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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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01:22:49

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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02:01:03

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

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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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