560: Metroidvania's First Decade & A History Of Epoch

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Technology, Leisure, Games, Video Games

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🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Another live presentation from Long Island! Jeremy Parish, Nadia Oxford, Diamond Feit, Kat Bailey, and Jared Petty mull the prehistory of the metroidvania genre. Then, Jeremy Parish and Kevin Bunch dive into the history of Epoch, the original also-ran.

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0:00.0	This week in RetroNots, if I know the audience was gonna be this big I actually would have prepared
0:04.1	everyone welcome to this panel at Long Island RetroExpo we're here once again as
0:32.9	RetroNots and in this case it is me Jerry Parish and with me we have a panel of luminaries I
0:39.8	can't believe we crammed as many people in here and yet we did please introduce yourselves. Hi I'm
0:44.7	Nadia Oxford I'm the co-host of the Acts of the Blood God RPG podcast and I was actually in the
0:49.4	last panel yesterday and I was drinking Sonny's Blood today I'm drinking Crasher's Blood. It's a
0:54.7	waffle fruit flavored. The ex-sangunation panels that's what we call these. Hi everyone my name is
1:00.3	Diamond Fight and my middle name is Tom Saku Action. Yeah and I'm a space hunter at Cat Bailey
1:07.0	and also the host of Acts of the Blood God which is sort of a sibling podcast to Acts of the Blood God.
1:12.4	We had a panel yesterday. I like that we had exactly the same number of people but we were just
1:16.2	sitting different chairs and it was the Acts of the Blood God Brothers but now it's RetroNots. I'm
1:20.6	sure pretty limited run games and occasional hosts at the top 100 games podcast whenever we get around
1:25.5	to making that. And this week we are here to talk about the first decade of Metroidvania games.
1:31.8	No there were actually no Metroidvania games in the first decade of Metroidvania games because
1:36.7	the proper canonical Metroidvania game is Castlevania Symphony the Night and we're talking about
1:42.0	1981 through 1990 and that is seven years before Symphony the Night came along and so you may be
1:47.7	asking yourself what the hell are these idiots going to be talking about for an hour. Well I'm glad
1:53.0	because we are going to be talking about the games that created the foundation for Symphony the Night
1:58.4	and other games that have followed in its footsteps. It's a backtracking footsteps and we're going
2:04.9	to be tracing the sort of creative influences and the different branching game design concepts
2:13.4	that fed into that because when you look at Symphony the Night you don't get to Symphony the Night
2:18.2	without obviously Castlevania and obviously without Metroid but you also don't get there without
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