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This week in RetroNoughts we continue our dark descent into the deep dive of Sonic 3 and Knuckles that you requested and are now deeply profoundly regressing as you realise the extent to which we're going to pick the bones of this shit.

I prefer to think of it more as a celebration than an abit you any. It's not a celebration shit. It's not a celebration at all. There's nothing celebratory about this. It's a chronicle of wasted lives.

Hello, I'm Stuart Gip as you probably have guessed already. I am one of the presenters of RetroNoughts and what you're listening to right now which you probably already also know. But I am joined today by two lovely people who have joined me recently in fact for part one of this possibly 18 or 19 parts series.

Let's go over this to Scotland first to meet our Scottish friend. Correspondent. Correspondent yes. Hello, I am Jamie. I have a YouTube channel in which I have talked at length about subjects like Pokemon and Sonic the Hedgehog and Metroid because I stopped maturing when I was like six.

I got to six years old and I felt like I've been 30 years old since. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, I feel like I identify as a 60 or 65 year old sort of chap. Oh God, did I just accidentally do a right wing joke? Oh Jesus, I think I accidentally did a right wing joke just then. I don't think you did. I don't know. I'm not the word identify. I said a joke and identifying as something. Yeah, no.

No, a bit rough. Oh my God, I'm going to get fired. Oh, well, it looks like that. I'm the new horse to RetroNoughts. Hi everyone. Hello. You're doing very well. You've just let appeared a dead out of it. Anyway, let's get back away from that. Yeah, fuck talks. Let's talk to our dear friend Dave Boomer. Hello. Hello. I'm your dear friend Dave. He's there. He is in the shed.

He's a little sprite. He's a little pixie. I'm a little no. My pointy hat. He does have a pointy hat. A thing I found out a very unpleasant way that I wouldn't get into. Sorry, that's awful as well. Yeah, I don't know which is worse. This is the episode where I lose my like everything. This is the day that everything ends.

It's a day when you lose your marbles. Oh, oh, my goodness. Oh, man. Yeah, that's good. That's good. He is a good host. Yeah, he is much better. He's doing way better than I am. I'm terrible at this. But no, let's give a little bit of a policy. A pressy, you know, a pressy, a pressy. I don't know how you pronounce it. Eventually, I figured out what you were trying to see. What we did previously is we started talking about some of the three Annuckles, one of my favorite games of all time. You know, one someday is a

arguably my favorite game. It depends what mood I'm in. It's certainly a game that I would personally regard as more or less perfect. And I have a lifetime of playing the goddamn thing and almost an infinite amount to say about it. Every time I do play it, I usually find at least three things that I didn't know about or new angles to approach things that I already knew about that give it all more, all the more interest. I don't know to what extent that was intentional or to what extent I'm just being very fortunate. But yeah, we just began analyzing this and I remember thinking to myself,

this is pretty big kind of games. This could be a two or three episodes. And in the first episode, we managed to cover two of the 14 zones, I believe, is the. Yeah, to be fair, we did have a quite a long preamble of more general discussion of the game and not perception of the game. So I hope you did stay. We'll be able to get through at least three, but I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't. No, me neither. And that's a problem with us rather than a thing about the game by that stage, I think because obviously the first, you know, we're talking about the first couple of levels. That's going to take longer because you're in

introducing listeners to the very concept of the game. But I don't trust us not to just wait or I think if we can get to the end of the Sonic three segment today, we can call that a success.

That would be a success. I don't see that happening. No, there's no way that's happening. I'm not a huge success. I won't allow it to happen. If that happens, I'm entering the Olympics there and then. I'd like to see that.

Would you be entering the Olympics with Mario and Sonic though?

Oh, it depends on their. If you get entered into the Olympics and you've been training your whole life and you're like, I hear we go time for the Olympics, here we go 200 meter dash and you stand in

next to Sonic the head, shall you be like, for Christ's sake, you just go home. Yeah, it's not. Yeah, what's the point? What's the point? I forfeit. I'm out of here.

I've never played those games, but I neither and for that reason. What's Mario? I assume like this is what confuses me about the whole premise is that surely

Sonic just wins. Just wins. And that's not like a power level thing. No, that's not a fanboy thing. It's just the premise of the character.

I mean, these people are familiar with my history of being a Sonic fan, aren't they? They know I hate him to death and I'll show love him.

Sorry then. Anyway, by the way, I wanted to apologize, Shay earlier, for doxing you as being Scottish. I apologize for that. That was not okay.

I always a little more confident. I don't think there's any other way that they would have been able to switch that out. Yeah, I mean, I'll put a full on

franc apology in the near future. But speaking of full on franc apologies, I don't know what has to do with that segue whatsoever. I don't know why I said that.

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