This Month In Retronauts: June 2024 edition

Hi folks, Diamond Feit here, bidding farewell to June and Pride and sensible weather with this, our latest community podcast. Stuart Gipp joins me for an incredible amount of news items, Steam Next Fest demos, precious comments from you, and a surprise update on Hall & Oates. It'll all make sense once you press play, I promise. As always, we are grateful for your ongoing support and I hope this 2+ hour podcast finds you well (and properly hydrated, it's gettin' hot).

Specific items mentioned in this episode include:

• Good Will Hunting, its sequel, and other Gus Van Sant motion pictures

• Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-Sparked Collection

• The Frog For Whom The Bell Tolls

• Metal Slug Attack Reloaded

• Steam Next Fest demos!

  • Yars Rising by WayForward

  • Blade Chimera by Team Ladybug

  • Master Key (out now)

  • Tormenture

  • RIVEN (the sequel to Myst) remake (also out now)

• Ready Player One (specifically the film)

• Loonyland: Halloween Hill

• Arseholevania, Stu's former podcast with Andi Hamilton

• Diamond says the word "Saturday" many times instead of "Sunday"

• Psi-Ops & Control & Pepsiman

• Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance 

  • this segues into Persona talk

• Konami's "transparent 3D wall" patent

• Atari bought Intellivision, did not buy the Amiico

• Like a Dragon/Yakuza series coming to Amazon Prime in October

  • Diamond also recommends the Takashi Miike movie from 2007

  • which naturally leads us to chat about other RGG games like Lost Paradise

• Nintendo Direct:

  • Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection!

    • includes all the games from episode #607, even Punisher!

    • somehow this chat ties to Jim Carrey's rich tapestry of characters

  • Ace Attorney Investigations Collection

  • The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

  • Dragon Quest 2.5D remakes

  • Fantasian NEO DIMENSION

  • JP only: Kamaitachi no Yoru x3 "Triple"

    • aka Banshee's Last Cry

  • Metroid Prime 4 coming 2025, allegedly

    • Metroid Zero Mission, available now on Switch Online

    • Turok Dinosaur Hunter & Perfect Dark, available now on Switch Online (Mature)

• Summer Games Fest highlights:

  • Wolfhound, Metroidvania from Bit Kid (Chasm)

  • The Thing Remastered (2002 PS2 game)

  • Gears of War: E-Day

  • Slitterhead, from Keiichi Toyama (Silent Hill, Siren)

  • Wanderstop, from Davey Wren (Stanley Parable, Beginners Guide)

  • Street Fighter 6 announces SNK characters are coming!?

    • naturally, we have plenty of other crossover ideas

• Age of Pirates: Captain Blood (re)announced for Fall 2024

• RIP Geoff Follin (and Donald Sutherland)

• Graduation (Sotsugyō) & its sequel Sotsugyō II, released in English as Graduation for Windows 95

• Stuart was right, "Langdon Alger" is a name used in The Simpsons

• famed Codemasters creation Cosmic Spacehead

• OldTimeyComputerShow on Twitch

• the legend of John Moschitta Jr.

• Arctic Eggs

• Vampire Survivors

Art & edits by Diamond (photo source). Music heard in this episode:

• 14:08 "Rescue" (Metal Slug Attack)

• 25:08 audio from Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season (2001)

• 36:10 Danny Carey drum solo from 2014

• 45:46 "Daredevil" (Persona 5 Strikers)

• 1:08:57 "Vs. Sylux" (Metroid Prime Hunters)

• 1:23:57 "Title Screen" (Cosmic Storm)

• 1:42:06 audio from Graduation for Windows 95

• Finale: the late, great Martin Mull plays us out