Hey everybody, what you're about to hear is a free preview of a podcast on our $5 exclusive episodes tier at patreon.com slash retronauts.

And if you want to hear the whole thing, please go to patreon.com slash retronauts and sign up at the $5 exclusive episodes tier.

Once you do that, you'll get access to all of our previous exclusive episodes and our future ones as well, as long as you remain a patron, and our exclusive episodes will launch every other Friday.

Again, that is the Retronauts Patreon at patreon.com slash Retronauts, and I'll let you get to this free preview of one of our exclusive episodes.

Thank you. of one of our exclusive episodes. And now it's time to talk about video games.

And like usual, I like to start things off by talking about the state of consoles in 2005, based on the companies and what they're doing.

So I'm going to start with Nintendo.

So they're still struggling with the GameCube.

Even if it's the exclusive home for Resident Evil 4 for about 10 months, they're still having a hard time in relying on the Game Boy Advance and the many things happening there. So the Wii is not announced until April of 2006, but until then Nintendo has some exclusives for the hardcore gamers among us like Killer 7, Star Fox assault, Fire Emblem Path of Radiance, Game Boy Advance still a thing, still very big, even though the DS is out.

And until 2006, the Game Boy Advance is the only place to go to play new Pokemon games,

which is why Pokemon Emerald is the third highest selling game of 2005.

And we start to see the ascent of the DS because Nintendo Dogs comes out in Japan and America in 2005.

Brain Age comes out in Japan in 2005 and then in America in 2006.

So we're seeing these quote unquote casual games making this thing a phenomenon ever so slowly.

Brain Age was a huge deal when it came out.

It was, yeah.

It was remarkable to me.

Now, I mean, of course, in the age of apps, we wouldn't think about it too much because

there's a million brain ages out there.

But it was so cool and so novel to log in every day and have the professor telling you what's up with your brain, doing the little

puzzles and everything.

And Emily and I were passing, were sharing the DS between us.

...