaliber through its 1998 arcade release, 1999 Dreamcast port, and unusually strong review history, including a 98 from Metacritic and 40 out of 40 from Famitsu.
Four old friends drink, jaw at each other, and settle in on TimeSplitters.
Three friends discuss retro video games, movies about video games, and celebrate a birthday while recording in a studio.
This episode of the Retro Smash Gaming Podcast features a casual conversation about retro video games, including Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 and Metroidvania titles like Aria of Sorrow and Super Metroid.