too hot for opening paragraph, please enjoy podcast.
come to Long Island Retro if you can!
Specific items mentioned in this episode include:
already sighted at Mariners games
non-Americans might not understand why I brought up diarrhea
my beverage for the recording: Monster Bad Apple
Burger King aka Hungry Jack's down under
Mr. Nice Guy (1997, dir. Sammo Hung)
Yars Rising (2024)
Jenny Yokobori stars as Emi Kimura
music director Tommy Pedrini with Megan McDuffee also writing/performing
Desktop Explorer (new release! just finished it! recommended!)
from Recurring Dream, a \"Mexican-led\" team on America's West Coast
\"This game explores themes of depression, suicide, trauma, PTSD, self-harm, and family grief, including mild depictions of gore. Player discretion is advised.\"
X-Men 97
\"committed for four seasons at the very least\" EW
Meccha Chameleon (see Korone & pals play)
Baldur\u2019s Gate Dark Alliance (originally 2001, now on Switch)
talk of Evil Dead Burn (2026) kicks off Cinema Chat
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)
Backrooms (2026, coming soon-ish to Japan)
30:08 \"are you going to complain about AI?\" Yes.
\u201dJane\u201d somehow morphs into \"April\" and later \"June\" as we discuss their comment
\"It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art.\" Casey Explosion
you can just skip to 39:36 if you don't wanna hear this
Dead or Alive 6 Last Round (multiplatform)
loaded with anti-mod files & copious DLC options
Arcade Archives 2: TEKKEN
Console Archives: T.R.A.G.: Tactical Rescue Assault Group aka Hard Edge
also modern revival Hard Edge - War Zone just came out on Steam
Switch Online adds Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land (just now?)
Stu's right: Wario Land, Wario Land 3, & 4 are available, but not II
Biomechanical Toy (1995) now out on Steam & consoles
\"akin to an Amiga knockoff of Gunstar Heroes\" GSK
Thunder Hoop (not \"Loop\") is also coming soon
Franko 2: No Mercy prototype released
sequel to Franko: The Crazy Revenge (1994)
another sequel did come out in 2023: Skinny & Franko: Fists of Violence
new mod makes Code Veronica X a third-person shooter
works in Dolphin or PCSX2
I only just played the arcade version this year!
Mega Man ZDOOM (get it??)
WIP DOOM port for the PC-FX
Modern Vintage Gamer made a video about how DOOM is a tough fit for the NEOGEO
this prompted many viewers to work up their own versions!
Steam Machine priced! spittake\u00a0
in theory anyone can build a Steam machine
people are even recycling ewaste into game machines
\"The Steam Machine is meant for an alternate present but, barring that, it could lay the groundwork for a more interesting future.\" Chris Person @ Aftermath
meanwhile: an UN-release for the Steam Machine Companion Cube
Sony nearly released a Brazilian plug-and-play \"way before\" the mini console boom
Wikipedia has an article explaining Brazil particular video game market
Nintendo has plans to comply with new EU battery regulations
some products will NOT be modified and will disappear from shelves in 2027
NES, SNES, MD Controllers for Nintendo Switch
Pok\u00e9mon\u2122 GO Plus +
all Nintendo Switch 1 models & Pro Controller!
Mario Kart Tour shuts down September 29
3DO: Rising\u2026or not
the Simoria page is gone but you can still see the concept art above
the only game on Empire's site is TROY (and it too looks like genAI crap)
Jill Valentine's \"boyfriend\" EXPOSED
Craig Burnatowski ACCUSED of abusing a former romantic partner
Legendary kusoge Death Crimson original artwork found on Twitter
\u5c71\ufa11\u30b7\u30d6 claims the artist was their dad Takashi Yamasaki
Death Crimson does include light gun support, not that it helps
here's my 2023 column about Hakai\u014d: King of Crusher
Marvel T\u014dkon (PC/PS5) adds Blade, Loki, and Deadpool
I wish they picked Gwenpool, I love her.
the open beta is scheduled July 24-26 so maybe you can play it??
