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663: Golden Axe, First Swing

Retronauts

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Ax Battler! Tyris Flare! Gilius Thunderhead! And the rest. Gipp, Linneman, Nickel and Feit begin their exploration of Sega’s belt-scrolling behemoth.

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0:00.0

This week in Retronauts, the Pade, and that was an extremely funny Simpsons reference. Did it make any sense? No, it didn't. But don't think about it. Let's just move on. Let's just scroll to the right.

0:38.4

You see what I did there? Another reference to, well, the first reference to Golden Ax, except for me mentioning the name Golden Axe, which is so perfunctory that it shouldn't even be considered a reference.

0:47.2

I hope we don't get any complaints about that. Hello, once again, I'm Stuart Gibb. Who's with me today? Let's have a look. Um, you, well, it's a fighting sort of

0:55.1

game and you can't have a fighting game without fights. So, hello. Hello, everyone. This is Diamond

1:00.0

Fight. And what's the deal with Axe Battler? He doesn't battle with an X. Yeah. That's great.

1:07.9

Everyone loves Jerry Seinfeld right now. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You know, it's always a good idea to reference popular community Jerry's.

1:15.9

Wait, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm getting a note here. Apparently, no, no, we're not going to do that again. All right. Understood. Anyway, I'm here.

1:24.6

Yeah, that was an alarmingly good Seinfeld, I thought. Let me try and do it.

1:27.7

Well, I am a New York Jew, so.

1:29.1

Well, there we go.

1:29.8

There we go.

1:30.4

Let me try and do another relevant thing.

1:32.7

Now, the character acts battle is a man, and we also have John Linn and Mann, who is the word man in there.

1:39.6

So that's the best you're going to get, John. Oh, that's better than what I've got. I mean, I was going to say something along the lines of I have my built.

1:46.0

I've taken it off and I'm ready to scroll.

1:48.0

Something like that.

1:49.1

That's not bad.

1:49.8

Yeah.

1:50.0

You know, we're going to make.

1:51.4

By all means, use that.

1:52.8

It's a hilarious joke.

1:54.1

It's just, my little intro is just this new thing I'm trying out, you know. It works. It works. Okay, let me think. Thomas, how can I do one for Thomas?

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