750: The Legacy of Zelda
Retronauts
Retronauts
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
To celebrate The Legend of Zelda's 40th anniversary AND the Retronauts' 750th episode, we assemble the Triforce of Cool People Who Like Zelda Games [Jeremy Parish, Diamond Feit, and John Ricciardi] to discuss the OG Zelda's impact and legacy.
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| 0:00.0 | I can't believe it. |
| 0:03.6 | Max has asked me to move in with him. |
| 0:06.0 | I mean, you practically live with each other already, but that's great. |
| 0:09.9 | Did you hear that, Joe? |
| 0:11.5 | Yes, thanks for letting us know. |
| 0:14.3 | I see you've updated your universal credit claim. |
| 0:17.1 | Now you're going to be living together. |
| 0:21.3 | If you're telling other people about a change in your circumstances, |
| 0:25.4 | tell us too to avoid a penalty. |
| 0:27.8 | Search Tell DWP. |
| 0:30.1 | This week in Retronauts, it's The Legend of Zelda and it's really old. |
| 1:13.2 | Music old. Hi, everyone. Welcome to Retronauts. I'm Jeremy Parrish. This is a very special episode. It is episode 750, 50, 50. And that is significant because we like numbers that are multiples of 50, I guess. I don't know. |
| 1:19.1 | It seems it's like three quarters of the way to a thousand, which is a big milestone in some sense, because we all use base 10 numbering. |
| 1:21.9 | We are not 8-bit machines. |
| 1:24.7 | Otherwise, it would be 256 and 1,024 that were the big deals. But no, we're just |
| 1:30.6 | base 10. And so we are going to talk about an 8-bit video game where everything is base 8, 16, whatever. |
| 1:39.0 | I'm not even drunk here. I don't know what's happening. I've been trapped in the house all day with a snowstorm, so I think there's not enough oxygen. Anyway, I, yes, I, as I mentioned, I'm Jeremy Parrish here for episode 750. And I'm talking to people all the way on the other side of the planet because technology is cool. It's way better than it was |
| 2:03.3 | 40 years ago in some respects. So who do we have joining me this week for episode 750, 50, 50 of |
| 2:14.0 | Retronauts? We'll start with the regular and then talk to our special guest. |
| 2:19.6 | Good morning. This is Diamond Fight. And in honor of our subject, I'm recording today entirely |
| 2:24.4 | left-handed. And who else do we have here? You haven't been on Retronauts in a long time. |
| 2:32.4 | Have you been on Retronauts before? I feel like you have. |
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