RetroLogic - Episode 35

 

Today we'll be chatting about …

• Chrono Trigger
• The Legend of Zelda Four Swords
• Community Questions

 

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Icebreaker - what did you buy? And what did you play?

Sam: Big sky trooper in shipping limbo.  Might have to settle for refund.  Pal SNES lot from ebay (lufa, illusion of time (illusion of gaia), terranigma (!), and Zelda ALttP.)  They’re likely all in german though.  Played: finished DK ‘94, EarthBound per usual, Starting Chrono trigger (steam ver.).  Non-retro: Monster hunter, Maneater.

 

John: Primal Rage figures, Ready to Rumble Wireless fighting game, Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World SNES, Bandai Packri Monster Handheld, and Maze Craze 2600.   Finished Phantasy Star, Started PS2, Magical Drop II NSO SNES app, and playing DQ1

 

Dan: Retro Game Stores of West Houston. Battletoads NES, NES Dogbone controller.

The price is RETRO

 

Dan’s list

John’s list

Sam’s list

 

Crossplay

Chrono Trigger

 

This day in gaming history

Legend of Mana -  21 Years Ago (June 7, 2000)

Legend of Mana is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation. It is the fourth game in the Mana series, following 1995's Trials of Mana.

 

Legend of Zelda Four Swords Adventure -  17 Years Ago (June 7, 2004)

Released for the GameCube.  It was the first multiplayer The Legend of Zelda game to be released, requiring two to four Game Boy Advance systems with a copy of the game to be linked up.

Old News

• Yuji Naka left Square Enix in April. Following Balan’s Wonderowrld failure

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/06/yuji_naka_parted_ways_with_square_enix_following_balan_wonderworlds_release

• EarthBound's "Lost Secrets" Have Been Revealed Thanks To The Recovery Of Localisation Source Files.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/06/video_earthbounds_lost_secrets_have_been_revealed_thanks_to_the_recovery_of_localisation_source_files

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Game Re-leases

NINJA GAIDEN: Master Collection

PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Windows PC

Thursday Jun 10, 2021

 

Break

 

Community Content

Catch our 35th Anniversary of METROID Live Panel as part of Dadfest! Streamed live next Tuesday, June 15th starting at 9pm CST.Featuring: Me, John, Logan from The Reformed Gamer podcast, and Nintendo Dad Tim Off!

 

Retro Rewind

Game Announcement coming soon!

Question of the week

InfiniteBlue — 06/02/2021

Here's a question for everyone:

What's a game that had RNG (aka random chance) greatly affect your experience with it, for better or for worse?

 

RNG has been on my mind a lot lately as I've recently finished 100%ing Pokemon Stadium 2. There were countless instances where my strategy would have completely shut down the CPU opponents, only to be foiled by a convenient string of bad luck to give the CPU a cheesy win.

On the flip side, that same RNG was enormously satisfying the times when it went my way, giving me a fighting chance using the underpowered rental Pokemon. There were a couple times in the Challenge Cup where a timely critical or miss was the only way to even reach a winnable state.

 

Flightsy — 06/02/2021

For my Kirby’s Dream Land letsplay (yes I know I won’t shut up about it),  for the 1 vitality 1 life run, trying to beat Kabula was practically up to RNG.  She fires so fast it’s impossible to consciously predict, so I had to rely on muscle memory built up over months and luck.  I’d say that effected my experience.

 

Sam: XCOM 2, Crusader kings 2, 3, Fire emblem

Iron man mode really forces a different way of playing.  They should add that to fire emblem!

 

hambone jonny — 06/04/2021

If this hasn’t already been asked, what are some of your favorite “continue” screens?  Street Fighter 2 with the character’s face all pummeled in comes to mind for me.

 

solo_something — 06/04/2021

That one comes into my mind as well and Kid Icarus running across the sky ridge thing and shooting up at your score

 

16bitnomad — 06/04/2021

The final fight series was pretty good…dynamite, water, and spikes!!

 

SpiderShan — Yesterday at 5:54 AM

Does the one for Zelda 2 count?  It was more the laugh than anything else!(Game Over… Return of Ganon)

 

Throwback Thursday

Spotlight - Sam Wagers

Mini Interview

 

Outro

 

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