This Month In Retronauts: December 2023 edition (Patreon)

Diamond Feit here, happy holidays everyone! Here it is listeners, our last community podcast of 2023. It's also our longest (by far) and it's our first to feature not one but TWO guests: regular cohort Stuart Gipp and, for the first time, Retronauts' longtime editor Greg Leahy! We've been thanking Greg in text form for years at the bottom of these posts but this month I wanted to thank him in person. I couldn't do that since he lives in another country, but I could invite him onto the show and he accepted.

Before you press play on this month's bonus show, please prepare yourself for twice the Britishness, graphic tales of Stu killing children, and one simple tip for improving your mental health. Naturally, we end the show with a question for you to answer, but since this is the end of the calendar year, I bet you can guess what the question is without opening the podcast (but please do, it took me many hours to edit this).

Specific media mentioned in this episode include:

• Super Mario RPG
• Fortnite
• Portal 2
• assorted Call of Duty installments
• The Exit 8 (Aftermath writeup)
• Evil God Korone
• Holocure - Save the Fans!
• The Silver Case
• Super Princess Peach
• season 7 of Rick & Morty plus writer/podcaster Heather Campbell
• DoDonPachi Dai-Ou-Jou Rinne Tensei, DeathSmiles, and many more Cave shooters
• Otogi Katsugeki Mameda no Bakeru: Oracle Saitarou no Sainan!!
• Link's Awakening DX HD
• Other Castle II ROMhack of Super Castlevania IV
• Yoshi's Island
• Saturday Night Live
• Drew Mackie's podcast Gayest Episode Ever
• Trading Places
• Behind the Bastards
• Cursed Films
• St1ka's look at Brazilian Mega Man comics
• "Let There Be Light" music video
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom
• Capcom vs SNK 2
• Ratchet: Deadlocked (along with Up Your Arsenal)
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed
• Metroid Fusion
• Radio Free Nintendo, Greg's regular podcast gig!

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

• 8:32 "Smash, Smash, Smash" (Virtua Tennis)
• 22:09 "Fight Against a Somewhat Stronger Monster" (Super Mario RPG, 2023)
• 34:39 "It's Only Make Believe" by Conway Twitty
• 45:53 audio from Nintendo's Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D "Surprise" commercial
• 59:09 "Red Bee (True Last Boss)" (DoDonPachi Dai-Ou-Jou)
• 1:09:57 "Hyogo" (Otogi Katsugeki Mameda no Bakeru: Oracle Saitarou no Sainan!!)
• 1:19:27 "Pitfall" by The Louvin Brothers
• 1:28:13 "Axel F" by Crazy Frog
• 1:42:52 "Rainbow Park" (Super Mario 3D Land)
• 2:01:19 audio from Super Mario Galaxy 2 for Beginners
• 2:10:04 "This is True Love Makin'" (Capcom vs SNK 2)
• Finale: "24 Decembre" by Pizzicato Five