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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!

tv & film video games

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01:15:18

The Brig: Rampage in Peoria (w/ game designer Brian...

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2026/01/13

Having worked for Bally Midway in the 1980s, game designer / artist / animator Brian F. Colin has created and worked on more classic arcade games than you can shake a giant mutant wolfman at!RAMPAGE, XENOPHOBE, ARCH RIVALS, PIGSKIN 621ad, GENERAL CHAOS and RAMPAGE WORLD TOUR, just to name a few! Brian infused each of these games with the sardonic wit of MAD Magazine, while ensuring each of these games pushed the limits of what had been created. These were titles that broke new ground and resonated

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02:50:15

S8E1 - Ep 169: Rob Reiner Retrospective

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2026/01/06

2025 ended with a truly unthinkable tragedy that we are all still reeling from. Retro Ridoctopus could think of no better way to pay tribute to the great Rob Reiner, than by dedicating the first episode of season 8 to those films of his that have brought us so much joy for so many decades. From tense courtrooms, to the Cliffs of Insanity and the thousand laughs and tears in between, we each picked two movies Rob directed and try our best to put into words what these true classics have meant to us

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03:24:37

Ep 168: Season 7 Finale / First Time Viewing of...

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2025/12/16

All tentacles are in the air as we reflect on and celebrate another successful season of the Retro Ridoctopus cephalopodcast!After copious amounts of reminiscing over another amazing year, we dive into our annual final topic. Like every year, we asked you for voice mails, giving your quick reviews of a classic movie you watched for the first time this year. Every single year, this block gets longer and longer and season 7 was no exception. Thank you for coming out in droves to be a part of the

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01:52:11

Crow's Nest: Maniac Mansion (A Breaking and Entering...

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2025/12/09

If your purple tentacles are tingling, that might just be because our pal Nintenjoe joined us for NUMEROUS playthroughs of the classic LucasArts point and click adventure game Maniac Mansion! Seriously, this one has a ton of different ending and we got almost all of em!So watch out for falling meteors and get that hamster in the microwave because things are about to get WEIRD. ---------------------------------------------- Retro Ridoctopus is: • Parasite Steve (read) • 8-Bit Alchemy (listen) •

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02:24:44

Ep 168: A Big Box of Crayons

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2025/12/02

For our last regular episode of season 7, we are talking about a childhood experience everyone out there can relate to. Sitting down with a big box of crayons and a coloring book! With the help of guest host Christine (AKA Mrs. Parasite), we'll share a bit of history on the Crayola company before diving into some colorful childhood memories revolving around crayons. Get ready for some personal coloring techniques and a run down of our favorite and least favorite #Crayola crayon colors of all

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01:24:42

The Brig: The Sound of the Dark (w/ Daniel Church AKA...

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2025/11/25

Tonight, in the BRIG, we are thrilled to welcome back an incredible guest from all the way across the pond!Simon Bestwick is an accomplished as well as prolific British contemporary horror author, whose acclaimed work includes the novels Black Mountain, Hell’s Ditch, The Devil’s Highway and Wolf’s Hill as well as numerous short short collections such as 2020’s “And Cannot Come Again: Tales of Childhood, Regret, and Innocence Lost”. Chalking up no less than 4 British Fantasy award nominations (so

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02:45:15

Ep 167: Meet the Muppets!

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2025/11/18

It's time to play the music... It's time to light the lights... It's time to meet the Muppets on Ridoctopus Tonight!Your host of the moment Coopster Gold has a backstage pass to the most sensational, inspirational, celebrational show around! For this episode, we celebrate some of our favorite all time characters from Jim Henson's The Muppets! We're talking Frogs, Pigs, Dogs and all the wacky Whatevers in between! And later on, 8-bit Alchemy delivers a Muppetational installment of his long running

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02:38:55

Ep 165: Which Witch Movies?

