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740: The Years-in-Review Revue: 1976 & ’86

Retronauts

Retronauts

Games, Leisure, Technology, Video Games

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

The end is nigh! The end of 2025, that is, and the kick-off to 2026 with our annual look back through the decades at the biggest gaming events of 40 and 50 years ago. Jeremy Parish, Kevin Bunch, Benj Edwards, & Jared Petty tag team to wrestle Father Time.

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0:00.0

This week in Retronauts episode 749.

0:33.1

This is an episode that you can divide by sevens, but that is not what this episode is about.

0:38.7

This episode is about dividing by the sixes.

0:41.4

It is a years in review review.

0:44.6

That's right.

0:45.4

The annual tradition kicks off.

0:47.4

We are going to keep this to two episodes.

0:49.9

I swear to God, I am going to everyone has a shock collar affixed, and if they go too far off topic, they get a little jolt.

0:58.8

So we're going to stay in a very orderly fashion.

1:02.2

It's going to be great.

1:03.0

And we are going to get this episode through 1976 and 86.

1:07.3

That's right.

1:07.6

We're looking back 50 and then 40 years. And then the next episode we do,

1:13.1

we will look back 30 years. And then we get to 20 years and that's a Bob Mackey episode.

1:18.1

So, I guess technically that's three, but they're kind of different things. Actually, this year,

1:22.8

this year's review in review, uh, is a different thing because they were kind of getting unwieldy.

1:30.1

And also, I think we've been doing this for 10 years now.

1:34.4

So we're starting to recycle materials.

1:36.4

So I decided to take a different format, a different approach.

1:40.0

And joining me on this epic journey into the past half century of video games, games, games, we have.

1:48.3

Let's see, here in Raleigh, North Carolina.

1:53.2

Ben Edwards, the one and only.

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