Episode 667: Gaming in the Year 2005
Added 2025-01-24 08:00:07 +0000 UTC2005: A year many say happened two decades ago, this very night. But can the rumors be true? Can the advent of the HD era really be so far in the past? This week on Retronauts, listen in as Bob Mackey, Kevin Bunch, Kat Bailey and Nadia Oxford invesitgate the gaming and cultural trends of a year that really shouldn't have happened so many years ago.
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Thank you Bob! MK64 is a big dose of nostalgia that people seem to champion blindly. The game being worse than you think does not mean you were wrong to love it as a younger person! Two things can be true: the game was average AND you had a ton of fun with your friends.
Randy Beekler
2025-02-20 17:23:30 +0000 UTCI had never heard it before but it was one those songs that hit you like a ton of bricks. Can't explain why.
Dave Caffrey
2025-01-30 17:51:38 +0000 UTCThank you Bob! It was bugging me too, it was super familiar, but I couldn't quite place it.
Stephan Jive Turkey Kuwabara
2025-01-30 17:12:47 +0000 UTCI'm so glad we've mostly moved passed the "angry" YouTuber trend. It got a passing mention, but Jade Empire is a phenomenal game, and probably BioWare's most underrated and unique action RPG.
Michael Castleberry
2025-01-28 16:33:50 +0000 UTCThis was in the midst of the beige era of gaming, which explains why I got so much into 16-bit emulation back then. Don't think I bought a single new game that year...
CitizenMeh
2025-01-27 12:09:10 +0000 UTCI miss EA’s MVP Baseball, they were the best MLB games.
Kellen Taman
2025-01-27 11:55:15 +0000 UTC18 in ‘05 Stopped playing video games for 10 years starting around this time Didn’t come back till the 3DS era Great hearing coverage of a time I was out of the hobby thank you
PosiVibez4evr
2025-01-27 11:18:01 +0000 UTCAs someone who was 16 in 2005 I really appreciate hearing from the elders what it was like being an "adult" at the time! Personal core memories include playing through Half Life 2 on ultra low on the family Dell machine, using an MP3 discman with CDRWs as an MP3 player (to listen to game music and OCRemixes like a huge nerd) and playing a lot of LAN Halo 2 with the neighbouring kids as our houses shared a network! Oh and can't forget being a raging Stan for Battalion Wars, following every scrap I could in the build up to release then adopting a military punk aesthetic for my cringe teenage fashion style!
Wood Duck
2025-01-27 02:08:07 +0000 UTCGreat episode! One small correction: That hostile Peter Moore interview was with Dan Hsu, not Jeff Gerstmann.
Stephen Maurer
2025-01-26 16:40:03 +0000 UTC20 years ago this month I was busy playing REmake (and kindly requesting my sister stay in the living room with me while I played late at night), wanting to play all the prequels before RE4.
J.P. McD.
2025-01-25 02:23:46 +0000 UTCGreat iPod Nano callout in the show's intro. A 1st gen iPod Nano was what I listened to the very first episode of Retronauts on back in the day.
Brian Clark
2025-01-24 22:30:02 +0000 UTCCondemned was good
Rasheen Jordan
2025-01-24 19:38:44 +0000 UTCHonestly, I don't blame EA or Activision for running Rock Band and Guitar Hero (respectively) into the ground with their bimonthly track packs and sequels. The fad was always going to die out in the early 2010s. I'm more mad at myself for getting rid of my Rock Band peripherals so lightly in 2016.
Dave Dalrymple
2025-01-24 19:05:18 +0000 UTCThanks Bob!
Dave Caffrey
2025-01-24 18:39:38 +0000 UTCIt certainly was a grayish brownish time
Normallyretro
2025-01-24 18:11:01 +0000 UTCI must've been 19. I remember cashing my paycheck and thinking I had enough money to splurge on a $20 game. I get to Gamestop, shuffle through my cash, and I realize I had an extra $20. (Two bills were barely linked together by a mangled staple! Bank error in my favor!) Thankfully, first-party PS2 games were $40, so I bought Shadow of the Colossus. I was hooked and beat it within 24 hours. Good times.
Andrew O.
2025-01-24 17:55:02 +0000 UTCYou didn't give a timestamp, but I'm going to assume you're asking about "Everlasting Love" from We Love Katamari. - Bob
Retronauts
2025-01-24 17:49:32 +0000 UTCWhat is the Japanese song in the middle called?
Dave Caffrey
2025-01-24 12:58:01 +0000 UTC
