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557: What's So Great About Video Game History, Anyway?

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Retronauts

Technology, Leisure, Games, Video Games

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2023

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Parish, Kat Bailey, Nadia Oxford, and Kevin Bunch take a moment to answer the question in the title: Why is video game history worth celebrating and preserving at all? Plus: Jeremy takes the question to a panoply of other retro gaming luminaries!

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0:00.0

This weekend retro nuts old games. What's the deal with that?

0:04.3

Hi everyone, welcome to Returnouts. I am Jeremy Parish and this is a very special

1:01.5

Jeremy Parish and also other Returnouts including. Hello, it's me, Cap Bailey,

1:06.2

distracted by these Nintendo DS commercials, Nintendo's and also Sonic the old Sonic 90's

1:14.3

cartoon with the juxtaposed against Long Island airfields go to war. So this is

1:20.6

the kind of ambiance we're in right now. Sonic Sat Am, which is one little hump

1:25.3

away from Sonic Satan. I think it's important to make that note. Who else is here?

1:31.1

It's me being Satan. Yes, I am Satan. How are you doing? No, just you seem like the kind of person

1:36.9

who would taunt Satan. I probably would. I don't think we get along very well, but I am

1:40.6

Nadia Oxford and I'm just thinking about the time I had Sharky on Returnouts many years ago

1:46.5

and he was saying how Princess Sally, I'm looking at the Sonic cartoon right now, he said,

1:50.3

Princess Sally, like basically Sally is the Hebrew word for Princess or something like that,

1:56.0

so basically she was Princess Princess. I mean, you know, Arthur and Ghost and Goblin

2:01.3

had to say Princess Prince. So I feel like there's not a lot of creativity involved where people name

2:07.4

Princesses. I do know that personally being kind of more into the Sonic than you guys are,

2:12.8

unfortunately. There was like a there was a controversy where Sally in the comic removed her boots

2:18.7

and her her vest to get into a pool of golden water or something like that and it's just like

2:24.6

everyone freaked out, you know, this chick doesn't wear pants in the first place. So why is it

2:28.3

my turn to taking off her open vest, by the way, and her boots? Well, couldn't Tarantino probably

2:36.2

would have some things to explain about the boots, but yeah, I don't know. It's cartoons, man.

2:42.3

There's not a lot of anatomical accuracy involved in Sonic the Hedgehog characters. At least

2:47.9

there shouldn't be, although, you know, and you ask certain fanfic writers. Yeah, I realize

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