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 celebrates 55 years of frights: Night of the Living Dea...
2023-10-16 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
October 13, 2008: CUT THEIR OFF LIMBS
by Diamond Feit
T...
2023-10-15 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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 giving you a paper cut.
The Septembe...
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. in a more general sense. And about other games a...
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 Port...
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 with Mexican mythology, resulting in one of the grea...
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 year September ends on a Saturday so I had to get...
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 is any other medium.
As we have done in past...
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 style of play. And after one brilliant sequel, this...
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 40 years and multiple revisions, this former cult...
2023-09-18 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
September 12, 1983: Yo Joe!
by Diamond Feit
Years befor...
2023-09-17 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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 friends of the show in a single in-person conversatio...
2023-09-11 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
September 1983: Heiankyo Harlequin
by Diamond Feit
In 1...
2023-09-10 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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 our own excellent portable recorder. And it sounds p...
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 one of the reasons I got into this whole “computer...
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 Hartford, Connecticut. It's on the short side compared ...
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 no monetary consideration in mind when I first st...
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 years and three short shorts, Roger Rabbit left us ent...
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 pleased by Capcom's latest kick-puncher after the luk...
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 enthusiasm for Nintendo-themed comic books? Tr...
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 of the audio rips here as much as possible without ...
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 for big failures.) And this time, she's bringing al...
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 closed its doors and immediately began recounting ...
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 Stuart Gipp and rec...
2023-07-30 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostKevin: 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 out for old hardware and physical copies. Joining ho...
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 with the finest moments in cinematic history for man...
2023-07-24 12:34:14 +0000 UTC View Post
July 1983: Does a bear collect gems in the woods?
by Diamond Feit
