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This Month In Retronauts: March 2025 edition
🕑 Added 2025-03-30 11:00:06 +0000 UTCFirst thing's first: if the formatting below looks weird (oddly sized text perhaps), I'm throwing my hands up because somehow cutting & pasting text from my documents into Patreon has given me all kinds of trouble in recent weeks. I'm not about to write original text in THIS CMS, thank you very much!
With my complaining out of the way, please enjoy this latest community podcast. Stu is back! He says a few bad words! But not that one bad word he keeps threatening to say!
Specific items mentioned in this episode include:
new music by NormallyRetro in the Discord!
The Binding of Issac
RPCS3
"I am fully a Tony Hawk sicko again" - Stu
MYRIAD DEATH
our Movie March Madness tournament is ending soon, it's not too late to vote!
Street Fighter has exceeded my expectations
it even bested Super Mario Bros
somehow this leads us to talk about Challengers and Trent Reznor (and Atticus Ross)
Dragonsweeper, free on itch.io
House of Necrosis demo
Skin Deep demo
Stu is coming to Long Island Retro Expo this year!
August 8-10! Expect other Retronauts as well!
the New York Times did indeed discuss Metroidvanias and drop Jeremy's name
Metal Gear Solid
we both remain trapped somewhere in Shadow Moses
Nintendo Switch Online riches:
Donkey Kong 94 (the Game Boy game)
Mario Picross
a bunch of SNES Koei strategy games? Sure, why not
Super Soccer has been delisted
Suikoden I & II HD Remaster: Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars
Venus Vacation PRISM - DEAD OR ALIVE Xtreme -
SENRAN KAGURA Peach Ball
it's pinball but there's busty girls on the table
don't buy stuff from Play Asia! Seriously!
both of these are on Steam anyway, no import necessary
F.E.A.R. & Silent Hill 4 enter GOG Preservation program
sadly F.E.A.R. was Monolith, which WB just closed
they also made Blood & No One Lives Forever & many other games people liked
WB also shuttered Player First Games
they made MultiVersus (which ends in May, will play offline)
at least the new Looney Tunes movie seems popular
Stu also endorses Jellystone
風のノータム NOTAM of WIND English patch
1997 hot air balloon game for PS1 by Artdink, JP exclusive
Unleashed Recompiled
unofficial PC port of Sonic Unleashed
yes the werehog one
OMEGA 6 The Triangle Stars
"16-bit styled retro-future adventure infused with RPG elements"
art by Takaya Imamura (StarFox, F-Zero)
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream now on consoles!
indeed, from Nightdive Studios
my column from 2020 will tell you everything you need to know
TETRIS® THE GRAND MASTER 4 ABSOLUTE EYE coming April 4
I was right about the invisible pieces
Cooking Fighter Hao 炎の料理人クッキングファイター好 coming to Steam
PS1 action cooking game first released in 1998! (JP only)
Bloober Team announces "a new game based on Konami‘s IP"
pairs nicely with the Silent Hill f news (but no release date yet!)
next Resident Evil movie (another reboot) coming September 2026!
directed by Zach Cregger (Barbarian, 2022)
Nintendo killed Gold Points on March 24
you can keep using Gold Points normally but no more will accrue
RIP George Lowe
The First Council of Nicaea ("nigh-see-uh") is not a Biblical term
Kim Justice's video about Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy
she wrote for Retronauts.com from May 2017 until the summer of 2018
Dexter Fletcher has been acting for over 50 years!?
Pain & Gain: a career highlight for both of its leads AND its director Michael Bay
Mark Wahlberg did indeed appear in Date Night
Keanu played HIMSELF in Always Be My Maybe
BlueSky skeets that inspired this month's listener question
Art & edits by Diamond (photo source). Music heard in this episode:
8:46 “HUGE W” by Mori Calliope
17:31 "Protocol" (Skin Deep)
30:26 "Main Theme" VRC6 Remix (Chrono Trigger)
42:19 "Daffy Duck The Wizard" from The Looney Tunes Show
54:02 Harlan Ellison as AM in I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream
1:08:31 RIP George Lowe (and C. Martin Croker, also heard in this clip)
1:19:40 "Red to Blue" (Mr. Bones)
1:28:24 audio arranged by George Moses on a Bally Astrocade
1:35:09 an audio snippet from Pain & Gain
1:46:36 "A Nightmare on My Street" by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
Finale level: invisible
Comments
BlueWeaselBreath
I agree with Stuart the Gipp that people who say Alex the Kidd are annoying. Nobody ever used to say Alan the Ladd or Buddy the Guy. As far as other butcheries, I had a kid at camp tell me about a new awesome computer game called Deuce Ex.
Kirk
Thanks to Stuart for recommending The Binding of Isaac. I’m really enjoying it.
PurpleComet
Where I grew up they made a big stink about cartoons and video games with "occult influences", so seeing a pentagram on the cover of a SMT game is just wild to me.
Diamond Feit
we'll have plenty to say in the April community episode I'm sure.
Wood Duck
Please tell me we'll get a bonus "a nice group chat about Switch 2 reveals" episode!
Shrunken Shrine
A friend of mine thinks "those Satan worship games you like" are called Shine Megummy Tension
