Retronauts Episode 777: Capcom’s Platformer Legacy (’90s)

Code Name: Venerable

Here at Retronauts, context is everything. Nothing exists in a vacuum, least of all video games made by people influenced by other people and other video games. Hence our periodic habit of examining one company’s output in a particular era to see how things fit together.

We started running down (pun intended) Capcom’s platformers of the 1980s as a Patreon exclusive episode. This week, host Jeremy Parish reconvenes with Stuart Gipp and Patrick Kulikowski to enter the 90s. Expect Disney hijinks, gritty shooters, and of course a certain blue robot.

Description: Jeremy Parish, Stuart Gipp, and Patrick Kulikowski drop another quarter into the machine to continue talking about the platform action games that Capcom developed, this time in the 1990s. Only some of them are Mega Mans!

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Editing thanks go to Greg Leahy.