less good: Marvel T\u014dkon blocked in 132 regions on Steam
Art of Fighting 3R coming to Steam
TEKKEN! cartoon? Not CG or 3D, a 2D cartoon
computer games coming soon to Steam & GOG.com from publisher SNEG
Ecstatica & Ecstatica II (1994, 97)
Dark Earth (1997)
Warlords IV: Heroes of Etheria (2003)
Soldiers at War (1998)
Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor (2001)
FINAL FANTASY VII EVER CRISIS ending service October 6
Stuart actually remembers Mega Man X Dive
Persona live-action series coming from Netflix?
exec producer/showrunner/writer Christopher Monfette
\"the monkey's paw of everyone who suggested a Persona game in a Western School begins to curl\" Alex Donaldson
God of War series needs new Kratos, Kratos hurt himself
major Stuart Gipp news announced exclusively during this segment
EW reported on a bunch of Microsoft-related media
Sea of Thieves movie because everyone loves pirates?
Gears of War movie for Netflix is an origin story, hooray!
Netflix making animated Minecraft & Gears of War series
Amazon is adapting Wolfenstein & a Fallout Shelter \"reality competition\"
Xbox also wants more money for their theoretical game consoles
also no more 2TB model because parts cost too much
take advantage of the new \"buy now pay later\" plan lol
layoffs at IO Interactive (Hitman, 007 First Light) and it's all Microsoft's fault
Add Arkane Studios to Microsoft's possible hit list
unionized Xbox members responded to layoff talk
the official \"Reset\" word came: 3200 jobs, gone
Double Fine and Compulsion will become independent, retain their IP
Zenimax, id Software, Activision and Obsidian all reported layoffs
\"60-70\" or about \"one-quarter\" of Obsidian
\"majority\" of Id's studio gone, at least 136 people
\"I want XBOX to be one of the few companies that entertains more than a billion people each day\" the fuck you say
\"Does Xbox CEO Asha Sharma know what a billion is?\" PC Gamer
many, many times more than Steam has ever reached in one day
\"You just sent 1600 people into one of the worst job markets in history for the industry, and you\u2019re talking about an install base of a billion, are you fucking high?\" Chris Person at Aftermath
as predicted, Sony/Bungie laying people off now that Destiny 2 is over
no numbers announced but it's at least 292
Grim: the Sony announcement has a 2 in the URL because this is a repeat
Sony says no more discs effective January 2028
pubs may \"place re-orders for existing PlayStation disc games\"
\"general preference for digital media significantly outpaces physical discs\"
yeah because they're impossible to find, bitch
GameStop's Ryan Cohen says this change is \"irrelevant\" to his video game stores
it gets worse: PS3 and Vita stores are closing over the next year
more EA layoffs before the execs score their big Saudi payday!
the EU just approved this deal, btw
GameSpot lays off people for the fifth time in four years
latest round includes Brendan Hesse on paid leave b/c he got SHOT
Ubisoft launched another Assassin's Creed so that means more layoffs
\"Nearly a third\" of Ubisoft Barcelona facing redundancy at the end of July
La Confederaci\u00f3n General del Trabajo has already called for a strike
said strike began on July 14!
RIP Sam Neill, master thespian and lover of nature
tested for James Bond in the late 80s but didn't get it (and didn't want it!)
owned a winery called Two Paddocks, often posted himself with farm animals
diagnosed with blood cancer but survived, said he was \"cancer free\" in 2026
notable roles (to us)
Possession (1981)
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
the catburglar in The Simpsons (1994)
Event Horizon (1997)
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
two cameos in the Thor movies as Odin on stage
the Jurassic Park movies
and who could forget Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981)
Google \"J.J. Cafaro\" or click here
Chrono Jigga by 2 Mello & The Grey Album by Danger Mouse
you can buy the latter but not the former
read James Eldred's blog about Puc-Man Fever
PAC-MAN by Power-Pill (Aphex Twin)
Gary Garcia passed away in 2011 but Jerry Buckner continues to record music
read even more about this cultural moment on 52 Weeks of Pac-Man Fever
one collaborator on the would-be ad campaign passed away in March
according to the 2002 Metroid manga, Rodney Aran is Samus' father
Jeremy, Nadia, and Diamond appear as ringside spectators in RetroMania Wrestling
Potentially dangerous golf scenarios:
Crazy Golf (I think I meant Zany Golf but various Crazy Golf titles exist)
Battle Golfer Yui (1991)
Jackass (2007) has two golf-based stunts
Ninja Golf (1990)
Cursed to Golf (2022)
Golf War: Return to the Golf (does not exist)
Art & edits by Diamond (photo source). Music heard in this episode:
11:22 \"eighty two (feat. milkyPRiSM)\" (Yars Rising)
28:27 \"Pipes\" (Backrooms) (composed by the director!)
