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Retro Ridoctopus

Retro Ridoctopus

Come aboard as your 3 wacky octo-hosts dive deep into the 70s, 80s, 90s and beyond to discuss things like classic gaming, movies, tv shows, cartoons, music and even toys!

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01:14:52

Crow's Nest: Becoming The Guardian Legend

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2025/08/05

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 has quite the pedigree when it comes to vertical shooting games. You take control of a nameless female cyborg, with the ability to shift between humanoid and spaceship forms

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02:55:47

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

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2025/07/29

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. And the Silver Age is generally considered to span 1956 to 1970. That period began with the publication of DC Comics' Showcase #4 (October 1956), which introduced the modern version of the Flash, Barry Allen. For this episode, your

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01:18:53

The Brig: Spending Some Dead Money (w/ Jesse Scoble &...

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2025/07/22

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 & Odyssey, Far Cry 5, Watch Dogs 2, HyperScape, and Wizard101. TTRPG work includes A Game of Thrones d20, the Marvel Multiverse RPG, and Vampire. Devinder is a tabletop RPG writer with credits on Dune, Conan, John Carter of

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02:00:28

Ep 157: Killer Dolls and Other Rad "Girl Toys" (w/...

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2025/07/15

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 reboots. And while we may mention the cartoons, our focus here is on the TOYS! Parasite Steve is on assignment (wrestling crabs in the Outer Banks) but stepping in as guest host is

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02:53:11

Ep 156: Going On Rails / A Gallery of Light Gun Games...

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2025/07/01

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!! Tonight, with the help of our old buddy, Nintenjoe, we'll spotlight some personal favorites! We start with beloved titles like Duck Hunt, House of the Dead and Time Crisis and, as we are want to do, move to a bunch

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02:39:06

Ep 155: The Pulp Action/Adventure Films of the 1990s...

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2025/06/17

With the help of our pal Scott Clevenger (from The Slumgullion podcast) we dish all about four stylish 90's action/adventure films that were looking to the pulps of the 30s for inspiration! These movies featured heroic characters from a bygone era of pulp magazines, comic strips and serials!We'll each present one of the four films while diving into their pulpy origins. By the time these films were made, these characters weren't as well known as in their heyday, but there would never have been a

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01:18:15

The Brig: The Mythology Behind the Mythology (w/...

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2025/06/10

This week, down in that rusted out hull we call the BRIG… we are honored to have New York Times bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-winning author, Christopher Golden! Chris is the author of such novels as Snowblind, Road of Bones, Ararat, The House of Last Resort, 13 Buffy The Vampire Slayer novels and more comics than you can shake a RIGHT HAND OF DOOM at!Since his debut in 1994 (with "Of Saints and Shadows"), Chris has written stories featuring such beloved characters as Hellboy, Buffy,

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02:27:45

Ep 154: Amazing Animals Facts 2 / Extinct Creatures

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2025/06/03

Coopster Gold takes us back to our Amazing Animal Facts theme from last season, but with a twist! This time we only picked those creatures who have sadly joined the ranks of the EXTINCT.We decided to leave the dinosaurs out of it, focusing on such fantastic beasts as Mighty Moas, Tasmanian Tigers, Woolly Rhinos and, of course, the poster animal for extinction, the Dodo. ----------------------------------------Retro Ridoctopus is:• Parasite Steve (read)• 8-Bit Alchemy (listen) • Coopster Gold

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01:39:35

The Brig: Normalizing Inclusion (with author Errick...

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2025/05/27

This time in the BRIG, we have an enormously talented artist, graphic designer and author of the novels Blood For The Sun, All The Dead Men, Lightning Wears a Red Cape and his brand new one: The Queen of Saturn and the Prince in Exile! All that and he’s a former Marine, a black belt in Krav Maga..It’s Boston’s own… Errick Nunnally! The Queen of Saturn and the Prince in Exile is a Black nerd coming-of-age novel set in 1970s Boston about a boy who struggles to learn the truth behind his mother’s

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02:30:24

Ep 153: Behind the Wheel / Games That Drive Us

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2025/05/20

Retroids, start your engines!This episode is all about driving and racing games! We're talking arcades, Atari, Super Nintendo, the N64, and into the era of Playstation and X-Box! As long as the game puts you behind the wheel, it counts! Along for the ride is our old pal and former host of the Retro Ridoctopus cephalopodcast, Synopsis Grim AKA BOSS RUSH MODE!! So buckle up and floor that gas pedal. It's the finish line or BUST! Later on, we'll brake for an Octoponder This, then gun it for another

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02:44:59

Ep 152: The Last Huckleberry / A Tribute to Val Kilmer

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2025/05/06

Val Kilmer was an actor's actor. The rare sort of movie star whose focus was always on creating the best performance possible. Even when not the leading man, he through himself into every role, always elevating what had been written on the page into something special.Over the course of an impressive 30 year career, Val was shaped by the Hollywood machine into a bonafied movie star. From lighter fair like Top Secret and Real Genius to performances in Tombstone, The Doors, Willow, Heat and Kiss Kiss

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01:29:25

The Brig: If Hellraiser and Gatsby had a baby (w/...

