This Month In Retronauts: July 2023 edition (Patreon)

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 recording the community show for you fine people is always a privilege. You gave us a LOT of material to go through this month, so this is an extra-long episode too!

Please make sure to leave your answers to our community question in the comment below. August will be an exciting month for Retronauts in general and me in particular, see you then!

Specific games mentioned in this episode include:

• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
• Blaster Master Zero
• Splatoon 2/3
• Metroid Dread
• Ratchet & Clank (numerous titles)
• The Callisto Protocol
• Yoshi's Crafted World
• Pikmin 4
• AEW Fight Forever
• the oeuvre of MDickie
• (Mr.) Gimmick!
• Mario & Sonic Olympics (numerous titles)
• BAROQUE

Links to media we referenced:

• Frank Cifaldi's annotated playthrough of (Mr.) Gimmick 
• my BitSummit story 
• Lord BBH's Neo Rank Masters playlist 
• Octavius King covers three Mystique titles for the Atari 2600
• AVGN drags Plumbers Don't Wear Ties into infamy
• (poor) photographic evidence that I met the creator of Clock Tower 
• GAMEBOOK: The Unofficial DMG Companion 
• clip of the modern Pong cabinet in action

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

• 9:41 The Day Today theme song
• 25:24 "Quiet Robe" (Metroid Dread)
• 35:01 "Special" by Kazufumi Umeda (Yoshi's Crafted World)
• 44:48 "My Time" by Wolves (Wrestling Empire)
• 53:55 "Discus Throw" (Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020)
• 1:03:16 "Opening Title" (Fatal Fury 3)
• 1:30:23 the opening for Reboot
• 1:40:43 the 1974 opening for Father Brown
• 1:55:33 "Big Battle" (Donkey Kong '94)
• 2:03:36 "A Style of Baroque" (Baroque)
• Finale: "Sega Saturn, Shiro!" performed by Ichiro Tomita