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This Month In Retronauts: November 2025 edition (Patreon)

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2025-11-30 12:00:29
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WE'RE BACK and by "we" I mean Diamond Feit and Stuart Gipp as a podcast duo. Those of you in the United States should receive this episode at the tail end of Thanksgiving weekend and everyone else, well, happy Sunday!

Speaking of weekends, I recorded this on the evening of a three-day break and I think that explains my inability to pronounce some very basic gaming titles. My apologies! We'll see you again in a few weeks for our 2025 finale (gasp).

Specific items mentioned in this episode include:

this link will explain my weird intro

Lumines Arise by Enhance Games

AVGN 8-Bit

Sol Cesto 

Hypogea

Outlaws + Handful of Missions: Remaster

HoloSeeker

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity Imprisonment

It's in Japanese but here are the details surrounding the Sakura Miko sushi promotion

Strange Jigsaws (from the maker of 20 Small Mazes)

if you're stuck check out this official guide that is NOT a puzzle

Shadow the Hedgehog & Shadow the Hedgehog

we recorded a Sonic Frontiers podcast in 2022

read Stu's review of Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection

Fergality??

does anyone else now associate The Naked Gun (2025) with Fergie

read Diamond's review of Dog Witch

THE GOOD OLD DAYS (from our BitSummit 2023 episode)

Stray Children (from our BitSummit 2025 episode)

Demonschool from Necrosoft Games and Brandon Sheffield

along with 145 people who are all in the credits!

Zelda's Adventure DX

Nintendo Store mobile app includes a record of your play activity

cancelled Famicom RPG Splatter World found & dumped!

Splatterhouse 2 was on the Genesis/Mega Drive Mini 2

Paranoiascape English patch

creator "Screaming Mad George" aka Jōji Tani still makes public appearances

looks like I bought my copy in Nakano Broadway in 2012 for a mere 735 yen

King of Fighters Battle de Paradise English patch!?

Jeremy once covered Yosaku in a 2023 Cassette Vision video

NOW ON SALE: PS5 Digital Edition - Japanese Language only

55,000 yen is only $350 USD but still more than any Switch costs in Japan

good thread on BlueSky about why this might be a futile maneuver

modern ports of the Battle Arena Toshinden trilogy coming 2026-27

go on, read my column on the subject one more time

Resident Evil Requiem tie-in news triggers a Fortnite sidebar

Hank Hill debuted this year on Father's Day

so yes, you can gather four animated sitcom dads on the Simpsons' couch

Japan's "BioHazard 30th Special Pack" is for PS5 AND Switch 2

listen to this year's TGS podcast for RE9uiem impressions

LRG announced a Little Samson re-release

also a new (as-yet untitled) Shantae game

Cristina "Vee" Valenzuela usually provides Shantae's voice

Scarface: The World is Yours coming to PC…or is it??

originally a multiplatform release: PS2, Xbox, Windows…and Wii!!

the Xbox version is listed as playable on 360

in June we asked about video game musicals, not movies!

Terminator 2D: NO FATE delayed once again to December 12

I remain convinced Terminator Salvation is the worst film

7 Days: Salvation remake

originally a 2009 Chinese handheld survival horror game

12 Psikyo arcade shooters delisted from Steam on Halloween

many titles remain available on other digital storefronts

this leads us to mention issues with the recent R-Type Delta: HD Boosted

ohfivepro.bsky.social: "Arcade dork from Scotland" in bio

Square Enix hates people, money; declares 70% of QA work will be genAI by 2027

irony alert: SQ just told OpenAI to stop stealing their stuff

good on Eurogamer for pointing out how they went in on NFTs too

Stu mentions Eurogamer's rejection of Arc Raiders for using AI voices

prompting this whopper of a tweet from Epic CEO Tim Sweeney

also announces layoffs in US/Europe ON THE SAME DAY (no numbers yet)

Nintendo investor news: we love money and movies

stills of the Zelda movie also came out this week

DEATH STRANDING ISOLATIONS (working title) coming to Disney+ in 2027

Takayuki Sano will direct the series

things I liked at Sony State of Play Japan

Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse (official site)

Damon and Baby (official site)

PAC-MAN WORLD 2 Re-PAC DLC featuring Sonic

more Steam hardware coming 2026

RIP Rebecca Heineman aka Burger Becky

guested on Retronauts in 2019!

If you haven't heard the tale of Doom for 3DO you should

Becky also shared the completed project on Github

RIP Udo Kier

IMDb lists 275 acting credits for him

played the titular Yuri in Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge

the behind-the-scenes photo with a Diet Coke

Hideo Kojima on Udo Kier's passing

my five-star review of Swan Song

RIP Tatsuya Nakadai

no kaiju movies on his resume but he did horror & sci-fi pictures

please enjoy our brief interlude about horror films featuring:

Gene Siskel's infamous review for Friday the 13th (1980)

a 1980 special episode of Sneak Previews called "Women in Danger"

Stu endorses Tenebrae, A Bay of Blood, and A Cat in the Brain

I adore The Beyond, Phenomena, Suspiria, and Deep Red

the snowball fight comes from Final Fantasy Tactics Advance

Stu mostly remembers the very Japanese game title Chō Gekijō-ban Keroro Gunsō: Gekishin Dragon Warriors de Arimasu!!

Mollie's now-famous videotape of Etsuko Adelman made by Data East

Etsuko Adelman/Kobata later spotted on a PlayStation Underground video

On bands that went a long time between releases:

The Protomen's next record comes 16 years after Act II

Tool went 13 years between 10,000 Days and Fear Inoculum

Stu brings up the band Cardiacs who just released their first album since 1999!

