Jeremy: Retronauts is about video game history, sure, but with this episode we finally take the "history" part seriously. If you watch my weekly NES Works (e...
2024-09-20 12:03:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Kevin: Since its debut in 1989, SimCity has become a cultural icon. This open-ended game that can best be described as Urban Planning Made Fun made Will Wright a famous game designer, caused the rapid rise of publi...
2024-09-16 11:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
September 10, 1984: Activate interlock! Dynotherms connected! Infracells up! Mega thrusters are go!
by Diamond Feit
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Jeremy: A different take on a console retrospective this week. Instead of giving the usual breakdown of the history and library of the Dreamcast on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, Diamond and I have taken a different approach b...
2024-09-09 11:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
September 1984: "Stay awhile. Stay forever!"
by Diamond Feit
As much as I appreciate the many conveniences afforded to us ...
Have you heard about Princess Zelda? Apparently there's a legend of her... or something. While she started the series as kidnap-bait, she soon evolved to be a capable hero—and, at times, even a playable one. On this episode of Retronauts, join B...
2024-09-06 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Jeremy: I regret to inform you that... our Retro World Expo panel a weekend was one of the best we've ever presented! Regret, because only a few dozen people got to experience it live and participate in the experience with me, Diamon...
2024-09-02 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
"August? Shouldn't you call it Last Month In Retronauts?" Silence! I, Diamond Feit, am your Community Manager and you will respect my travel schedule!
Sorry, so...
2024-09-01 11:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Jeremy: The second part of my live-from-Long-Island recordings comes to us with a major assist from Lucas M. Thomas, EIC of Nintendo Force/NF magazine. I tried not to get in the way during this three-person panel, a...
2024-08-30 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Nadia: This week, you WILL believe…that an antimatronic menagere containing a bear, a chicken, a rabbit, and a wily old fox is capable of making you pee your pants a little. Five Nights at Freddy's is officially 10 years o...
2024-08-26 12:10:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Jeremy: Friends! Something a little different this week. I have a few segments to post from Long Island Retro Gaming Expo a couple of weeks back, but this time around I don't want to jam a couple of unrelated conversations together i...
2024-08-23 11:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Stuart: He’s angry, dresses in a sailor suit with no pants, and is best friends with a mouse. Yes, that’s right – it’s Stuart Gipp, and he’s back with an episode about Donald Duck games. There’s a whole quacktastic spectr...
2024-08-19 11:52:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Good morning, Diamond Feit here! I can say "good morning" because I'm typing this from the U.S. rather than Japan, hence it's no longer "good night." Speaking of Japan, last month in ...
2024-08-12 14:03:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Ganon's been the big boss of The Legend of Zelda franchise from the very beginning—even though he's taken a sabbatical from time to time. Whether he's a pig-man, or simply a dark wizard from some sort of sandy realm, Link's greatest foe always f...
2024-08-09 07:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Jeremy: Well, it's the episode you've been asking for! It's finally here! Yes: We have, once and for all, presented the definitive word on one of society's most burning questions. Look here for the truth. Whomst amongst the Master Sy...
2024-08-05 11:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Kevin: Perhaps unsurprisingly for an avowed arcade rat for myself, we’re heading back into the proverbial game center to discuss Taito’s seminal shooter franchise, Darius. Pronounced Da-rye-us (according to the Japanese kana)...
2024-07-29 11:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
runs into room Hey, Diamond Feit here. I'mma keep this brief, dear listeners: The summer temperatures in Japan are getting uncomfortably high and my vacation cannot beg...
2024-07-28 11:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Jeremy: This one has been in the works for a while, and now... it has finally happened. There's a lot to be said about the Shin Megami Tensei series and its spinoffs, but before we tackle those games, I felt we...
2024-07-26 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
ominous gong sound Welcome back, Patrons. Diamond Feit here, returning to the well (or "pit" if you prefer) with another podcast about a famous fighting game franchise. ...
2024-07-22 11:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
July 1999: Position target in the center and pull the switch
by Diamond Feit
Stuart: I don’t think anyone, least of all myself, expected this Astérix podcast to turn into the odyssey it would ultimately become. The fact is, Audi, Thomas, and John are just too knowledgable of the series, though the...
2024-07-15 12:53:32 +0000 UTC View Post
July 1994: Teratophiles, rejoice!
by Diamond Feit
For a very long time, TV cartoons were bad. But in the early '90s, two cable TV executives posed the question "What if they were good?" And thus, Nicktoons was born. This brand of creator-driven animated programs shook the world with its effort to...
2024-07-12 07:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Jeremy: I have a feeling that this will turn out to be one of those episodes that a lot of people really enjoy but a handful of super-fans will find deeply annoying. Metal Gear demi-super-fans Shane Bettenhausen and Tom...
2024-07-08 11:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
July 1, 1999: Jurassic Evil
by Diamond Feit
Jeremy: Long, long ago (well, not that long), we recorded an episode in which we ranked the 2D Super Mario games. That conversation, while awesome, stumbled into a slightly awkward moment where we...
2024-07-01 11:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi folks, Diamond Feit here, bidding farewell to June and Pride and sensible weather with this, our latest community podcast. 2024-06-30 11:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Jeremy: It is time, once again, to pump up the jams. Here we are with a brand spankin' new Retronauts Radio episode—the longest of these to date! So much music!
I've tweaked the format once again based on listener feedback, ...
2024-06-28 11:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
When an Australian emergency room doctor set out to make a humble little car chase movie in the late '70s, he had no idea it would turn into an incredibly long-lived franchise that would light our minds on fire and cause us all to drive just a lit...
2024-06-24 07:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
June 1994: This arcade machine kills fascists
by Diamond Feit
