Introduction

Welcome to RetroLogic! I’m Dan Caporello here with Sam Wagers, John Cummis and Shannon Eno

 

But RetroLogic isn’t just a podcast. It’s a community of retro gamers! - We’ve got an active, friendly, and free discord.

- Giveaways

- Contests

- AND Dive into our family of Retro podcasts! Like RetroGroove, a music history podcast, and On Topic Retro, a podcast dedicated to 1 video game per episode hosted by our very own John Cummins.

- you can find everything at our website retrologic.games

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The Price Is Retro

If this is your first time playing Price Is Retro, here’s how we play. I’m going to list off 4 or 5 games and everyone has to guess how much the lot is worth in total. Whoever is closest to the actual value wins that round! Everyone has a list and everyone guesses on each other's list. At the end, the player that won the most rounds wins the episode! But watch out for the robot Deus Guess Machina! He averages all of our guesses together for his own guess

Shan’s list

Sam’s list

John’s list

Dan’s list

 

Trivia Card

 

Show Topic

Civilization:

The series began in 1991 on PC, developed by Microprose, several staff member who worked on the series also made their mark on strategy games later elsewhere.

Sid meier: left microprose in 1996 to form firaxis. Consulted on civ 2 but really only worked on Civ 1, even though the series still bears his name. (Pirates!, Alpha Centauri, Railroad tycoon) Bruce Shelley: Civilization 1, Age of Empires Brian Reynolds: Civilization 2, Age of Empires, Rise of Nations

Soren Johnson: Civ III and IV, Spore, Offworld trading company

 

Is the codifier of what has been called the 4X genre.

 

Subtopics:

-experience with the game

-victory conditions

-favorite civs/leaders/strategies

-changes across the series

-nuclear Gandhi

-civ II mods and freeciv

-music

Community Couch

Thanks for listening to the RetroLogic Podcast! We are proudly part of the Nintendo Dads family of podcasts. If you like what you hear, check me out on Bluesky at @RetrologicGames. You’re also welcome to jump into our friendly and 100% non-toxic Discord Community! The link to that is in my twitter bio.

You can also find everything on our website Retrologic.games

Discord Invite: https://discord.gg/xYEwRK934U