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Retro Ridoctopus

Season 7

Ep 156: Going On Rails / A Gallery of Light Gun Games (w/ Nintenjoe)

Pew! Pew! We're fully locked and loaded for a discussion on arcade style video shooting games!

RELOAD!! RELOAD!! PER-KANNG!!

Whether you're aiming your NES Zapper at some 8-bit ducks or feeding quarters into an arcade to head-shot some video zombies, you're experiencing the white-knuckled action of a niche sub-genre of video games known as a LIGHT GUN GAMES or ON RAILS SHOOTERS!! 

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Ep 157: Killer Dolls and Other Rad "Girl Toys" (w/ Taryn Barber)

"Girl toys" just don't get enough celebration in the Geek-O-Sphere and we're aiming to change that!

For this episode, we get in touch with our softer sides...

Get ready to hear a handful of super rad GIRL TOYS that go way beyond playing with dolls. Properties like the Care Bears, My Little Pony and Rainbow Brite have been slapped on as many things as He-Man or the Transformers over the years, and have had just as many

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The Brig: Spending Some Dead Money (w/ Jesse Scoble & Devinder Thiara)

We've got two successful AAA game developers who are here to chat about their incredible careers and their new weird western comic Dead Money!

For this episode of THE BRIG, we are joined by the writing team of Jesse Scoble and Devinder Thiara who rode in from the Great White North to promote their new weird western comic, DEAD MONEY!

Jesse is an award-winning game writer with credits on: Assassin’s Creed Origins

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Ep 158: Swarm of Superheroes (w/ Randy Carter)

Celebrating the two eras that started and shaped what we think of as the comic book superhero!

We welcome back Randy Carter (from Swarm of Comics) for a soaring discussion on the Golden and Silver Ages of superhero comics!

The Golden Age of comic books in the United States spanned 1938 to 1956, beginning with the 1938 debut of Superman in Action Comics #1. 

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Crow's Nest: Becoming The Guardian Legend

One part Zelda, one part vertical shooter with RPG elements thrown in! Have you played The Guardian Legend?

For another "Couch Bro-Op", Parasite Steve and 8-Bit Alchemy play through one of the most criminally under appreciated titles on the NES. The Guardian Legend was released in 1988, and to this day, there's still nothing like it!

This hybrid action-adventure/shoot 'em up game was developed by Compile—a company who

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The Brig: Axolotls and Other Aquired Tastes (w/ author Clay McLeod Chapman)

A sprawling chat with horror's quiet wildman! Clay dishes about his origins, career and his new collection Acquired Taste!

This week, down in the slimy, ever-squirming blackness of the BRIG, we have the Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award nominated author of such acclaimed horror as Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, Kill Your Darling, Stay on the Line, What Kind of Mother, Ghost Eaters and much much more… he’s two parts Vonnegut, one part Ellison… and like nine more parts tornado

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Ep 159: Legacy of a Madman / A Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne

With the help of our pals Rick Johnson and Synopsis Grim, we celebrate the solo career of heavy metal's Prince of Darkness.

Love him or hate him, the career of John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne was one for the ages. With the help of our pals Synopsis Grim and Portland Maine's own, DJ Rick Johnson, we'll hop on a crazy train and journey across five decades—spotlighting five albums from the solo career of heavy metal's one and only Prince of Darkness. 

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Ep 160: Everyone's Favorite Uncle / A Tribute to John Candy

With the help of returning pal Raina Madison, we celebrate the films of the one and only John Candy.

Legendary comedic actor John Candy left us on March 4th, 1994 at the age of 43, much to the dismay of his millions of fans. To help celebrate his life and career, we have a returning guest-host and John Candy super-fan, Retroid and co-host of the Spooky Picture Show, Raina Madison ! 

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Ep 161: Play Sets / Where Action Figures Hang Their Hats

We're talking about the ultimate accessory for any toy line, play sets!

This week, all your BASE are belong to Retro Ridoctopus!

We are celebrating the crown jewel of any action figure toy line! Whether you called it a base, playset, headquarters, or battle station... we all drooled over those commercials. 

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Ep 162: Nintendo & Sega Hard (w/ Mike Levy)

We've got the awesome Mike Levy (Dude, You Haven't Played This Game?!) to talk about some of the hardest Nintendo and Sega games we love!

About 100 episodes ago, we recorded Ep 060: Nintendo Hard / The Triumphant Return of Nintenjoe where we discussed some NES games that we loved despite their extreme levels of difficulty.

Tonight, we are dipping back into that topic with the awesome Mike Levy from the Dongled

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