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Episode 689: Dragonstrike

Nadia: Here be dragons, dragons, and more dragons. It's time to talk about 1990's DragonStrike for the PC, which means it's also time to talk about the strange top-down NES adaptation of TSR's flight sim/combat game! This week, Dragon Hig...

Episode 688: Muppets Games

The Muppets have been with us in some way for 70 years—yes, really—meaning Jim Henson's fuzzy, slightly demented puppet creations essentially grew up alongside the medium of video games. And while turning the Muppets' pun-based humor into an i...

Episode 687: Attack & Dethrone God, Book 2:1

Jeremy: So first of all, you need to understand that this episode was recorded nearly two months ago, and it was on the books to publish this week for much, much longer than that. Which is to say that the intro quip—a quote from a song ...

This Month In Retronauts: April 2025 edition

I hope you've got no pressing engagements for the next 150 minutes because thanks to Nintendo this is the longest Retronauts community podcast ever! You know we had to talk about the latest Direct and the announcement of Switch 2 while also making...

Episode 686: Sigma Star Saga DX

Stuart: I refuse to accept Sigma Star Saga as retro. In fact, I refuse to accept the Game Boy Advance as retro, let alone one of its latter-day titles. But it is, and it is getting a well-deserved, long-awaited re-release, theref...

This Week In Retro: Titan Souls

April 14, 2015: One shot, one kill

by Diamond Feit

In 1980 SNK invented and named the Boss battle as we know it in ...

Episode 685 Extras

Jeremy: As promised, here are the visual accompaniments to our MGC 2025 episode.

The PowerPoint here accompanies the first segment of the episode, on Chrono Trigger. The video goes with the Game Tapes segment. Please enjoy!...

Episode 685: Chrono Trigger at 30 + The Magic of Japanese Game Tapes

UPDATE NOTE: It turns out that Brian somehow vanished from the audio mix in the final MP3 file conversion—a strange glitch that I've never seen happen before. I've uploaded a new stereo file that restores his contributions. It's twice as large, ...

Episode 684: SNK vs. Capcom

No, no, no, this isn't a podcast weighing the entire output of two video game publishers against one another, we're talking about the very specific crossover series of fighting* games that SNK and Capcom created featuring their two stables of char...

This Week In Retro: Thexder

April 1985: More than meets the eye

by Diamond Feit

It's funny how certain pop cultural properties proliferate acro...

Episode 683: Castlevania Order of Ecclesia - The Metroidvania Book Club Pt. 1

Jeremy: Good news, everyone! Now you can play a video game!

This episode marks the first of hopefully many entries in the Metroidvania Book Club series. You'll hear a full explanation of the concept in the podcast itself, but i...

This Week In Retro: Axiom Verge

March 31, 2015: Proverb Edge? Maxim Threshold? Adage Brink?

by Diamond Feit

Love it or hate it, the portmanteau "Metroidvani...

Episode 682: Bloodborne

What's scarier: being trapped in an endless Lovecraftian nightmare, or the fact that Bloodborne is now old enough to be covered on Retronauts? While you mull that one over, listen in as 2025-04-04 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Episode 681: Space Invaders

Kevin: The inexorable march of Space Invaders has finally reached Retronauts! Even 47 years since its debut it’s hard to fathom the grip this game had in coin-operated entertainment in general and especially Japan. Without...

This Month In Retronauts: March 2025 edition

First thing's first: if the formatting below looks weird (oddly sized text perhaps), I'm throwing my hands up because somehow cutting & pasting text from my documents into Patreon has given me all kinds of trouble in recent weeks. I'm not abou...

Episode 680: Axiom Verge

Jeremy: I've been out of the press long enough that when we start commemorating the anniversary of games I reviewed, it makes me feel very old and very mortal. Nevertheless, we persevere! Because this month is the 10th anniversary of...

This Week In Retro: God of War (2005)

March 22, 2005: You have selected "Deicide"

by Diamond Feit

I was never a big reader as a kid but the books I read,...

Episode 679: Doom (The 2005 Movie)

Doom took over the gaming landscape in the early '90s, but emerged just as the first wave of video game movies hit theaters. So when the 21st century was upon us, Hollywood decided to strike while the iron was still kind of warm and delivered us a...

Episode 678: Years-in-Review Revue, 1985 Pt. II

Jeremy: AS YOU KNOW, "Years-in-Review Revues" are always exercises in attempting to corral chaos as a large group of people attempts to cover a wide range of topics with ample room for digression. Sometimes, chaos escapes. And really...

This Week In Retro: Chrono Trigger

March 11, 1995: tick tock on the clock but the party don't stop, no

by Diamond Feit

Mankind will never come up with...

Episode 677: Type-In Games

Kevin: If you listen to this podcast, you’re probably well-versed in the many, many formats video games have been and continue to be distributed in: digital downloads, cartridges, CDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays, floppy disks, cassette tapes, ...

This Week In Retro: Elevator Action Returns

March 1995: CREATaNEWSOCIETY

by Diamond Feit

I used to have this rule about sequels that stated they had to debut w...

Episode 676: Vagrant Story

Nadia: This week on Retronauts: Show a little respect for faerie tales, Riskbreaker. Yasumi Matsuno's masterpiece action RPG Vagrant Story is officially a quarter of a century old, so now's as good a time as any for a f...