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I hope you're not exhausted after Friday's Retronauts Radio because this is another lengthy podcast filled to the brim with emotion, energy, and editorializing. Three Es, see what I did there? E3 may be dead and buried but every video game company still announces projects by the truckload in June, hence we have over 90 minutes of news to discuss\u2014\"we\" being myself (Diamond Feit) and Stuart Gipp.

Specific items mentioned in this episode include:

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

", "contentSnippet": "I hope you're not exhausted after Friday's Retronauts Radio because this is another lengthy podcast filled to the brim with emotion, energy, and editorializing. Three Es, see what I did there? E3 may be dead and buried but every video game company still announces projects by the truckload in June, hence we have over 90 minutes of news to discuss\u2014\"we\" being myself (Diamond Feit) and Stuart Gipp.\nSpecific items mentioned in this episode include:\n\nKnicks!!\n\nBing Bong: Origins\n\nI exaggerated: Pong came out in late 1972 and the Knicks won in May 1973\n\n\na sloppy acronym: YES = \"Yankees Entertainment and Sports\"\n\ntechnically the Yankees don't own the channel, the Yankees' owners do\n\nit is still a cable channel but it also has a streaming component now\n\n\nRussian Personal Computer Station 3\n\nUntil Dawn (PS5)\n\nsee SGF play Directive 8020\n\nI am allowed to forget Hayden Panettiere's last name\n\nI should remember to say Rami Malek correctly (\"rah-mi\")\n\n\nStu has it backwards: the title is Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney\n\neven more Donkey Kong Bananza\n\nShadow of the Tomb Raider (2018) starring Camilla Luddington\n\nshe may have been pregnant or a new mom during this time, Stu!\n\nAlix Wilton Regan has since taken over the role for Legacy of Atlantis\n\n\nread more about jacket colors in Lupin III\n\nSwitch Online adds Donkey Kong 64\n\nCPS-3 core for MiSTer FPGA out in beta\n\nbuta is indeed Japanese for pig (and in some contexts, pork)\n\nOpen the door/Get on the floor/Everybody throw the dinosaur.\n\n\nArcStation mod replaces PS1 laser with emulator\n\nODE = Optical Drive Emulator\n\nother consoles have ODEs and other ODEs for PS1 exist too\n\nthis one fits ALL PS1 models without soldering\n\n\n24:52 NEWS BEGINS\n\nRomhacking has HAD IT with these monkey-fighting machine translations\n\nDownloads for ALL \"Machine Translated\" projects are disabled\n\nread Thomas James on the emptiness of feeding text to a machine\n\nalso in my defense Thomas James doesn't use his full name on BlueSky\n\n\nSega-16 interviewed Mike Fischer, former VP\u00a0\n\nthis tidbit about Billy Hatcher made the rounds on social media\n\n\nStreets of Rage: The Motion Picture?\n\nas a non-Christian I endorse Violent Night\n\nStu in turn recommends both Silent Night, Deadly Night films\n\n\n\nZack Snyder is \"reimagining\" Escape From New York\n\nSnyder did not direct 300: Rise of an Empire but he produced & cowrote it\n\n\n\"Get ready for the South Town Cinematic Universe.\" no! No!\n\nSaudi-backed Arena SNK assert they're making tons of movies!