Latest Kombo Podcast Episodes
Power Button - Episode 388: Red And Black Virtual Boy Attack (Part 2)
Press The Buttons - June 12, 2024 12:55 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWe wrap up our Virtual Boy discussion with the games you can't play and a few finished games that have leaked out over the years. Join us! Download this week's episode directly from PTB, listen with the player below, subscribe via iTunes, Amazon Music Podcasts, and toss this RSS feed into your po...
Power Button - Episode 387: Red And Black Virtual Boy Attack (Part 1)
Press The Buttons - June 04, 2024 21:45 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWhen Blake Grundman visited me in April he finally had the chance to play a real live Nintendo Virtual Boy from 1995 and my collection of sixteen games, so on this week's episode of the podcast we go game by game to get Blake's takes on the experience. Did Galactic Pinball live up to expectations...
Power Button - Episode 386: Emulation Nation
Press The Buttons - May 20, 2024 19:13 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThanks to some new legal requirements from the European Union, Apple is now required to allow emulators in its walled garden of an App Store worldwide. This opened the door for retro console emulation to the masses spanning the Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 through Nintendo's iconic hardware and be...
Power Button - Episode 385: May The Fourth Be With You On The Sixth
Press The Buttons - May 06, 2024 14:55 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHeld over for one more weekend, it's Blake Grundman live and in person with me at the microphone, and this episode we have some more shopping purchases to share before we tear into a topic near and dear to Blake's heart: Star Wars. Kick back with us for a while and let's have some fun. Download t...
Power Button - Episode 384: Super Shopping Spree
Press The Buttons - April 30, 2024 14:56 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWe have an extra special episode this week! Usually Blake Grundman and I record the show from our respective secretive lairs at opposite ends of the United States, but we're celebrating the end of my twelve long chemotherapy treatments for cancer, so the time was beyond right for Blake to jump in...
Power Button - Episode 383: All New For 2024! More Updated Re-Releases! (Part 2)
Press The Buttons - April 24, 2024 16:00 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsFollowing on from last week, back in 2018 we did a two-part look (Episodes 269 and 270) at video games remade with new or changed features such as The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening gaining a color expansion as Link's Awakening DX. I don't know if you've noticed, but video game publishers are ...
Power Button - Episode 382: All New For 2024! More Updated Re-Releases! (Part 1)
Press The Buttons - April 18, 2024 16:00 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsBack in 2018 we did a two-part look (Episodes 269 and 270) at video games remade with new or changed features such as The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening gaining a color expansion as Link's Awakening DX. I don't know if you've noticed, but video game publishers are still doing this sort of thin...
Power Button - Episode 381: Dangerous Blake In "Copyright Infringement"
Press The Buttons - April 12, 2024 18:09 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsI sent my international buyer, Blake Grundman, overseas to acquire some rare gaming antiquities for me. That is, he picked up some fairly priced amiibo and games that are hard to find and not so fairly priced here. This leads into a discussion on how else to play retro games whose corporate owner...
Power Button - Episode 380: Yakking About Llamasoft
Press The Buttons - March 18, 2024 18:06 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWe were fortunate enough to get advance access to the new Digital Eclipse Gold Master series of documentary releases, Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story, so for this week's episode of the podcast we discuss the title, its interactive exhibits, and the 42 games and light synthesizers included. From ...
Power Button - Episode 379: Hack Pack
Press The Buttons - March 04, 2024 20:00 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWe're strolling on the shady side of the tracks this week as we focus on some favorite retro ROM hacks and the baked-in achievements that go with them. All of this talk of emulation inevitably leads us to touch on the Nintendo/Yuzu Switch emulator lawsuit, too. Join us and bring your ROM patching...
Power Button - Episode 378: More Grab Bag Goodies
Press The Buttons - February 26, 2024 16:00 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWe have a hodge podge of smaller topics for you on this week's podcast as we touch on the recent Nintendo Direct, Microsoft taking select Xbox games to other platforms, retrogaming emulation made easy, the Borderlands movie trailer, and much more. Join us for another reach into the grab bag! Down...
Power Button - Episode 377: The Best That 2023 Had To Offer
Press The Buttons - February 05, 2024 19:13 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsAnother year done, so it's time for us to look back for our annual Game Of The Year episode. There are some surprises on this year's list as we each have a Top 6 that we're counting down, plus there's honorable mentions and a separate list for best remastered releases of the year. Join us for a s...
Power Button - Episode 376: 2023's Biggest News Revisited
Press The Buttons - January 29, 2024 16:44 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsNow that the dust has settled and 2023 is in the books, it's time for our annual look back at the video gaming industry's biggest news of the year, and folks, I hate to say it, but it's pretty dire. Lots of bad news came out of last year including layoffs, leveraged buyouts, and lesser quality ga...
Power Button - Episode 375: The Future Of Law Enforcement
Press The Buttons - January 22, 2024 19:02 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsListen to this week's podcast or there will be... trouble. We're focusing on RoboCop: Rogue City for the Sony PlayStation 5, Microsoft Xbox X|S, and PC this week, discussing all of the ways that it honors the original films and how much of an asset Peter Weller is to the RoboCop characterization....
Power Button - Episode 374: Welcome Back, Super Mario RPG
Press The Buttons - January 08, 2024 16:11 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWe're back after an extended medical hiatus, and this week we're focusing on the recently released remake of Super Mario RPG for the Nintendo Switch. Marvel as Blake Grundman explains where he hit the wall with this game and had to bail out, plus I annoy him by explaining the unexplained convolut...
