678: Years-in-Review Revue: 1985 Pt. II

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Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Jeremy Parish, Benj Edwards, Kevin Bunch, Chris Sims, and Jared Petty channel the power of five to continue their discussion of the ’5s (1975, ’85, and ’95). This time, the focus is on the pivotal gaming events of the year 1985.

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0:00.0	Let's stop there.
0:04.4	Being a soldier, it's exciting.
0:07.4	You already know that.
0:08.6	What you want to know is, what's in it for me?
0:11.8	I wanted to learn leadership skills from the experts.
0:15.0	I wanted to get paid to earn qualifications.
0:17.9	I wanted more confidence.
0:19.6	And I'll look, I'm on the radio.
0:21.6	That's what was in it for me.
0:24.0	Get skills, get qualified, get confident.
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0:30.3	This episode of Retronauts is brought to you by Opera GX.
0:34.6	This week in Retronauts, a five-f don't have time. We've got to get moving. There's so much to cover this episode. We've got to wrap this up. No time for workshopping jokes, just bad jokes all the way
1:15.4	through. And that's why Benj is here. Heyo! Hey, oh! Yeah, all right. No, anyway, hi, everyone. It's
1:22.3	it's time for Retronauts. This is the second part of our annual years in review review. Last time we did this,
1:32.3	we got through 1975 and part of 1985. This time, somehow, we have to wrap up 1985 and all of
1:40.2	1995 to look at all the many things that were happening 30 years ago in video games. I put
1:46.1	together the list, and it was just the highlights, and it's a lot. It's going to be a doozy
1:51.5	of a podcast. So here, with me, doozying, we also have the aforementioned humorist.
1:59.6	Benj Edwards.
2:04.5	I just want to warn everybody, this is not going to be a fact-based episode for me.
2:09.1	I'm just going to go by gut feelings on each of these games because I did not prepare,
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