This weekend, RetroNots are not so wretched high of Scum and Villains.

Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of RetroNots, another interview based episode

of RetroNots as usual. I'm Jeremy Parrish and this week it's an episode that I've been wanting to

put together for like a year or so and we finally managed around all the people up to make these,

you know, the moving parts necessary to make this project happen. And so I am on the line with

actually, why don't you guys introduce yourselves? Sure, I'm Graham Scott. I was the one of the

design leads on Scurr Chive and other projects on that orbital media. And my name is Dan Krat and I

was also I guess one of the project leads on Scurr Chive. And I guess you guys have spoiled the

surprise. Yes, this episode is about the Game Boy Advance and DS, I would say cult favorite

Scurr Chive. A game that came out really early in the DS's life, very late in the GBA's life.

And yeah, I think it kind of flew beneath the radar for a lot of people, but it caught my attention

back when I was writing for one up and being like the the lone voice saying, no, the DS is good, I swear.

And it was in a lot of ways, it was kind of like the Metroid Dread that never happened because

my my I think first encounter with Scurr Chive was at E3 2005 and before the show began,

like the week before the show began, someone from electronic gaming monthly,

surreptitiously showed me a list of games Nintendo was going to be showing at E3. And the only one I

remember from that list was something called Metroid Dread for DS. And I was like, this is it,

this is going to be the DS's turnaround. This is going to change everyone's opinion about

the system and they're going to love it because it's going to be an awesome Metroid game. Not

Metroid pinball, not hunters, this is the real deal. So I went to E3 and the Zift Davis one up EGM,

et cetera, booth was kind of diagonal from Nintendo's setup. We had a big booth and it had a like a

rooftop area like a civilian where we could sit and work. So I would sit out there and you know,

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