This week in Retronauts.

Meagami Oh, That's where you're supposed to say, make on me. Okay, never one. Hi everyone.

Hi everyone, welcome to Retronauts episode. I always forget to look up the episode number

But that means you know who this is hosting that's right it's Jeremy Parish the guy who always

For gets to look up the episode number. It's 628. That is not the number of the beast at all.

We're way short, but we're getting there.

And as part of our approach to the number of the beast,

I thought it was time to look at the most devilish

of Famicom games of RPGs, the Megami Tensey series.

Really, I think we need to talk about the Shin Megame Tense series, really, I think we need to talk about the Shin Magame Tensey series and the persona series and all those games, but it doesn't feel right, you know, in a show about history and chronology to just jump right into the good stuff.

We've got to do the groundwork.

That's part of video game history too.

Getting through the kind of early grind until the good stuff shows up.

And I'm not saying that these are bad games,

just that you can definitely see what the later games in the series,

the spin-off series, if you will, brought to the table to improve on the foundations that we will discuss over the next hour and a half or so.

So with me here to talk about the early McGame Tense games,

Notion, no persona, just McGame.

We have returning our occasional guest

that I call in when we need to talk about Westone or other cool topics like that.

How do you, Kurt? Hello, I'm Kurt Kallata. Hello, Kurt, welcome back. Yes, thank you.

And joining us, I think, for the first time on Retronauts,

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