With all the “everything old is new again” mentality floating around the gaming world, the crew of RFGO! decided to weigh in on the current state of retro. Are companies just cashing in on the seemingly hot trend of retro? Or are the retro revivals on the horizon a signal that you can’t keep a good franchise down? Maybe it’s a little bit of both, who knows? That’s why the gang decided to throw in our own two cents on the subject and bring you this week’s show.

Highlights!

•  Dyson returns from the awesome apocalypse

• Happy birthday Topher!

• Listen to my stories

• All awesome, all the time

• The power of four is back!

• New picture trend is win

• No joke. Design my next tattoo
  

Since I’m once again writing this in this most hastily manner, I’m just going to leave you with well wishes. Till next week, folks!

 

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So I missed the show yesterday. Have no fear, though, the show went on. Reverend Anthony jumped in to take the fourth place and Topher ran the task of hosting. How did things go? Well, we started doing the “what have you been playing” intro as if the show was Podtoid — that’s new. And there were a few extremely off color remarks that didn’t make into the final edit, but I’m sure you’ll be able to hear them in the future … Maybe on a 50th episode, perhaps?

Anyway, since all I did was edit the show, I really don’t have all the wonderful highlights that I normally do. But one thing I can tell you, is that the show has some guest appearances by the legendary Sean Connery, hooray etc., and massive amounts of single entendres (we’re too lowbrow for the double kind).

From what I can tell, everyone did an excellent job without me even though there was some bucket action going on. Check out the show, and enjoy your week!

P.s. Chad is totally wrong about Landstalker, it’s wonderful

 

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I know I say this every Monday but, hooray Monday! Not too much has changed over that course of the last week, but then again, not much does in the world of retro. I hear that in the next-gen world, a 360 burned a house down, Nintendo is still on top, and Sony fans are chomping at the bit for the new MGS 4. None of that effects us in any way, but we can throw in our 2¢ by talking about the original Metal Gear games, right?

Highlights!

• Pizza Rolls GO!
  

• Dyson = not-restraint

• This week VC is fun, fun, FUN!

• According to Toph-lette, there is no Yardsale

• Love can bloom on the battlefield

• Stupid retarded love, but love all the same

• Lone Manitee <3’s Kevlar Trousersnake

So, yeah, looking back, those are pretty weird sounding highlights. I guess we’ll just have to listen and find out what the heck this week’s show was all about. While you’re doing that, I’m still going to try and get through the origianl Metal Gear series for the NES. That is, of course, unless I FEEL ASLEEP.

 

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Welcome to another Monday! I really don’t have too much to say about this particular Monday. Aside from the usual stuff that happened during the weekend, this is a pretty standard Monday so far. So, yeah, it’s pretty sunny here in San Francisco, at least by our standards. I gotta lot of sleep last night because I just went right to bed after recording the show. When I woke up today, I made some roasted chicken and edited the show, then I had some breakfast.

Wow, pretty boring, huh? Well, sometimes Dyson can’t win them all, but at least your Monday can be a little more exciting than mine by listening to the new RFGO!

Highlights!

• Chad has something to say about last week
  

• Fastest review ever

• YARDSALE!

• Rev puts the lotion in the basket

• Questions begin!

• Colette returns

• We get Chad into another laughing frenzy, the world rights itself

• Orcist, your roomie wants his money

• Dinosaurs!

Aaaaaaand there ya’ go! That’s about all I really have to say about this week’s show. I’m still in the middle of my boring-ass Monday, but you guys can alleviate your boredom by downloading the new, very long episode of RFGO! Let us know what you think about it in the comments after you’re finished, ‘kay?

 

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Ladies and gentleman, if you take the time to listen to the sound file below you’ll notice two things. One, is that there kinda sorta isn’t an official show this week. And two, there is still a way to get a hold of what we wanted to be the show, but you’ll have to make your way to the Destructoid.com Cblogs to do so.

Please understand that we in no way want to make our listenership jump through hoops, it’s just that show quality, sadly, was so below our standards that we felt we couldn’t release it as an official episode. We know that you, the listeners, may have forgiven us for this particular episode, but we felt that we’ve delivered a certain level of professionalism throughout our run here, and that this week’s episode wouldn’t make the cut.

Although, since the episode contained the entire crew in one place, and more importantly, a large amount of amaaaazing community members, we felt that never releasing it at all would be waste, so we do have the show located in our Cblogs for personal download.

We apologize for all the inconvienice. We will return to our proper standards next week with our 45th episode, and we we hope to see you then.

Sincerely,

Dyson

 

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So does anyone know a good tax attorney? It’s getting precariously close to the 15th of April, and lazy Dyson hasn’t even bothered to total up his expenses for the year. You can claim Pizza Rolls as a business expense, right? I certainly hope so. Anyway, while I’m figuring out the answers to the math maze that is the 1040A tax form, allow me to give you guys what you came here for: the latest episode of RetroforceGO!

Highlights!

• Dyson is a little bit tipsy today

• Skip ahead to the break to avoid TiQal

• Actually, just avoid TiQal

• Mega Man is a platformer, I thought?

• X-Ray specs, everyone’s childhood folly

• That is a very nice panther you have

• Rad Racer 2!!

