Retronauts Episode 249: Roguelikes—The Road to Spelunky

Retronauts

Technology, Leisure, Video Games, Games

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2019

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Finishing out our patron request series on roguelike role-playing games, Jeremy Parish, Bob Mackey, Jason Wilson, and John Harris explore latter-day roguelikes and how we got to the weird, wonderful world of Spelunky.

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0:30.2	This week in Retrinots, we finally ascend.
0:32.7	Hi everyone, welcome to Retrinots.
0:58.1	I'm Jerry Parrish and this week we're continuing a conversation that we had a few
1:02.6	months ago.
1:03.6	As such, this may seem familiar to you, but we're building on the topic of console
1:10.6	roguelikes.
1:13.2	Since we didn't finish that last episode, we didn't actually fulfill patron Andrew Duff's
1:18.8	request to talk about Azure Dreams.
1:21.6	We definitely have to do that.
1:23.6	I've set an end point for this podcast to take us through console roguelikes and ultimately
1:30.8	end up with Spalunky because that is the big point in roguelike games.
1:38.1	The mystery dungeon games were a big deal and I especially Pokemon mystery dungeons, but
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