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This Week In Retro: Resident Evil Zero

November 12, 2002: Mark it zero

by Diamond Feit

2022-11-13 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Leave Your Questions and Comments for Our 500th Episode!

Hi folks,

Bob here. You know, we celebrate anniversaries pretty regularly here on Retronauts, so ...

Episode 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...

This Week In Retro: Super Mario Galaxy

November 1, 2007: Land, World, Sunshine…Galaxy

by Diamond Feit

2022-11-06 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

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...

Episode 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 s...

This Week In Retro: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

October 27, 2002: Rockstar releases That '80s Game

by Diamond Feit

2022-10-30 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Episode 491: Blaster Master

After putting together a lengthy episode of NES Works on Blaster Master and editing Stefan Gancer's excellent 2022-10-24 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post

This Week In Retro: First Blood (1982)

October 22, 1982: John Rambo takes his first steps on a long road

by Diamond Feit

2022-10-23 14:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post

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....

Episode 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, Shiva...

This Week In Retro: Moon (1997)

October 16, 1997: Love's Labour's Won (eventually)

by Diamond Feit

2022-10-16 14:10:00 +0000 UTC View Post

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 Linn...

This Week In Retro: Warriors of Fate

October 1992: More like Beatdown of the Three Kingdoms

by Diamond Feit

2022-10-09 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post

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-E...

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...

Episode 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 with...

This Week In Retro: Resident Evil 6

October 2, 2012: Survival Horror has a Ship of Theseus moment

by Diamond Feit

2022-10-02 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post

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...

This Week In Retro: Art of Fighting

September 24, 1992: You can call it the Art of Fighting with storytelling

by Diamond Feit

2022-09-25 12:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post

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 eve...

Episode 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 asi...

Episode 483: The Warriors

Hi, it's Diamond Feit! We've got another patron request episode this week, and 2022-09-19 13:33:21 +0000 UTC View Post

Episode 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, ther...

This Week In Retro: Double Dragon Neon

September 11, 2012: Brothers don't shake hands. Brothers gotta HIGH FIVE

by Diamond Feit

2022-09-11 13:35:29 +0000 UTC View Post

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 ...

Episode 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 breako...