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536: Below the Root

Retronauts

Retronauts

Games, Leisure, Technology, Video Games

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Diamond Feit and Jared Petty open their shubas and set sail for the early 1980s in this look at edutainment pioneer Spinnaker Software and their adventure game adaptation of Below the Root.

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0:00.0

This week in RetroNuts, you dumb bastard.

0:04.3

That's not a spinnaker.

0:05.7

It's a sailboat!

0:30.0

Welcome to RetroNuts, everybody.

0:31.6

Episode 537, according to my listings,

0:34.5

and today we're talking about some old software.

0:38.1

I know, I know, very against type for us.

0:40.9

But we're talking about some old software.

0:42.2

We're talking about some old hardware.

0:43.8

We're doing double barrels today, hardware and software.

0:47.4

Specifically, we're talking about some spinnaker software.

0:50.8

And a spinnaker, in fact, is not a sailboat.

0:53.4

It is a sail.

0:54.2

I looked this up to make sure.

0:55.8

But when I was a kid, I thought it was a sailboat.

0:57.8

So, you know, the kids are silly.

1:00.5

That's the whole point of the introduction.

1:02.5

I'm not alone, by the way.

1:03.6

First of all, you know what?

1:05.4

I'm getting him as I'm again.

1:06.4

This is Diamond Fight.

1:07.3

I should say my name, because maybe this is your first

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