39:36 \"Wannabe\" performed by Fairouz Ai*
49:34 music from Resident Evil Survivor 2 \u2013 Code: Veronica
1:02:03 \"Turret Wife Serenade (Beta Mix)\" (Portal 2)
1:14:04 \"Moula \" (Death Crimson)
1:25:06 \"You Don't See Me\" by Kratos TC Carson
1:42:47 \"AIAIAI\" by Kizuna AI*
1:55:40 audio of Sam Neill featuring Angelica
2:07:39 \"Dig Dug\" by Digital Air
2:13:24 \"Hang 'em High\" (Atom Zombie Smasher)
Finale: Sam Neill plays us out on his ukulele
*notice both artists are named AI
", "contentSnippet": "too hot for opening paragraph, please enjoy podcast.\ncome to Long Island Retro if you can!\nSpecific items mentioned in this episode include:\n\nJimothy!\n\nalready sighted at Mariners games\n\n\nnon-Americans might not understand why I brought up diarrhea\n\nmy beverage for the recording: Monster Bad Apple\n\nBurger King aka Hungry Jack's down under\n\nMr. Nice Guy (1997, dir. Sammo Hung)\n\nYars Rising (2024)\n\nJenny Yokobori stars as Emi Kimura\n\nmusic director Tommy Pedrini with Megan McDuffee also writing/performing\n\n\nDesktop Explorer (new release! just finished it! recommended!)\n\nfrom Recurring Dream, a \"Mexican-led\" team on America's West Coast\n\n\"This game explores themes of depression, suicide, trauma, PTSD, self-harm, and family grief, including mild depictions of gore. Player discretion is advised.\"\n\n\nX-Men 97\n\n\"committed for four seasons at the very least\" EW\n\n\"The Avengers have adventures. The X-Men have MESS.\"\n\n\nMeccha Chameleon (see Korone & pals play)\n\nBaldur\u2019s Gate Dark Alliance (originally 2001, now on Switch)\n\ntalk of Evil Dead Burn (2026) kicks off Cinema Chat\n\nTexas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)\n\nBackrooms (2026, coming soon-ish to Japan)\n\n\n30:08 \"are you going to complain about AI?\" Yes.\n\n\u201dJane\u201d somehow morphs into \"April\" and later \"June\" as we discuss their comment\n\n\"It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art.\" Casey Explosion\n\nyou can just skip to 39:36 if you don't wanna hear this\n\n\nDead or Alive 6 Last Round (multiplatform)\n\nloaded with anti-mod files & copious DLC options\n\n\nArcade Archives 2: TEKKEN\n\nConsole Archives: T.R.A.G.: Tactical Rescue Assault Group aka Hard Edge\n\nalso modern revival Hard Edge - War Zone just came out on Steam\n\n\nSwitch Online adds Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land (just now?)\n\nStu's right: Wario Land, Wario Land 3, & 4 are available, but not II\n\n\nBiomechanical Toy (1995) now out on Steam & consoles\n\n\"akin to an Amiga knockoff of Gunstar Heroes\" GSK\n\nThunder Hoop (not \"Loop\") is also coming soon\n\n\nFranko 2: No Mercy prototype released\n\nsequel to Franko: The Crazy Revenge (1994)\n\nanother sequel did come out in 2023: Skinny & Franko: Fists of Violence\n\n\nnew mod makes Code Veronica X a third-person shooter\n\nworks in Dolphin or PCSX2\n\nI only just played the arcade version this year!\n\n\nMega Man ZDOOM (get it??)\n\nWIP DOOM port for the PC-FX\n\nModern Vintage Gamer made a video about how DOOM is a tough fit for the NEOGEO\n\nthis prompted many viewers to work up their own versions!\n\n\nSteam Machine priced! spittake\u00a0\n\nin theory anyone can build a Steam machine\n\npeople are even recycling ewaste into game machines\n\n\n\"The Steam Machine is meant for an alternate present but, barring that, it could lay the groundwork for a more interesting future.