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2025/11/04

Double, double, toil and trouble... fire burn and cauldron... (well you know).With the help of our be-broomed co-host Greenie (AKA The Green Witch of the Shire) we squeeze one last episode into the spooky season! This one is all about movies involving witches! We're talking mean ones, green ones and even seldom seen ones! Some are sort of nice, but some will turn smelly little children into mice! witches #thewitches #hocuspocus #warlock #kikisdeliveryservice #wickedwitch #pumpkinhead

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01:22:49

The Brig: The Nights & The Days of Ellen Datlow

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2025/10/28

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!Returning to the podcast, Ellen has brought two amazing authors from her new horror anthology, "Night & Day" from Simon & Schuster! Kari Sanders and Parasite Steve get to chat with Rachel Harrison and Kaaron Warren, as well as Ellen herself before ending with an author reading of Kaaron's story "Bitter

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01:48:48

Ep 164: Lovecraftian Horrors / The Guy With All The...

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2025/10/21

This episode is not for the faint of heart, nor the weak of mind...For our second spooky episode of 2025, we tackle the cosmic horrors of H.P. Lovecraft--and we do it through the lens of... well, a LENS! We've picked six Lovecraft inspired films to raise from the unknowable depths. Three direct adaptations of his stories, and three more that are what has come to be known colloquially as... LOVECRAFTIAN. Hold onto your sanity folks, things are about to get cosmic. Lovecraft #HPLovecraft

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01:06:09

The Brig: A Shot of Immortality (with Thomas...

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2025/10/14

We welcome back New York Times Best Selling Author, Thomas Sniegoski (author of the Herculoids comics and the bestselling The Fallen series of novels), and Jeannine Acheson (co-author of Vampiverse comics) to chat about their HOTLY ANTICIPATED dark-fantasy novella!"Nira: A Constance Evermore Story" is out now from Bad Hand Books and is gorgeously illustrated by Thomas Brown! Order NIRA from Amazon! ----------------------------------------Retro Ridoctopus is:• Parasite Steve (read)• 8-Bit

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02:31:18

Ep 164: Scooby Doo, Take Two!!

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2025/10/07

Hey gang!Fire up those ascots and tie off your Mystery Machines because it's time to dive back into the topic of everyone's favorite mystery-solving scaredy dog... Scooby Doo! This time, we are focusing on a few of the nearly 50 Scooby movies. Whether they were released on TV, VHS, DVD, streaming or theatrically, they all count. We each pick two to spotlight and, as usual, get thick into the weeds as we creep up stairs, down abandoned mines and through haunted amusement parks to unmask those pesky

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02:35:56

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

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2025/09/23

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 channel on YouTube. We've got a whole new crop of tough as nails games for ya, and this time we decided to widen the scope to include SNES and Genesis titles as well! Expect limited continues, plenty of one hit kills and

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

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2025/09/09

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. Begging our parents to pony up even more cash so we could bring a little piece of our action figures' world home! He-Man had Castle Grayskull and the Thundercats had Cat's Lair... but that's barely scratching the surface. In this episode, your Octo-hosts rattle off a

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02:33:59

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

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2025/08/26

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 !We each picked 2 of our favorite Candy films to spotlight, but knowing us, it's a safe bet we'll mention way more than that. Though John was probably far too humble to have ever believed it, his enormous absence is still

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02:29:33

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

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2025/08/19

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.Along the way, we'll share plenty about each track and what listening to these albums has meant to us over the years. Obviously, we are all huge metal heads and Ozzy was

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01:23:15

The Brig: Axolotls and Other Aquired Tastes (w/...

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2025/08/12

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 made of crazed weasels... it's Clay McLeod Chapman!Snag your copy of ACQUIRED TASTE at your local bookseller or from one of our favorites! And

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01:14:52

Crow's Nest: Becoming The Guardian Legend

Retro Ridoctopus ·

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 &...

Retro Ridoctopus ·

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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