We welcome our buddy Nintenjoe back again to talk about one of the most memorable aspects of any video game, the BOSSES!!

Whether they're in charge of a single stage or are the final challenge waiting at the end, these characters are sure to make an impact. We'll tackle the more iconic "last guys" first, spotlighting iconic final bosses who come back again and again over multiple entries of a given series. Later on, we each choose 3 (possibly more obscure) battles that were really memorable to us personally.

Thrown in the middle is a musical interlude of an OCTOPONDER, where we'll play your favorite boss battle theme! Overall, this is an episode that video game fans won't want to miss!

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This week we have a talented author whom NY Times Best Seller Christopher Golden called “one of the most talented under-the-radar writers the horror genre has to offer”. Kristin Dearborn has written numerous published short stories, novels and novellas including Woman in White, Stolen Away, The Amazing Alligator Girl and her newest novel Faith of Dawn, which is just crawling with skunk apes!

If it screams, squelches, or bleeds, Kristin has probably written about it!

And later on, we discuss her deep admiration for monsters and plunge into the blackness of space for a spoilery discussion on the new Xenomorph flick, ALIEN: ROMULUS!

Obviously, Kristin is very awesome! Check out her official website!

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Back for his second stint in the BRIG… it’s writer/comedian/producer Chris Gersbeck!

With his company Dumb Industries, Chris produces and hosts a metric ton of hilarious weekly programs (including but not limited to) The Mads Are Back, The Mary-Jo Pehl Show, The Dave Hill Goodtime Hour and the retro gaming centric, Super Dumb Bros!

Chris talks about how it feels to be finally on a break after producing 49 consecutive live-streams of THE MADS ARE BACK. We also talk about some of the other great shows on https://dumb-industries.com and plenty of just general geekiness.

This is one of those episodes that really turned into 3 guys just hanging out and was a lot of fun to record!

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It's music time again, folks!

And holy crap, Nintenjoe has returned to the helm for his first episode of season 6 as the main host! Appropriately, it's his popular recurring Themes From a Memory series!! This time, the mission was to choose intro theme songs from Nickelodeon cartoons and live action shows! As we've done so many times before, each host has chosen 3 songs which we play for you in separate blocks!

This is our longest running series and we are so happy to welcome our buddy Nintenjoe back in the Captain's chair!

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The work of K. H. (Ken) Vaughan has appeared in numerous volumes of the New England Horror Writers’ WICKED series, as well as a myriad of other anthologies such as both volumes of Once Upon an Apocalypse, New Moon Quarterly, the award winning Nox Pareidolia, and more!

For this episode, we'll chat about Ken's short fiction and his involvement with the popular biennial celebration of weird fiction NecronomiCon! He also drops a very saucy, very NSFW reading on our laps that Retro Ridoctopus definitely wasn't prepared for!

NecronomiCon 2024 takes place in Providence, RI on August 15-18, 2024. Check the website for details!

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The legendary Ellen Datlow has been called “the venerable queen of horror anthologies” per the New York Times, and with over 40 years in the business, it's not hard to see why!

In celebration of her new horror anthology, "Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror" from Tachyon Publications... Retro Ridoctopus proudly presents "The Fears of Ellen Datlow"! We'll have readings from horror masters Livia Llewellyn, Bracken MacLeod, and Simon Bestwick and just generally have an awesome time!

And if you prefer, here is the video!

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For many of us, rushing home to plop our butts in front of the Disney Afternoon was a seminal part of childhood! From Gummi Bears, Ducktales and Rescue Rangers to Goof Troop, Tail Spin and beyond, these were some of the best produced children's cartoons on television and we ate 'em up!

In this episode, Coopster Gold leads us through a discussion of 6 of our favorite Disney Afternoon shows! We'll even play the corresponding theme songs because... you're welcome!

All that with an OCTOPONDER smacked in between, plus 8Bit Alchemy drops a RETRO NOUVEAU!

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Returning guest, Bobby Canipe Jr. started his film making career with the killer 2022 documentary "Mom n' Pop: The Indie Video Store Boom of the 80s/90s" but has been making horror flicks ever since!

For this episode, we'll touch upon what it was like starting from nothing to doing a documentary on video stores to making numerous scary movies a year for SRS Cinema! We'll talk about tons of his films including Amityville Ripper, Grandma, 31 Kills of Halloween and his upcoming 1950s sci-fi horror pastiche, Venus Die-Trap!

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In a rare non-celebratory episode, we welcome the co-writer/star/director of the hilarious flick, BAD CGI SHARKS, Jason Ellsworth to join us in a critical discussion on some of the LESS impressive FX we've seen in movies. These are the sequences that are so jarringly inadequate, they hit like a Mac truck, smashing any semblance of immersion to smithereens.

We each pick 2 examples of the worth effects we could think of and describe them in excruciating detail for your listening pleasure!

Aside from his truly great indie flick BAD CGI SHARKS, you can also catch Jason shouting about movies on the weekly YouTube show, MAJAMA JAMS!

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A 'beat 'em up' or 'brawler' is a style of video game where the player character walks from left to right, beating up a seemingly endless number of enemies, until reaching the inevitable boss encounter at the end of the level. Simple, repetitive and addictive as heck, this genre of games were very popular in the late 80s and early 90s with beloved entries such as Final Fight, Double Dragon, Golden Axe and many many more.

For this episode, we'll present 6 primary games that we love in the genre, as well as plenty of honorable mentions!

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