Brandon joins Hugues & Rob as they continue to look back on gaming in the mid-nineties. In the year 1995 new consoles and more powerful home computers paved the way for today's polygon-based gaming. As 32-bit systems rose up, 8-bit systems were left behind and the 16-bit systems had to work to compete. Get out your boot disks because we're crashing cars, blowing up robots and protecting endangered species this week on The Retro League.

Hot Topics
Extra Life 2011 
Madden Mission 
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 

Virtually Retro
Mario’s Picross (3DS Virtual Console) 

News
The Long, Strange History Of Video Games Sponsoring Football Teams 
Grandia Director Takeshi Miyaji Passes Away at 45 
Metroid celebrates its 25th anniversary 

Games of the Week
Destruction Derby (PlayStation) 
Earthsiege 2 (Win 95) 
Phantom 2040 (SNES)

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What the internet looked like in 1995 
The Metroid Retrospective