Retronauts
The original classic gaming podcast continues its endless quest to explore the history of video games, one game at a time. Join hosts Jeremy Parish and Bob Mackey each week as they team up with a host of expert guests to chronicle the creations that have paved the way for today's hits. From forgotten black-and-white arcade machines to modern-day remakes, Retronauts spans more than four decades of vintage gaming greatness!
Episodes
20 years and over 1000 episodes ago, Retronauts kicked off with an episode about Final Fantasy III: a classic JRPG then on the brink of its first release for Western audiences. Now, that DS remake is itself retro, and we have yet another version of the game that was once denied to us for so long. But even with so many updates and upgrades to its classic formula, is this third, extremely influential Final Fantasy still worthwh...
20! 800! So many big, round numbers! Jeremy Parish, Bob Mackey, Diamond Feit, Stuart Gipp, Nadia Oxford, AND Kevin Bunch somehow crowd into the same space to contemplate the past and future of the show.
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WHAT: Our "Retronauts is Officially Retro: 20 Years of Podcasting About the Past" panel, live at PRGE 2026
WHERE: Blue Auditorium (D137 & D140) at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo
WHEN: Saturday, October 10th at 11:00am
WHO: Bob Mackey, Jeremy Parish, Gary Butterfield, Kaye Ross
Additionally, you can catch Jeremy's solo panel "In Defense of Bad Video Games" on Sunday, October 11th at 1:00pm in the Red Auditorium, and yo...
After 24 years of disappointment, it finally happened: they made a great Resident Evil movie—which also happens to be a great regular movie. Yes, thanks to abandoning any notion of lore and tapping into the creative talents of director Zach Cregger, this latest adaptation of Capcom's survival horror series manages to evoke the spirit of the games, even if it lacks the iconic characters and monsters. On this episode of R...
Jeremy Parish, Diamond Feit, and Scott Sharkey link up with patron Jeff Peterson to escape the island early and bring you a discussion of indie game classic Cave Story (instead of surviving Hell).
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Podcast Michael! Stuart Gipp chats with Eat Pant Games’ Mitch Duncan about their hilarious – and classic-inspired – new kiwi platform game, Teeto.
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ＧＯ ＨＯＭＥ ＮＯＷ！！ＹＯＵ ＡＲＥ ＮＯ ＭＡＴＣＨ ＦＯＲ Diamond Feit, Kevin Bunch, Brian Clark, and Will Cuevas when it comes to discussing The King of Fighters '94. ＩＴ’Ｓ ＧＯＩＮＧ ＴＯ ＢＥ ＯＵＲ ＣＥＮＴＵＲＹ！
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The Goomba is a mushroom. We still don't know how Bowser got his name. Doki Doki Panic began its life as a Super Mario game. Is this sheer lunacy? No! These facts are the thoroughly researched findings of one Drew Mackie, who uncovered 101 Mario mind-blowers via his Mario 101 series on Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games. And on this episode, Drew is here to lead Jeremy, Bob, and Stuart through his collection of truth bombs th...
Jeremy Parish, Diamond Feit, and Kate Willaert trek back to the starting point now that they're equipped with the skills and tool to unlock the second half of their discussion of Metroid's 40th anniversary.
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Whoa! Journey into the darkest depths of the madcap marsupial Crash Bandicoot with host Stuart Gipp and guests Sean Seanson and Thomas Nickel!
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Nadia and David Oxford talk about how dreams and dreamscapes shape stories in retro games.
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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.
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Diamond Feit, Chris Sims, Benito Cerino, and Shane Bettenhausen have no problem podcasting about 2011's biblically-adjacent El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron.
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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.
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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 tribute to arcade mania. This...
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.
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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!
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