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Retronauts

Retronauts 700 Episodes Aug 17, 2026

Retronauts is a classic gaming podcast that explores the history of video games, from early arcade machines to modern remakes. Hosts Jeremy Parish and Bob Mackey are joined each week by expert guests to discuss the games that shaped the industry. The show covers over four decades of vintage gaming.

Episodes

788: Crash Bandicoot: The Wilderness Years, Pt. 1
788: Crash Bandicoot: The Wilderness Years, Pt. 1 Aug 17, 2026 4642 Whoa! Journey into the darkest depths of the madcap marsupial Crash Bandicoot with host Stuart Gipp and guests Sean Seanson and Thomas Nickel!Retronauts is made possible by listener support through Patreon! Support the show to enjoy ad-free early access, better audio quality, and great exclusive content. Learn more at http://www.patreon.com/retronauts
788: Retrogame Dreamscapes
788: Retrogame Dreamscapes Aug 10, 2026 5239 Nadia and David Oxford talk about how dreams and dreamscapes shape stories in retro games.Retronauts is made possible by listener support through Patreon! Support the show to enjoy ad-free early access, better audio quality, and great exclusive content. Learn more at http://www.patreon.com/retronauts
785: Capcom's Barbarian Legacy
785: Capcom's Barbarian Legacy Aug 3, 2026 7182 Jeremy Parish, Stuart Gipp, and Patrick Kulikowski gird their loincloths to discuss some of Capcom's deeper historic cuts: games where burly men (and ladies) smash and bash baddies.Retronauts is made possible by listener support through Patreon! Support the show to enjoy ad-free early access, better audio quality, and great exclusive content. Learn more at http://www.patreon.com/retronauts
784: Episode 784 Preview: The Cave
784: Episode 784 Preview: The Cave Jul 31, 2026 631 You're listening to a free preview of Retronauts 784: The Cave! To hear the rest, and get two exclusive extra episodes every month, access to our previous Patreon-exclusive episodes, and early access to ad-free podcasts, please visit the official Retronauts Patreon at patreon.com/retronauts.
783: El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
783: El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron Jul 27, 2026 6482 Diamond Feit, Chris Sims, Benito Cerino, and Shane Bettenhausen have no problem podcasting about 2011's biblically-adjacent El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron.Retronauts is made possible by listener support through Patreon! Support the show to enjoy ad-free early access, better audio quality, and great exclusive content. Learn more at http://www.patreon.com/retronauts
782: RCA Home Computing
782: RCA Home Computing Jul 20, 2026 7009 Watch out for VIPers! Kevin Bunch interviews gaming pioneer Joyce Weisbecker about her father Joe’s work on the 1802 microprocessor and its role in video gaming.Retronauts is made possible by listener support through Patreon! Support the show to enjoy ad-free early access, better audio quality, and great exclusive content. Learn more at http://www.patreon.com/retronauts
780: Pac-Man Fever
780: Pac-Man Fever Jul 13, 2026 6652 In the very early '80s, the world as a whole had come down with Pac-Man fever. But this condition wasn't formally diagnosed until budding musicians Buckner & Garcia released their hit album of the same name in 1982. Slapped together to address the then-recent fad known as "video games," this collection of songs took pop culture by storm—but the duo behind it failed to follow up on their tribu
779: Guilty Gear
779: Guilty Gear Jul 6, 2026 8531 Heaven or Hell! Kevin Bunch, Diamond Feit, Patrick Miller and Irene Koh talk Guilty Gear, a series known for rock references, anime aesthetics and aggressive action.Retronauts is made possible by listener support through Patreon! Support the show to enjoy ad-free early access, better audio quality, and great exclusive content. Learn more at http://www.patreon.com/retronauts
777: Capcom's Platformer Legacy {’90s}
777: Capcom's Platformer Legacy {’90s} Jun 29, 2026 6637 Jeremy Parish, Stuart Gipp, and Patrick Kulikowski drop another quarter into the machine to continue talking about the platform action games that Capcom developed, this time in the 1990s. Only some of them are Mega Mans!Retronauts is made possible by listener support through Patreon! Support the show to enjoy ad-free early access, better audio quality, and great exclusive content—including the fi
776: The Golden Age of Pinball
776: The Golden Age of Pinball Jun 22, 2026 4008 Believe it or not, in nearly 20 years of Retronauts, we've never produced an episode dedicated to pinball. And the topic has barely been mentioned in passing! While pinball isn't necessarily a "video game," it shares the same spaces as arcade cabinets, and has incorporated screens with things happening on them for the past 35 years—so it's definitely within our wheelhouse. And, despite the suppos
774: BitSummit PUNCH
774: BitSummit PUNCH Jun 15, 2026 6576 Punch Punch PUNCH: Senior Japan correspondent Diamond Feit talks to developers and reports on xer favorite sights from this year's largest-ever BitSummit indie gaming festival in Kyoto.Retronauts is made possible by listener support through Patreon! Support the show to enjoy ad-free early access, better audio quality, and great exclusive content. Learn more at http://www.patreon.com/retronauts
773: Takashi Tezuka's Retirement Party
773: Takashi Tezuka's Retirement Party Jun 8, 2026 4478 Jeremy Parish, Bob Mackey, and Diamond Feit grab some punch and cake as they celebrate the career of one of the most influential creators in gaming history: Nintendo's Takashi Tezuka, who retires this month after basically inventing entire genres.Retronauts is made possible by listener support through Patreon! Support the show to enjoy ad-free early access, better audio quality, and great exclusi

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