Episode 314: Ape & Escape & The History of History (Patreon)

The pandemic has had quite an impact on Retronauts—there's only one podcast recording remaining from The Before Times, when we could all sit in the same studio!—but it's not all bad. This week's episode is a case-in-point example. I interviewed game historian Leonard Herman (author of the groundbreaking book Phoenix) a couple of years ago at Long Island Retro Expo, but that recording has languished in the vaults since then. It was just a little too short to work as a standalone episode, so I was never sure what to do with it. But in the current format, where many episodes consist of two short, unrelated concepts strung together, it's a perfect fit! So please enjoy this blast from the past, along with a more recent recording: A patron request from Joseph Wawzonek about Sony's Ape Escape. These two topics have nothing to do with one another, but that's how things work these days. Enjoy... twice!

Thanks to Greg Leahy for the edits and John Pading for the cover illustration!

Edit: Episode has been slightly edited to remove an errant (non-critical) final reference, if you care to download it.