Retro Ridoctopus

For many of us, rushing home to plop our butts in front of the Disney Afternoon was a seminal part of childhood! From Gummi Bears, Ducktales and Rescue Rangers to Goof Troop, Tail Spin, Gargoyles and beyond, these were some of the best produced children's cartoons on television and a whole bunch of 'em of them spawned some terrific video games! In this episode, Nintenjoe leads us through a discuss...

Peter N. Dudar & L. L. Soares are two talented best buds who definitely know their way around horror! The Bram Stoker Award-Nominated, Dudar , having written such memorable titles as "A Reqiuem For Dead Flies", "Blood Cult of the Booby Farmers" and "Goat Parade" unleashed his newest grimy Grindhouse nightmare in late 2022, "The Mississippi Glory Hole Mutilati...

Season 5 begins with a barrage of stars and swipes as we spotlight everyone's favorite men in black (pajamas)... NINJAS! Over the decades, appearing on just about every console since the Atari 2600, ninjas have been a true staple of video games. For this episode, we spotlight some of out favorite appearances from the 8bit and 16bit eras and beyond! Later on, we'll tell you which Ninja Turtle is th...

It's that time again, Retroids! Time to stick the proverbial fork in another season of the Retro Ridoctopus cephalo-podast. For this episode, we reminisce about the episodes that challenged us, the topics we were nervous to tackle and the guests we still can't believe agreed to come on. Later, we do our annual thing of talking about a classic film that we FINALLY JUST watched for the first time! A...

Jason David Frank joined Mighty Morphin Power Rangers in the 17th episode of its first season. Green with Evil was the title, but fans latched onto the character of Tommy almost immediately. and while he was introduced as the "evil" Power Ranger, Tommy wouldn't stay that way for long, going on to become the show's longest running cast member and by far the most popular. For this episode,...

For 30 years, Kevin Conroy has been the voice of one of the most beloved comic book characters of all time and to say his loss was one that hit us hard is an understatement. Without that dulcet baritone, it feels like the world has gotten a little darker. For this episode of The Crow's Nest, we spend about an hour celebrating Kevin's historic performance and describe why, in so many ways, he was O...

We may be smarter than the average bear, but for our second episode devoted to the animation powerhouse Hanna Barbera, we needed a little help. Enter the Velvet Joker himself, Mr. Rich Davis from Splash Pages The Comic Book Club podcast! Together, we'll celebrate 8 classic cartoon shows from the 60s to the 90s while playing you blocks of theme songs along the way! This may be our longest episode a...

Let us take you on a musical journey through a landscape forged mostly of rock and metal. Each Octo-host will present 4 albums that are not just favorites of ours but important. We'll wax about how each one helped make us into the people we are today and why they will always hold a special place in our hearts. Later on we'll ask you to name an important concert you attended, before finally droppin...

For everything Chris Philbrook, you gotta go straight to the source: https://www.thechrisphilbrook.com/ ---------------------------------------- Retro Ridoctopus is: • Parasite Steve ( read ) • 8-Bit Alchemy ( listen ) • Nintenjoe ( subscribe ) ---------------------------------------- All original heavy metal music by Enchanted Exile Retro Ridoctopus is part of the Dorkening Podcast Network , the...

Jammed in between the incredibly popular N64 and Wii consoles, Nintendo released a really great system with a tons of exclusive games that unfortunately made a much smaller splash. We are here to celebrate the GameCube just before it's 21st birthday! Nintenjoe will lead the discussion and cover the technical stuff before we start presenting some of our favorite games! Later on, we'll read the resu...

Lots of toys came in GLOW IN THE DARK varieties, but do you know how they worked? For this episode, we drop a little history and pinch of science of your butts all to answer the question... how do glow in the dark things work? And before you can say SCARE GLOW, we swing things around to our normal format and each present a handful of phosphorescent fun we remember from when we were kids. Tack on s...

Learn more about the fabulous new book we dished on in the episode by visiting the publisher's page for HEART, WINGS and FIRE ! Check out Trisha's website at https://anovelfriend.com and be sure to follow her on Facebook and Twitter ! ---------------------------------------- Retro Ridoctopus is: • Parasite Steve ( read ) • 8-Bit Alchemy ( listen ) • Nintenjoe ( subscribe ) ---------------...

