This Month In Retronauts: May 2024 edition

Salutations, Retronauts patrons! Diamond Feit here, happy to deliver unto you our monthly community podcast chock full recent releases and news and your feedback. Stuart Gipp is here as well, as the two of us take turns sharing what we've been up to and tease what episodes you can look forward to in the coming months.

I know this happens a lot on our regular podcast, but funnily enough, Jupiter announced a new Picross game this week less than 24 hours after we recorded this episode. Guess you know what I'll be playing in June now: Namco-themed number puzzles!

Thank you again for supporting our program and leaving so many comments. We've got a new community question for you and I think it's an odd one!

Specific items mentioned in this episode include:

• (Picross) Logiart Grimoire

• Stu loves The Guardian's Cryptic Crosswords

  • Diamond prefers Puzzmo (join the Retronauts group)

• Halls of Torment

• Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity

• Animal Well

• Hades II

• The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Mega Drive)

• Star Trek: Voyager sidebar (check out "Distant Origin")

• The Sopranos

• NQ64 arcade bars in the United Kingdom

• all things Shinobi

• the indie explosion of May 9 2024:

  • Crow County

  • Little Kitty, Big City

  • Cryptmaster

  • 1000xResist

  • Vampire Survivors: Operation Guns DLC (Contra collab)

• Akuma in Resident Evil 2! At last!

  • NOTE: I said gadouken but Akuma uses gouhadouken, my apologies for misspeaking

• Nintendo Switch Online: Game Boy games!

  • Super Mario Land

  • Alleyway

  • Baseball

  • (only in Japan) Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru "The Frog For Whom the Bell Tolls"

    • sorry Stu, Kirby's Block Land is NOT included

• Coming soon: Hamster's Arcade Archives 2

  • Related: Taito Milestones 3 also announced

• GameCenter CX: Arino no Chousenjou 1 + 2 Replay

  • Stu correctly remembers a third game on 3DS that Chris Kohler hated

• Switch 2 officially coming "this fiscal year" so we speculate away

  • Switch 1 was announced (as NX) in 2015 but not revealed until fall 2016

• Nintendo World Championships: NES™ Edition

  • this necessarily sparks reminiscing about NES Remix

• MERCS

• your new vocabulary word is "epaulets" which I believe I pronounced correctly

• Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower aka Vampire Chronicle for Matching Service

  • which is not the same as Darkstalkers Resurrection

• Street Fighter Alpha 3 MAX aka Street Fighter Zero 3 Double Upper

• Jeremy's video on the worst Virtual Boy game

• last-second TV chat: X-Men 97, Fallout, and Doctor Who are all wonderful

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

• 12:36  "Ember Grounds" (Halls of Torment)

• 25:24 "C U Next Tuesday" by Shakespears Sister

• 38:43 "The Shinobi (Arranged Version)" by Yuzo Koshiro

• 53:51 music from Rastan Saga

• 1:08:27 "Title" (NES Remix)

• 1:17:33 "Mission 4" (Mercs)

• 1:31:14 classic X-Men theme music

• 1:47:32 "Let's Go Onmyouji" (Matrimelee)

• 2:05:21 "Beautiful Life" (Danganronpa V3 KILLING HARMONY MURDER NOCTURNE)

• Finale: Ron Grainer plays us out