• FF: The Spirits Within sucked so hard

• Colette nails the point on the head!

• Extra special contest at the end

There you go, folks. Another week down, another show on the ‘nets, another step closer to episode fifty and the inevitable battle at the volcano in Paraguay. Good gravy, life is good Enjoy this week’s show, my friends, and let us know what you think of it in the comments. Also, remember that next week is the Cancun episode. We’ll be sitting beach side with froo froo drinks, so any suggestions will be welcomed.

 

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Hooray! Another year, another chance to celebrate the Raptor Jesus. It was a pretty good Easter, the Marshmallow Peeps did not end up getting Topher. He was rescued at the last minute by a shark named CTZ, who was also riding on top of an elephant when doing the saving. It was pretty epic, I swear.

Another thing that was epic was recording on Saturday instead of Sunday. The epic-ness would have been thrice fold had I finished the show and made it ready for Easter consumption, but there was a whole bunch of things that got in the way of that happening, and instead of the usual highlights I’ll list the those things in no particular order instead.

Things!*

• First and foremost, I woke up at 3 p.m.

• It was a beautiful day, so went for a bike ride to the beach

• Husky and I killed some Peeps, marshmallow variety

• I went to Sizzler for the first time and made mashed potato tacos

• I then covered the tacos with nacho cheese — It was awesome

• I had to get my GBA back from a friend, and it was covered in weird sticky stuff

• Not scary sticky stuff, but more like ‘I spilled a soda on it’ sticky stuff

• I watched the movie Hitman, it was pretty decent

• I am about to have more Pizza Rolls, and then dance The Robot

That was only just a small amount of all the things that made the show late and the weekend awesome (cheesy mashed potato tacos are soooo good), so I hope you can understand the late but not really late because it’s Monday anyway posting of this week’s show.

*(Each of the things listed are 100% true. I really do have a weird life, and dance The Robot.)

 

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Is it me, or is it St. Patty’s day? I’d heard that the church had moved the holiday to another day because of Lent, is this true? If so, as an Irish man this means that we get two days of celebration. Now I don’t meant that we as a whole would go against the wishes of the church, far from it, but we sure aren’t going to pass up drinking on the 17th of March now, are we?

So, while everyone is celebrating the 17th or of March and not St Patty’s day today, we here at a RFGO! would like to contribute some retro podcast for your listening pleasure. To make it even more interesting, try taking a drink every time Chad says the word “like.” You’ll mostly likely be unconscious before you get to the Rev Rant

Highlights!

• The dark days are over

• Hindsight is 20/20

• Almost as bad as Yaris?
  

• Too much forking, not enough knifing

• Probation period is a stint in the bucket

• I guess you need more batteries if you have IRL friends

• I just cast things away, apparently

• What’s your dream controller?

Drunk yet? Well then your slacking people! We’ve got a Monday to go out an celebrate, so y’all better hop to it. In the meantime, get you fix right here and let us know what you think of the Hardware series in the comments.

 

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You know, I’ve never really had a “normal” job in my life, so Mondays were never too much of a dreadful thing for me. I’m not saying that I loved Mondays, though, but they certain they weren’t anything that I disliked. But lately, Mondays have become more than just the day that everyone else in the world gets up early and goes to work while I’m sleeping, they’ve become something I look forward to. Something, oh I don’t know, kind of awesome, and I think you know why.

Highlights!

• Are you turning 40 today?

• We are not having a yardsale

• So we just chitchat for awhile

• Do you see the console that assaulted you, ma’am?

• Blast processing confused me O-o

• We have a lot of .coms

Normally there would be a few more highlights to the show, but in honor of the topic we’re trying to keep the hype to a minimum. We wouldn’t anyone to get too overexcited you know, that last time that happened Nintendo sold a lot Power Gloves

 

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What’s more manly? The ripped and bulging form of Chad Concelmo (seen above)? Or the over the top manliness of the Contra series? The correct answer: neither.

Just to give you an example of how manly Chad is, he woke up this morning in a pile of women, spent from a night of finger banging (the women, not him). He then proceeded to brush his teeth with a jackhammer while humming AC/DC’s Thunderstruck, commonly known to be one of the most manly songs in the world sung before breakfast. Chad then decided to enjoy his morning meal, a nice bowl of testosterone covered roofing nails. But instead of milk, Chad uses gasoline. Chad then jumped onto his dolphin-shaped rocketcar and sped down the streets of Los Angeles, rush hour traffic be damned.

So, as you can see, Chad and Contra have the exact same level of manliness. Oh, and I think we did a show about one of the two.

Highlights!

• Definitely not the Hayden Christensen ghost

• Neko is a rip-off artist

• No need for a dolphin recount here!

• We are having a yardsale

• Learn to hate your 360 D-pad even more, buy Triggerheart Excelica!

• We love presents

• I <3 Rev

• Contra folds Chad’s socks

• Browny vs. Brad Fang

• There was an earthquake?

Once again, ladies and gentleman, you can find the weekly episode of retro flavored memories right over here. If you’re iTunesing the show, do us a favor and give a little review on iTunes. Plenty of good reviews brings more exposure to the show, and the world needs a lot more exposure to Chad Concelmo. How else will the dolphin revolution begin?

 

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