{ "title": "This Month In Retronauts: August 2026 edition", "link": "https://www.patreon.com/retronauts/posts/this-month-in-167688895", "pubDate": "Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:00:09 GMT", "enclosure": { "url": "https://www.patreon.com/api/rss/u/qT6yj_KvyTyRfhY844EYuLQC6g56zang/e/167688895.mp3?sig=9HIiZ8-7XoRHvNOdXkn1fBHr7Dzwbm1iQnPxm-kPAdk%3D", "length": "400408454", "type": "audio/mpeg" }, "content": "

I joked about the heat last month but now it is us bringing the heat as I welcome back Stuart Gipp and Jess O'Brien for a chaos-filled three-hour-plus podcast. If that sounds like too much you can blame me, as my voice threatened to give out at any moment so I loosened the reigns. If you approve of my methods, you're welcome.

I must also acknowledge up front that we recorded this on Monday the 24th in advance of multiple, painful celebrity passings. Rather than inserting an audio update to address these losses, I feel it is best to leave these conversations until September.

Please note the warning at the top of the show is not a joke: Parts of our unbridled discussion include, nay, embrace profanity and adult language. This is definitely not the episode to play at your weekend barbecue or bridge club when your friends or family ask you about Retronauts.

Specific items mentioned in this episode include:

