{"id":178,"date":"2008-06-23T13:09:05","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T21:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driph.com\/words\/?p=178"},"modified":"2008-06-23T13:21:30","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T21:21:30","slug":"retrocity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/2008\/06\/retrocity\/","title":{"rendered":"RetroCity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent addition to my subscribed podcast list is <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.ign.com\/ignfeeds\/podcasts\/retro\/\">RetroCity<\/a>, a new retro gaming podcast by IGN&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ign.com\/lbuchanan\/\">Levi Buchanan<\/a>. A mix between the esoteric and well-trodden, each episode runs 15-20 minutes and covers a small segment of gaming history, its music, and collecting retro. <\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.ign.com\/index\/podcasts.html'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"183\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/2008\/06\/retrocity\/retrocity_splatterhouse\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/retrocity_splatterhouse.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,150\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"RetroCity\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/retrocity_splatterhouse-300x90.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/retrocity_splatterhouse.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/retrocity_splatterhouse.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"RetroCity\" width=\"500\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/retrocity_splatterhouse.jpg 500w, https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/retrocity_splatterhouse-300x90.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contrary to most gaming podcasts out there, Levi produces the show with minimal conjecture, a dollop of nostalgia, and a calm, <em>NPR-like<\/em> quality, speaking directly to the retro gaming nerd without pandering to the mainstream. If you&#8217;re the sort of person who collects Rob Hubbard tracks and remembers the early days of EA with fondness, or if you&#8217;re of the younger generation wondering why all the old guys even <em>care<\/em> about this stuff, give it a listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent addition to my subscribed podcast list is RetroCity, a new retro gaming podcast by IGN&#8217;s Levi Buchanan. A mix between the esoteric and well-trodden, each episode runs 15-20 minutes and covers a small segment of gaming history, its music, and collecting retro. Contrary to most gaming podcasts out there, Levi produces the show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}