Retronauts Episode 499: Years-in-Review Revue - 1973 & ’83 (Patreon)

Hello friends, apologies for the somewhat late post on this week's exclusive. We didn't have cover artwork for it, and I faffed around with a few different sketch concepts before realizing—I've forgotten how to draw! So, apologies also for the iffy cover. I don't know that anyone really considers our cover art a dealbreaker, but I hate to put anything besides our best foot forward.

HOWEVER. 

I am pleased to say that the actual content of this exclusive episode will more than make up for the grim Photoshop bodge job I've attached to it. We have reached the end of another year, which means that (as always) the time has come for us to look 50... 40... 30... and 20 years into the past to discuss the biggest events of those years and mark just how far Video Gaming has come in that time. Not a whole lot happened in 1973 by way of video gaming, though, so I called in not one, not two, but THREE ringers capable of giving you way more information than you thought could ever be possible to extract from such a seemingly non-existent year in video game history. Thanks to the vast pools of knowledge that are the brains of Benj Edwards, Kevin Bunch, and Jared Petty, we talked so much about 1973 that we didn't actually manage to finish our 1983 discussion! Despite this being a 2-hour-plus conversation! Heck.

Anyway, we'll be following up soon to wrap ’83 and tackle ’93, and Bob will be covering 2003 before too long as well. We'll try to make it sequential in order to minimize any confusing time-jump effects.

Edits by Greg Leahy, with the following fine tunes providing your interstitials:

• 11:07 - Pink Floyd: "Breathe (In the Air)"
• 23:33 - Pink Floyd: "Brain Damage"
• 35:34 - Led Zeppelin: "Ramble On" | Pink Floyd: "The Hero's Return"
• 46:33 - Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration: Main Menu Theme
• 58:56 - Pac & Pal (Arcade): Main BGM
• 1:11:24 - Return of the Jedi (Motion Picture OST): "Superstructure Chase" (Original Death Star Battle Reprise)
• 1:21:26 - Chack'n Pop (SEGA SC-3000): Title Theme
• 1:34:02 - Theme from Archon: The Light and the Dark (Original Recording)
• 1:45:46 - M.U.L.E. (C64): Title Theme
• 1:59:15 - Jordan vs. Bird: One on One (NES): Slam Dunk Contest
• 2:07:13 - Ultima III: Exodus (Apple II): Wanderer
• Closing - WarGames (Motion Picture OST): "Edge of the World" (End Title)