This Month In Retronauts: May 2026 edition (Patreon)

I am astonished at the speed at which this month came and went. That probably has a lot to do with Golden Week and BitSummit, two things that occurred very close together this year! No matter, today is the last day of May and here's your recap of absolutely everything* in the gaming world featuring me, Stu, and—thanks to an American holiday—Kevin Bunch.

Specific items mentioned in this episode include:

We're HUGE in Azerbaijan, apparently!

BitSummit! (full episode coming soon)

PICROSS S KONAMI ANTIQUES edition

RE9UIEM: Leon Must Die

Stu loves R-Type III; Dimensions III, less so

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages/Seasons

Yoshi and the Interesting Mysterious Book

Lovish was previously mentioned back in February

Mr. Do! (never forget the exclamation point)

the newest pop'n music game (with a touchscreen) seems to be High☆Cheers!!

Sony's Spider-Man

Frog Bog (Intellivision) aka Frogs and Flies (Atari 2600)

Stu played it on a TV Boy

Dogpatch and Hyper Gunsport, two peas in a pod

Hartnell-era Doctor Who

Star Wars and puppets

the SaGa saga

Game Informer broke the soiled zombie pants story back in 2025

Steam controller! Chris Person at Aftermath loves it

users have discovered that if you drop one it Wilhelm Screams

Dusk (Zelda TP decomp, not the FPS) out for all platforms

did you know Jeremy Parish gave both the GC & Wii versions an A+?

Slider (Animal Crossing decomp) available for web browsers

Snowboard Kids 2 decompiled also available!

Kotaku calls it a "hidden gem"

for more about 1080 Snowboarding listen to the first Retronauts I ever hosted!

Who is the most athletic Retronaut?? We must discern this one day.

none of us could face Mark Calaway, that's for sure

I think I am better at Resident Evil than Asuka though

World Heroes Perfect on Steam with netplay

some World Heroes characters made it into Card Fighters Clash on the DS

compare and contrast Muscle Power from WH1 versus WH2

Arcade Archives Arkanoid

new Nintendo mobile game: Pictonico!

new Star Fox?? new Star Fox!! and it's just called Star Fox

for the record when I made my "phone call" I picked up a card holder and pretended to dial

new Amiibo coming in September featuring Mineru's Construct from Tears in the Kingdom

Katsuhiro Harada joins forces with SNK to form new VS Studio

photographic proof Harada made it to Waffle House

The Independent investigated why people fight at Waffle House just recently

And here's an SNL skit about Waffle House from 2023

looks like the closest Waffle House to NYC is in the middle of Pennsylvania

Atari acquires the rest of the Wizardry franchise

Kevin's notes: "As I understand it Drecom owns 6-8 and maybe the Wizardry name, but Atari now owns 1-5 and all concepts and characters that originate from them. In practice I’m expecting them to cooperate on releases like they did the recent Wizardry 1 remake"

Wizardry 8, last in the "main" series, came out in 2001

Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls debuted in 2009 on PS3 but came to Windows in 2020

more details regarding Stranger Than Heaven, formerly "Project Century"

Ado's "Vivarium" video is the closest anyone's gotten to seeing her face (so far)

check out Bunta Sugawara beating a man with a stick in 1973

this sparks a tangent about Star Wars using CGI versions of actors

Rogue One predated Solo by two years but I think Kevin's point stands

English patch for Kowloon's Gate coming in June

here's an interview outlining how hard this was to patch

Kickstarter announced new guidelines that banned "adult content" but then backpedaled

everyone reads my monthly Kickstarter Kompilation on Retronauts.com, yes??

whatever happened to Sega's "Super Game" announced in 2022? Cancelled.

M2 cancels UBUSUNA, a game announced in 2014 led by Hiroshi Iuchi

Destiny 2 coming to an end as "final live-service content update" drops on June 9

might be the end of Bungie as Sony is reportedly planning layoffs

Stu's not joking: Fortnite added Lois Griffin along with other animated moms

Quantic Dream's Spellcasters Chronicles is shutting down

"On one hand, a game getting shut down and rendered unplayable months after launch, and the inevitable layoffs that will come from this, are another showcase of just how unstable and unsustainable the current gaming industry is.On the other hand, it’s funny when bad things happen to David Cage" Lady Emily

Nintendo is raising ALL prices across the board: Switch 2, OG Switch, Online, all of it

their lawsuit over the Trump tariffs remains "pending"

after we recorded this, Valve also raised the price of the Steamdeck by A LOT.

underappreciated Nintendo legend Takashi Tezuka retires in June

we already recorded an entire episode about him, please look forward to it

GameStop looking to buy eBay for $56B??

"selling stuff on eBay to pay for eBay" this is all a joke to him

yes, Cohen and his dog are cover art stars this month

RIP author Koji Suzuki, J-horror pioneer

basically anything with Sadako in it derives from his original work

Stephen King has won 13 Bram Stoker Awards overall, including one for Lifetime Achievement in 2002

many obits called Suzuki "the Stephen King of Japan"

JK Rowling won two Bram Stoker Awards in the Young Readers category

they have not given her a Lifetime Achievement Award (yet?)

I am correct: the original Fallout debuted in October 1997

the Saved By The Bell kids hung out in The Max, not The Maxx

also relevant: Saved By The Bell came first

Know Your Meme has an entry explaining "boat goes binted"

Wiktionary agrees with me: "bludge" is from Australia/New Zealand

Long Island Retro has since announced my attendance so I guess I made the cut

Stuart's zine is out now, get yourself a copy

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

15:00 "Force Select" (R-Type III)

27:24 "Feel the Beat" (Vampire Survivors: Emerald Diorama)

39:33 "Dark Side" by Jim Johnston

48:04 "Arkanoid" by the New Japan BGM Philharmonic Orchestra

1:06:35 solo

1:25:04 chiptune cover of "Kura Kura" by Ado

1:35:10 haunting audio from The Ring: Terror's Realm

1:46:07 "Lower One's Eyes" by Gigi Murin, Mori Calliope, and Nerissa Ravencroft

1:54:50 "Marisa Stole The Precious Thing"

2:02:46 what if Crazy Taxi was on the Master System??

Finale: "Invader Ondo" by COSIO

*that I cared to write down