Cocktail Mode: Retro Games, Cocktails and Banter – Details, episodes & analysis

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah! If it's good enough for Tim Waltz, if good enough for us...

We're showing our love to one of the Dreamcast's most iconic games this time out on Cocktail Mode: Crazy Taxi reminds us what it was like before the PlayStation and Xbox turned everything brown and grimy!

We'll talk punk, we'll talk sequels, we'll talk law suits, and we'll talk S-Club 7... yes, really!

Andy's Cocktail

Dave's Cocktail

The greatest videogame ever made? The greatest marketing machine that ever existed? The greatest piece of fortuitous episode timing ever?

As the new TV series lands, the remastered original trilogy flies high in the charts, and the conversation about 'what's next' gets ever more prevalent - it couldn't be a better time for Andy and Dave to weigh in on what they think of Lara Croft and her various exploits over the decades... and then try to pick a cocktail that goes well with the episodes topic.

Andy's Cocktail

Dave's Cocktail

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 Heinous (sorry) and did we both find a bodacious (really, very sorry) cocktail to pair with it? Listen in and find out.

Andy's Cocktail

Dave's Cocktail

#Retrogaming #Cocktail #Podcast

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 disposition can look away now!

Cocktails in this episode include...

Andy's Cocktail

Dave's Cocktail

#Retrogaming #Cocktail #Podcast

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 Dave and I discuss, and try to pair a cocktail with, Julian Gollop's strategy masterpiece.

Cocktails featured in this episode:

Andy's Cocktail

Dave's Cocktail

#Retrogaming #Cocktail #Podcast

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 #Podcast

Dave waves the flag for the glorious PC gaming master-race, Andy rants about the quality of stories in games, and we even take the opportunity to give Portal 2 an off topic piece of our mind... all while discussing as many of the 30 Resident Evil games as possible.

Oh... and cocktails! 

Andy's Cocktail

Dave's Cocktail

#Retrogaming #Cocktail #Podcast

Join us on a trip to New Washington and beyond as we follow Conrad B. Hart on his stunningly crafted adventure. We'll discuss ports, remakes, censorship, sequels and - of course - THAT door! Dave and Andy even manage to come from broadly the same direction when choosing their cocktails to pair with this 1992 masterpiece. 

Drop in to the late nineties with Andy & Dave as we discuss the beauty of THPS, the art of the 'Strawpedo', the majesty of California Games, and the shear abject horror of having to listen to the The Suicide Machines' "New Girl" for the first time in twenty years. 

Namco's classic lightgun arcade series is the focus of this episode - with Barbarian, Hitman, John Woo movies and Lebowski's bar in Glasgow featuring among the many obstacles to us sticking to the point!