It's been quite a while since we last posted a live recording from a Retronauts-related event panel! But even if the world's nowhere close to being back to normal, we've at least figured out how to make live presentations a safe and viable thing again. This week's episode comes from two panels recorded at Midwest Gaming Class...
2022-06-06 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
June 4, 1982: It is very cold…in space…
by Diamond Feit
I know we're experiencing a re...
2022-06-05 13:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
As all things return from the '90s to soothe us in these uncertain times, so must Beavis and Butt-Head. Yes, Mike Judge's duo of brainless teens may seem rooted in the Clinton era, but Beavis and Butt-Head received a surprisingly good reboot in 2011, and are set to return with a new movie this summer. So, of course, there's n...
2022-06-03 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
You may know Sonic the Hedgehog from his many dubious video games, but did you know he has also appeared in the most debased medium known to mankind: Comic Book Periodicals? It’s true, I’m afraid, but in the interests of Sonic science, I, Stuart Gipp, have assembled a crack team of Sonic comic experts to discuss this phen...
2022-05-30 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
May 1982: One of these days, Irem, BANG, ZOOM, STRAIGHT TO THE MOON!
by Diamond Feit
I hav...
2022-05-29 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! Remember last year when Street Fighter II turned 30 years old and we here at Retronauts used that opportunity to talk a lot about Street Fighter II? Well the time has com...
2022-05-23 08:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
May 1982: Ah, space mosquitos. The perfect avatar for revenge
by Diamond Feit
Long-time re...
2022-05-22 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's exclusive episode took place in a hotel room in downtown Milwaukee, as so often happens with podcasts these days. I gathered together my fellow Midwest Gaming Classic panelists and forced them to work for their pay by recording a bonus conversation: A talk about the "mini console" trend. Nintendo's Classi...
2022-05-20 11:38:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to the generous patronage of Andrew Oliveira, we're continuing our Kirby journey right where we left off in episode 401. This time around, we see the passing of the torch, as series creator Masahiro Sakurai completes his Kirby trilogy and begins working on the Smash Bros. series for the rest of his natural life. The ne...
2022-05-16 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
May 15, 2012: Q-Games invites everyone onto the world stage at 4AM
by Diamond Feit
I think...
2022-05-15 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
May 3, 2002/May 4, 2012: Superheroes in New York? Gimme a break!
by Diamond Feit
The timel...
2022-05-09 08:04:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Something a little lighter this week: Rather than explaining the history of a franchise, games, or developer, we instead take a more personal angle and explain which irredeemably bad games we secretly love. Join myself, Jared Petty, Stuart Gipp, and Kat Bailey as we attempt to rationalize our wretched preferences!
It's time for a podcast 65 million years in the making! Or maybe two months—who can say? We've already covered Steven Spielberg's 1993 blockbuster, but unfortunately didn't have enough time to talk about the many games loosely based on it. So, for the sake of being thorough, this week we're devoting 90 minutes to a...
2022-05-06 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Fanfiction. Is it a writer's best friend, the fruits of which should be widely shared? Or is it a secret shame that should be suffocated in Windows folders and smothered at the bottom of socks drawers? Is there any scholarly benefit to telling kids to write about the weird crap Steve and Alex got up to in their Minecraft<...
2022-05-02 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
April 1987: I'm seeing double! Four dragons!
by Diamond Feit
I've been thinking about a
Bloomin' Nora, they'll let anyone write these now. Oh, hullo! I'm Stuart Gipp and you're about to listen to an episode of the podcast "Retro Nauts". Now, normally this podcast exclusively covers NES games, but today I'm presenting you with something from the leftfield, baby; it's the Commodore flippin' Amiga!
And, of co...
2022-04-25 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
April 24, 2012: "A New Day" dawns for adventure games
by Diamond Feit
There are two contradictory po...
2022-04-25 01:35:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning/afternoon/indeterminate temporal void—it's time for another patron-exclusive episode. With this episode, we begin another multi-part deep dive into the history of a key game developer. In this case, the developer is Taito, and the period under examination is their early days leading up to the company's big tran...
2022-04-22 12:02:55 +0000 UTC View Post
In 1993, Hollywood did the seemingly impossible by releasing the first true video game adaptation: Super Mario Bros. And to put it simply, things didn't exactly go as planned. Thanks to studio meddling, fired directors, injured actors, and compromised visions, Super Mario Bros. lurched into theaters in May of 1993, and quickl...
2022-04-18 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
April 13, 2012: Fezzes are cool
by Diamond Feit
We lost a legend this week: Gilbert Gottfried, profe...
2022-04-17 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Nintendo has announced that they're cutting you off next year. No more Wii U and 3DS games for you! At least not from the eShop. Considering how many games you have to sort through on those systems, we figured the least we could do to help would be to gab for a while about the best games—the ones you should download while y...
2022-04-11 10:39:43 +0000 UTC View Post
April 4, 1997: Nintendo invites N64 owners to go to Hell
by Diamond Feit
Doom.
Doom doom doom ...
2022-04-11 01:39:29 +0000 UTC View Post
For the first time ever in the 15+ year history of Retronauts, we're bringing you a full-length movie commentary! And we're chatting about a film that deserves a serious examination and evaluation: 1993's Super Mario Bros., just in time for its 29th anniversary. Sometimes it's inspired, and most of the time it's inex...
2022-04-08 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We've had a lot to say about Street Fighter II since it turned 30 last year (more SF 'casts are coming soon, BTW) but in 1992 Midway's answer to Capcom's fighting franchise made its debut and video games haven't been the same since. Yes, Mortal Kombat first appeared in arcades 30 years ago and shocked the wo...
2022-04-04 11:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
March 1992: Make Mine Mutants
by Diamond Feit
As a life-long fan of comic books, movies, and video g...
2022-04-03 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This week sees us revisiting the Squaresoft of the 1990s—specifically, the Squaresoft of 1995, when the company could seemingly do no wrong. They'd just released Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger back to back, fer cryin' out loud! And eventually... they did do wrong. They flew too close to the s...
2022-03-28 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
March 20, 1997: This column is a creature of chaos
by Diamond Feit
From a literal timeline perspecti...
2022-03-27 14:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The Ranking Hootenanny is back, and this one seemed somehow inevitable: A rundown of the 15-ish two-dimensional titles in the core Mario series. After all, I enraged the world a few years ago by publishing a factually and objectively correct ranking of the Mario games on Polygon, so it was only natu...
2022-03-25 15:18:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Unfortunately, Nintendo just delayed Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp indefinitely due to real-life circumstances. But this week, in the spirit of American sticktoitiveness (and because we didn't want to change the schedule), we're looking back at Intelligent Systems' surprisingly long-lived turn-based war strategy series. Over...
2022-03-21 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
March 7, 1997: Windows PCs run red with Blood
by Diamond Feit
Horror in th...
2022-03-20 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
