This Month In Retronauts: April 2024 edition (Patreon)

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 rundown recent news, releases, and reading your comments. Listen for tales of my trip to the American Midwest, Stu's golden singing voice, and a brand-new question for you to answer.

Please note that during the second half there is an occasional crackle on Stu's end but I promise it's not static, it's just a lawn mower in the distance that comes and goes. I couldn't hear it when we recorded but now, with an editor's ear, I cannot deny its presence.

Specific items mentioned in this episode include:

• Shantae: Risky’s Revenge + other Shantaes

• Yars' Rising

• Howard Scott Warshaw & E.T.

• COMMUNITY MANDATE: buy Animal Well (and Stuart's book)

• Vampire Survivors (Contra DLC coming soon)

• WOWOWOW KORONE BOX (a take on Super Crate Box)

• Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster (I finished it the following day!)

• Chris Kohler's book on Final Fantasy V

• Evercade + new GIGA Carts

• Galloping Ghost arcade

• Midwest Gaming Classic!

• Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

• NIGORO, La Mulana, and Rose & Camellia

• Fallout on Amazon Prime

• PsyDoom (found the link!)

• new Switch Online releases:

  • Wrecking Crew 98

  • Super R-Type

  • Amazing Hebereke (now in English, not a Uforia game but a spinoff)

  • Battletoads in Battlemaniacs in Japan (already out in US)

  • Marvelous in Japan! (Bob's stream from 2016)

• RIP Little Big Planet 3 (Stu is mistaken: you cannot download or share anything at all)

  • also RIP T2-3D: Battle Across Time

• "The Most Iconic Video Game Character of All Time" sure, BAFTA

• PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale

• A clip from "Bad Boys & Brawlers" at PAX Australia 2016

• Washington Post: Koji Kondo met Paul McCartney in the 80s

• Oscar Issac explaining the chopsticks photo (it was Cheetos, not Doritos)

• Stu (via The Simpsons) spoils The Empire Strikes Back

  • I respond by spoiling Dick Tracy

• Tracy Zooms In (2023)

Art & edits by Diamond (photo source: my mom). Music heard in this episode:

• 10:40 audio from the Animal Well trailer—coming to PS/Switch/Steam May 9!

• 22:11 "Dancing Mad (4th movement)" (Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster)

• 37:43 “25 or 6 to 4” by Chicago

• 43:01 "Dedicated to Hiroshi Yamauchi" by Chip Tanaka

• 53:24 "Boss Plant" (Marvelous: Mōhitotsu no Takarajima)

• 1:05:00 "Polygon Man" (PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale)

• 1:21:09 audio from The Hunt for Red October (1990)

• 1:34:42 audio from Dragon Ball Z episode #129 (1992)

• 1:41:05 "Bass Boss" (Contra: Operation Galuga)

• 1:53:49 "Ne! (Arranged)" (The King of Fighters '94)

• Finale: "Painkiller" by BABYMETAL featuring Rob Halford