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Retronauts Vol. III Episode 14 - Harvest Moon

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Retronauts

Games, Leisure, Technology, Video Games

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2014

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

For over 15 years, the Harvest Moon series has been teaching sickly indoor kids the virtues of tilling the land, petting the chickens, and having low-wage serfs do most of the dirty work. Join Bob Mackey, Jeremy Parish, Ray Barnholt, and special guest backer Adam Fitch as the Retronauts explore this prolific farming sim series, and maybe -- just maybe -- raise each other's affection levels in the process.

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0:00.0

This week on RetroNots, we've got more cows and a far side collection.

0:03.7

Hey everybody, this is Bob Mackie for RetroNots episode 14, today's topic is Harvest Moon,

0:32.2

Harvest Moon series, in fact, and let me introduce my panel for today, first of all, who is

0:37.0

Skyping in with us? It's me, Jeremy. And Jeremy, thanks for talking about a different

0:43.6

series, but we'll learn a little bit more about Harvest Moon as we go. The guy still has

0:48.8

a hat, Jeremy, so you're not completely wrong. Harvest Moon isn't one of those levels

0:51.6

in Mario Kart, the one with the cows and the little moles that pop up in the road. Actually,

0:58.2

those cows are skirting the lines of copyright, but let's go into our next RetroNots panelist,

1:03.2

who's right here? Ray Barnholz right here. And what do you do, Ray, who are you? What

1:07.6

formed you take? I'm an editor-side type of guy at Wargaming.net, but I do stuff around

1:15.7

here too. I'm on RetroNots. And we also have another guest who paid not only to be here,

1:21.1

but he's also paying for this episode. Who do we have right here in front of me today?

1:26.4

Adam Fitch, I actually work at Notsmay right now. I've been there for six years. I do the

1:32.6

localization and QA testing there, and I've been doing that for about six years. And yes, I

1:37.8

pay paid in, in open it, some of money to be on this podcast, which resulted in an interesting

1:45.2

conversation with my girlfriend once you found out. I got to say no refunds, no refunds, Adam,

1:50.4

just in case, just in case you didn't turn out. You've paid for Harvest Moon, and you also get paid

1:54.7

for Harvest Moon. Yeah, just say this isn't an effort to keep your job, right, or at least to extend it.

2:00.2

We discussed this. This was during the Kickstarter campaign. Right. And Adam, do we say that we say

2:06.4

where you work yet? Yeah, yeah, I work at Notsmay. Okay, cool. I wasn't sure if we got to that. So yeah,

2:11.2

today we're going to be talking about the Harvest Moon series, which is great because I'm a fan of it,

2:15.6

and it's something I wanted to do at our other site. But I never got around to doing an episode

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