Retronauts Episode 79: 10 Shitty Years of Virtual Console

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2016

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Chris Kohler joins Jeremy and Bob to revisit a topic from the earliest days of Retronauts: Virtual Console. Boy, what a difference 10 years makes! Remember when we were optimistic about that? Also includes some NES Classic Edition spitballing or whatever. Be sure to visit our blog at Retronauts.com, and check out our partner site, USgamer, for more great stuff. And if you'd like to send a few bucks our way, head on over to our Patreon page!

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0:00.0	This week in RetroNots, an episode 10 years in the making.
0:03.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:25.7	Hi everyone and welcome to episode 79, wow I got a number at this time, of RetroNots, I'm your host Jeremy Parish.
0:32.8	And this episode is kind of a companion piece to the RetroNots 10th anniversary episode we did recently.
0:40.5	And the upcoming Wii anniversary episode also 10 years.
0:44.8	Yeah, you're just giving me some time.
0:45.9	Yes, this kind of ties everything together.
0:51.2	It's the 10th anniversary of Virtual Console episode or as we're calling it 10 shitty years of Virtual Console.
0:57.8	Yay.
0:59.2	So of course it's classic RetroNots here, it's me, it's Chris Kohler, it's Bob Mackie.
1:05.1	Hello.
1:05.4	And we're going to complain about Virtual Console.
1:07.8	You guys, I'm sorry, introduce yourself so people can have a voice to associate with the word.
1:12.4	I'm Bob Mackie, if you put all those 10 years together, there was probably one good year.
1:15.8	Smash them all together, condense them.
1:19.0	I'm Chris Kohler, I'm Wired's games editor and the original Virtual Console hater, the OG.
1:24.0	That's true.
1:24.8	Your column was called Virtual Consoleation Prize.
1:28.0	It certainly was.
1:29.6	From the very beginning, although we, the first week, right?
1:32.9	Mario Brothers, right?
1:33.9	That was first week?
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