This Month In Retronauts: April 2024 edition
Added 2024-04-28 11:00:06 +0000 UTCHELLO, Diamond Feit here, delivering our latest community podcast just in time for Golden Week (a string of holidays that mean little to anyone outside Japan). As usual, Stuart Gipp joins the fun to help me rundown recent news, releases, and reading your comments. Listen for tales of my trip to the American Midwest, Stu's golden singing voice, and a brand-new question for you to answer.
Please note that during the second half there is an occasional crackle on Stu's end but I promise it's not static, it's just a lawn mower in the distance that comes and goes. I couldn't hear it when we recorded but now, with an editor's ear, I cannot deny its presence.
Specific items mentioned in this episode include:
Shantae: Risky’s Revenge + other Shantaes
Yars' Rising
Howard Scott Warshaw & E.T.
COMMUNITY MANDATE: buy Animal Well (and Stuart's book)
Vampire Survivors (Contra DLC coming soon)
WOWOWOW KORONE BOX (a take on Super Crate Box)
Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster (I finished it the following day!)
Chris Kohler's book on Final Fantasy V
Evercade + new GIGA Carts
Galloping Ghost arcade
Midwest Gaming Classic!
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
NIGORO, La Mulana, and Rose & Camellia
Fallout on Amazon Prime
PsyDoom (found the link!)
new Switch Online releases:
Wrecking Crew 98
Super R-Type
Amazing Hebereke (now in English, not a Uforia game but a spinoff)
Battletoads in Battlemaniacs in Japan (already out in US)
Marvelous in Japan! (Bob's stream from 2016)
RIP Little Big Planet 3 (Stu is mistaken: you cannot download or share anything at all)
also RIP T2-3D: Battle Across Time
"The Most Iconic Video Game Character of All Time" sure, BAFTA
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
A clip from "Bad Boys & Brawlers" at PAX Australia 2016
Washington Post: Koji Kondo met Paul McCartney in the 80s
Oscar Issac explaining the chopsticks photo (it was Cheetos, not Doritos)
Stu (via The Simpsons) spoils The Empire Strikes Back
I respond by spoiling Dick Tracy
Tracy Zooms In (2023)
Art & edits by Diamond (photo source: my mom). Music heard in this episode:
10:40 audio from the Animal Well trailer—coming to PS/Switch/Steam May 9!
22:11 "Dancing Mad (4th movement)" (Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster)
37:43 “25 or 6 to 4” by Chicago
43:01 "Dedicated to Hiroshi Yamauchi" by Chip Tanaka
53:24 "Boss Plant" (Marvelous: Mōhitotsu no Takarajima)
1:05:00 "Polygon Man" (PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale)
1:21:09 audio from The Hunt for Red October (1990)
1:34:42 audio from Dragon Ball Z episode #129 (1992)
1:41:05 "Bass Boss" (Contra: Operation Galuga)
1:53:49 "Ne! (Arranged)" (The King of Fighters '94)
Finale: "Painkiller" by BABYMETAL featuring Rob Halford
Comments
Stu doing the dateline bit. Yes! Flipping the script!
Raven
2024-06-11 10:23:33 +0000 UTCI understand statute of limitations on a movie, but a videogame is different. Movies are 2hrs long and incredibly accessible. I'd even go as far to say that it's easier to watch the Exorcist now than in the 70's. Videogames, however, can often be 80+ hours and are far less accessible. If you were born after 1996, you might have completely missed out on the Super Nintendo and Mario RPG or FF4 or FF6. The Switch might be your first opportunity to experience these masterpieces. Diamond just recently played FF4 and FF6, and I'd be heartbroken to think those games were spoiled for them. Also, don't be a dick, it's not that hard to say or type "spoiler alert"
Nuno Amaral
2024-05-23 03:11:03 +0000 UTCI am personally very anti-spoiler and appreciate the warnings, even for games that are decades old. If there's a 30-year-old B-tier 16-bit RPG, I do NOT want to hear the spoiler, as I might play it one day. I'm less interested in being surprised by plot twists than I am experiencing the game in a "natural state;" approaching it with minimal knowledge and bias. This is usually how I prefer to play retro games and is likely closer to how developers expected audiences (and childhood me) to play these games.
CapNChris
2024-05-07 03:44:12 +0000 UTCMy personal policy on spoilers is that if the story is ruined by a plot twist, it probably wasn't a good story to begin. I don't go out of my way to give spoilers when talking but if I encounter a spoiler in the discourse, it doesn't really affect me whether it's a big moment in the new Star Wars/Marvel series or a panel from the newest chapter of Jojolands or the finale to a RPG I really should have gotten around too. A spoiler is like someone describing a dish. It's never as good as actually eating the food
Astrogamer
2024-05-02 18:57:32 +0000 UTC