\n\nFatal Fury written by David S Goyer\n\nwe discuss Goyer's peaks & valleys\n\nGoyer did not write The Crow, he wrote its lesser 1996 sequel\n\n\nGeese, an origin story written & directed by Grant Singer\n\nFatal Fury: The Vow, an animated series for streaming\n\nan Art of Fighting webtoon\n\n\n\"The South Town collection of SNK games were crime and martial arts offerings, and proved to be influential on filmmakers such as Takashi Miike and Quentin Tarantino and on later video games such as Street Fighter and Grand Theft Auto\" !?\n\nMiike was only 30 when NEO GEO hit but I still doubt he cares about SNK\n\n\nStu brings up WWE so I bring up Danhausen & the Knicks\n\nDanhausen guested on Talking Simpsons in 2022\n\nhe JUST debuted with WWE earlier this year\n\n\n\nSpyro: A Realm Beyond (spring 2027, multiplatform)\n\nActivision acquired the rights to Spyro in 2008\n\n\nHITMAN Classic Trilogy Remastered coming in 2027\n\nincludes Codename 47, Silent Assassin, and Contracts\n\nthe 2013 Hitman HD Trilogy includes Silent Assassin, Contracts, and Blood Money\n\nthe 2019 Hitman HD Enhanced Collection includes Blood Money & Absolution\n\nall five of these games are bundled on Steam btw\n\n\nGodzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered (November 3, multiplatform)\n\nAtari is publishing, dunno if Digital Eclipse is involved\n\nmight not be a Japanese release for this at all\n\nthe original Japanese title mirrors that of Super Smash Bros\n\n\u30b4\u30b8\u30e9\u602a\u7363\u5927\u4e71\u95d8 (Gojira Kaiju Dairant\u014d)\n\n\u5927\u4e71\u95d8\u30b9\u30de\u30c3\u30b7\u30e5\u30d6\u30e9\u30b6\u30fc\u30ba (Dairant\u014d Smash Brothers)\n\n\n\nTwo Digital Eclipse collections incoming\n\nToy Story: Retro Roundup! (October 15)\n\nToy Story (SNES, Genesis, GB 1995)\n\nA Bug's Life (PS1, GBC 1998)\n\nToy Story 2 (GBC 1999)\n\nToy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue (PS1 1999)\n\nBuzz Lightyear of Star Command (PS1, GBC 2000)\n\nToy Story Racer (PS1, GBC 2001)\n\na la carte: Toy Story 3 Complete Edition\n\nlookit, there's Chris Kohler with Jim Hanks\n\n\nBarbie Rewind (November 12)\n\npart DreamHouse decorator, part game library:\n\nBarbie (NES 1991)\n\nBarbie: Game Girl (Game Boy 1992)\n\nBarbie: Super Model (Genesis, SNES 1993)\n\nBarbie: Vacation Adventure (Genesis, SNES) Unreleased!\n\nBarbie: Race & Ride (PS1 1999)\n\nBarbie Super Sports (PS1 1999)\n\nBarbie: Pet Rescue (GBC 2001)\n\nBarbie: Groovy Games (GBA 2002)\n\nSecret Agent Barbie: Royal Jewel Mission (GBA 2002)\n\nBarbie Horse Adventures: Blue Ribbon Race (GBA 2003)\n\nThe Barbie Diaries: High School Mystery (GBA 2006)\n\n\nthe Deluxe Physical Edition includes a Barbie doll, naturally\n\nI gave the movie ***\u00bd stars so I liked it!\n\n\n\nStar Trek: Shadow Frontier by Bloober Team?? (multiplatform)\n\n\"a mature, psychological action-adventure\" starring Ro Laren\n\nMemory Alpha says Ro Laren appeared in 8 episodes of TNG\n\nnot bad considering she debuted in season 5 of 7\n\nI forgot Michelle Forbes appeared on TNG before she played Ro\n\nshe's also in Escape From LA which Stu mentioned earlier!\n\non BSG she commanded the Pegasus\n\n\n\nSony State of Play\n\nMarvel T\u014dkon (PC/PS5) adds Magneto, Green Goblin, and CARNAGE\n\nOmae is not the rudest second-person pronoun in Japanese but if you say it right you will definitely piss people off.