Welcome to RetroLogic! I'm Dan Caporello here with John Cummis and Shannon Eno and Sam Wagers, alongside special guest: author of the Definitive Book of SNES RPGs vol 1 Moses Norton AKA The Well Red Mage

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Tell me one thing that happened this week!

Housekeeping

Sam: Streaming Armored Core (Mon) and Path of Radiance (Sat) Ham Ham Heartbreak Saturday!

On Topic Retro: Zelda Phantom Hourglass

RetroGroove:Albums of the year: 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, 2015, 2025

FilmLogic: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai

The Price Is Retro - 17:40

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 Dinosaur - Leonard - adds up original costs, retail value

Ghost - Polterguest - always guesses 300

Shan's list

Sam's list Dan's list - 1 John's List - 1

Moses List - 2 Rampage - 1

Sam's Spot the Fake

Break: 50:10

Show Topic- Game Genres

WRM - How did you choose what games to include in the book? (What is an RPG anyway?)

RPG Edge cases - discuss

What's the point of classifying genres anyway?

-group like things together

-help people find more things they like

-Is Game genre the same sort of thing as genre in other media?(film, literature, art, cuisine)

-notably, some other media can distinguish genre from things like "movements" (landscape is a genre, cubism is a movement)

–for that matter, does food have genres?

How different genres get defined: (maybe)

JRPG vs CRPG: (?)

Broad focus : Action, strategy, puzzle, Adventure, Stealth, Racing

Mechanical elements: (turn based strategy vs. real time strategy)

Camera? (1st person shooter vs third person shooter)

Theming/aesthetics: Horror, Cozy(?), Sports(?)

Newer genre terms: Metroidvania, Roguelike/Roguelite, MOBA, Soulslike

Platform Fighter (sometimes tied to claims about smash bros. legitimacy as a competitive fighter

What do we call Culdcept/Dokapon/Fortune Street?

Genre Hybrids: are these genres or just descriptors?

NES color guide:

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