Retronauts Episode 62: High Fidelity Classic Gaming

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2016

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

What's the best way to play old games in these modern times? Jeremy Parish, Frank Cifaldi, and Christian Nutt plummet down the CRT-hunting, 240p-upscaling, console-recapping, and RGB-modding rabbit hole.

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0:00.0	This week's episode of RetroNots is not sponsored by Meacomsoft, but it probably should be.
0:04.8	Hi everyone and welcome to this latest episode of RetroNots starring Meacermy Parish
0:34.0	and also other people who are here in the studio with me. Once again, I have great.
0:39.9	Here's your chance to do an edit. Hi, I'm Christian Nut from Gamasutra.
0:44.0	And joining us for the first time in a long time, we can guys try and
0:47.2	return to RetroNots.
0:48.5	Ooh, Frank Zavaldi from Digital Eclipse now.
0:51.3	Yes. And Frank is fresh off of his Mega Man Legacy Collection Victory Tour.
0:56.9	No, I'm on the tour. Oh, are you on the tour?
0:58.8	Okay, no, there's no victory yet because 3DS is still quite a ways off.
1:04.4	Oh, that's true. But, yeah, I mean, the versions that have come out so far seem to have
1:10.1	gone over pretty well. It's a really good review in US Gamer.
1:13.5	Yeah, yeah. I heard they got here with that as really smart.
1:16.6	Very hands-led. Jared Petty liked it also. So, you know, how deep does this collusion go?
1:20.9	Because you can just kind of... Jared Perish, Jared Petty.
1:23.1	Yeah. Kind of Kevin Bacon the whole way.
1:25.6	Oh, you know, crazy. Yeah, no, the Mega Man Legacy Collection turned out really well.
1:31.0	It's a... Thank you.
1:32.2	Exactly the kind of thing that I want to see happen to classic video games.
1:37.7	Because this episode, we're going to be talking about the process involved in really
1:41.6	getting a great experience out of games for systems that are obsolete and no longer supported
1:48.8	by the technology that you can actually buy at any store.
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