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This Week In Retro: Guardian Heroes [1996]

January 26, 1996: I Have Legendary Hunger for more Guardian Heroes

by Diamond Feit

2021-01-31 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Episode 355: Xenogears Revisited

Another patron request this week, and it's a good one. Matthew Salisbury put in a bid to ask us to revisit Xenogears, a topic I briefly touched on yeeeears ago in a Micro episode. But this is the real deal: A full-length episode about the game, featuring not only Matthew and myself, but ...

Episode 354: Pandemic Mailbag

This week on Retronauts, we're easing off on the heavy-duty research for the sake of responding to your questions and comments from our recent round of episodes. And because a little thing called "the pandemic" drastically transformed the way we all live for nearly a year now, we'll also cover ju...

This Week In Retro: Pac-Man Battle Royale [2010]

January 21, 2011: The most dangerous game...is Pac-Man

by Diamond Feit

Episode 353: Metroid Prime

Good morning, or afternoon, or whatever position the sun happens to be in on your sector of the planet. We have another "One With the Lifestream" patron request episode this week, once again from Bravewave boss Mohammed Taher to discuss (unbelievably!) another game with a bangin' soundtrack: Nint...

This Week In Retro: Wikipedia [2001]

January 15, 2001: The Greatest/Worst Website in the World Debuts [citation needed]

by Diamond Feit

2021-01-17 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post

Episode 352: Looney Tunes Games

Though the Looney Tunes characters shone their brightest during the Golden Age of Hollywood, they wouldn't reach critical mass until a few generations later, when seemingly endless reruns, revivals, and spinoffs made them inescapable throughout the '80s and '90s. And with this new era of old cart...

Episode 351: Gunpei Yokoi (Pt. 2)

Exactly 10 episodes after the first part of this conversation, here is the second. I'm making a serious effort this year to be timely with multi-part topics like this—though of course the best-laid plans and all that. At least it's going well so far! (Less than two weeks into the year.)

M...

This Week In Retro: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [1981]

January 5, 1981: Finally, a comedy about Life, the Universe, and Everything

by Diamond Feit

2021-01-10 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Episode 350: Crash Bandicoot

Is 350 a notable anniversary number? It has a multiple of the kind of big round-ish number people like to celebrate. I mean, if my marriage manages to last for 350 years, we're definitely gonna be pulling out all the stops. With podcast episodes, I'm not so sure. But nevertheless, on this possibl...

This Week in Retro: Captain America, the Avengers, and Spider-Man [1991]

January 1991: Marvel Fans Welcome Two New Superhero Beat-Em-Ups to their Universe

by Diamond Feit

2021-01-03 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Episode 349: Retronauts Radio | Jan. 2021

Good morning (?) and happy new year to everyone! Here's Retronauts doing its best to usher in a happier flip of the calendar for everyone, with a 15-stone first-footer of a podcast. 

This episode is a patron request (thanks Christopher Hansen!), and given its timing, format, and patron...

Episode 348: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

With the movie series (seemingly) finished, LucasArts capitalized on the public's slowly fading love for Indiana Jones with a brand-new adventure game. And instead of adapting one of his previous adventures, the developer instead developed a wholly unique story for the intrepid archaeologist—on...

This Week In Retro: 2020 [2020]

2020: My Attempt to Put a Bow on a Year No One Wanted

by Diamond Feit

So...2020.

Christmas has come and gone. New Year's Eve is so close, I've got milk in the fridge that will survive the changeover. This year, this interminable year, is about to end. 2020-12-27 13:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Episode 347: Years In Review Revue: 1971 & ’81

We're heading into a new year, and you know what that means: It's time for the annual Years In Review Revue. Remember when we used to hit all the relevant years in the space of a single episode? Yeah, well, you can forget about that this time around. Once again, despite my very careful p...

This Week in Retro: Tron Legacy [2010]

December 17, 2010: Disney Tries to Overwrite History with Tron: Legacy

by Diamond Feit

2020-12-20 14:29:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Episode 346: Holiday Special 2020 - Earthworm Jim's "For Whom the Jingle Bell Tolls"

It's the yuletide season, which means it's time to head to the Retronauts Holiday Cabin in Parts Unknown yet again for another look at a Christmas-related video game thing. And even thought this is our tenth (!) holiday special, we haven't hit the bottom of the barrel just yet! This time around, ...

Episode 345: Doctor Who

Retronauts is all about old stuff and all about traditions, and there aren't many ongoing pop culture phenomena older and more steeped in tradition than the Doctor Who series. After taking a trip over the past year through nearly half the Doctor Who episodes ever created, I figu...

This Week in Retro: Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate [2010]

December 9, 2010: Shiren Wanders for One Last Time—Forever

by Diamond Feit

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Episode 344: Die Hard

Yes, this is a Die Hard conversation running in suspiciously close proximity to Christmas. But you know why this isn't some tired "Die Hard is a Christmas movie!" joke? Because this episode was recorded half a year ago with no thought given to timing it for the holidays. It just happened...

This Week in Retro: Fist of the North Star [2005]

December 6, 2005: Sega and Arc System Works Declare: "You Are Already Dead"

by Diamond Feit

2020-12-06 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Episode 343: WAAAAAHrio Land Pt. 1

We recorded a Wario Land podcast waaaay back at the relaunch of the show. 

That was seven years ago. Seven! What the heck? 

Anyway, in keeping with our current approach to podcasting, ergo to discuss topics in greater depth and spend less time breezing through t...