593: The Contra Ranking Hootenanny
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🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 223 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This week in Retronauts let's align aggressively. Oh, yeah. Hello welcome to |
| 0:26.7 | to retro-nots I'm Stuart Chip and I'm not going to waste any of your times we've got an |
| 0:30.3 | absolute bottom load of games to cover here. Lots of games in fact. If you're |
| 0:36.0 | familiar with the format of the ranking Huthanani, which you really should be because |
| 0:40.3 | they're very entertaining. What it is is we are |
| 0:43.7 | retronauts gather together a bunch of us and a bunch of games in a series and we |
| 0:47.8 | go this one is what is the best game. No in fact this one is what is the best game and we argue back and forth for hours on end until we come to a definitive and final conclusion. No, in truth what we do is we give each game a number and then I add up the numbers using maths and we then determine definitively and without like any possibility of correction by anyone and any source in a remainder of gaming history, which games are the best and in which |
| 1:16.4 | order they are the best and at which point they transition from being the best to being the worst. |
| 1:21.1 | That's probably going to be quite easy this time to figure out because I |
| 1:25.0 | reckon there's just going to be a point at which everything suddenly just goes down the |
| 1:27.8 | toilet. But we'll find out. Hello again, I'm Stu and joining me this episode this fine ranking Hootenani is well let's see let's do this in the order we're going to be doing it so hello |
| 1:40.0 | John please introduce all even though I just have. |
| 1:42.0 | Why hello it's John Lindaman from Digital Foundry back again to talk about one of my favorite |
| 1:46.6 | series. |
| 1:47.6 | It's Contra. |
| 1:48.6 | You know, I am the world's biggest fan of Lance Bean, I would like like to declare I'm always thinking about |
| 1:54.3 | those beans. So you know let's do it. It is is Bean a reference is Beans from |
| 2:01.2 | Contraforce Lance Bean like in some way it's it's yes it must be in my |
| 2:06.1 | my head cannon it's lance bean okay that's they just called him beans because it's |
| 2:09.9 | it's called beans yeah yeah beans that's not the only reason they call him beans. Let's move on. |
| 2:15.0 | Who else is here with us today from Limited Run? |
| 2:19.0 | Yes. |
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