This Month In Retronauts: March 2025 edition

First thing's first: if the formatting below looks weird (oddly sized text perhaps), I'm throwing my hands up because somehow cutting & pasting text from my documents into Patreon has given me all kinds of trouble in recent weeks. I'm not about to write original text in THIS CMS, thank you very much!

With my complaining out of the way, please enjoy this latest community podcast. Stu is back! He says a few bad words! But not that one bad word he keeps threatening to say!

Specific items mentioned in this episode include:

• new music by NormallyRetro in the Discord!

• The Binding of Issac

• RPCS3

• "I am fully a Tony Hawk sicko again" - Stu

• MYRIAD DEATH

• our Movie March Madness tournament is ending soon, it's not too late to vote!

  • Street Fighter has exceeded my expectations

  • it even bested Super Mario Bros

  • somehow this leads us to talk about Challengers and Trent Reznor (and Atticus Ross)

• Dragonsweeper, free on itch.io

• House of Necrosis demo

• Skin Deep demo

• Stu is coming to Long Island Retro Expo this year!

  • August 8-10! Expect other Retronauts as well!

• the New York Times did indeed discuss Metroidvanias and drop Jeremy's name

• Metal Gear Solid

  • we both remain trapped somewhere in Shadow Moses

• Nintendo Switch Online riches:

  • Donkey Kong 94 (the Game Boy game)

  • Mario Picross

  • a bunch of SNES Koei strategy games? Sure, why not

  • Super Soccer has been delisted

• Suikoden I & II HD Remaster: Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars

  • read Kimimi's review for PC Gamer

• Venus Vacation PRISM - DEAD OR ALIVE Xtreme -

  • SENRAN KAGURA Peach Ball

    • it's pinball but there's busty girls on the table

  • don't buy stuff from Play Asia! Seriously!

  • both of these are on Steam anyway, no import necessary

• F.E.A.R. & Silent Hill 4 enter GOG Preservation program

  • sadly F.E.A.R. was Monolith, which WB just closed

    • they also made Blood & No One Lives Forever & many other games people liked

  • WB also shuttered Player First Games

    • they made MultiVersus (which ends in May, will play offline)

  • at least the new Looney Tunes movie seems popular

    • Stu also endorses Jellystone

• 風のノータム NOTAM of WIND English patch

  • 1997 hot air balloon game for PS1 by Artdink, JP exclusive

• Unleashed Recompiled

  • unofficial PC port of Sonic Unleashed

  • yes the werehog one

• OMEGA 6 The Triangle Stars

  • "16-bit styled retro-future adventure infused with RPG elements"

  • art by Takaya Imamura (StarFox, F-Zero)

• I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream now on consoles!

  • indeed, from Nightdive Studios

  • my column from 2020 will tell you everything you need to know

• TETRIS® THE GRAND MASTER 4 ABSOLUTE EYE coming April 4

  • I was right about the invisible pieces

  • tetoris

• Cooking Fighter Hao 炎の料理人クッキングファイター好 coming to Steam

  • PS1 action cooking game first released in 1998! (JP only)

• Bloober Team announces "a new game based on Konami‘s IP"

  • pairs nicely with the Silent Hill f news (but no release date yet!)

• next Resident Evil movie (another reboot) coming September 2026!

  • directed by Zach Cregger (Barbarian, 2022)

• Nintendo killed Gold Points on March 24

  • you can keep using Gold Points normally but no more will accrue

• RIP George Lowe

• The First Council of Nicaea ("nigh-see-uh") is not a Biblical term

• Kim Justice's video about Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy

  • she wrote for Retronauts.com from May 2017 until the summer of 2018

• Dexter Fletcher has been acting for over 50 years!?

• Pain & Gain: a career highlight for both of its leads AND its director Michael Bay

  • Mark Wahlberg did indeed appear in Date Night

  • Keanu played HIMSELF in Always Be My Maybe

• watch Wes Craven's New Nightmare

• BlueSky skeets that inspired this month's listener question

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

• 8:46 “HUGE W” by Mori Calliope

• 17:31 "Protocol" (Skin Deep)

• 30:26 "Main Theme" VRC6 Remix (Chrono Trigger)

• 42:19 "Daffy Duck The Wizard" from The Looney Tunes Show

• 54:02 Harlan Ellison as AM in I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

• 1:08:31 RIP George Lowe (and C. Martin Croker, also heard in this clip)

• 1:19:40 "Red to Blue" (Mr. Bones)

• 1:28:24 audio arranged by George Moses on a Bally Astrocade

• 1:35:09 an audio snippet from Pain & Gain

• 1:46:36 "A Nightmare on My Street" by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince

• Finale level: invisible