This Month In Retronauts: June 2024 edition (Patreon)

Hi folks, Diamond Feit here, bidding farewell to June and Pride and sensible weather with this, our latest community podcast. Stuart Gipp joins me for an incredible amount of news items, Steam Next Fest demos, precious comments from you, and a surprise update on Hall & Oates. It'll all make sense once you press play, I promise. As always, we are grateful for your ongoing support and I hope this 2+ hour podcast finds you well (and properly hydrated, it's gettin' hot).

Specific items mentioned in this episode include:

Good Will Hunting, its sequel, and other Gus Van Sant motion pictures

Rocket Knight Adventures: Re-Sparked Collection

The Frog For Whom The Bell Tolls

Metal Slug Attack Reloaded

Steam Next Fest demos!

Yars Rising by WayForward

Blade Chimera by Team Ladybug

Master Key (out now)

Tormenture

RIVEN (the sequel to Myst) remake (also out now)

Ready Player One (specifically the film)

Loonyland: Halloween Hill

Arseholevania, Stu's former podcast with Andi Hamilton

Diamond says the word "Saturday" many times instead of "Sunday"

Psi-Ops & Control & Pepsiman

Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance 

this segues into Persona talk

Konami's "transparent 3D wall" patent

Atari bought Intellivision, did not buy the Amiico

Like a Dragon/Yakuza series coming to Amazon Prime in October

Diamond also recommends the Takashi Miike movie from 2007

which naturally leads us to chat about other RGG games like Lost Paradise

Nintendo Direct:

Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection!

includes all the games from episode #607, even Punisher!

somehow this chat ties to Jim Carrey's rich tapestry of characters

Ace Attorney Investigations Collection

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

Dragon Quest 2.5D remakes

Fantasian NEO DIMENSION

JP only: Kamaitachi no Yoru x3 "Triple"

aka Banshee's Last Cry

Metroid Prime 4 coming 2025, allegedly

Metroid Zero Mission, available now on Switch Online

Turok Dinosaur Hunter & Perfect Dark, available now on Switch Online (Mature)

Summer Games Fest highlights:

Wolfhound, Metroidvania from Bit Kid (Chasm)

The Thing Remastered (2002 PS2 game)

Gears of War: E-Day

Slitterhead, from Keiichi Toyama (Silent Hill, Siren)

Wanderstop, from Davey Wren (Stanley Parable, Beginners Guide)

Street Fighter 6 announces SNK characters are coming!?

naturally, we have plenty of other crossover ideas

Age of Pirates: Captain Blood (re)announced for Fall 2024

RIP Geoff Follin (and Donald Sutherland)

Graduation (Sotsugyō) & its sequel Sotsugyō II, released in English as Graduation for Windows 95

Stuart was right, "Langdon Alger" is a name used in The Simpsons

famed Codemasters creation Cosmic Spacehead

OldTimeyComputerShow on Twitch

the legend of John Moschitta Jr.

Arctic Eggs

Vampire Survivors

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

14:08 "Rescue" (Metal Slug Attack)

25:08 audio from Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season (2001)

36:10 Danny Carey drum solo from 2014

45:46 "Daredevil" (Persona 5 Strikers)

1:08:57 "Vs. Sylux" (Metroid Prime Hunters)

1:23:57 "Title Screen" (Cosmic Storm)

1:42:06 audio from Graduation for Windows 95

Finale: the late, great Martin Mull plays us out