591: Gaming's Cruelest Challenges

Retronauts

Technology, Leisure, Games, Video Games

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Parish, Ray Barnholt, Stuart Gipp, and Jess O'Brien crowd onto a therapist's couch as they work through the trauma of playing the cruelest video games ever made. From poison mushrooms to broken puzzle translations, it's PTSD all the way down.

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0:00.0	This week in Ritternuts, we talk about why gaming is like April.
0:03.7	It's the cruelest month. Oh, yeah. Hi everyone welcome to retronauts I'm Jeremy Parish and that was a little bit of literary heft for you from this video game
0:36.4	podcast I promise that that T.S. Elliot reference will be the most
0:40.0	intellectual thing that will happen to you in the next 90 minutes. So please buckle in and prepare to be stupefied as we as we talk about things that are just too stupid.
0:55.0	Why did they make these games like this?
0:57.0	It's unfair.
0:58.0	So here with me to protest the unfairness of the universe, we have an all-star cast of
1:05.5	retronaut's people. I think I mentioned that I'm Jeremy Parish, so I don't need to tell
1:09.7	you that again. But let's see, we have a returning regular who hasn't been on the show in a while.
1:17.0	Ray, from the West Coast, introduce yourself, even though I spoiled it.
1:21.0	From the West Coast, yes.
1:23.0	Hi, it's Ray Barnholt, of course.
1:25.0	Welcome, thank you.
1:26.0	Thank you for welcoming me.
1:27.0	I'm welcoming myself.
1:28.0	Hi.
1:29.0	From the far, far opposite side of the world, we also have our UK correspondent.
1:38.0	Oh, hello. I'm Shura Chip and in addition to the literary heft that you just experienced I'm here to provide some regular heft.
1:55.2	Phenomenal. I'm carrying a few extra holiday calorie pounds as well so this will just be a hefty podcast on it gravitas what on earth you in centuries? Oh sorry. No I'm kidding
2:00.0	sorry. Fine okay I walked into that one.
2:05.5	I probably should do a little more walking to get rid of those holiday calories.
2:09.0	Anyway, finally, here also from someplace in the middle of the country, I don't actually know exactly where,
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