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2025/04/29

This week, down in the eldritch unknown of the BRIG… we have returning guest, Cat Scully!A talented artist, video game developer, writer and novelist … Cat is the author of Jennifer Strange and comes back to chat all about her hotly anticipated novel BELOW THE GRAND HOTEL! We’ve got the roaring 20s, flapper dresses, Ziegfeld Girls... Faustian bargains, mouths where there shouldn’t be mouths...you know, all the ingredients of a good time! Pre-Order your copy of BELOW THE GRAND HOTEL from Copper Dog

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02:08:55

Ep 151: The Movies of Saturday Night Live!

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2025/04/22

Between 1980 and 2010, a total of eleven SNL movies were produced. Some are great, others are far from it and there are plenty in between. But love em or pan em, these comedies were foundational viewing for many of us who grew up in the 90s and beyond!In this episode, Coop continues his Saturday Night Live theme and we spotlight a total of of our personal favorite SNL films, including the really obvious one! Party on, Wayne! And party on Garth! ----------------------------------------Retro

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02:10:15

Crow's Nest: Tiny Toons Games (were all a little loony)

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2025/04/15

Hiya, Toonsters!Parasite Steve and 8-Bit Alchemy had a totally toontastic time re-playing some classic Tiny Toon Adventures video games, and you're gonna hear about it! This is a property that produced more games than you realize and some of them are absolutely worth any retro gamer's time! Covered meticulously in this episode are: • Tiny Toon Adventures (NES) • Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Trouble in Wackyland (NES) • Tiny Toon Adventures: Babs' Big Break (Game Boy) • Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Montana's

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02:11:26

Ep 150: The Sketches of Saturday Night Live!

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2025/04/08

LIVE FROM (somewhere on the internet) IT'S (a podcast about) SATURDAY NIGHT!!!Saturday Night Live is more than a TV show, it's an American institution. As much a part of our lives as apple pie and cutting people off at intersections. Now in it's 50th season, the show is older than any of the Octo-hosts, but that just means that it's been a staple for our entire lives! For this first part of 2 SNL themed episodes, we are concentrating on the sketches. Each of us picking out 3 of our all time

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01:25:02

The Brig: Doing Witchcraft in the Withering Hours...

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2025/04/01

Morgan Sylvia is an author from Maine with numerous published works including novels, short stories, poetry collections and everything in between. Whether she's writing long or short form, one thing is clear, the quality of the prose itself is always top of mind. This lends a musical quality to the language of her work. A poetic fingerprint that most authors never achieve. In other words, you should be reading her stuff!Visit her official website for all things Morgan! Snag your copy of the amazing

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02:42:57

Ep 149: The Really Extreme Ghostbusters + MIB &...

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2025/03/25

Building on our Real Ghostbusters episode, we decided to not only focus on the sequel to that legendary cartoon, but spotlight three major animated series the helped shaped the 90s!Drew Mollo (from Splash Pages) is back for the second week in a row, as we tackle The Extreme Ghostbusters, Men In Black The Series and Godzilla The Series! Aside from all being continuations of popular sci-fi/action movies, these fantastic shows were all produced by Richard Raynis and Jeff Kline and shared a unique

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02:42:09

Ep 148: The Extremely Real Ghostbusters (Part 1 of 2)

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2025/03/11

Who you gonna call? Why, Drew Mollo (from the Splash Pages podcast) that's who! As a lifelong Ghostbusters super-fan, Drew has spent years memorizing Tobin's Spirit Guide and definitely knows how to read a P.K.E. Meter. A good thing too, because for this episode, we're be spotlighting 8 episodes from this seminal animated series! Expect plenty of Peter, Ray, Egon, Winston as well as a few buckets of slime as we stock up on Ecto-Cooler and get to work. Later on, we'll read your Retroid answers to

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01:58:56

Ep 147: Wild Wild Westerns (Part 2 of 2)

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2025/02/25

Our Wild Wild Westerns theme continues! But before we ride off into the sunset, there's still some rip-roaring fun to be had!Join your saddle-sore hosts Rattlesnake Steve, Doc Cooperday and The 8-Bit Kid as they rustle up some westerns in basically every media besides movies! We've got a wagon full of cartoons, video games, a short story collection and even (what some might call) a Power To The Metal in disguise. And after that, we'll answer the Octoponder This question from two weeks back

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01:42:27

The Brig: The Sinister Ascension of THEM! (with...

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2025/02/18

On another episode of the BRIG… we’ve got a talented Brooklyn based filmmaker, actor, podcaster and award winning author. Marc Abbott! Marc's short stories have been featured in numerous anthologies including the Bram Stoker Nominated horror anthologies New York State of Fright & Under Twin Suns, not to mention the two-time African American Literary Award-winning horror anthology, Hell at the Way Station. And if that wasn’t enough, he’s also the co-host of (one of my favorite shows) the BEEF

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