This Week In Retro: Metroid Fusion & Metroid Prime
November 17/18, 2002: Bounty hunter business booms
by Diamond Feit
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Episode 496: Wii U
Nintendo might be flying high with the Switch, but the last generation of hardware sent them into a bit of a tailspin. 10 years ago (to this very day) saw the release of the Wii U, which evolved the company's decades of dual-screen experiments into a console unlike anything that came before it. But did Nintendo simply think <...
2022-11-18 08:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 495: The Lemmings Series
Who’d be a Lemming? If the traps don’t get you, it’ll be the slime, lava or – every Lemming’s worst enemy – gravity. Still, I’d take any of those over having to play 3D Lemmings ever again.
Yes! It’s true!! Stuart Gipp and Dave Bulmer have emerged from the pea soup (Lemmings reference) in order ...
2022-11-14 14:15:59 +0000 UTC View PostThis Week In Retro: Resident Evil Zero
November 12, 2002: Mark it zero
by Diamond Feit
Leave Your Questions and Comments for Our 500th Episode!
Hi folks,
Bob here. You know, we celebrate anniversaries pretty regularly here on Retronauts, so we'd be utter hypocrites if we didn't celebrate our own. That said, if you haven't been paying attention to the little number next...
2022-11-11 20:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 494: The Resident Evil Ranking Hootenanny
You have logged onto Patreon, where you thought it was safe. Yet…you have entered the world of survival hootenanny. Diamond Feit here and if my many...
2022-11-07 11:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThis Week In Retro: Super Mario Galaxy
November 1, 2007: Land, World, Sunshine…Galaxy
by Diamond Feit
Episode 493: Gaming's Greatest Dragons & Sega's 8-Bit Journey
At this point, I think we can all safely assume that live Retronauts panels are back. And, since they tend to be accessible only to people who have the ability to travel to said shows, we'd like to continue making them available in podcast form as much as possible. I think we've just about sorted out the mechanics of recordin...
2022-11-04 20:51:47 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 492: Star Fox, Part Two
Throughout the '90s, Star Fox transitioned from technical showpiece to extremely reliable rail shooter; but in the following decade, Fox McCloud and the gang didn't fare nearly as well. The 2000s saw the Star Fox brand transform into a sandbox for gameplay ideas, with each attempt disappointing players still chasing the high ...
2022-10-31 07:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThis Week In Retro: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
October 27, 2002: Rockstar releases That '80s Game
by Diamond Feit
Episode 491: Blaster Master
After putting together a lengthy episode of NES Works on Blaster Master and editing Stefan Gancer's excellent The History of Sunsoft, I've had that series on my mind quite a bit this y...
2022-10-24 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThis Week In Retro: First Blood (1982)
October 22, 1982: John Rambo takes his first steps on a long road
by Diamond Feit
Episode 490: Star Fox, Part One
We're coming up on the 30th anniversary of Nintendo's oft-mistreated furry-friendly franchise, so there's never been a better time to peer back through the mists of history to investigate Star Fox. This unlikely British/Japanese co-production first debuted as a Super Nintendo technical showpiece, and though the series has had...
2022-10-21 07:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 489: Inside Star Control with Pistol Shrimp
Get some graph paper and start charting routes to Rainbow planets, because Retronauts isn't done talking about Star Control and The Ur-Quan Masters. This time, Nadia Oxford, Shivam Bhatt, and Scott Sharkey are joined by the Ur-Quan Masters' masters: series creators Paul Reiche and Fred Ford. Our fibers grow ...
2022-10-17 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostThis Week In Retro: Moon (1997)
October 16, 1997: Love's Labour's Won (eventually)
by Diamond Feit
Episode 488: Jak & Daxter
Few series are so divisive as the Jak (and, arguably, Daxter) games, spread far too thinly across PlayStation 2 and PSP in their short but glorious reign. Join host Stuart Gipp and guests John Linneman and Thomas Nickel for a hop, skip, jump and headshot across the fantasy-turned-futuristic world of Naughty Dog's all-but-forg...
2022-10-10 13:19:39 +0000 UTC View PostThis Week In Retro: Warriors of Fate
October 1992: More like Beatdown of the Three Kingdoms
by Diamond Feit
Come See Us LIVE at Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2022!
What: Our "History of Food Mascot Games" panel, live at PRGE 2022
When: Saturday, October 15th at 11:00 AM
Where: Auditorium A (E141-E144)
Who: Bob Mackey, Jeremy Parish, and Gary Butterfield
Please check out 2022-10-08 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Episode 487: Misunderstood Games
This week, it's another one of what I like to call a "softball episode"—that is, one that doesn't involve a structured history or conversation around a particular game or series but rather a more freeform discussion of a more general topic. That topic this time around is misunderstood games—that is, games that either we f...
2022-10-07 12:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 486: Return to Monkey Island
It's been 11 years since the last proper Monkey Island entry, and more than three decades since series creator Ron Gilbert left Guybrush and company in the hands of others. So it goes without saying fans were more than delighted when mid-2022 saw the announcement of Return to Monkey Island, a proper sequel to 1991's ...
2022-10-03 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThis Week In Retro: Resident Evil 6
October 2, 2012: Survival Horror has a Ship of Theseus moment
by Diamond Feit
Episode 485: Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
Final Fantasy IV, the beloved genre-defining JRPG from Square Enix, has a direct sequel called The After Years. If you try to talk to FFIV fans about said sequel, however, they're likely to stick their fingers in their ears and hum the Red Wings theme until you go away.
Why is The After Ye...
2022-09-26 12:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostThis Week In Retro: Art of Fighting
September 24, 1992: You can call it the Art of Fighting with storytelling
by Diamond Feit
Video Supplement: Pax West 2022 Live Show (Episode 484)
This video is intended as a supplement to Episode 484: Live from PAX West 2022 - Video Games Based on TV Shows. Watching it as a singular piece of entertainment will bring you no joy. Thanks to everyone who was able to make it out to Seattle!
2022-09-23 07:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 484: Live from PAX West 2022 - Video Games Based on TV Shows
Hey folks,
Bob here with my first live show since PRGE 2019—and unfortunately it's the first live show that also gave me COVID. Was it worth it? YOU make the call. But, infections aside, I definitely enjoyed presenting this panel; and if for some reason you couldn't make it, you're in luck! For this one, I duste...
2022-09-23 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 483: The Warriors
Hi, it's Diamond Feit! We've got another patron request episode this week, and like last time, I feel like Allan Berry is really twisting my arm her...
2022-09-19 13:33:21 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 482: Retronauts Radio Summer 2022
This week, I have a long-overdue Retronauts Radio episode for you. I believe the last time I recorded and assembled was of these was back in May of last year, and, as I mention in the episode, there's a good reason for that: New boutique-label music shipping took it on the chin during last year's supply chain crunch. But boy ...
2022-09-12 11:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThis Week In Retro: Double Dragon Neon
September 11, 2012: Brothers don't shake hands. Brothers gotta HIGH FIVE
by Diamond Feit
Episode 481: The Localization Gap
Apologies for the belated upload today. Retronauts has been mobile lately—I've traveled three of the past four weekends for live events, and I've seen Bob and Nadia along the way. While it's been great to meet up with so many listeners have several years of lockdown, the travel routine has been a little rough on re...
2022-09-09 22:10:14 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 480: Breakout
We don't venture into 1970s video game history too often, if only because there wasn't all that much video game history to discuss in the ’70s. A handful of consoles, a handful of breakout titles, and a whole heck of a lot of derivative works—there's only so much you can say about Pong clones and variant...
2022-09-05 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
