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Episode 667: Gaming in the Year 2005 (Patreon)

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2025-01-24 08:00:07
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2005: A year many say happened two decades ago, this very night. But can the rumors be true? Can the advent of the HD era really be so far in the past? This week on Retronauts, listen in as Bob Mackey, Kevin Bunch, Kat Bailey and Nadia Oxford invesitgate the gaming and cultural trends of a year that really shouldn't have happened so many years ago.

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Dave Caffrey

What is the Japanese song in the middle called?

Andrew O.

I must've been 19. I remember cashing my paycheck and thinking I had enough money to splurge on a $20 game. I get to Gamestop, shuffle through my cash, and I realize I had an extra $20. (Two bills were barely linked together by a mangled staple! Bank error in my favor!) Thankfully, first-party PS2 games were $40, so I bought Shadow of the Colossus. I was hooked and beat it within 24 hours. Good times.

Normallyretro

It certainly was a grayish brownish time

Dave Dalrymple

Honestly, I don't blame EA or Activision for running Rock Band and Guitar Hero (respectively) into the ground with their bimonthly track packs and sequels. The fad was always going to die out in the early 2010s. I'm more mad at myself for getting rid of my Rock Band peripherals so lightly in 2016.

Zokusho (Brian Clark)

Great iPod Nano callout in the show's intro. A 1st gen iPod Nano was what I listened to the very first episode of Retronauts on back in the day.

J.P. McD.

20 years ago this month I was busy playing REmake (and kindly requesting my sister stay in the living room with me while I played late at night), wanting to play all the prequels before RE4.

Stephen Maurer

Great episode! One small correction: That hostile Peter Moore interview was with Dan Hsu, not Jeff Gerstmann.

Wood Duck [Legacy Edition]

As someone who was 16 in 2005 I really appreciate hearing from the elders what it was like being an "adult" at the time! Personal core memories include playing through Half Life 2 on ultra low on the family Dell machine, using an MP3 discman with CDRWs as an MP3 player (to listen to game music and OCRemixes like a huge nerd) and playing a lot of LAN Halo 2 with the neighbouring kids as our houses shared a network! Oh and can't forget being a raging Stan for Battalion Wars, following every scrap I could in the build up to release then adopting a military punk aesthetic for my cringe teenage fashion style!

PosiVibez4evr

18 in ‘05 Stopped playing video games for 10 years starting around this time Didn’t come back till the 3DS era Great hearing coverage of a time I was out of the hobby thank you

Kellen Taman

I miss EA’s MVP Baseball, they were the best MLB games.

CitizenMeh

This was in the midst of the beige era of gaming, which explains why I got so much into 16-bit emulation back then. Don't think I bought a single new game that year...

Michael Castleberry

I'm so glad we've mostly moved passed the "angry" YouTuber trend. It got a passing mention, but Jade Empire is a phenomenal game, and probably BioWare's most underrated and unique action RPG.

Randy Beekler

Thank you Bob! MK64 is a big dose of nostalgia that people seem to champion blindly. The game being worse than you think does not mean you were wrong to love it as a younger person! Two things can be true: the game was average AND you had a ton of fun with your friends.

Shrunken Shrine

I don't think I've ever been as addicted to any games as I was Mario Kart DS and Wild World online at the time. Logging onto the Official Nintendo Magazine UK forums to go to an online friend's town, freaking out when you come across someone with a town full of obviously hacked goods and hope they don't brick your cart/system... Good times!