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Episode 123: Breath of the Wild's Zelda heritage

Hi everyone, Jeremy here with an earlier-than-usual advance episode. I'm working Portland Retro Gaming Expo all weekend and will be on a plane all day Monday, so I wanted to be sure this made it up on...

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Retronauts Episode 122: Maniac Mansion

30 years ago, Lucasfilm Games gave us Maniac Mansion: an unassuming little adventure created by people who never dabbled in the genre before. But this lack of conventional wisdom caused Maniac Mansion...

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Retronauts Micro 72: Super Mario Sunshine

Video games! Am I right?

This episode is spillover from the full Sunshine episode, because we received far too many letters to fit into a 90-minute show. Consider this equal time to alterna...

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Episode 121: King of Fighters/game experiences double feature

I've been a little overzealous putting together Retronauts Micros, and I ended up with a backlog of episodes with no room in the schedule to post them. Whoops! Rather than holding onto these for four ...

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Early Access: Episode 120, Super Mario Sunshine

Hi all, I'm recovering from both a weekend of podcast recording AND a flu that hit me at the same time we went into the studio. Please pardon my terseness and enjoy this critical examination of Su...

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Retronauts Micro 71: Iwata, The Switch, and NES Golf

Thanks to some industrious hackers, we've recently learned that a digital version of Golf for the NES has been secretly implanted into the firmware of every Nintendo Switch as a tribute to Satoru Iwat...

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Early access: Retronauts 118 - SEGA arcade history pt. 3

Well, it looks like we crossed some wires on episode numbering, so uh here's episode 118 to follow up last week's episode 119. Eh heh, heh.

This latest Retronauts East entry sees us once again going...

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Retronauts Episode 119: Yoshi's Island

Yoshi's Island hasn't been re-released in its original, unadulterated form since its 1995 debut, but the upcoming launch of the SNES Classic promises to make this platforming legend slightly more avai...

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Early access: Retronauts Micro 70

For this week's Micro episode, I managed to line up an interview with David Craddock about his new book on the history of video games on the Apple II, Break Out. You might recall I referenced...

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Early access: Retronauts episode 117 - Zork

I'm really proud of how this latest episode turned out! We can pin much of its success on the presence of the one and only Black Dragon: Jeff Green, former editor in chief of Computer Gaming World...

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Early access: Retronauts Episode 116

Hello! I hate to post and run, but I'm sneaking in work between family affairs on a holiday. Please don't tell; everyone would be so terribly cross with me if they knew. This episode is another somewh...

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Retronauts Micro 69: Mario Series Listener Mail

With the recent release of Mario + Raving Rabbids, and with Super Mario Odyssey's launch  lurking just a few months away, we're currently undergoing a sort of  Mario Madness—much like...

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Retronauts Episode 115: Food Mascot Games

(Quick note: This episode was previously posted to the Retronauts Patreon, but was mislabeled number 113 and, for whatever reason, didn't kick over to the RSS feed like it's supposed to. We don't have...

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Early access: Episode 104 - Gradius

Hello, all. Apologies for the mild tardiness on this advance posting — we had some minor scheduling confusion… but that's what content backlogs are for. We recorded this Gradius episode w...

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Early access: Retronauts Micro 68 - Dragon Slayer

We tried the patience of a live audience this past weekend with a lecture on the history of the incredibly influential yet extremely obscure (in the U.S.) role-playing series Dragon Slayer, c...

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Early access: Episode 113 - Secret of Mana

Hi! Have this week's podcast a little early, why don'tcha.

I apologize in advance for the audio distortion that appears constantly throughout the first half of this episode. We're completely baffled...

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Early access: Retronauts episode 112

Something a bit different this week! 

I had the good fortune to visit with Tetsuya Mizuguchi at Enhance Games last time I visited Tokyo, and he was totally open to the idea of turning the conve...

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Retronauts Micro 67: Little Nemo

Sorry for the brief delay on this one, but I think it's worth the wait. On our latest advance Micro, listen in as we talk about all things Little Nemo: Windsor McCay's legendary, influential comic str...

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Slight Delay on This Week's Retronauts Micro

Hey folks,

Due to some scheduling problems, I wasn't able to record today's Retronauts Micro during the week—instead, I'm recording it this weekend. That said, this delay gives me the chance to as...

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Early access: Retronauts episode 111

Like clockwork (and hopefully not like the stopped clock that's right twice a day), here is your advance episode for the week. It's the follow-up to our Metroidvania episode from a couple mon...

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Retronauts Episode 110: Super Mario Bros. 3

We've finally put together an episode on one of the greatest 8-bit games of all time! Join Bob Mackey, Jeremy Parish, Henry Gilbert, and Ray Barnholt as the crew digs into the wonder and wisdom of Sup...

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Early access: Retronauts Micro #66

 

I apologize for the lie inherent in this episode's title. This was meant to be a Micro episode, but it clocks in at a full hour — which isn't really Micro, honestly. I hope you don't mind t...

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Early access: Retronauts Episode 109

Greetings, everyone. This week's advance podcast is now present within the construct known as "da house." It's a pretty fun one, so I hope you enjoy it. And the music is stunningly good, as one might ...

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Early access: Retronauts episode 108

Well, hope you don't mind something a little different this week. This episode started out as a Micro episode about Marathon, as a tie-in to our Apple gaming episodes... but Ben and I got a l...

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Early access: Retronauts Micro 65 - Farewell, Genyo Takeda

The latest Micro is here, and it's a bit of a loose episode. When Nintendo announced the upcoming retirement of executive Genyo Takeda, I felt we should take a moment to discuss why his decision to st...

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Early access: Retronauts episode 107 — SEGA pt. 2

Hello, all — here is this week's advance episode, stealthily submitted in between bursts of patriotic fireworks. It's a follow-up to an episode from a few months ago. Enjoy!

Description: Jerem...

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Early access: Retronauts 106 - Final Fantasy V

Another really great episode this week! Although... I kinda feel like I say that just about every time I post these days. I guess that means I'm happy with the way the show's going or something.

Any...

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Early Access: Retronauts Micro 64

Hi friends, it's, uh, a Kabuki Quantum Fighter episode. Yes, we realize no one asked for this. We did it anyway, because... well, who else was going to?

Description: Jeremy, Benj, and Chris conv...

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Retronauts Episode 105: Cancelled Games

This week's advance episode is all about the vast, vast world of cancelled games! We could only pick a dozen out of the hundreds (if not thousands) of possible choices out there, so let us know if we ...

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Retronauts #104 early access: Metroidvania origins

Good morning and happy E3 week to you. In celebration of all the indie games likely to be demoed at the show over the next few days, we've put together a timely little episode on what inspired most of...

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