Another episode this week that strays a bit from the pure video game angle of most Retronauts topics—but such was the request of patron Benjamin Swan, who asked that we talk about Nausicäa o...
2019-04-15 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
With the Sonic the Hedgehog live-action movie just around the corner, there's never been a better time to look back on all the actors who once brought life to Sega's little blue speed rat. Though i...
2019-04-12 22:09:46 +0000 UTC View Post
I mean, we couldn't not cover Game Boy for its 30th anniversary. Not us. It would be illegal.—Jeremy
Episode description: Jeremy Parish, Bob Mackey, Ray Barnholt,...
2019-04-08 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Yep, we're back on our Namco kick again. This time, it's the full Retronauts East crew talking up the magic and mysteries of the company's output in 1986, ’87, and ’88. As usual, this means we ...
2019-04-01 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Our latest bonus episode marks another chapter in my ongoing quest to interview as many classic game developers as possible. This one's especially neat, because the interviewee—Rebecca Heinemanâ€...
2019-03-29 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Have we really never done an episode on Kingdom Hearts? Well, it's surprisingly old, and now that the long-awaited third game finally exists, there's never been a better time. This long-running Squ...
2019-03-25 22:19:22 +0000 UTC View Post
So, is this the final word on Final Fantasy VII? Well... maybe. It certainly is the final word for now, however, as we need to move along so we can talk about the TRUE PS...
2019-03-18 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
On April 15, 2019, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime will step down from his role, bringing about an end to an era. But who was Reggie, and why was his tenure at Nintendo so unique? On...
2019-03-15 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We planned to record this episode about two years ago, back when Capcom published the Disney Afternoon Collection, but those plans fell through. And that's OK! Because this way, Bob and I ...
2019-03-11 13:33:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Just in time for the upcoming release of the game on non-Sony consoles for the first time, the usual Final Fantasy deep-dive crew (myself, Bob, Kohler, and Kat) dives deep into the biggest...
2019-03-04 19:11:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Boy. So. This game is retro, huh? Yep.
Anyway... we all love Katamari so much that we broke new ground with this episode! It's the first time we've recorded an east/west coast episode r...
2019-03-01 19:12:20 +0000 UTC View Post
We left you hanging for over a year after our first exploration of Spider-Man games (episode 135), and now we're back to see what the world of polygons held for Marvel's arachnid hero. Spidey had q...
2019-02-25 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
For this week's episode, we have another developer interview. This one means a lot to me personally, for reasons that are explained in the episode, so I'm happy to finally have pulled it together: ...
2019-02-18 12:48:47 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been six months since Bob's last listener comments episode, and plenty of feedback has built up since then, practically screaming to be read live on the air! And in this episode, Bob and guest...
2019-02-15 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We decided to try something a little different with this week's episode: A personal, softball kind of episode in which all four of our panelists (Bob and Jeremy, plus Gamespot's Kallie Plagge and U...
2019-02-11 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, here it is—episode 200 of the current run of Retronauts! Which is... I don't know which episode overall. A listener wrote in last week and said we're approaching episode 500 overall, which ...
2019-02-04 14:55:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Another chronicle of a Retronauts live appearance has arrived! As always, apologies for the slightly hissy sound, but with any luck you'll find the content makes up for it?
Bob and Chri...
2019-02-01 14:51:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Every once in a while, we like to focus our attention on (gasp!) modern games to see how well they've stuck to tradition over the passing decades. And there's no series more traditional than Dragon...
2019-01-28 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Another one from the 2018 archives this week as we go back to Long Island Retro Gaming Expo to talk with Kurt and Rob from Hardcore Gaming 101 about one of gaming's more fascinating little parallel...
2019-01-21 16:10:53 +0000 UTC View Post
You've heard of Hudson's Adventure Island, but how about Hudson's adventure games? Though the developer was mostly known for platforming and bomber men, in their pre-console-development ye...
2019-01-18 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's episode is a patron request that comes courtesy of Bobby Najari, and it's a pretty darned good topic: A loose and approximate history of software piracy. We discuss our own experiences ...
2019-01-14 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Another interview episode, yes indeed, with another key figure in North American role-playing gaming. This conversation with Interplay and InExile chief Brian Fargo isn't quite as leisurely or inti...
2019-01-07 14:45:03 +0000 UTC View Post
For our first (bonus) episode of 2019, here's, uh, an interview from nearly a year ago. Ah, well. Consider it an early spring cleaning. Anyway, lots of cool stuff in here from a guy who's had a han...
2019-01-04 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Wario started out at literally the anti-Mario, and his platforming series did a great job of playing with the tropes of the genre. But in 2003, Wario would have a much bigger task: subverting the o...
2018-12-31 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Season's greetings, everyone! This week we have a new twist on an old standard. The "new twist" being that, uhhh, the Retronauts East crew gets sidetracked a lot and we only made it halfway through...
2018-12-24 13:30:30 +0000 UTC View Post
It's that time of the year again: when listeners brave the harsh climates, territorial wolves, and malfunctioning home security devices for a chance to visit the Retronauts Holiday Cabin in parts u...
2018-12-22 00:20:37 +0000 UTC View Post
The news that Neon Genesis Evangelion—the landmark anime that changed everything—will finally become available for worldwide streaming next year prompted us to sit down and talk about the...
2018-12-17 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
And now, back to your regularly scheduled podcast.
This week we have a pair of phone interviews, both of which concern recent animated releases with deep video games ties. First up, I talk to the fo...
2018-12-10 13:36:42 +0000 UTC View Post
After Pokemon took off in a huge way, developer Game Freak didn't exactly have the time or incentive to dabble outside of their cash cow. But all that changed in 2006, when they created Drill Dozer: a...
2018-12-07 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all, Jeremy here again. This week's posting schedule is going to be a little screwy—Bob is in the process of recovering from having had his computer and other equipment stolen at gunpoint and did...
2018-12-03 14:54:42 +0000 UTC View Post