Cocktail Mode: Retro Games, Cocktails and Banter

You may not know of Football Champ (AKA Hat Trick Hero) but rest assured we spend plenty of time talking about FIFA, ISS, Sensible Soccer, and just about every other football game of the previous cent...

6 Aug 20241h 8min

We're of to Strangereal to visit Mobius 1 and the rest of the Ace Combat crew this episode, with the usual few detours en route - that this week include, among others, the musical stylings of Roxette!...

23 Jul 20241h 15min

Alongside the beast riding adventures of Ax Battler et al we'll be discussing all the usual beat-em-up suspects and some much less well known examples of the genre. Cocktails this episode: Andy's Cock...

9 Jul 20241h 7min

This time round we've experimented by choosing a game that neither of us had played before - Konamis 'hidden gem': Rocket Knight Adventures! Cocktails this episode: Andy's Cocktail Dave's Cocktail #Re...

25 Jun 20241h 9min

For the first time on Cocktail Mode we're discussing a game that one of us hadn't played prior to selection for this episode: Toejam & Earl on the Mega Drive! Did we think it was Gnarly (sorry) or Hei...

11 Jun 20241h 6min

NBA Jam drains it from downtown into our tenth episode that rapid veers from basketball to just about every other sport - videogame and otherwise - under the sun. Basketball fans of a sensitive dispos...

4 Jun 20241h 9min

Some say it's the best PC game ever made, some say it's almost a genre unto itself, some say "Why would you make a game this hard? Are you nuts!?". All sorts of other turn based games get a mention as...

21 Mai 20241h 1min

In a change to the advertised episode we're talking about Tetris this time out: The game, the film, the phenomenon. Cocktails this episode: Andy's Cocktail Dave's Cocktail #Retrogaming #Cocktail #Podc...

14 Mai 20241h 15min