This Month In Retronauts: May 2024 edition (Patreon)

Salutations, Retronauts patrons! Diamond Feit here, happy to deliver unto you our monthly community podcast chock full recent releases and news and your feedback. Stuart Gipp is here as well, as the two of us take turns sharing what we've been up to and tease what episodes you can look forward to in the coming months.

I know this happens a lot on our regular podcast, but funnily enough, Jupiter announced a new Picross game this week less than 24 hours after we recorded this episode. Guess you know what I'll be playing in June now: Namco-themed number puzzles!

Thank you again for supporting our program and leaving so many comments. We've got a new community question for you and I think it's an odd one!

Specific items mentioned in this episode include:

(Picross) Logiart Grimoire

Stu loves The Guardian's Cryptic Crosswords

Diamond prefers Puzzmo (join the Retronauts group)

Halls of Torment

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity

Animal Well

Hades II

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Mega Drive)

Star Trek: Voyager sidebar (check out "Distant Origin")

The Sopranos

NQ64 arcade bars in the United Kingdom

all things Shinobi

the indie explosion of May 9 2024:

Crow County

Little Kitty, Big City

Cryptmaster

1000xResist

Vampire Survivors: Operation Guns DLC (Contra collab)

Akuma in Resident Evil 2! At last!

NOTE: I said gadouken but Akuma uses gouhadouken, my apologies for misspeaking

Nintendo Switch Online: Game Boy games!

Super Mario Land

Alleyway

Baseball

(only in Japan) Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru "The Frog For Whom the Bell Tolls"

sorry Stu, Kirby's Block Land is NOT included

Coming soon: Hamster's Arcade Archives 2

Related: Taito Milestones 3 also announced

GameCenter CX: Arino no Chousenjou 1 + 2 Replay

Stu correctly remembers a third game on 3DS that Chris Kohler hated

Switch 2 officially coming "this fiscal year" so we speculate away

Switch 1 was announced (as NX) in 2015 but not revealed until fall 2016

Nintendo World Championships: NES™ Edition

this necessarily sparks reminiscing about NES Remix

MERCS

your new vocabulary word is "epaulets" which I believe I pronounced correctly

Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower aka Vampire Chronicle for Matching Service

which is not the same as Darkstalkers Resurrection

Street Fighter Alpha 3 MAX aka Street Fighter Zero 3 Double Upper

Jeremy's video on the worst Virtual Boy game

last-second TV chat: X-Men 97, Fallout, and Doctor Who are all wonderful

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

12:36  "Ember Grounds" (Halls of Torment)

25:24 "C U Next Tuesday" by Shakespears Sister

38:43 "The Shinobi (Arranged Version)" by Yuzo Koshiro

53:51 music from Rastan Saga

1:08:27 "Title" (NES Remix)

1:17:33 "Mission 4" (Mercs)

1:31:14 classic X-Men theme music

1:47:32 "Let's Go Onmyouji" (Matrimelee)

2:05:21 "Beautiful Life" (Danganronpa V3 KILLING HARMONY MURDER NOCTURNE)

Finale: Ron Grainer plays us out