\" Chris Person @ Aftermath\n\nmeanwhile: an UN-release for the Steam Machine Companion Cube\n\n\nSony nearly released a Brazilian plug-and-play \"way before\" the mini console boom\n\nWikipedia has an article explaining Brazil particular video game market\n\n\nNintendo has plans to comply with new EU battery regulations\n\nsome products will NOT be modified and will disappear from shelves in 2027\n\nNES, SNES, MD Controllers for Nintendo Switch\n\nPok\u00e9mon\u2122 GO Plus +\n\nall Nintendo Switch 1 models & Pro Controller!\n\n\n\nMario Kart Tour shuts down September 29\n\n3DO: Rising\u2026or not\n\nthe Simoria page is gone but you can still see the concept art above\n\nthe only game on Empire's site is TROY (and it too looks like genAI crap)\n\n\nJill Valentine's \"boyfriend\" EXPOSED\n\nCraig Burnatowski ACCUSED of abusing a former romantic partner\n\nLegendary kusoge Death Crimson original artwork found on Twitter\n\n\u5c71\ufa11\u30b7\u30d6 claims the artist was their dad Takashi Yamasaki\n\nDeath Crimson does include light gun support, not that it helps\n\nhere's my 2023 column about Hakai\u014d: King of Crusher\n\n\nMarvel T\u014dkon (PC/PS5) adds Blade, Loki, and Deadpool\n\nI wish they picked Gwenpool, I love her.\n\nthe open beta is scheduled July 24-26 so maybe you can play it??\n\nless good: Marvel T\u014dkon blocked in 132 regions on Steam\n\n\nArt of Fighting 3R coming to Steam\n\nTEKKEN! cartoon? Not CG or 3D, a 2D cartoon\n\ncomputer games coming soon to Steam & GOG.com from publisher SNEG\n\nEcstatica & Ecstatica II (1994, 97)\n\nDark Earth (1997)\n\nWarlords IV: Heroes of Etheria (2003)\n\nSoldiers at War (1998)\n\nPool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor (2001)\n\n\nFINAL FANTASY VII EVER CRISIS ending service October 6\n\nStuart actually remembers Mega Man X Dive\n\n\nPersona live-action series coming from Netflix?\n\nexec producer/showrunner/writer Christopher Monfette\n\n\"the monkey's paw of everyone who suggested a Persona game in a Western School begins to curl\" Alex Donaldson\n\n\nGod of War series needs new Kratos, Kratos hurt himself\n\nmajor Stuart Gipp news announced exclusively during this segment\n\n\nEW reported on a bunch of Microsoft-related media\n\nSea of Thieves movie because everyone loves pirates?\n\nGears of War movie for Netflix is an origin story, hooray!\n\nNetflix making animated Minecraft & Gears of War series\n\nAmazon is adapting Wolfenstein & a Fallout Shelter \"reality competition\"\n\n\nXbox also wants more money for their theoretical game consoles\n\nalso no more 2TB model because parts cost too much\n\ntake advantage of the new \"buy now pay later\" plan lol\n\n\nlayoffs at IO Interactive (Hitman, 007 First Light) and it's all Microsoft's fault\n\nAdd Arkane Studios to Microsoft's possible hit list\n\nunionized Xbox members responded to layoff talk\n\nthe official \"Reset\" word came: 3200 jobs, gone\n\nDouble Fine and Compulsion will become independent, retain their IP\n\nZenimax, id Software, Activision and Obsidian all reported layoffs\n\n\"60-70\" or about \"one-quarter\" of Obsidian\n\n\"majority\" of Id's studio gone, at least 136 people\n\n\n\"I want XBOX to be one of the few companies that entertains more than a billion people each day\" the fuck you say\n\n\"Does Xbox CEO Asha Sharma know what a billion is?\" PC Gamer\n\nmany, many times more than Steam has ever reached in one day\n\n\n\"You just sent 1600 people into one of the worst job markets in history for the industry, and you\u2019re talking about an install base of a billion, are you fucking high?