This weekend Retronauts, Lucifer, I'm home. Hi, everyone.

Welcome to Retronauts, episode 6, 6, 6.

This is the most evil episode of Retronauts to date. And as such, we have dedicated this episode entirely to Satan.

That's actually very glib.

So obviously, 666, you know, you can't do, you can't get to that number of a podcast

and not do something.

And so I wanted to take this opportunity to roll out a sort of

branch of retronauts that I've been developing for a while called trends and influences,

which we kind of dipped a little toe into this past summer talking about political trends

and things like that that influence video games. But I do want to

start looking at culture and history that surrounded video game history and influenced it and isn't

necessarily directly about video games. So my thought was, having lived through the 1980s and experienced this firsthand in my

conservative Christian town, the satanic panic of the 1980s, which I thought, well, that

will be a light frothy topic because that was a goofy thing.

I remember, you know, getting trotted out to hear lectures about how evil D&D was.

And, you know, so this will be a fun, lightweight sort of thing.

And then I actually did the research and reading and watched documentaries and discovered,

no, actually, kind of like the, you know, the communist hearings, the 1950s. The satanic panic,

even though it was stupid and seems inexplicable in hindsight, it really wrecks in people's lives.

So this is maybe a little more serious a topic that I intended it to be. But nevertheless, it is something

that has had a real impact on video games. And it's something that I think is very relevant

to today's culture. And it just, it kind of interfaces indirectly with video games in a lot of

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