Mysterious fires! Untimely deaths!! Bolts of lighting hitting Italian churches!!! Can a movie production truly be cursed? We present the evidence for 6 famously maligned films and leave it up to you (The Retroids) to decide! And later on, after a particularly creepy Octoponder This, the one called Parasite will bellyache about a random video game boss in another edition of DIE MONSTER! -----------...

For this episode, Nintenjoe leads us on a journey to dust off some classic video game cheats! We split the discussion in to imputable codes (button sequences you have to press at a certain time) and typable cheats (secrets accessible only by password or by inputting a certain name for your quest). We cover some great ones! Later on, we'll tackle this week's OCTOPONDER THIS question as well as get...

Check out James Lamond's film work on the official It Came From The 508 website and follow them on Facebook ! ---------------------------------------- Retro Ridoctopus is: • Parasite Steve ( read ) • 8-Bit Alchemy ( listen ) • Nintenjoe ( subscribe ) ---------------------------------------- All original heavy metal music by Enchanted Exile Retro Ridoctopus is part of the Dorkening Podcast Network...

This episode is definitely part of a balanced breakfast. Ignoring the dirty looks from mom, this week, we jam our grubby mitts into some cereal boxes to pull out the free toy packed inside! Remember those Wacky Wall Walkers? How about the Nabisco Spoonmen? Listen as we chronicle some of the weirdest and most memorable free prizes from the 50s to the mid aughts! Later on, we'll tackle this week's O...

When we decided to do an episode on card games, we immediately thought of our good friend Dani! She was a professional casino dealer for over 12 years and possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of not just Magic The Gathering but just about any card game you could mention. So roll up your sleeves and prep those poker faces, because we cover everything from Go Fish and Solitaire to Pokemon and Yu-Gi-O...

It's music time again, folks! Nintenjoe's popular recurring Themes From a Memory is BACK. This time, the mission was to choose cartoon shows from the land of the rising sun, Japan! That's right, we play some killer theme songs from anime old and new, some in English, some in Japanese. As always, we hope you'll have plenty to be nostalgic about while finding one or two new things you'll want to che...

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There's something out there waiting for us, and it ain't no man... In honor of the new period Comanche vs Predator show "PREY", we power up our plasma cannons and set our triangular sites on the every movie and darn nearly every video game to feature a member of the Yautja race! All that plus we'll read the answers to this week's Octoponder This question before Nintenjoe gets us to the C...

Track listing: Block 1 Duke’s Theme – Battle Arena Toshinden The Windmill Peak – A Hat in Time Strife and Ruin – Blasphemous Counter Attack – Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Venus – Contra Shattered Soldier Block 2 - Arcade Freeway – TMNT Arcade In A Tight Squeeze – Super Contra Shadow Elf in the Harsh Fight – D&D Shadow Over Mysteria Kombat Tomb – Mortal Kombat 2 Arcade Gargos Theme – KI2 Arcade Block...

ZOOM! PLOWIE! Out of the shadows speeds this supplemental Crow's Nest! Since we just talked about 8 awesome vehicles on our last mainline episode (080: Vehicles / Characters That Drive Us) we wanted to take the time to spotlight one we purposely swerved around. The Batmobile debuted in 1938 in Detective Comics #27 and has been cleaning up the streets of Gotham ever since! For this episode, we cove...

Ready for some ships, quips and automobiles? When iconic hero vehicles come to mind, you probably think of things like the Batmobile, The DeLorean and of course KITT. Funny thing is, we are going to dive a little deeper than that. For this episode, we'll shine the headlights on 8 vehicles from movies, tv and cartoons that really feel like characters in their own right. And later on, we've got a BI...

Returning guest Birkir Fannar (AKA Leikjarinn) hops back on the mic as promised, to deliver a bit of a biography on, well, himself! We discuss some American conceptions of Iceland and which Disney character is so prevalent there, Leik grew up thinking he was an Iceland original! All that an lots more in this fun and educational episode of THE CROW'S NEST!! Follow Leik on Twitter @Leikjarinn and wa...

With the help of Transformers super fan, GwenNinja we cover THE Transformers cartoon of the 90s! First, we each spotlight a favorite episode before blasting into a bunch more fun like coming up with our own characters for this week's OCTOPONDER THIS question and finally rating every Maximal and Predacon who had multiple bodies! It's a cybernetic celebration that'll have you shouting Retro Ridoctop...