\" Chris Person at Aftermath\n\n\n\nas predicted, Sony/Bungie laying people off now that Destiny 2 is over\n\nno numbers announced but it's at least 292\n\nGrim: the Sony announcement has a 2 in the URL because this is a repeat\n\n\nSony says no more discs effective January 2028\n\npubs may \"place re-orders for existing PlayStation disc games\"\n\n\"general preference for digital media significantly outpaces physical discs\"\n\nyeah because they're impossible to find, bitch\n\n\nGameStop's Ryan Cohen says this change is \"irrelevant\" to his video game stores\n\nit gets worse: PS3 and Vita stores are closing over the next year\n\nSony also loves AI!\n\n\nmore EA layoffs before the execs score their big Saudi payday!\n\nthe EU just approved this deal, btw\n\n\nGameSpot lays off people for the fifth time in four years\n\nlatest round includes Brendan Hesse on paid leave b/c he got SHOT\n\n\nUbisoft launched another Assassin's Creed so that means more layoffs\n\n\"Nearly a third\" of Ubisoft Barcelona facing redundancy at the end of July\n\nLa Confederaci\u00f3n General del Trabajo has already called for a strike\n\nsaid strike began on July 14!\n\n\n\nRIP Sam Neill, master thespian and lover of nature\n\ntested for James Bond in the late 80s but didn't get it (and didn't want it!)\n\n\"do you want to be a bumblebee with me?\"\n\nowned a winery called Two Paddocks, often posted himself with farm animals\n\ndiagnosed with blood cancer but survived, said he was \"cancer free\" in 2026\n\nnotable roles (to us)\n\nPossession (1981)\n\nThe Hunt for Red October (1990)\n\nMemoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)\n\nIn the Mouth of Madness (1994)\n\nthe catburglar in The Simpsons (1994)\n\nEvent Horizon (1997)\n\nHunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)\n\ntwo cameos in the Thor movies as Odin on stage\n\nthe Jurassic Park movies\n\nand who could forget Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981)\n\n\n\nGoogle \"J.J. Cafaro\" or click here\n\nChrono Jigga by 2 Mello & The Grey Album by Danger Mouse\n\nyou can buy the latter but not the former\n\n\nread James Eldred's blog about Puc-Man Fever\n\nPAC-MAN by Power-Pill (Aphex Twin)\n\nGary Garcia passed away in 2011 but Jerry Buckner continues to record music\n\nread even more about this cultural moment on 52 Weeks of Pac-Man Fever\n\n\n1-31-2007 Never Forget\n\none collaborator on the would-be ad campaign passed away in March\n\n\naccording to the 2002 Metroid manga, Rodney Aran is Samus' father\n\nJeremy, Nadia, and Diamond appear as ringside spectators in RetroMania Wrestling\n\nPotentially dangerous golf scenarios:\n\nCrazy Golf (I think I meant Zany Golf but various Crazy Golf titles exist)\n\nBattle Golfer Yui (1991)\n\nJackass (2007) has two golf-based stunts\n\nNinja Golf (1990)\n\nCursed to Golf (2022)\n\nGolf War: Return to the Golf (does not exist)\n\n\nArt & edits by Diamond (photo source). Music heard in this episode:\n\n11:22 \"eighty two (feat. milkyPRiSM)\" (Yars Rising)\n\n28:27 \"Pipes\" (Backrooms) (composed by the director!)\n\n39:36 \"Wannabe\" performed by Fairouz Ai*\n\n49:34 music from Resident Evil Survivor 2 \u2013 Code: Veronica\n\n1:02:03 \"Turret Wife Serenade (Beta Mix)\" (Portal 2)\n\n1:14:04 \"Moula \" (Death Crimson)\n\n1:25:06 \"You Don't See Me\" by Kratos TC Carson\n\n1:42:47 \"AIAIAI\" by Kizuna AI*\n\n1:55:40 audio of Sam Neill featuring Angelica\n\n2:07:39 \"Dig Dug\" by Digital Air\n\n2:13:24 \"Hang 'em High\" (Atom Zombie Smasher)\n\nFinale: Sam Neill plays us out on his ukulele\n\n*notice both artists are named AI", "guid": "164678987", "isoDate": "2026-07-26T11:00:06.000Z", "itunes": { "duration": "8945", "image": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/post/164678987/5ca1620acbff4d7f8318d813c8c7aeb0/eyJkIjo3MiwiaCI6MzAwMCwic3RyaXBfYWxwaGEiOjEsInciOjMwMDAsIndlYnAiOjB9/1.png?token-hash=m6lP_ZrEnAClr5mF__Ss_o6iY0WdVvtd22ae-rch5k0%3D" }, "itunes_duration": "2:29:04" }