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Retro Dodo Podcast – Retro Gaming News, Interviews and Stories

Retro Dodo #087 - Award Winning Comedian Mike Drucker Talks All Things Gaming Books & Being A Writer At Nintendo

49 min • 17 mars 2025

On today's episode Seb is joined by award winning stand-up comedian and writer Mike Drucker. Mike has worked on incredible shows such as Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, as well as working as a writer at Nintendo. He joined us on the podcast to talk about his new book 'Good Game no rematch', an incredibly funny read that looks into his retro gaming past and how video games have shaped his life for the better… but mostly for worse.

Senaste avsnitt

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Senaste avsnitt

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Retro Dodo #096 - Owner Of Sendico Talks Importing Japanese Games, Samurai Swords & The Possibility Of Buying Japanese Arcade Machines

Retro Dodo #095 - Discussing How Charity Special Effect Is Making Gaming Accessible For Physically Disabled People With Paige Harvey

Retro Dodo #094 - Creating Pirate Metal Rhythm & Adventure Game Boy Game ‘Chantey’ With KC Of Gortyn code

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Retro Dodo #090 - Part 2 - Simon Phipps On Making The Harry Potter Video Games & Assisting Goldeneye 007 Development

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Retro Dodo #088 - Exploring Dragonyhm & The Future Of Game Boy Game Creation With Spacebot Interactive

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Retro Dodo #083 - Interviewing Croc: Legend of the Gobbos Studio Argonaut Games

Retro Dodo #082 - Interviewing Grammy Award Winning Arranger & Chiptune Artist Jake Silverman aka Button Masher

Retro Dodo #081 - Interviewing Tofer Short-form Retro Gaming Video Guru

Retro Dodo #080 - Why Devin Supertramp Is Obsessed With Video Games

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Retro Dodo #076 - Interviewing Hyperkin's CTO Slade Suzuki & How They Develop Retro Gaming Peripherals

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Retrospect #043 - Underrated Retro Games

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Retrospect #035 - Super Mario Bros. Movie Review

Retrospect #034 - Let's Talk About Emulation with Bob Wulff

Retrospect #033 - Tetris Movie Review

Retrospect #032 - Our Favorite Games

Retrospect #031 - Retrospect Revamp!

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Retrospect #029 - Premium Retro Handhelds Are Arriving In Bulk

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