\n\n\nDynasty Warriors 3: Complete Edition Remastered (October 1, multiplatform)\n\nlook at EN and JP Wikipedia side-by-side to see the off-kilter numbering\n\neverything past the first one are all mus\u014d games, technically\n\nI misspoke: it's not shin as in \"new\" it's shin as in \"real\"\n\nsee also: Shin Samurai Spirits vs Samurai Shodown II\n\n\n\n\nIkumi Nakamura & Unseen present KEMURI (2027, PC/PS5)\n\n\"online co-op for up to three players\"\n\n\nUntil Dawn 2 (2027, PS5 only?)\n\nfrom Firesprite, not Supermassive\n\n\nGod of War Laufey starring Mrs Kratos (no date)\n\nlotsa good double jump/air combo jokes on BlueSky\n\nJack Quaid appeared in Scream (the fifth one not the first one)\n\nMarvel has had their own (male) Laufey since 1965\n\n\ncoming to PlayStation Plus this summer\n\nGitaroo Man (out now & soundtrack on streaming services)\n\nPsi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy (Still up on MyAbandonware)\n\nOnimusha Dawn of Dreams (the one from 2006)\n\n\n\nSummer Games Fest guest starring Billy from Saw\n\nI am all caught up with my Saw homework\n\nsaid homework will not include the upcoming SAW: Genesis\n\n\nStranger Than Heaven featuring the late Tupac Shakur\n\nTupac's only living relative DOES NOT control his likeness rights\n\nBunta Sugawara died at 81, Toshiro Mifune at 77. Neither was murdered.\n\nyoung Mifune appears in Capcom's new Onimusha game\n\n\nStreet Fighter 6 Year 4: TIFA (early 2027)\n\nplus new characters Yasmine, Arjun, Bosch\n\n\nResident Evil (no Code) Veronica (2027)\n\nFinal Fantasy VII Revelation coming in Spring 2027\n\nMultiplatform at launch\n\n\nThe Wolf Among Us 2 (2027) + remaster of original this year\n\nTelltale Games went bankrupt in 2018\n\nLCG Entertainment became Telltale Games in 2019\n\nFables creator Bill Willingham had a rift with DC in 2023\n\nhe put Fables into the public domain but DC says NO we own it\n\neither way don't worry about supporting Willingham\n\n\n\nMighty Cuphead Adventure (multiplatform & Sega Master System!?\u00a0\n\nAlien Isolation 2 (no date)\n\nFumito Ueda's \"Project Robot\" now genAtlas (no date)\n\nPlatinum doing TMNT with The Last Ronin (no date)\n\ninitially announced in 2023 by Black Forest Games\n\nthat version no longer exists\n\n\nTMNT Mutants in Manhattan (2016) was delisted in less than a year\n\ndirector Eiro Shirahama seems to be at Capcom now?\n\nalso that was with Activision so who knows what they asked for\n\n\n\n\nDay of the Devs\n\nBlood Dungeon (2026, demo available)\n\nfrom Messhof (Nidhogg)\n\n\nInto The Unwell (2027)\n\nProve You're Human (no date)\n\nfrom Sunset Visitor (1000 X RESIST)\n\n\nN PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO (\"sometime next year\")\n\n\nNintendo Direct\n\nOcarina of Time remake is real (2026)\n\nKingdom Hearts IV (multiplatform, no date)\n\nKingdom Hearts Collection [I~III] also coming in October (multiplatform)\n\nKingdom Hearts HD I.5 + II.5 ReMIX\n\nKingdom Hearts HD II.8 Final Chapter Prologue\n\nKingdom Hearts III + Re Mind\n\nthe cover art might be genAI but only in the US??\n\nI'm right about the Shibuya Disney Store\n\n\n\nTouhou Koumakyou: New Classic ~ The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (multiplatform Sep 2026)\n\nlots of people online hyped for this, including Kevin\n\n\nXenoblade Genesis (Switch 2, 2027)\n\nFinal Fantasy Resonance (multiplatform Oct 2026)\n\nDragon Quest Monsters 4 aka The Withered World (multiplatform, Dec 2026)\n\nSlime Morimori 3 does indeed have an English patch!