737: Holiday Special 2025 - Video Power

Retronauts

Games, Leisure, Technology, Video Games

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Summary

It's that time of the year again, so hang your stockings, haul home a coniferous tree, and pack the required survival gear for another harrowing trip to the Retronauts Holiday Cabin in Parts Unknown. And for this 15th outing, we'll be taking a long, mostly confused look at Video Power: the Captain N also-ran that assembled a team of C-list protagonists for some poorly animated, Acclaim-promoting fun. (Before being completely retooled into a game show the following year.) So listen in as Bob Mackey, Henry Gilbert, and Drew Mackie as the crew assembles and attempts to learn the true meaning of brand integration.

Cover art by Nick Daniel.

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0:00.0	I don't know.
0:03.0	I'm going to Oh, I hate Christmas, and you hate Christmas, we all hate Christmas, yeah.
0:31.6	Christmas jean, it's already here, still at Grandma's Fruitcake from last year.
0:38.3	Oh, hello there. Once again, I didn't see or hear you come in.
0:42.4	My doctor recently diagnosed me with a rare condition known as temporary door blindness.
0:47.5	Welcome once again to the Retronauts Holiday Cabin and parts unknown for yet another annual
0:52.2	holiday special. And this year, I forget it. You know what? Forget it. It's unknown for yet another annual holiday special. And this year, I forget it.
0:56.4	You know what?
0:56.8	Forget it.
0:57.4	It's the 15th time I've done this.
0:59.1	Fifteen.
0:59.9	And after shining the spotlight on so much video game kits, Dreck, and garbage, I'm not
1:03.9	sure I can do this anymore.
1:05.1	I have attended a Pokemon Christmas bash and a Sonic Christmas blast.
1:09.7	I had a reverent Congo Bongo Festival of Lights.
1:12.4	I've seen how Pac-Man, Super Mario, and Earthworm Jim celebrate the birth of Christ.
1:17.1	And now I'm so depressed, all I want to do is sleep.
1:20.3	You know what?
1:21.1	Why don't you just hang out over by the new vintage grandfather clock I've recently had installed?
1:26.3	I'm just going to curl up by the fire and take a little nap until the whole holiday
1:30.7	business blows over.
1:32.8	And don't rifle through my drawers.
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