Stuart: Okay, listen. They’re cars, right? Wait, I’m not done. They’re cars, but they’re small. Certainly too small to drive, or even to assume the role of a conventional passenger. But they do make for a beloved series of top-down racing games, and as you may have deduced it is said drive-’em-ups that enter the hallowed ...
2024-06-17 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
June 14, 2004: I'll show you the life of the mind!
by Diamond Feit
Despite the many attempts to transform Dune into something a little more palatable to the mainstream, Frank Herbert's 800-page sci-fi epic didn't truly catch fire with the mainstream until the release of the recent two-part adaptation by Denis Villeneuve. So what's going on with this book, and why have so many failed to translate it to a differe...
2024-06-14 07:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Jeremy: Let us take you back to a better time. A kinder time. A time with handheld video games systems had two screens, and expected players to have two brains in order to deal with the wildly different things taking place on each screen. OK, well, that really only describes one game if we're being honest: Square Enix's The Wor...
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June 9, 2009: Alex Mercer takes a bite out of the Big Apple
by Diamond Feit
Hello again, Patrons! Back in 2021, we asked you to share your opinions about Retronauts in a listener survey. Three years and hundreds of episodes later, we're asking you again! Click the link below and tell us what you enjoy about our podcast, what you think we could do better, and anything else you'd like to say.
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2024-06-07 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Patrons, whassup? Diamond Feit here. Are any of you cops? You know you have to tell me if I ask, right?
No, no, I'm just playing…but if I sound on edge, it's because this week's podcast deals with a sensitive matter: drugs. Drugs may or may not be legal where you live at pre...
2024-06-03 11:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
June 1, 2004: "I live my life one supermax at a time."
by Diamond Feit
When compared to any o...
2024-06-02 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Kevin: When it comes to game music, we live in an age of riches. You can stumble across original soundtracks online, see live performances of covers in just about any genre you can think of, and handily find other performances online. Back in the mid-1980s, however, these soundtracks were just coming into their own, which in turn g...
2024-05-31 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
It's taken nearly four years, but it's finally here: part two of Square-Enix's ambitious trilogy of Final Fantasy VII remakes. And guess what? It's HUGE! While Remake proved the viability of a modern Final Fantasy VII reimagining, Rebirth absolutely blows the doors off with an open-world take on this classic RPG. But does this chunk of the origi...
2024-05-27 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Salutations, Retronauts patrons! Diamond Feit here, happy to deliver unto you our monthly community podcast chock full recent releases and news and your feedback. Stuart Gipp is here as well, as the two of us ...
2024-05-26 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Nadia: "Jesus Christ, they've done it."
This week on Retronauts, Nadia Oxford huddles underground with Jeremy Parish and games journalism sage Jaz Rignall to talk about the best depictions of nuclear devastation in retro video games. The medium came of age through the Cold War, so it's no surprise even the earliest, most primitiv...
2024-05-20 11:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
May 17, 2009: Punch Block…Punch Block
by Diamond Feit
When I started this series of columns...
2024-05-19 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
We intended to get more than a few live recordings in the can at this year's Midwest Gaming Classic. Unfortunately, a family medical emergency (which thankfully had a positive resolution) threw a wrench in our plans, so we only have one panel to post. But it's about Final Fantasy VI, so who could possibly complain? So please take yourself back t...
2024-05-17 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Jeremy: This week, I turn to a topic I know quite well: Books about video games. Rather than talk about them myself, though, I speak to a quartet of authors whose work covers an impressive gamut of game history-related topics, from a wide array of perspectives.
First, Benj Edwards and Jose Zagal talk about their new Platform...
2024-05-13 11:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
May 1989: Sega shadow-drops a Shinobi sequel
by Diamond Feit
When platonically ...
2024-05-12 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Stu: You thought the Euronauts were done with Contra after that epic Ranking Hootenanny, but no. Not quite. Because there is, as you well know, a new Contra; that being the Contra: Operation Galuga as discussed in episode 584. It seemed… wrong, somehow, not to cover it properly, <...
2024-05-06 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
May 3, 2004: Pass the controller, pilgrim
by Diamond Feit
America's fascination with the Old ...
2024-05-05 11:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Kevin: Hi folks, Kevin Bunch here! This week I’m excited to talk about a topic near and dear to me: fighting game history. Specifically we’re talking about the “doldrums” of the fighting game genre and the fighting game community in the 00s, when Capcom largely dropped out of the scene, SNK hit some serious speedbumps, and ...
2024-05-03 14:23:59 +0000 UTC View Post
While it started exclusively as an activity enjoyed by a small demographic of ultra-nerdy young people with knowledge of obscure websites, emulation has gradually blossomed over the past thirty years into something we all do regularly—often while obeying copyright laws. Without emulation, most retro games would be entirely inaccessible to all ...
2024-04-29 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
HELLO, Diamond Feit here, delivering our latest community podcast just in time for Golden Week (a string of holidays that mean little to anyone outside Japan). As usual, Stuart Gipp joins the fun to help me r...
2024-04-28 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings, true believers! Diamond Feit here, back with another podcast about fighting games, Capcom, and superheroes. All three of these elements overlapped 30 years back when the Osaka developer/publisher got Marvel Comics on the phone and the two companies teamed up for a series ...
2024-04-22 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
April 21, 1989: I'll take pleasure in playin' you, boy
by Diamond Feit
The arrival of the Nin...
2024-04-21 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Final Fantasy VI is 30 years old, and while we discussed this fact during a live show at 2024's Midwest Gaming Classic—stay tuned—we saved the more in-depth conversation for AFTER the panel. In a fairly average-size room, we each consumed approximately one beer and decided to put our knowledge of this legendary RPG and also mental math to th...
2024-04-19 07:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Ossu! Diamond Feit here, and we've got a special episode for you that, in a Retronauts first, none of us wanted to record. Oh sure, I'd been scheming to dive into the legacy and history of Dragon Ball for a while now, but when the series' creator Akira Toriyama passed ...
2024-04-15 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Nadia: Dragon Quest VIII for the PlayStation 2 celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, and we (that is, Nadia Oxford and Good Vibes Gaming's Derrick Bitner) are beyond pumped to celebrate. All Dragon Quest games are great, but as the eighth installment reminds us, some games are greater than others. Not only did Dragon Q...
2024-04-08 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Jeremy: For some reason, this week appears to be all about Communism, at least for my work. Between this episode and my latest NES Works video, we're partying like it's 1989 and the party takes place in a bare unheated room lit by a single lightbulb in the back side of...
2024-04-05 13:38:18 +0000 UTC View Post
In the 18 years we've been putting out this little podcast, we've never produced a single episode wholly devoted to classic Sierra games. Well, that sin against listenerkind ends TODAY as we peer back 40 years in the past to discuss the monumentally important adventure game, King's Quest. Originally intended as a means to sell a platform that di...
2024-04-01 07:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
What's up patrons, it's your NB Diamond Feit. A lot's going down in April but before that happens, let's bid farewell to March with our monthly community podcast. Stuart Gipp and I run through your comments and feedback...
2024-03-31 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
