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Sam: Streaming FE Path of Radiance and Armored Core 2

On Topic Retro: Zelda Skyward Sword Retro Rewind Super Castlevania IV

Gradius

Backlog recap

The Price Is Retro - 13:55

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

Dan's List Sam's list John's List

Shannon's List

Spot the fake Pikmin treasure

Show Topic -

5

Puzzle games

SameGame/CHAINSHOT (1985)

Tetris and all its iterations (what's your favorite?)

(1988)

The many attempts to make a real "sequel" to tetris (or market something unrelated as one)

Tetris 2/Tetris Flash (1993)

Breakthru (1994)

Tetris attack (1996)

3D tetris (1996)

Tetrisphere (1997)

Pajitnov's other puzzle games:

Welltris (1989)

Hatris (1990)

Faces…tris III (1990) Wordtris (1992)

Never had the staying power of the original

The other titans of the genre:

Columns (1989)

Dr Mario (1990)

Puyo Puyo (1991)

Yoshi (1991)

Vs Puzzle games really took off

Cosmo gang the puzzle (1992)

Yoshi's Cookie (1992)

Wario's woods (1994)

Bomberman Panic bomber (1994)

Puzzle bobble (1994)

Panel De pon (1995)

Magical Drop (1995)

Super Puzzle Fighter II turbo (1996)

(characters actually have unique patterns they send to opponents)

Largely fell out of fashion, but seem to be coming back

Dr. Luigi (2013)

Puyo Puyo Tetris (2014)

Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 (2020)

Tetris effect: connected (2020)

Tetris 99 (2019)

Crystal Crisis (2019)

Licensing opportunities (some already mentioned), spinoffs

Aforementioned puzzle fighter, yoshi's cookie, dr mario, puyo puyo

Dr Robotnik's mean bean machine (1993)

Pac attack (1993)

Panel de pon's "tetris attack" and "pokemon puzzle league" forms

Kirby's avalanche (1995)

Hebereke's Popoitto (1994)

Kirby Star Stacker (1997)

Rampage Puzzle Attack (2001)

Pokemon Trozei (2005)

Puzzle & dragons Super mario edition (2015)

Snood (1996)

This game is on like every platform. I'm not sure how it displaced puzzle bobble but it did.

Bejeweled (2001)

Bejeweled-likes (Zoo Keeper, Jewel Quest, Chuzzle)

Meteos (2005)

Mobile as the new haven for matching puzzle games

Block puzzle hybrids

Block Hole/Quarth

Puzzle Quest

Puzzle & Dragons

Henry Hatsworth

Suika game (2024)

Community Couch

Savannah the Hyena Queen — 5/29/2026 9:27 PMFriday, May 29, 2026 9:27 PM

Does Mario's Super Picross count? That game is fun, specially the Wario levels

Savannah the Hyena Queen — 5/29/2026 9:30 PM

I'm really bad at picross so my clear times are abysmal, but it's still a really relaxing loop that's nice if I don't really want to play something more involved

Your Wallet's Defense Attorney — 5/29/2026 9:33 PM

Mario's Super Picross is what got me into Picross, a past time I have become thoroughly engrossed. It's the perfect thing to do while paying attention to something else. In fact, I used to catch up on Retro Logic episodes while playing Mario's Super Picross...

SNES_is_Life — 5/29/2026 9:44 PM

Yoshis cookie!

Drex1981 [ARC], — 5/30/2026 9:37 AM

I don't know if this counts or not but in the original Metal Gear Solid when fighting Psycho Mantis. You had to switch to controller port 2 to avoid being controlled by him.

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