This Month In Retronauts: January 2024 edition (Patreon)

Diamond Feit here and it's my pleasure to kick off another year of community podcasts made just for you, our supporters. While not a jumbo-sized episode the likes of last month's, Stuart Gipp and I do run through a great many of your comments and all your picks for Game of the Year 2023. Please enjoy the musical choices this month, I tried to get creative give the themes of 30/20 years ago.

Don't forget to leave your responses below for our latest audience question; I'm very curious what everyone's answers will be! Specific items mentioned in this episode include:

Ted (series) and the overall oeuvre of Seth McFarlane

Borderlands 2

Halls of Torment

Home Safety Hotline

Exiled

SPISPOPD & Dr. Lunatic Supreme

Mega Man X5

Hyperdimension Neptunia

The Citadel

Symphony of the Night for Sega Saturn

Another Code Recollection

Steamboat Willie

Lost & J.J. Abrams

Permission to Land & Elephant (unfortunately these were both 2003 releases)

Rocket Knight

"They Saved Lisa's Brain" (The Simpsons s10e22)

Fat Worm Blows a Sparky

ASUKA

Diamond's top games of 2023 on Cohost

Stu delivers his own list at 1:33:48

Animal Well

Tomb Raider I-III Remastered

Princess Peach: Showtime!

Little Nightmares III

The Plucky Squire

Mewgenics

Art by Maddie & edits by Diamond. Music heard in this episode:

11:20 "Safety First" (Home Safety Hotline)

18:26 "Cavern Hub" (Dr. Lunatic Supreme with Cheese)

26:11 "Contravirt" by virt

34:41 "Sigma Palace Stage 2" (Mega Man Maverick Hunter X)

48:12 "Tarkus" by Emerson, Lake & Palmer

56:56 "Slither" by Velvet Revolver (a 2004 release)

1:07:26 ??? (hint: a 1994 indie band covering a 1994 hit)

1:24:16 "Mute City" by Mariachi Entertainment System

Finale: a classic New York anthem from 1994