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

", "contentSnippet": "I joked about the heat last month but now it is us bringing the heat as I welcome back Stuart Gipp and Jess O'Brien for a chaos-filled three-hour-plus podcast. If that sounds like too much you can blame me, as my voice threatened to give out at any moment so I loosened the reigns. If you approve of my methods, you're welcome.\nI must also acknowledge up front that we recorded this on Monday the 24th in advance of multiple, painful celebrity passings. Rather than inserting an audio update to address these losses, I feel it is best to leave these conversations until September.\nPlease note the warning at the top of the show is not a joke: Parts of our unbridled discussion include, nay, embrace profanity and adult language. This is definitely not the episode to play at your weekend barbecue or bridge club when your friends or family ask you about Retronauts.\nSpecific items mentioned in this episode include:\n\nFinland tried monarchy once but it didn't take\n\ndon't be like me, read up on rizz\n\nForbidden Solitaire\n\nPicross: Juufuutei Raden's Guide for Pixel Museum\n\nI think she sings the \"mushroom song\" when you pause/rewind the game\n\nRaden has recorded audio guides for real museums (but only in Japan)\n\nthere's Hakone-themed DLC coming later this year\n\n\n\nYanineko aka Chainsmoker Cat (Netflix)\n\nyani is slang for tobacco, neko means cat\n\nJess and Stu have Drawn Together opinions\n\n(mine is: don't watch Drawn Together)\n\n\n\nOnimusha Warlords (Remaster from 2018)\n\nHideki Kamiya's tale of Onimusha's inspirational bug\n\n\nhololive Dreams aka HoloDori\n\nYs III: Wanderers From Ys PS2 fan translation\n\nwe have no dedicated Falcom episodes but we've covered their work on and off\n\n\nSonic Frontiers (which we discussed in Episode 510)\n\nSmoking Behind the Supermarket with You & Iron Wok Jan\n\n\"friendslop\" PEAK & Big Walk\n\nJess' rapid-fire list of unplayed games:\n\nMermaid Mask\n\n500 Finger Filet\n\nEsoteric Ebb\n\nThe Ratline\n\nThe Incident at Galley House\n\nA Hand with Many Fingers\n\nI endorse this very short game\n\n\nTwo Point Museum (new Cult the Lamb DLC)\n\nHigh on Life 2\n\nFinal Fantasy Tactics\n\nSorry We\u2019re Closed\n\n\nthe works of game developer Inkle\n\nBob's Patreon post (with audio) about his Retronauts debut\n\nCONFIRMED: Retronauts will once again attend Portland Retro Gaming Expo in October!\n\nbut \"Retronauts\" does not include me, I can't make it\n\n\nMarvel T\u014dkon out, supported by Capcom vets Neo_G & Akitomo\n\ncheck out Deadpool's many, many easter eggs\n\n\nPerfect Dark VR port (still in beta but looks FRESH)\n\nBIORAND REQUIEM (early access)\n\nno giant babies in RE9 although there is Chunk\n\n\nDragon Slayer on Switch via EGGCONSOLE\n\ngot its own Retronauts Mini episode back in 2017!\n\nGSK notes \"There's very little text, and the crucial stuff's in English.\"\n\n\nOnry\u014d Senki via EGGCONSOLE\n\nKerry Brunskill wrote a glowing retrospective in 2022\n\nthis one necessitates knowing some Japanese according to GSK\n\n\nUFO -A day in the life- on Console Archives\n\n1999 PS1 adventure game by Love-de-Lic (Moon)\n\nGSK decrees this as playable without Japanese but maybe not much fun\n\nEXPLAINING my joke: dokush\u014d means \"reading\" (noun, not the verb)\n\n\nnever before released ZERO RACERS and D-HOPPER on Virtual Boy - Nintendo Classics!\n\nSuper Mario Sunshine also available, kicking off another round of \"boy this sucks\"\n\nhere's my 2022 column commemorating (?) 20 years of F.L.U.D.D.\n\n\nAmiga shooter Apidya (1992) now on Steam as Apidya' Special \n\nEnglish patch releases!\n\nKamaitachi no yoru \"The Night of the Sickle Weasel\" for SFC\n\na 2014 global iOS version was retitled Banshee's Last Cry\n\n\nInnocent Tears for the original Xbox\n\nLondon Seirei Tanteidan \"London Spirit Detectives\" for PS1\n\nDetective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway raked in \u00a513 billion this spring\n\ncreator Gosho Aoyama recently said he's already \"drafted\" the finale but gave no indication he had plans to end the series\n\nConan's child-like condition came about as a side-effect of getting poisoned\n\nLANGUAGE NOTE: Stuart says \"biro\" which is British English for pen\n\n\nCuldcept the First newly translated/released globally on Steam (with demo!)\n\n\n1997 Blackout finally available in English on itch.io\n\n\"Sometimes, these old, classic games can look a bit worn when you play them today. Some games age well, others not so much. I think that Black Out has aged very well\" Valeur to the Nordic Times in 2015!\n\nI cannot find evidence that the Harold Halibut developers ever claimed to make the \"first-ever\" puppet video game\n\n\nXbox (og) Backward Compatibility launches on PC with four titles\n\nBLiNX: The Time Sweeper\n\nConker: Live and Reloaded\n\nCrimson Skies: High Road to Revenge\n\nFuzion Frenzy\n\nOR use xemu which already supports 87% of the entire XBOX library\n\n\"Microsoft's jangling the smallest set of keys they could find at a moment's notice in order to distract from an ever-cascading accrual of malevolence, including but not limited to abetting genocide in Gaza, an insanely reckless overinvestment in AI and wave after wave of truly catastrophic industry-stunting layoffs whose victims include the steward of this very backwards-compatibility initiative, so fuck 'em.\" GSK\n\nhere's my Conker column if you missed it in March\n\nsomehow this brings back lots of puppet-talk\n\nStu throws down some extremely graphic language during this segment\n\n\n\nnew gifting rules on Steam & Wishlists also support categories now\n\ngreat news for people with waaaay too many wishlisted games (me)\n\nCURRENT WISHLIST STATS: FEIT 519, Stu 424, Jess 57\n\n\n1:26:54 DO NOT BUY ALERT: M64 by ModRetro (a Palmer Luckey product)\n\nskip ahead to 1:36:25 if you don't want to hear us complain about a rich guy\n\nPalmer became the poster boy for VR then a gleeful arms merchant\n\nhe has strong opinions about when women (girls really) should give birth\n\n\nplease do not give Palmer Luckey more money to spend on his interests!