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Retronauts Episode 314: Ape Escape & The History of Game History

Retronauts

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

A diverse double-header this week as Jeremy Parish fields a patron request from Joseph Wawzonek to discuss Sony's Ape Escape before a chat with game archivist Leonard Herman about the history of chronicling game history. Art: John Pading.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:27.9

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0:29.9

You're listening to RetroNots, a part of the Greenlit Podcast Network, a collective of creator-owned and fully independent podcasts, focused on pop culture and video gaming.

0:38.9

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0:46.9

This weekend, RetroNots, Sarah Getchew, I choose you!

0:57.9

Hey everyone, welcome to RetroNots, I am Jerry Parrish.

1:15.9

And this is another remote pandemic special, another Patreon special, a topic request by one of our patrons, one with a livestream.

1:27.9

Who is here on the line with me to talk about a series that I don't know that I can necessarily find people in my normal group, the normal RetroNots group that we round up to actually hold court on these games.

1:43.9

So it's good you're here.

1:44.9

So please introduce yourself and tell us what is this mysterious topic that has already been given away by the title of the episode.

1:52.9

Well hello, I'm Joseph Wasnik and we're going to be talking about the Ape Escape series, which I think a lot of people that play it have a pretty fond place for it in their heart, but you know it's never really talked about not extensively.

2:08.9

So it's kind of like this, I don't want to call it a lost gem, but maybe a little bit of a forgotten one.

2:15.9

Yeah, it's kind of weird. It seemed like it was a really big thing for Sony and the PS1 era and then I feel like the sequels didn't really gain that much traction and after the third game, which was 15 years ago, believe it or not, they just kind of said, we'll do some spin-offs, PlayStation All-stars, I don't know, and just kind of fizzled out.

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