Games We Grew Up With

Games We Grew Up With•www.gwgwshow.com

Join Chris and Katie as these thirtysomething siblings journey through their childhood archive of cartridges, discs, and emulators to relive the cherished and challenging times of their video gaming youth and find out once and for all if the classics of the 80s and 90s game consoles hold up to a modern playthrough. From NES to PS2, Genesis to GameBoy, and even a PC game here and there, they’re reminiscing, replaying, and reviewing some of the all-time retro classics, and maybe a few all-time clunkers too.

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Episodes

Episode 0 – Trailer

Welcome to the show! If you love retro video games, if you love some good banter, and you love laughing at people occasionally making fools of themselves, this is the podcast for you! Subscribe and give it a listen!

Sep 16, 2020•30 sec

Episode 6 – Road Rash II

It’s time to hop onto our motorcycles (whether the Shuriken 400 or Diablo 1000 N) and hit the road for some high-speed, chain-whipping, cop-avoiding, bike-popping action with 1992’s Road Rash II on the Sega Genesis! In this episode, Chris and Katie navigate us through this classic and its blend of adrenaline, frustration, and yelling at the TV and each other growing up. Take a listen as they remember the fun of knocking each other off their bikes, spinning chains above their heads, and desperate...

Sep 08, 2020•49 min•Season 1Ep. 6

Episode 5 – Super Mario RPG

It’s-a me, Mario! Chris and Katie are back and this time it’s to jump into the adventures of the world’s most popular plumber as he makes his first foray into a Role-Playing Game! In this extra-long special episode, our hosts talk about our team of heroes (Mario, Bowser, Peach, and new additions Mallow and Geno) as they work to defeat Smithy, but also discuss RPGs in general, the influence that developers Square had on an otherwise very Nintendo-feeling game, and Katie will learn just how wrong ...

Aug 26, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Episode 4 – Um Jammer Lammy

It’s time for Chris and Katie to show off their musical chops! This episode, they’re going back to 1999 and rocking out with PaRappa the Rapper’s lesser-known sequel, Um Jammer Lammy for the PlayStation! They’ll be talking about their memories of the game, they might drop a Blockbuster Video reference in there, and they’ll share a bit about just how far rhythm games have come in the years since the genre started with PaRappa and Lammy’s adventures. As is becoming tradition, they’ll also do a dee...

Aug 11, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Episode 3 – Jak and Daxter

Chris and Katie are back at it with their retro video gaming nostalgia, this time with a classic PlayStation 2 platformer, Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy! The first installment of one of Katie’s favorite trilogies of all time, this 2001 Naughty Dog-developed title has everything you’d want in a platformer. Running and jumping, punching and shooting, fire and ice levels… and a healthy amount of falling into pits and dying and blaming the terrible camera angles. If we didn’t know better, we’...

Jul 29, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Episode 2 – Vectorman

Chris and Katie return for another retro game review, and this time it’s Sega’s 1995 run-and-gun platformer hit, Vectorman! Listen as they discuss all of the gritty, green, and gun-slinging action of this console classic. The two hosts will dive back in time in their “rose-tinted glasses” segment and share their memories of the game, how they think Young Chris and Young Katie would have scored it, then after they’ve replayed the game, find out just how accurate their memories were! Whether or no...

Jul 21, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Episode 1 – Earthworm Jim

Welcome to the show! As Chris and Katie kick off their journey through their video-gaming youth, they are starting with a classic… Earthworm Jim. This Sega Genesis title from 1994 is full of vivid colors, cartoony artwork, fantastic music, strange enemies, and above all… a giant worm in a super-suit! In this episode, we learn about our two sibling hosts, why they’re starting a podcast, and what impact video games had on their shared childhoods. Then, they talk about the game through their “rose-...

Jul 19, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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