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Retro Ridoctopus

Season 4

S4E14 - Ep 081: Predator and Prey / No Time To Bleed

A deep dive into the films and video games featuring those invisible xeno-hunting badasses, the Predators!

There's something out there waiting for us, and it ain't no man...

In honor of the new period Comanche vs Predator show "PREY", we power up our plasma cannons and set our triangular sites on the every movie and darn nearly every video game to feature a member of the Yautja race! 

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Crow's Nest 24 - Knock, Knock... Anyone Sweet Home?

How a little known Japanese horror film from 1989 and the tie-in NES game helped spawn Resident Evil.


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• Parasite Steve (read)
• 8-Bit Alchemy (listen) 

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S4E15 - Ep 082: Themes From A Memory 4 (Anime Edition)

It's time again for Nintenjoe to lead us into a bunch of blocks of theme songs! This time, it's all anime!

It's music time again, folks!

Nintenjoe's popular recurring Themes From a Memory is BACK. This time, the mission was to choose cartoon shows from the land of the rising sun, Japan! That's right, we play some killer theme songs from anime old and new, some in English, some in Japanese. 

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S4E16 - Ep 083: Playing Cards and Building Decks (with Dani)

An old friend and professional poker dealer helps us spotlight card games of all suites and sizes!

When we decided to do an episode on card games, we immediately thought of our good friend Dani! She was a professional casino dealer for over 12 years and possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of not just Magic The Gathering but just about any card game you could mention.

So roll up your sleeves and prep those poker faces, because we cover everything from Go

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S4E17 - Ep 084: Free Toy Inside / The Bygone Age of Cereal Box Prizes

Remember when breakfast cereals came with prizes right in the box? We sure do!

This episode is definitely part of a balanced breakfast.

Ignoring the dirty looks from mom, this week, we jam our grubby mitts into some cereal boxes to pull out the free toy packed inside! Remember those Wacky Wall Walkers? How about the Nabisco Spoonmen? 

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The Brig: What's In The Box (with filmmaker James Lamond)

Writer, director podcaster James Lamond from It Came From The 508 Productions, gets locked in the BRIG!

Check out James Lamond's film work on the official It Came From The 508 website and follow them on Facebook!


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S4E18 - Ep 085: Cheat Day!

Because no player can be good ALL the time, we've gathered a slew of gaming's most infamous codes and hidden cheats!

For this episode, Nintenjoe leads us on a journey to dust off some classic video game cheats! We split the discussion in to imputable codes (button sequences you have to press at a certain time) and typable cheats (secrets accessible only by password or by inputting a certain name for your quest). We cover some great ones! 

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S4E19 - Ep 086: Curses and Urban Legends of Cinema

Gearing up for Halloween, we talk about 6 films that are purported to be CURSED!

Mysterious fires! Untimely deaths!! Bolts of lighting hitting Italian churches!!! Can a movie production truly be cursed? We present the evidence for 6 famously maligned films and leave it up to you (The Retroids) to decide!

And later on, after a particularly creepy Octoponder This, the one called Parasite will

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S4E20 - Ep 087: Glow In The Dark Toys (& How They Work)

What do Bracelets, Action Figures, T-Shirts, and Slime have in common? They could all GLOW IN THE DARK!

Lots of toys came in GLOW IN THE DARK varieties, but do you know how they worked? For this episode, we drop a little history and pinch of science of your butts all to answer the question... how do glow in the dark things work?

And before you can say SCARE GLOW, we swing things around to our normal format and each

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S4E21 - Ep 088: The Nintendo GameCube Turns 21

Over two decades ago, Nintendo released a great gaming console called the GameCube and by gum, we're gonna talk about it!

Jammed in between the incredibly popular N64 and Wii consoles, Nintendo released a really great system with a tons of exclusive games that unfortunately made a much smaller splash. We are here to celebrate the GameCube just before it's 21st birthday! Nintenjoe will lead the discussion and cover the technical stuff before we start presenting some of our

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