Jeremy: Greetings, patrons. As you may be aware, we at the Retronauts Podcasting Concern take video game history very seriously. And, once again, we're taking steps to share with you the h...
2025-05-26 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Last month an unprecedented amount of breaking news resulted in our longest community podcast ever. Today, without anything on par with a new console reveal, I present our second-l...
2025-05-25 11:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Patrons, Diamond Feit here. I love having this gig where you spend money and I get to talk about video games that you might remember bu...
2025-05-19 11:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
May 1985: The Viper is coming
by Diamond Feit
Despite what some l...
2025-05-18 11:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Jeremy: Good evening, friends. This episode constitutes the second of our Metroidvania Book Club ventures: the series where we talk about metroidvanias. Though no books are actually involv...
2025-05-16 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Two Mario RPG brands launched at the dawn of the 21st century, and while Paper Mario had the more immediate gimmick, Mario & Luigi devoted itself to standard RPG mechanics dressed up in Mushroo...
2025-05-12 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Good news/bad news, folks: I'm all caught up with writing my columns after my recent illness but my voice is still far from 100%. Fortunately I met this guy outside 7-11 who volunteered to supp...
2025-05-11 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Nadia: Here be dragons, dragons, and more dragons. It's time to talk about 1990's DragonStrike for the PC, which means it's also time to talk about the strange top-down NES adaptation of T...
2025-05-05 11:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The Muppets have been with us in some way for 70 years—yes, really—meaning Jim Henson's fuzzy, slightly demented puppet creations essentially grew up alongside the medium of video games. And wh...
2025-05-02 07:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Jeremy: So first of all, you need to understand that this episode was recorded nearly two months ago, and it was on the books to publish this week for much, much longer than that. Which is...
2025-04-28 11:00:30 +0000 UTC View Post
I hope you've got no pressing engagements for the next 150 minutes because thanks to Nintendo this is the longest Retronauts community podcast ever! You know we had to talk about the latest Direct ...
2025-04-27 11:00:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Stuart: I refuse to accept Sigma Star Saga as retro. In fact, I refuse to accept the Game Boy Advance as retro, let alone one of its latter-day titles. But it is, and it is gettin...
2025-04-21 11:00:28 +0000 UTC View Post
April 14, 2015: One shot, one kill
by Diamond Feit
In 1980 SNK in...
2025-04-20 11:00:30 +0000 UTC View PostJeremy: As promised, here are the visual accompaniments to our MGC 2025 episode.
The PowerPoint here accompanies the first segment of the episode, on Chrono Trigger. The vid...
2025-04-18 11:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE NOTE: It turns out that Brian somehow vanished from the audio mix in the final MP3 file conversion—a strange glitch that I've never seen happen before. I've uploaded a new stereo file that...
2025-04-18 11:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
No, no, no, this isn't a podcast weighing the entire output of two video game publishers against one another, we're talking about the very specific crossover series of fighting* games that SNK and ...
2025-04-14 11:00:41 +0000 UTC View Post
April 1985: More than meets the eye
by Diamond Feit
It's funny ho...
2025-04-13 11:00:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Jeremy: Good news, everyone! Now you can play a video game!
This episode marks the first of hopefully many entries in the Metroidvania Book Club series. You'll hear a full expla...
2025-04-07 11:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
March 31, 2015: Proverb Edge? Maxim Threshold? Adage Brink?
by Diamond Feit
What's scarier: being trapped in an endless Lovecraftian nightmare, or the fact that Bloodborne is now old enough to be covered on Retronauts? While you mull that one over, listen in as 2025-04-04 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Kevin: The inexorable march of Space Invaders has finally reached Retronauts! Even 47 years since its debut it’s hard to fathom the grip this game had in coin-operated ente...
2025-03-31 11:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2025-03-30 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Jeremy: I've been out of the press long enough that when we start commemorating the anniversary of games I reviewed, it makes me feel very old and very mortal. Nevertheless, we persev...
2025-03-24 11:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
March 22, 2005: You have selected "Deicide"
by Diamond Feit
I was...
2025-03-23 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Doom took over the gaming landscape in the early '90s, but emerged just as the first wave of video game movies hit theaters. So when the 21st century was upon us, Hollywood decided to strike while ...
2025-03-21 07:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Jeremy: AS YOU KNOW, "Years-in-Review Revues" are always exercises in attempting to corral chaos as a large group of people attempts to cover a wide range of topics with ample room fo...
2025-03-17 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
March 11, 1995: tick tock on the clock but the party don't stop, no
by Diamond Feit
2025-03-16 11:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Kevin: If you listen to this podcast, you’re probably well-versed in the many, many formats video games have been and continue to be distributed in: digital downloads, cartridges, C...
2025-03-10 11:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
March 1995: CREATaNEWSOCIETY
by Diamond Feit
I used to have this ...
2025-03-09 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Nadia: This week on Retronauts: Show a little respect for faerie tales, Riskbreaker. Yasumi Matsuno's masterpiece action RPG Vagrant Story is officially a quarter of a c...
2025-03-07 12:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post