Well, whaddya know. It's another episode about a media property.
OK, but not really. Unlike some of our recent episodes about movies and TV, this one is entirely about the related game… because re...
2018-03-05 22:04:09 +0000 UTC View Post
So… it's not actually our intent to turn Retronauts Micro into a series focused exclusively on movies and other properties that inspired games, with sidebar segments on the games themselves. It's ju...
2018-03-02 14:46:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This isn't strictly a retro topic this week, but it definitely intersects with the things (and some of the games!) we cover on Retronauts. As it happens, my house is just down the highway fro...
2018-02-26 18:11:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! Celebrate Presidents Day this year with the President of All RPGs (or something like that): Final Fantasy VI. This continues our Final Fantasy deep-dive series featuring Chris...
2018-02-19 15:55:34 +0000 UTC View Post
For the fourth time, the Talking Simpsons crew takes over Retronauts to explore the long legacy of Simpsons games. This week, they shine the spotlight on Virtual Bart, which applied the then-burgeonin...
2018-02-16 23:42:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Over the years, we've covered plenty of games based on animated TV shows, from The Simpsons to Tiny Toon Adventures to Animaniacs. But this week's episode of Retronauts focuses on a much rarer specime...
2018-02-12 21:33:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Two interview segments this week. First, for the core of the episode, I invited Aaron Hamel of Ship to Shore Phono Co. to share an inside look at his company's efforts to bring vintage game soundtrack...
2018-02-05 19:43:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is the entire reason the word "metroidvania" exists… and yet, it almost seems to have killed the exploratory platformer. It's the one truly notable game o...
2018-01-29 14:53:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Ever since taking Retronauts full-time last year, I've been wanting to venture beyond the realm of purely discussing video games and into other retro media with episodes dedicated primarily to film, t...
2018-01-26 15:00:35 +0000 UTC View Post
By my count, this marks the 250th episode of Retronauts since we relaunched with the Kickstarter campaign in 2013. Fittingly for this milestone in numeration, we have a pretty significant episode… w...
2018-01-22 19:41:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Spider-Man has been starring in video games for 35 years, but outside of a few rare instances, his digital adventures didn't receive much praise before Neversoft brought him into the world of polygons...
2018-01-16 21:40:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hulu just announced a two-season reboot of the classic '90s 'toon Animaniacs, so there's never been a better time to look back at the many games starring the Warner Brothers and their Warner sister, D...
2018-01-14 00:55:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Friends! It's another deep dive as Bob and I convene with Kat Bailey and Brett Elston to discuss the greatest Mega Man game of all: Mega Man X. Handily, this coincides with both the series' 3...
2018-01-08 18:30:53 +0000 UTC View Post
One of my goals with Retronauts for 2017 was to get more interviews with game creators and people in retrogaming into the show's rotation, and I think by and large that mission proved to be a success....
2018-01-01 20:26:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings and salutations and please to enjoy this final podcast for 2017! (Unless I manage to pull together Monday's episode a bit in advance.) This one centers on Squaresoft's PS1 fighting games, al...
2017-12-29 12:42:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! Christmas may not come early this year, but New Year's does. I wanted to post this coming week's early-access episode even earlier. I know a bunch of you will be traveling today and tomor...
2017-12-23 22:04:17 +0000 UTC View Post
As another year winds down, it's time to return once again to the Retronauts holiday cabin in Parts Unknown. And for 2017's celebration, we've dug up one of the few remaining video game cartoon Christ...
2017-12-22 16:29:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Ben and Benj and I have put together several episodes on the history of SEGA's innovative and often genre-defining arcade creations, and I had intended to put a bow on the series with this entry befor...
2017-12-18 18:19:23 +0000 UTC View Post
In a generation where games strove to be gritty, photorealistic, and more "mature," The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker dared to be boldly cartoony, and suffered greatly at the hands of console warrio...
2017-12-12 02:13:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi, it's me again. Since our most recent episode ended up being posted a little late, I thought you might enjoy receiving this one a day early.
This is another live Micro (well, "micro") episo...
2017-12-07 18:51:02 +0000 UTC View Post
As promised (!?), this week's advance episode comes in a bit on the late side due to my travel schedule. On the plus side, the balance of this delay is a really great, in-depth episode on the history ...
2017-12-06 16:29:36 +0000 UTC View PostHi all, it's Jeremy — just wanted to let you know that this week's advance episode may not go up here until Tuesday. This is a Retronauts recording weekend (you know, when I fly to the west coast an...
2017-12-03 15:54:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I keep going back and forth on whether or not I should put an apostrophe in "collectors"…
Anyway, welcome to the latest episode! This was a fun and interesting one to put together, because it was ...
2017-11-27 19:04:24 +0000 UTC View Post
We've given you our semi-expert opinions on Metal Gear plenty of times over the years, so it's about time for all of you Retronauts listeners to hear some EXPERT ones. And who better to offer them tha...
2017-11-24 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Often, our episodes are packed so full of stunning facts and dangerous takes that we rarely have time to give you, the listener, a voice. Hence, our annual listener mail episode: your yearly chance to...
2017-11-20 19:38:37 +0000 UTC View Post
We've mentioned Myst and HyperCard in several episode this year, but it's always within a glancing tangent rather than a real conversion. This week, Ben Elgin and I downshift into first gear ...
2017-11-13 12:42:54 +0000 UTC View Post
We're not very good with this whole "Retronauts Micro" thing, huh? They've gone from being about 10 minutes long to about an hour and 10 minutes long — 1:12:00 in this case. I know, it must be dread...
2017-11-10 14:45:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! We're back on our regular schedule, and this week we have another patron request episode. This one hits on the early SaGa games — that is, Final Fantasy Legend 1-3 (an...
2017-11-06 01:10:52 +0000 UTC View Post
It might not have been a smash-hit back when it released in 1989, but Monster Party went on to be remembered by NES kids as one of the more memorable—if inexplicable—8-bit games. Though the (unrel...
2017-11-01 22:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, sorry for taking so long to get this episode up. We've been having a weird security issue where Patreon's standard account verification emails haven't been coming through correctly, so we...
2017-11-01 19:31:43 +0000 UTC View Post