We love anniversaries here on Retronauts and we love movies, so I (Diamond Feit) couldn't resist podcasting about both this Halloween as a formative film celebrate...
2023-10-16 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post![This Week In Retronauts: Dead Space [2008]](https://img5.animemembers.com/storage/1/tu/ks/3b8f89-019e861e-288e-77c7-84b8-cb00f7af4f33.jpg)
October 13, 2008: CUT THEIR OFF LIMBS
by Diamond Feit
Nadia: Final Fantasy? Dragon Quest? That stuff's for chumps. We're talking about Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for the GameCube, one of the system's most celebrated games. Also, it might be the first RPG capable of...
2023-10-09 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
October 8. 2003: When there's no more room in hell…
by Diamond Feit
Jeremy: OK. It's time to come clean. This episode is not about Super Mario Wonder. The title this week? Absolutely and shamelessly an attempt at search engine clickbait.
It is, however, about Super Mario Bros. 2023-10-06 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
WHAT: Our "Many Adaptations of Mario" panel, live at PRGE 2023
WHERE: Panel Room 2 at the 2023-10-03 19:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
In 1998, Tim Schafer left LucasArts on a high note with Grim Fandango: the Day of the Dead-themed adventure game that leaves pointing-and-clicking in the past—for better or worse. This one-of-a-kind experience mixes the trappings of film noir wi...
2023-10-02 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh hi, Diamond here. We're getting this one out just under the wire because I didn't want to release two monthly podcasts in a row in the following month, but this...
2023-10-01 03:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
September 24, 1993: Take a look, you're in a book
by Diamond Feit
Hi! Diamond Feit here, back from Tokyo, ready with another Retronauts about a topic that's larger than any video game—and yet its history is as closely tied to video games as it ...
2023-09-25 12:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
When Valve released their incredible The Orange Box in 2007, an audience hungry for more Half-Life content had no idea the main attraction would end up being Portal: a mind-bending first-person puzzle game tied to an inventive and empowering new s...
2023-09-22 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Ridley Scott's 1982 cyberpunk classic came into being as a total flop, yet managed to claw its way into our collective psyches as the definitive portrayal of a dark future that would shape all sci-fi (and reality) to follow. Over the past...
2023-09-18 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post![This Week In Retro: G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero [1983]](https://img5.animemembers.com/storage/4/dv/gl/3b8f89-019e861e-2a27-79de-a412-c29ac96830db.jpg)
September 12, 1983: Yo Joe!
by Diamond Feit
Jeremy: Hello again! Another live presentation for you. The sound isn't quite as crisp on the first segment as the second simply because it involves so many people, but the tradeoff is that you get a recording with five Retronauts and fri...
2023-09-11 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
September 1983: Heiankyo Harlequin
by Diamond Feit
Jeremy: Hey, I think we've finally figured out this live setup thing. After years of making do with whatever haphazard recording system a venue's organizers can bodge together (be it a pro setup or some guy's iPhone), now we just bring ou...
2023-09-08 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, Mickey! You’re so fine! It seemed pretty apt that I (Stuart Gipp; hullo) eventually got around to an episode about Sega’s totally iconic Thingummy Of Illusion series, given that one of them is my favourite game of all time and on...
2023-09-04 17:34:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Kept you waiting, huh? I (Diamond Feit) have returned from my month abroad and I bring a small gift: Jeremy and I recorded a podcast just for you, our loyal Patreon supporters, while hanging out in our designated booth at Retro World Expo in Hartf...
2023-09-03 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Jeremy: Here's a topic we surprisingly haven't really tackled before across more than a decade and a half of making these podcasts: Why is video game history worth talking about in the first place? Why even make these podcasts?! There was...
2023-08-28 11:57:53 +0000 UTC View Post
In 1988, filmgoers around the world were introduced to a little guy named Roger Rabbit, who seemingly promised to usher in a new Golden Age of animation. But in terms of this medium's history, he was just a blip on the radar; after five short year...
2023-08-25 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings fight fans, Diamond Feit here. It's nice to see so much enthusiasm for the recently-released Street Fighter VI in 2023. New and old button-mashers alike seem ple...
2023-08-21 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Nadia: Children of the '80s learned a valuable lesson early in life. Why make your parents agonize over a Nintendo addiction or a comic book addiction when you can do both and make them rend their clothes over your enthu...
2023-08-14 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Jeremy: Greetings, patrons, and welcome to your semi-annual Wow That's A Lot Of Music episode. As usual for Retronauts Radio, this file is much larger than usual in order to preserve the stereo soundstage and convey the original quality o...
2023-08-11 11:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Guest host Jess continues her extremely specific fascination with point-and-click games from the waning years of Full Motion Video games! (Actually, this came out the same year as the other one she's covered: Toonstruck! Boy, 1996 was a big year f...
2023-08-07 11:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Jeremy: Just a quick heads-up before you begin listening to this week's episode—there's a lot of background noise this time around, and that's because Diamond and I recorded this on the spot. We literally left the convention center as BitSummit ...
2023-07-31 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Diamond Feit here: We are BACK and I'm (relatively) disease-free! I feel like I've been podcasting non-stop this month but hey, chatting with 2023-07-30 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Kevin: Earlier this month, our friends at the Video Game History Foundation published a scientific study finding that 87% of retro video games are commercially unavailable in the United States, with no legal way to access them short of shelling ou...
2023-07-28 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Stuart: Remember that bit in the best movie ever made, Freddy Vs. Jason, where Freddy pings Jason around like a pinball and there are actual pinball noises, and then he growls, “Tilt”? It makes no sense, I know, but it’s up there wi...
2023-07-24 12:34:14 +0000 UTC View Post
July 1983: Does a bear collect gems in the woods?
by Diamond Feit
