8Bit Proof Episode 05: Drunks, Interrupted

<p>Between Telltale’s wildly popular point-and-click adventure styled Walking Dead series&comma; Klei’s critically acclaimed 2D side-scroller&comma; Mark of the Ninja&comma; and Vblank Entertainment’s heart melting Retro City Rampage&comma; it’s obvious that traditional retro game styles are making a comeback&period;  But is this a good thing&quest;  Has the video game industry evolved for the better&comma; beyond these retro themes&comma; or were video game simply better 20 years ago&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;podcast&sol;8bitproof&sol;Episode-05&period;mp3">Click here &gt&semi;&gt&semi;&gt&semi; Listen to Podcast&excl;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In addition to tackling this question&comma; this episode features&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>Roger’s new&comma; heavily lubricated game &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Select Difficulty”<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>A lengthy&comma; heated&comma; and occasionally convoluted debate regarding modern video game difficulty&comma; gamer skill&comma; freedom of choice&comma; and quality in comparison to the 8 and 16-bit era&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>A listener FAP session concerning Liam Neeson’s particular set of skills in Hyrule&comma; and the forbidden love between Mario and Kirby&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p>So simply scroll down and hit play &lpar;yeah&comma; we are streaming now&rpar; to let all our audio nonsense wash over you&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&lpar;Please note that this episode of 8Bit Proof originally aired on October 22&comma; 2012&comma; on BlastMagazine&period;com&period; Therefore&comma; the majority of the subject matter may be a bit dated&comma; and references to our home website and its staff are no longer accurate&period;  Also&comma; any entries received for contests mentioned during this particular episode are no longer valid &lpar;duh&rpar;&period; However we do love listener participation&comma; so anything we receive will be kindly mentioned during the taping of the newest edition of the podcast&period;&rpar;  <&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;