\n\n\n\nCrazy Taxi: World Tour (2027, multiplatform)\n\n\"At SEGA Corporation, we utilize generative AI as a support tool for developers\"\n\n\"used to support our teams during the development of background assets\u2026Assets generated were still subject to review by the development team\" according to Game Informer\n\n\"We used it as a reference\u2026our artists would pull up [and] generate some of their ideas and then they would look at that, you know, generated image and then they would draw the actual thing.\" series creator Kenji Kanno\n\n\"i want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and i'm not kidding\" 6/29/2020\n\n\n\nKohei Ikeda has left Bandai Namco after 20 years\n\nTsuneki \"IKD\" Ikeda retires from Cave after 30 years\n\nCave does iterate a lot on past games but they have continued to release new work\n\n\nUbisoft and Microsoft continue to ruin lives\n\nUbisoft Winnipeg closed + other cuts = \"up to 380 layoffs\"\n\nUbisoft actually tried to EMBARGO the announcement\n\nco-founder Claude Guillemot died on June 19 in a plane crash\n\n\nMicrosoft issued a deliberately vague \"Next 100 Days: XBOX Reset\" open letter\n\nex-Rare Craig Duncan & Louise O\u2019Connor have both resigned\n\nDouble Fine, Compulsion, and Ninja Theory all at risk\n\nlast year's South of Midnight (won a Peabody AND a BAFTA)\n\nexecs gloated about the awards just months ago\n\nXbox JUST announced a third Senua game!!\n\n\n\n\nDoctor Who \"put out to tender\" as RTD & co. depart the show\n\n\"in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show\" BBC statement\n\n\"For the record: there was no script, I never wrote it, and no actor was ever approached to play the next Doctor.\" RTD on Instagram\n\nStu loved \"Boom\" \"Lux\" \"The Devil's Chord\" \"Dot and Bubble\" and \"Rogue\"\n\nJodie came back for \"The Reality War\"\n\n\n\nRIP (and tear) Bobby Prince composer of DOOM\n\n2:01:05 NEWS END\n\nSF Alpha (2000) is feature-length but SF Alpha Generations (2005) is only 45 min.\n\ntwo animated hour-long specials are debatable inclusions\n\n\nRule 63: \"for every character there is a gender swapped version of that character\"\n\nRule 35: \"If there is no porn, it will be made\"\n\n\nLeigh Dove's link regarding Bubble Buster (& Pang & Buster Brothers & more)\n\n\"Ultimate Ghosts 'n Goblins is pretty enjoyable\" - Stuart Gipp\n\nfull credit to Chris Person on BlueSky for this month's new question\n\nwritten in response to Bob's answer\n\n\ncome see me (and other Retronauts (but not Stu)) in Long Island August 7-9!\n\nbuy Stuart's zine The Oath!\n\nArt & edits by Diamond (image source). Music heard in this episode:\n\n10:08 \"O Death\" (Until Dawn)\n\n24:00 that startup sound we all know and love\u00a0\n\n42:00 \"You Are Cursed\"\n\n53:16 \"Data & Picard\"\n\n1:07:46 \"Born to Be Bone\" (Gitaroo Man)\n\n1:25:09 \"Night Riders\" (TMNT Turtles in Time)\n\n1:39:36 \"Jipangu\" (Slime Morimori Dragon Quest 3)\u00a0\n\n2:00:06 \"Running From Evil\" by Bobby Prince\n\n2:16:13 audio from The Addams Family pinball table\n\nFinale: live from MSG, Game 4", "guid": "162188347", "isoDate": "2026-06-28T11:00:10.000Z", "itunes": { "duration": "9373", "image": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/post/162188347/03a725c6985a4f5fb8ee5ce61e4bbefb/eyJkIjo3MiwiaCI6MzAwMCwic3RyaXBfYWxwaGEiOjEsInciOjMwMDAsIndlYnAiOjB9/1.png?token-hash=d3eBSzjHpyLHn9eUQCr4yM1lFLOXGCFzGBSTnoedytE%3D" }, "itunes_duration": "2:36:12" }