This Week In Retro: Guardian Heroes [1996]
January 26, 1996: I Have Legendary Hunger for more Guardian Heroes
by Diamond Feit
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Episode 355: Xenogears Revisited
Another patron request this week, and it's a good one. Matthew Salisbury put in a bid to ask us to revisit Xenogears, a topic I briefly touched on yeeeears ago in a Micro episode. But this...
2021-01-29 13:15:09 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 354: Pandemic Mailbag
This week on Retronauts, we're easing off on the heavy-duty research for the sake of responding to your questions and comments from our recent round of episodes. And because a little thing called "...
2021-01-25 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThis Week In Retro: Pac-Man Battle Royale [2010]
January 21, 2011: The most dangerous game...is Pac-Man
by Diamond Feit
Episode 353: Metroid Prime
Good morning, or afternoon, or whatever position the sun happens to be in on your sector of the planet. We have another "One With the Lifestream" patron request episode this week, once again from B...
2021-01-18 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThis Week In Retro: Wikipedia [2001]
January 15, 2001: The Greatest/Worst Website in the World Debuts [citation needed]
by Diamond Feit
Episode 352: Looney Tunes Games
Though the Looney Tunes characters shone their brightest during the Golden Age of Hollywood, they wouldn't reach critical mass until a few generations later, when seemingly endless reruns, revivals...
2021-01-15 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 351: Gunpei Yokoi (Pt. 2)
Exactly 10 episodes after the first part of this conversation, here is the second. I'm making a serious effort this year to be timely with multi-part topics like this—though of course the best-la...
2021-01-11 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThis Week In Retro: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [1981]
January 5, 1981: Finally, a comedy about Life, the Universe, and Everything
by Diamond Feit
Episode 350: Crash Bandicoot
Is 350 a notable anniversary number? It has a multiple of the kind of big round-ish number people like to celebrate. I mean, if my marriage manages to last for 350 years, we're definitely gonna be ...
2021-01-04 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThis Week in Retro: Captain America, the Avengers, and Spider-Man [1991]
January 1991: Marvel Fans Welcome Two New Superhero Beat-Em-Ups to their Universe
by Diamond Feit
Episode 349: Retronauts Radio | Jan. 2021
Good morning (?) and happy new year to everyone! Here's Retronauts doing its best to usher in a happier flip of the calendar for everyone, with a 15-stone first-footer of a podcast.
Thi...
2021-01-01 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 348: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
With the movie series (seemingly) finished, LucasArts capitalized on the public's slowly fading love for Indiana Jones with a brand-new adventure game. And instead of adapting one of his previous a...
2020-12-28 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis Week In Retro: 2020 [2020]
2020: My Attempt to Put a Bow on a Year No One Wanted
by Diamond Feit
So...2020.
Christmas has come and gone. New Year's Eve is so close, I've got milk i...
2020-12-27 13:59:59 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 347: Years In Review Revue: 1971 & ’81
We're heading into a new year, and you know what that means: It's time for the annual Years In Review Revue. Remember when we used to hit all the relevant years in the space of a single episode? Ye...
2020-12-21 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThis Week in Retro: Tron Legacy [2010]
December 17, 2010: Disney Tries to Overwrite History with Tron: Legacy
by Diamond Feit
Episode 346: Holiday Special 2020 - Earthworm Jim's "For Whom the Jingle Bell Tolls"
It's the yuletide season, which means it's time to head to the Retronauts Holiday Cabin in Parts Unknown yet again for another look at a Christmas-related video game thing. And even thought this is...
2020-12-18 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 345: Doctor Who
Retronauts is all about old stuff and all about traditions, and there aren't many ongoing pop culture phenomena older and more steeped in tradition than the Doctor Who series. After taking...
2020-12-14 15:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis Week in Retro: Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate [2010]
December 9, 2010: Shiren Wanders for One Last Time—Forever
by Diamond Feit
Episode 344: Die Hard
Yes, this is a Die Hard conversation running in suspiciously close proximity to Christmas. But you know why this isn't some tired "Die Hard is a Christmas movie!" joke? Because this episod...
2020-12-07 15:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis Week in Retro: Fist of the North Star [2005]
December 6, 2005: Sega and Arc System Works Declare: "You Are Already Dead"
by Diamond Feit
Episode 343: WAAAAAHrio Land Pt. 1
We recorded a Wario Land podcast waaaay back at the relaunch of the show.
That was seven years ago. Seven! What the heck?
Anyway, in keeping with our current approa...
2020-12-04 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 342: Escape from Monkey Island
Our non-chronological exploration of LucasArts adventure games continues with an episode all about the legendary developer's final entry in the genre: Escape from Monkey Island. Unfortunately, EMI ...
2020-11-30 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThis Week In Retro: Double Dragon 3 [1990]
November 1990: Newly-formed Triple Dragons Make it a Trilogy
by Diamond Feit
Episode 341: Gunpei Yokoi (Pt. 1)
We have touched on the work of Gunpei Yokoi many times over the years, but this is the first time Retronauts has taken a comprehensive look back at his work and career like this. Pure Invention...
2020-11-23 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis Week in Retro: WWF No Mercy [2000]
November 17, 2000: 20 Years Later, We Can Still Smell What AKI Was Cookin'
by Diamond Feit
Episode 340: Final Fantasy IX
Back in 2000, Final Fantasy IX represented the end of an era for Square. Series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi was seemingly on the road to becoming a hotshot Hollywood director, and the company as a w...
2020-11-20 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 339: Trials of Mana Remake
Why should the Final Fantasy VII remake get all the love? Just because Final Fantasy VII is one of the most popular games of all time, sheesh. Overshadowed by that game's release ...
2020-11-16 13:12:09 +0000 UTC View PostThis Week in Retro: Berzerk [1980]
November 12, 1980: Berzerk takes the "maze game" to dark places
by Diamond Feit
Episode 338: The Video Game History Foundation
This episode is what passes for a live panel recording in 2020: A recording from the virtual version of this year's Long Island Retro Expo convention. Different energy, same content. Since not ever...
2020-11-09 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post