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Retronauts early access episode: Live at MGC 2016

Hi everyone! We're back from MGC, and hot off the computer presses we have the latest episode, recorded at our panel. As with live recordings at events, the sound quality on this one isn't clean and crisp as when we're in the studio, but it came out quite well. This episode is a perfect example of what your Patreon support makes possible, because it allowed us to travel to this event and to fly in a pair of special guests who know 8-bit SEGA inside and out: Greg Sewart (of Generation...

Retronauts Micro 036: 16-Bit RPG Town Mixtape

Hey folks,

Thanks for your patience! Here's this week's advance Retronauts Micro. Maybe I'll see you at the Midwest Gaming Classic this weekend?

- Bob

Hey Hey, It's Another Advance Episode Delay!

Hi friends,

Just wanted to drop a note that this week's advance Micro will be a few days late thanks to an illness I developed late last week—my third in a row since February. (My immune system has been unkind to me lately.) As always, thanks for your patience! We have so many good episodes on the way, and I want to make sure I can spend enough time on this latest Micro to have it meet our normal standard of quality.

Thanks!

- Bob

March 2016 Patreon supported

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Retronauts Episode 63: Pokemon

Hey folks,

Happy Friday! I'm dropping this week's advance episode three days early to make up for the Deception Micro being so late. Have a great weekend!

- Bob

Retronauts Micro #35: Metal Storm

Hiyo! This should have been up yesterday, but my trip back home from the weekend's podcast recording marathon was something of a complete disaster and my flight ended up arriving home incredibly late after a stream of rolling delays. Woe is me, blah blah blah. Anyway, here you go: A Micro episode extolling the virtues of Metal Storm, a rad and sad game. Rad because it's loads of fun and a technical masterpiece; sad because it's become essentially unaffordable now due to its skyrocketing p...

Early Access: Retronauts Episode 62

Hello! Podcast!

This week's episode, I suspect, will be a fairly divisive one, as it's not about games but rather the process of playing them. I would imagine the handful of people who geek out about this stuff will enjoy the episode, while everyone else may find it interminable. Apologies if you fall into the latter category! And apologies if you fall into the former category, because I'm sure there's lots of misperception and misinformation being bandied about here by mistake; this episo...

Retronauts Micro 034: Deception

Good news everyone! The delayed advance episode of Retronauts Micro is finally here. This one's all about the Deception series, a weird little group of games that's been around for 20 years now. (I happen to really love 'em.) Enjoy!

- Bob

Slight Delay on this Week's Advance Micro Episode

http://www.usgamer.net/articles/day-of-the-tentacle-the-oral-history

Hey folks,

Just a bit of unfortunate news for you: Since I spent the majority of the weekend (and most of the week) crunching on my three-part Day of the Tentacle oral history, I didn't have time to work on this week's advance Micro episode. Rest assured that I've already made plans to put it together, an...

February 2016 patron supported

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Retronauts Episode 61: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Happy Monday! Get your work week (and Leap Day) off to a great start with a new episode about one of the most important games of all time.

- Bob

Retronauts Micro 033 Early Release

For this (well, next) week's topic, I've selected Ninja Five-O... a game I discovered quite by accident. Honestly, I have no idea what prompted me to buy this game, especially since I was briefly out of work at the time it debuted and didn't really have money to waste on unknown games with dumb names and ugly box art. But I did, and I was quite happy to have done so. Don't let the name fool you; it's a pretty slick action game. I hope it makes its way to Virtual Console at some point...

Retronauts episode 60, early access

Hi everyone, sorry this is a little bit late! I wasn't slacking — quite the contrary. This is the single most intricate episode of Retronauts I've ever put together, featuring a ton of edits. Normally it takes about three hours to edit an episode of the show; this one took about 10. I've been plugging away at it since Friday....

Hopefully, you'll agree it was worth the effort and the wait! This episode concerns the music of Nobuo Uematsu, and it features plenty of said music. Since this ...

Retronauts Micro 032: Our Gaming Bucket Lists

This week's advance episode is all about the video game-related stuff we want to do before we die. But I promise it's lots of fun!

- Bob

Important Update: Our First Tier Has Changed!

Hey folks,

Just a quick update from me (Bob). As we outlined in last month's State of the Podcast special, our first reward tier—which gets you our regular episodes a week ahead of schedule—has officially been raised from $1.00 to $2.00. If you're currently pledging one dollar a month, you'll need to up that amount to two dollars in order to continue accessing our advance episodes. 

If you can't swing that, no problem! We'll appreciate that monthly dollar regardless. In ...

Micro 31 Video Edition

This took longer than anticipated to put together, but the video version of last week's early access Micro episode is here. I know Patreon's site can be fussy when it comes to audio files, but YouTube embeds should be no problem... I hope. Anyway, I know more people will listen to the audio version than will watch this, probably by an order of magnitudes... but for this game, the video is the way to go. Enjoy!

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Retronauts Episode 59: PSP (Plus an important reminder!)

Hey folks,

I have the day off, so I decided to get ahead of things and put this week's advance episode online. Also, we'll soon be adjusting our lowest tier as we outlined in our State of the Podcast episode: From February 2 onwards, you'll need to donate at least $2 a month to access these advance episodes. You can still donate $1 a month if you want, but you won't get anything in return—outside of our gratitude (which is priceless). That said, if you have any questions, please post the...

Retronauts Micro #031: Otocky — early access

It's another Micro episode, and this week I was actually a little reluctant to post this as a strictly audio-based podcast. More so than any game I've tackled solo before, Otocky begs to be shown off visually. Well, the YouTube version will be along in a few days. For now, soak up and enjoy the sound-only edition. And give Otocky a spin! It's cool.

Description: We've mentioned Otocky in passing, but now we delve into greater depth about this little-known but ma...