Twenty Years of Retronauts (And Me)

Episode 800 of the Retronauts podcasts released recently, celebrating twenty years of floating around in the podcast-o-sphere. Twenty years of making podcasts and eight hundred episodes, not counting the ones Jeremy and co. did for 1UP! That’s a remarkable achievement considering most other podcasts I listen(ed) to only record one, perhaps two to three seasons and that’s it. I don’t think I need to advertise Retronauts or the work of Jeremy Parish and his merry band of co-hosts. So why this write-up? Because, like Jeremy mentioned in the episode, after Nadia says that games keep on getting older: That means I have something in common with [these] games. Given that I am of the more or less same vintage year of birth as most people in the show, that fact stings and lingers here as well. Time and life marches on, I write a few silly quips on a yearly basis on my birthday, and that’s it. But now and then, triggered by these special events, the sudden weight of forty-plus reappears. Not…