Spider (PS1, 1997)

Deadly Creatures (Wii, 2009)

watch the closing concert of Zootopia and tell me I'm out of line

I said two but there are FOUR tigers

the BlueSky post about Hot Bowser was actually a translation of a tweet

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

8:29 "Turdo Tunnel" (Angry Video Game Nerd 8-bit)

20:44 "In the Hall of the Mountain King" as performed by the London Symphony Orchestra

32:43 a taste of the chillax Dog Witch soundtrack

40:02 a VRC6 cover of Splatterhouse 3 music

48:43 "Gaia's Theme" (Battle Arena Toshinden 2)

1:00:24 "Burning Town" (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate) 

1:14:56 “Death Stranding” by CHVRCHES

1:22:25 "Supersonic Tricky Railroad" (PAC-MAN WORLD 2 Re-PAC)

1:32:32 music from the infamous 3DO port of Doom

1:45:31 "Prison" (Final Fantasy Tactics Advance)

2:04:09 a Tool chiptune cover because why not

2:10:05 "The End Is the Beginning Is the End" by The Smashing Pumpkins

Finale: Udo Kier plays us out

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Comments

Patrick McClafferty

QotM: he was playable in the 2D Donkey Kong Countries but I miss playing as Rambi in 3D spaces. As such, my answer is a playable rhino. Rushing around with the horn would be a good time.

littleterr0r

My pick would be an axolotl because we have a pink one as a pet, but there's already a game where you play as a pink axolotl, so I'll say a pill bug, since that's another pet my daughter had when she was younger. What the pill bug would do I can't say, but then again, real pill bugs don't do much either.

PurpleComet

My vote would be an amoeba, preferably from Nintendo, so we can get an amoeba amiibo. Thank you, I'll be here all week

Taskbaarchitect

QotM: Diamond asked about underserved animals in video games and I'm going to go with... owls! There are plenty of owl NPCs, of course, chattering on at you endlessly from trees or falling asleep when they're supposed to be operating museums, but an owl as a playable character? Not that commonplace! (The only time I could think of was a brief segment in What Remains of Edith Finch and that didn't end well...) One of two things I know about owls are that they feast on small mammals and then regurgitate the bones and other leftovers as pellets later, which feels like a gruesome, aerial variant of Yoshi. The other is that their necks are ball-and-socket joints so they can turn them up and down and all around, which feels like it'd be a nice way to aim some kind of owl-vision, especially in 2D... So yeah, a sidescrolling game with an owl that controls a bit like Cape Mario, and rotates its head 360 to paralyse enemies with an owl stare before consuming them. Then it regurgitates the pellets as ammo to destroy, let's say... vampires, werewolves and other creatures of the night. Owls, Cowls & Howls - coming to PC and console just as soon as I've 100%ed Balatro...

Jason J

QOTM: A metroidvania where you play as a hermit crab who finds new shells as you progress to unlock abilities.

Sebastiano Gerace

How dare you bring up red pandas without trigger warnings for Toronto listeners. I am sure Nadia was trembling thinking about the SkyDome destruction of 2002. QOTM: I want to play as the immortal snail trying to find the guy who took the $10 million dollar deal.

Wood Duck [Legacy Edition]

I'm sure many listeners have a similar experience every week and I'll give voice to it this time - I had a bloody crap week off at home and this episode came out in time for my many-hours drive back to work. It cheered me up, mellowed me out and was an all round comfort. Thanks noughties!

preppy_prince

I’ve been revisiting old Retronauts episodes and recently listened to Episode 583: Gaming in the Year 2004 again, in which Bob suggests he may one day make a ‘Hot Coffee’ episode and asks listeners if they might be interested in hearing this. I wasn’t active on Patreon at the time so never responded to Bob’s call-out but I’m hoping better’s late than never as I’d very much like an episode centring around this or other times where game-related controversies drew mainstream media attention 👀

haughtybiscotti

QOTM: A survival horror game starring an Anglerfish! You have your own built in silent hill flashlight 🔦

Jonathan Kade

My copies of Rockman IV and V are also Japanese, and I am okay with that. If the person with Civilization for the N-Gage wants to sell it hit me up. It's the only retail N-Gage game I don't have, and I love the N-Gage.

Jonathan Kade

Wait, Stuart, have you played Webbed? It is exactly the game you want. Even if the spider in it uses more silk than is feasible for a jumping spider. It's one of my favorite games of all time.

Jonathan Kade

My QOTM nomination is: the humble tardigrade, Earth's hardiest animal. Some kind of water based puzzle game akin to Bubble Ghost.

graham

QOTM Giant squid and/or octopus. Possibly a modern take on Rampage using something like the movement and attack mechanics from Carrion as you rip progressively larger locations to shreds trying to rescue your offspring from evil fishmongers?

J.P. McD.

I’m surprised Stu was so negative about 80s horror. All 80s Horror Movies Are Good! Regarding Friday the 13th specifically - part 2 opens with an impressive long shot, part 3 with some neat crane work. They weren’t phoning it in.

Phoequinox

QotM: I know marsupials have been thoroughly covered within video games, but I want to see a quokka show up in a game. Make it a detective horror game, so that hearing grisly details from bystanders has a surreal contrast to the perpetually happy quokka face.

Normallyretro

QoTM: A parasitic worm would be a great character to control. It could be a hitman style game where the goal is to infiltrate humanity as to gain power and to make the world more worm and less not worm. World War Worm

Tripodtrilogy

Stu I love Carly Rae Jepsen and saw her a few years ago. It was an absolute blast. I was going to go by myself because none of my friends are into her, but a few days before the show three friends said "fuck it" and bought tickets. 10/10 show.