Power Button - Episode 373: At Long Last Spider-Man
Press The Buttons - November 14, 2023 16:00 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWay back in 2019, Blake Grundman started playing Marvel's Spider-Man for the Sony PlayStation 4 and couldn't wait to finish it. We said we would revisit the topic once he had, and he finally just completed it last week. Better late than never! And so this week we're finishing that conversation or...
Power Button - Episode 372: The Mario And Sonic Wonder Superstars
Press The Buttons - October 31, 2023 15:50 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWe have a special supersized double-length episode for you this week with lots to talk about. First, I visited Verse, an augmented reality experience that uses the Microsoft Hololens to allow players to explore a surreal garden of animals and the outer reaches of our solar system. Next, Blake tac...
Power Button - Episode 371: Grab Bag Goodies
Press The Buttons - October 17, 2023 15:13 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week's podcast is a hodgepodge of smaller topics that don't have the structure needed for a full hour of discussion, so it's a lot more easy-going and breezy than the average show. Join us as we flit around for 75 minutes through Sea of Stars, Magician Lord, Starfield, simulators for mowing ...
Power Button - Episode 370: September 2023 Nintendo Direct Recap
Press The Buttons - September 25, 2023 11:07 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsNintendo saw fit to release a new Nintendo Direct presentation this past week, showcasing a variety of games for the Switch for the rest of 2023 and into the summer of 2024. On this week's podcast, we're discussing the announcements that interested us the most from remakes of Paper Mario: The Tho...
Power Button - Episode 369: September 2023 Catch-Up
Press The Buttons - September 11, 2023 14:56 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWe've been playing a lot of games lately as we come out of the summer season, so before the holidays hit with all of their big new releases, we're spending an hour discussing what we've been playing lately as we clear out the backlogs and sample new releases. Blake Grundman and I both have some h...
Power Button - Episode 368: The Making Of Karateka
Press The Buttons - August 29, 2023 12:12 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsJordan Mechner was a man with a dream: a dream of making a game for the Apple II about a karate man who punches and kicks his way past minions to save a princess. Forty years ago he created Karateka, and now Digital Eclipse has partnered with Mechner to create The Making of Karateka for modern pl...
Power Button - Episode 367: Thinking About Strength In <i>Street Fighter 6</i>
Press The Buttons - August 21, 2023 14:22 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsLately I've been thinking about strength, mostly because when playing Street Fighter 6, the game won't let you forget about it. Capcom has found a way to modernize the classic series and add some new tricks to the experience, and on this week's podcast episode I convince Blake that he needs to pl...
Power Button - Episode 366: Microsoft's Active Visions
Press The Buttons - July 31, 2023 14:23 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsMicrosoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard is becoming more and more likely by the day, so on this week's show we discuss what that means for the video game industry. We also dip into the Activision Blizzard catalog and talk about some forgotten games that Microsoft could do well with reviving o...
Power Button - Episode 365: Forty For Famicom
Press The Buttons - July 17, 2023 14:30 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWe're celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Nintendo's Family Computer in a big way on the podcast this week with a supersized discussion about the history of the console, its unique accessories, special games, and fun facts. Don't you dare say it's the fortieth anniversary of the Nintendo Ente...
Power Button - Episode 364: Duplicates And Dragons In The Legend of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom
Press The Buttons - July 10, 2023 18:31 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWe're blowing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom wide open on this week's episode with total spoilers including the game's key story twist and ending, so please join us when you're ready to hear all about it. Before we get into that though, we dip into a little bit of Doctor Who: The Lonel...
Power Button - Episode 363: Nintendo Direct June 2023 Recap
Press The Buttons - June 30, 2023 17:53 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsNintendo wowed us with some exciting announcements in its most recent Nintendo Direct showcase including a remake of Super Mario RPG, a new adventure for Princess Peach, amiibo for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and the highly detailed Super Mario Bros. Wonder. On this week's episode,...
Power Button - Episode 362: PlayStation Showcase June 2023 Recap
Press The Buttons - June 08, 2023 18:27 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWith Not-E3 in full swing for the summer, all of the big publishers are holding digital events to debut new trailers and announcements, so on this week's episode of the podcast we turn our attention to Sony's recent PlayStation Showcase. Yes, they showed Spider-Man 2, but did you notice everythin...
Power Button - Episode 361: Wandering Hyrule In <i>The Legend of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom</i>
Press The Buttons - May 24, 2023 13:11 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsLink and Princess Zelda are back in Hyrule for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for the Nintendo Switch which means that so are we, and we're spending this episode's discussion talking about my time spent wandering around Hyrule seeing the sights and checking out whatever interests me wi...
Power Button - Episode 360: Metroid Prime Revisited
Press The Buttons - April 24, 2023 18:00 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsAfter twenty long years I have finally completed Metroid Prime from Nintendo and Retro Studios, so with the game now back for another encore on the Switch, let's spend an hour discussing it. We'll also cover another 2002 hit, Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection, if we have time, but we won'...
Power Button - Episode 359: Movie Mode: <i>The Super Mario Bros. Movie</i>
Press The Buttons - April 17, 2023 15:08 ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWe When Nintendo makes a movie, it's basically required that we go see it, so on this week's podcast it's time to spend ninety minutes discussing The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Break out the spoiler warning for this one because we cover our thoughts on the plot, casting, soundtrack, potential seque...