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Action Man: Robot Atak and the Trouble with Airplanes

Action Man: Robot Atak and the Trouble with Airplanes

FromThe Retro Breakdown


Action Man: Robot Atak and the Trouble with Airplanes

FromThe Retro Breakdown

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Length:
143 minutes
Released:
Aug 25, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Thought experiment of the week: Is "not as bad as you thought" a negative review or a positive one?

Tom and Dean talk about SGDQ, the massive original Xbox controller, and briefly touch on the new Battletoads, amidst a rant about how much we hate modern airline travel.
Then, we discuss UK-only release Action Man: Robot Atak, a game which has us digging into the history a 1960s line of European G.I. Joe-like toys... and the unfortunate two-season animated series it spawned in 2000. Along the way, we will discuss how many checkpoints is too many checkpoints, and how this game found that line and then tripled it.

Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruG
About Action Man: https://actionman.fandom.com/wiki/Action_Man_Wiki

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Released:
Aug 25, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Every week, Dean (twitch.tv/timewanderer) and Tom (twitter.com/tomdayvg) discuss current gaming news, and then check out some old (or sometimes new) piece of gaming history to see how it holds up, and test the strength of nostalgia. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/retrobreakdown/support