"Side Quest Radio" is a podcast cover for a gaming show, in a retro arcade style. Mustard-yellow pixel letters with a dark drop shadow run across the top of a deep red square, above an 8-bit vintage microphone and a pixel joystick with a red ball top. Swap in your own show name for a gaming talk podcast.

Create a finished 1:1 square podcast cover for Apple Podcasts and Spotify, designed to remain immediately readable as a small app icon. Render only the exact show name “Side Quest Radio”; no other words, letters, numbers, logos, or interface elements. Use a solid, fully opaque deep-red background with a restrained, limited-color retro arcade palette. Make the show name the unmistakable hero: custom chunky pixel-display lettering, arranged on two compact lines as “SIDE QUEST” above “RADIO,” with pixel-stepped corners, broad strokes, tight spacing, and a clean mustard-yellow fill. Keep every title letter crisp, high-contrast, and comfortably within a generous safe margin. Add one clearly recognizable vintage broadcast microphone and one classic arcade joystick as bold pixel-art props, positioned beneath and around the title without obscuring any letters. Build their silhouettes from simple square pixels, with mustard highlights and restrained cream accents against the deep red; the microphone should read as a ribbed vintage mic, the joystick as a ball-top stick on a compact base with a single button. Keep the graphic balanced and uncluttered, with no tiny detail. Flat, sharply edged pixel construction, consistent pixel grid, subtle limited cel-shading, no gradients, no glow, no photographic elements, no transparency. Polished, legible podcast-cover artwork.