118 – Whose Uncle works at Nintendo?

Original air date: January 12, 2015We’re back from our holiday hiatus, with special guest Jonathan Hallée!Our Intro and Outro music is by Ben Landis off his album Adventures in Pixels – “Credits Music for an 8 Bit RPG” (Twitter @thebenlandis)Our interlude track was “Lemmings ‘Let’s Go Dance” by NinesShow Notes14:44 – Listener email discussion question “Would the Metroid series be as popular as it is today if Samus was a man?”21:54 – “Lemmings ‘Let’s Go Dance” by Nines24:25 – Retro Showdown!25:51 – Jason’s pick “Duck Hunt” (NES)27:13 – Hunter’s pick “Gyromite” (NES)28:36 – Jonathan’s pick “Mario Bros.” (NES)29:35 – Welcome to the New Year were it’s nothing but black box NES titles (sans Super Mario Bros.) on the Retro Showdown and we are joined by none other than the writer of My Two Gils himself: Jonathan Hallée.49:46 – We are super excited to be back after a long holiday break. We hope that you had a safe and wonderful time and we invite you to send us your New Year’s retro gaming discussion questions and vote in the Showdown poll.