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This week on Retronauts. Not great, not terrible. Oh, Welcome, wasteland survivors, to this week's episode of Retronauts.

I'm her host, Nautia Oxford, Queen of the Trained Vermin.

I'm here to talk about my deep childhood trauma and how it connects to video games

with two very esteemed gentlemen.

Jeremy Parish and Jazz, two very respected, I guess we were co-workers and still are, so it's really

glad for us, I'm really glad we're all reunited here. Say hi everyone.

Hello. Hello. It's guess. It's me Jeremy Pippoy Parish.

Pippoy Parish. That's a really nice, that has a really nice ring to it.

Yeah, so how, uh, Jazz, it's been a while since we've talked.

I'm glad to hear from you again.

Yeah, it's like a little, uh, US game sort of reunion and, uh, it's a while it will be I mean it's over 10 years since we started that thing right so and we're at that age where you know it doesn't seem like very long ago even though to most people it will be like you know a lifetime for most but yeah

Yeah time is kind of a smear in my brain right now I started doing all this in 2004 with one up.com and I I barely

remember any of it. Parish you remember one up at all? I do it was you know 10 years of my life

so I hope I remember some of it but yeah this is this is going to be nice because

retronauts unlike one up in the US gamer there's not going to be some executive telling us to chase after

SEO and to hell with

content so it's exciting yeah we won't have to pivot to Naruto like I was

asked to do when I used to write about manga I don't even like Nauruto, but anyway, we are all old. Let's just kind of get it all out there. So we kind of remember like we have lingering trauma from the 80s because that was a time of Cold War and there was very much the possibility that a

a nuke could drop on us and that was reflected in much of our media

including video games. This is the topic of this discussion right

here. So you guys, let's start with you, Perish, are you like kind of like fascinated by that

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