Retrograde Amnesia: Comprehensive JRPG Retrospective

What a pig this dog is! Before experiencing canine pork, we're finding Krup stuck in our teeth, lying about our academic career, telling people where I hurt myself today, spreading religion, leaving the cabinets open, embracing orange soda genericism, disinheriting a son, harnessing the power of CRBN, teaching kids in the home, figuring out if we're using magic, shooting meat ropes, banishing the natives to one town, sitting lost in thought, and welcoming the owl folk. It's about the only thing I'm capable of doing. 00:00:00 Sonic Speed Simulator 00:04:01 Intro 00:06:12 Rune-inations 00:08:19 Krup 00:11:48 Krup Houses 00:23:49 Saya School 00:36:57 World Map 00:37:40 Valleymaze Entrance 00:40:27 Valleymaze 00:42:50 Tonoe 00:47:12 Tonoe Market Stalls 00:50:07 Tonoe Houses 00:53:30 Real Net 00:59:29 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com  

Well, Chaz, your brain seems to work a little bit. At least enough to listen as we're speaking with the beardy-guy-vestman, swallowing a town with quicksand, adding morality to terraforming, pounding Zima, performing a community raking service, experimenting with macros, stoning everyone in town, refusing to help orphaned children, discussing mustache petrification logistics, grifting Hahn, comically tugging our collars at the sight of cum, standing and thinking while caped, sporting a winning chin, losing a fight with a stance, and calling bullshit on Rudy (1993) and Rudy (1944). What a stupid name. 00:00:00 Dragon Quest I & II via Chris 00:02:24 Intro 00:04:36 Mile 00:15:11 Mile Houses 00:21:32 World Map 00:25:36 Zema 00:30:34 Birth Valley 00:37:17 Return To Zema 00:38:25 World Map 00:40:04 Molcum / Rune 00:52:24 Real Net 00:59:34 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com  

This monster business is no mystery after all. As we uncover the secrets, we're wondering if manga can be in color, installing headquarters in the basement, dropping multiple fishies, fingering to win, sweating to lose, producing the Venn diagram of veins and ticklers, conducting numerous brain activities, breeding monsters in the basement, teleporting before your eyes, hiding the basement situation, connecting the parcel to the monsters, and combining a bad guy haircut with a science robe. It seems like these are signs of something to come. 00:00:00 Chris Is Steamed 00:03:13 Intro 00:04:16 Principal's Office 00:10:43 Hahn Mahlay 00:18:44 Piata Clean Up 00:20:24 Basement Dungeon 00:35:15 Reporting To The Principal's Office 00:45:17 Wrapping Up Piata 00:46:32 World Map 00:48:49 Intro To Mile 00:49:15 Real Net 00:54:54 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com  

I've always wanted to go to a Town of Learning, so we can learn to make a podcast of listening. We're talking about throwing away a cake, tolling the bell, fearing The Computer, Chaz'ing a Rudy, erecting character sprites, rendering a world beyond the Genesis, locking up books, flipping through options, buzzing off, measuring the dew point, learning Chris' biggest scholastic achievement, falling victim to a strange religion, setting the table for the dirty kitchen, jumping in the fountain, and doing a bunch of that dust. Stop wasting time, there's nothing here. 00:02:24 Intro 00:03:39 Power On Prologues 00:09:36 Wake Up, Chaz 00:18:07 World Map 00:21:27 Piata Academy, Pre-Principal 00:37:21 Piata Outdoors 00:43:09 Piata Houses 00:43:55 Chris' Group Project 00:48:56 More Piata Houses 00:54:46 Real Net 00:58:28 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com  

On the second episode of our Phantasy Star IV background info, we're watching commercials in Japanese, realizing "cels" and "panels" are not interchangeable, looking at print ads, riding for Rick, revealing the dark phallus, appreciating the work of Boris Vallejo, speaking perfect french, traveling beyond history, citing The Cutting Room Floor, pacifying fans, filling batchin' samples, sleeping walking with thumbs, declaring Earthworm Jim "The Skyrim of Platformers," leaking prototypes, reading from zines, glitching level 99, pounding burger and cola, completing Phantasy Star, bailing on Phantasy Star II, and yearning to explore the alternate timeline. I wonder what the people will see in the final days? Check out the FunFactor Podcast for more fun stuff from Aidan and Ty. Ty Schalter (FiveThirtyEight, VICE) and Aidan Moher (Vulture, WIRED) review what rocked and what sucked about the classic video game magazines that inspired them to become journalists, authors, and critics--and what they can tell us about today's digital media and games. 00:00:00 Intro 00:03:05 Promotional Media 00:11:40 Merchandise 00:14:02 Game Box 00:21:24 Game Manual 00:23:29 Cut Content 00:27:30 Fan Fiction 00:28:52 Contemporary Reviews (featuring FunFactor) 01:04:37 Modern Reviews 01:11:02 MODS 01:14:03 Memories 01:26:08 Expectations 01:31:04 Counts 01:34:06 Real Net 01:39:03 Outro Patreon: patreon.com/retroam Bluesky: @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RetrogradeAmnesia E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.retrogradeamnesia.com