Micro no more! Retronauts 170 is here to talk Iron Man (Patreon)

Well, it was inevitable. Bob and I have decided to drop the "Micro" naming scheme for our biweekly Friday podcasts. Now they're just... Retronauts. This episode was the camel-back-breaking straw, since it ended up clocking in at 75 minutes, which is frankly long enough to justify being called plain ol' Retronauts.

So, Retronauts is now a... man, what would you call this schedule? Weekly except when it's not? Weekly and semi-weekly on a once-in-a-fortnight rotating schedule? Basically, you're gonna get 6-7 episodes of Retronauts per month, some of which will appear on Fridays and will be shorter than Monday episodes. I dunno, man. If we can get the Patreon numbers up past our next elusive goal, it'll be a lot easier—we can just call it semi-weekly. 

Anyway. This week Benj Edwards and Chris Sims join for a fairly goofy episode about Iron Man. As with some of our multi-media-focused episodes, there's not as much discussion centered on actual games... but in this case, that's kind of the point. This episode marks the 10th anniversary of the movie Iron Man, which is the point the character went from being Marvel's highest-profile second-stringer to one of the world's top-5 superheroes; and Iron Man's history in games reflects his decades of B-tier status. Again, Doctor Strange starred in a video game before Iron Man. Doctor. Strange. This, despite Iron Man being the most fundamentally video-game-friendly character in perhaps the entire Marvel pantheon. Dude just couldn't get a break.

I'm sure we're going to get called out for skipping the Capcom Vs. games, where you occasionally did get to play as Iron Man, so I guess we'll just have to do a Vs. episode to make up for it.

Anyway! Hope you don't mind getting this episode a day early—I'm not sure what the power situation in North Carolina will be tomorrow, what with a hurricane striking the coastline as I type this, so I figured I'd get it up early. In a worst-case scenario in which I have no power or internet into next week, I've already passed along Monday's advance episode to Bob to post. And you'll be happy to know that the week after that will finally bring some Bob-hosted episodes, for those of you who are ready for a break from my voice.—Jeremy