\n\nsupport \"Weird Al\" instead\n\n\ncoming to mobile in 2027: DCKO (that's \"D C K O\")\n\nnever mind that game, read the ongoing \"Absolute\" line of DC books\n\n\nHideo Kojima announces his preferred way to die: at the movies\n\nspeaking to a crowd in Rome at Il Cinema in Piazza film festival he said:\n\u50d5\u3042\u306e\u6b7b\u306c\u3068\u304d\u306f\u6620\u753b\u9928\u3067\u6b7b\u306b\u305f\u3044\u3068\u305a\u3063\u3068\u601d\u3063\u3066\u308b\u4eba\u306a\u3093\u3067\u3059\u3051\u3069\u3002\n\nAsked \"why\" he answered:\n\u6620\u753b\u59cb\u307e\u308b\u524d\u306b\u4e00\u756a\u597d\u304d\u306a\u3093\u3067\u3059\u3088\u3002\u6620\u753b\u9928\u5165\u3063\u3066\u96fb\u6c17\u6d88\u3048\u3066CM\u3068\u304b\u3042\u308b\u4e88\u544a\u7de8\u3067\u6620\u753b\u304c\u59cb\u307e\u308b\u76f4\u524d\u3067\u6b7b\u306b\u305f\u3044\u3002\n\nrecent examples of how Kojima hypes movies he enjoys vs \"I watched this\"\n\n\nZelda movie cast news: we're going to see Sam Neill in Hyrule\n\nUli Latukefu (Alien: Covenant, Black Adam, MaXXXine) plays Ganondorf\n\n\nDave Bautista might be IS Kratos in the God of War show\n\nAtari and Universal announce 10 movies based on Old (and I mean old) games\n\nAsteroids, Adventure, Berzerk, Breakout, Centipede, Crystal Castles, Millipede, Missile Command, Pong, Yars\u2019 Revenge\n\n\nRARE NES game discovered: Super Mario Bros & Duck Hunt???\n\nthe place: Onestopwonders in Waukesha, Wisconsin\n\nwill be/is being auctioned off? Unclear as of this recording.\n\n\nSonic Blitz shuts down today (sorry, future listeners)\n\nmobile card battler launched last year in limited capacity/territories\n\n\nSony patents AI agent to handle grinding when the player isn't playing\n\nMicrosoft now experimenting with pre-roll ads for cloud streaming games\n\nonly available to XBOX Insiders with an XBOX account, for now\n\n\nwith another Halo remake out in the world, Microsoft obviously fired the developers\n\nnewly independent Double Fine forced to layoff 23 people\n\nthe announcement actually reads as humane if you can believe it\n\nmeanwhile the Xbox statement was \"good luck with that\"\n\nsilver lining: DF confirms that game revenue goes to THEM not MS\n\nJess brings up South of Midnight by similarly-liberated Compulsion Games\n\nAmnesia Fortnight 2026 coming to Kickstarter August 31!\n\n\nnon-Microsoft layoff news: Supermassive losing \"up to 75\" employees\n\nNetflix continues to fail at games, closes two entire studios & cuts internal teams\n\nMoonloot out of Helsinki, Night School in LA\n\nNight School released Unhinged for Netflix just weeks ago!\n\n\n\nStuart Gipp's special place (of rage): James Pond Legacy: The Pond is Not Enough\n\npeep the infamous announcement trailer & the official announcement page\n\nthen enjoy their stirring \"nuh-uh\" response to accusations of using genAI garbage\n\n\nRIP Screaming Mad George (1956-2026), visionary artist\n\nactually passed back in February but family announced his death this month\n\ninitial credits: Poltergeist II, Big Trouble in Little China, & Predator\n\nNightmare on Elm Street 3 & 4 (including the infamous roach scene)\n\nreal show-stopper: SOCIETY (1989)\n\n\ndirected a live-action Guyver movie in 1991 co-starring Mark Hamill!?\n\nSociety's Brian Yuzna produced, I don't see Stuart Gordon credited at all\n\n\nparlayed his Hollywood fame into creating one (1) video game, Paranoiascape\n\nlet's celebrate what should have been his 70th birthday in October\n\n\nRetronauts Episode 97 BRO-totypes debuted in 2017\n\ntalk of muscled men leads to hype for REACHER (s4 out now)\n\nno\u00b7\u200bmad\u00b7\u200bic (adj) has over two centuries of documented use in the English language\n\nJeremy recently posted on Discord that the Book Club will resume in 2027\n\nI will not apologize for defending the original meaning of \"begging the question\"\n\nor \"decimate\"!\n\n\nClick this link to safely spy a bit of lewdness hidden in Wrath of Cortex.\n\nthe characters seen above are a mix of real & nonsense\n\n\nLuger-who? Peep the premiere of WCW Monday Nitro for context.\n\ndelight in Japan's take on Crash Bandicoot\n\nMuramasa Entertainment for hardware enthusiasts\n\nTall Rob's longer thoughts on Star Fox\n\nDO NOT LOOK UP THE JUNJI ITO BURRITO you will regret it\n\nWatch Jess' Return to Silent Hill dissection! And perhaps purchase Control!\n\nFor the record here's how Stu reacted to Geoff's stage show\n\n\"the dual bed with anime girls\"\n\nevidence in my favor: \"Alex\" ranks highly on both transgender men & women's lists\n\nsettle the debate, listeners: what does Stu say at 3:21:06??\n\nArt & edits by Diamond (photo source). Music heard in this episode:\n\n15:24 \"Gimme Chocolate!!\" by BABYMETAL as covered by ReGLOSS\n\n26:21 \"Cyber Space 1-3: Digital Cave\" (Sonic Frontiers)\n\n41:12 the epic theme song to Trans America Ultra Quiz and nothing else\n\n50:14 \"Over Capacity\" (Resident Evil Requiem)\n\n1:01:33 \"Techno Party 1\" (Apidya)\n\n1:21:48 \"The Internet Is For Porn\" from Avenue Q\n\n1:35:38 \"Pac-Man\" by \"Weird Al\" Yankovic\n\n1:53:06 \"Ground Theme (Hurry Up!) (PAL Version)\" (Super Mario Bros.)\n\n2:08:42 \"License to Bubble\" (James Pond: Underwater Agent for Amiga)\n\n2:28:34 \"Paranoiascape\" by Screaming Mad George & Psychosis\n\n2:41:41 \"Tough Boy\" FM synth cover\n\n2:58:28 \"Sick Beat\" by Kero Kero Bonito\n\n3:12:17 \"Il Cuor non si Spaura\" (Vampire Crawlers)\n\nFinale: meet me at MoMA, Raden", "guid": "167688895", "isoDate": "2026-08-30T11:00:09.000Z", "itunes": { "duration": "12513", "image": "https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/4/patreon-media/p/post/167688895/aabeacce7f544d6db1825ddfa27587c7/eyJkIjo3MiwiaCI6MzAwMCwic3RyaXBfYWxwaGEiOjEsInciOjMwMDAsIndlYnAiOjB9/1.png?token-hash=hJKXqsKIRWTd9-oFywzYpdH4wOYD5fRTm48r2PK2Vhg%3D" }, "itunes_duration": "3:28:32" }