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This week on Retrinauts, do you got games on your phone? We'll get them out of there. Game Preservation is King.

Hello everybody and welcome to Retrinauts. I am your host for this week, Nadia Oxford of the Acts of the Blood God RPG podcast.

If you are all hot and heavy about game preservation like I am old, we have a great show for you today is all about the fascinating gaming ecosystem of Japanese feature phones, which currently in danger of going extinct and preservationists are working very hard to keep that from happening to keep those games on feature phones preserved.

And that is why I have two such preservationists here today. One is Cosmo. Go ahead and say hi to us Cosmo. Hi everybody. Thanks for having me on.

Oh, it's great to have you and our second guest is Nayao. Go ahead and say hi.

Hi, my name is Nadia Shenoda.

Cool. And basically I think all three of us have a really deep history with Rockman. Like of course I have been a fan since I was a young girl at Britain or helped write the Mega Man X half an African to feel guide and

I've been to the fandom since 1995. I'm kind of poisoned. But what was your entry into the Mega Man fandom and rockman Cosmo go ahead and start telling us about what got you into the blue boy.

Yes, kind of interesting thing where I wasn't really like a big Mega Man person. I was like a kid. I was actually more of a Mario guy.

Yeah, I was very much deep into the Nintendo platformers. I would usually play a ton of Mario like RPGs kind of scared me.

I guess just like that the pure simplicity of Mario jumping and jumping on things going to the end of the level that was very simple to me.

So basically Mega Man was kind of in that vein where I had that same simplistic like I just platforming. Then I got his other thing which is shooting so the classic games my first exposure to it.

And actually like my first like I realized Mega Man was a thing. I was actually like a music like on YouTube for example.

And yeah, and like one of the recommendations is like a while back but it was like a Wiley to from Mega Man to the classic.

And then I was I was I was I wasn't doing I was like, oh my god, like even music can go this hard like this is so good. I got to find out what game this is.

So then from there I discovered Mega Man 2. Try to play Mega Man 1 get pissed off at bombs man stage. I just jumped it to and then I was pretty much just.

And throw from there went from classic to X and then just kind of slowly went throughout the series.

And now it's just I've been a wild ride and all of a sudden now I'm here doing Mega Man preservation and things like that. It's just yeah.

That is a great series. It really is. I know how about you.

For rock man. What got me into rock man was E.H.C. I used to watch rock man E.H.C. on.

I think kids WV showed it. Yeah, the NA overseas. And then I remember Jane some of the DVDs as well at time.

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