RetroLogic - Episode 62

33:56 - The Price Is Retro

1:14:48 - Show Topic - Half-Life

1:45:25 - Community Couch

Welcome to RetroLogic episode 62 - I'm Dan Caporello. Here with John Cummins, Sam Wagers And special guest Sean Capri from the Podcasting Network ‘You, Me, and Capri’

But RetroLogic isn’t just a podcast, It’s also a Blog! Visit retrologic.games, click “blog” at the top to check out fresh content every month! Sam, tell us what’s coming this week…

Housekeeping: GOTY30 episode on Dec 28th - 1991 Join the discord to vote

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

Sean: Big Brain Academy, Halo Infinite, Forza Horizon 5, Pokemon Diamond, Furi,

Sam: Mega man Battle Network,

John: Bought: Mario Golf Advance Tour, Kung Fu Chaos XB, Perfect Dark Zero XB360, Brute Force XB, Kameo XB360, Sonic Unleashed Wii, General Chaos Genesis, Sonic the Hedgehog PS3, Sudeki XB, House of the Dead Overkill PS3, Popeye NES, and Popeye Famicom Played: Pokemon Brilliant Diamond, Star Wars KOTOR, Far Lone Sails, and Forgone.

Dan: Archvale, TG16 mini

The price is RETRO

How to play: I’m going to list off 4-5 games. You’re going to guess how much the games are worth in total, dollars and cents. Whoever is closest to guessing the actual price of the lot, wins! Everyone has a list, and everyone guesses. The “ghost” always guesses $300

Dan’s list Sam’s list John’s list Sean’s list Galaxy Wolf’s list BintendoMan89’s list Ken L’s list

“Spot the fake game” The Ambassador Galaxy Wolf Ken L

Trivia Questions from cards

Check out the Price Is Retro Database at Retrologic.games for history and stats for all of our past games!

Show Topic

Topic: Half Life

 

Releases: Half-Life, was released on November 19, 1998 for Windows November 16, 2004, Valve released Half-Life 2. Half-Life 2 was the first game to use Valve's Steam content delivery system Episode One was released on June 1, 2006 Episode Two was released for Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on October 10, 2007 as part of the compilation The Orange Box. Valve released Half-Life: Alyx, a virtual reality (VR) game, on March 23, 2020, for Windows.

Hal-Life Developement: According to designer Harry Teasley, Doom was a major influence, and the team wanted Half-Life to "scare you like Doom did". According to designer Brett Johnson, the level design was inspired by environments in the manga series Akira. By September 1997, the team found that while they had built some innovative aspects in weapons, enemies, and level design, the game was not fun and there was little design cohesion.[16] The company postponed the release and reworked every level. They also produced a 30-page document for the narrative, and hired science fiction novelist Marc Laidlaw to help manage the script.[11][16] Laidlaw said his contribution was to add "old storytelling tricks" to the team's ambitious designs: "I was in awe of [the team]. It felt to me like I was just borrowing from old standards while they were the ones doing something truly new."[

Half Life 2 Developement: Valve announced Half-Life 2 at E3 2003, with demonstrations of the characters, animation, and physics. The reaction was positive, and the game won the E3 Game of the Show award.[8] Newell also announced a release date, September 30, 2003 Rumors spread of a delay, but Valve made no announcement until September 23, when they released a statement targeting a "holiday" release, leading to fan backlash. In early October, the Half-Life 2 source code was leaked online by a German hacker, Axel Gembe, who had infiltrated Valve's internal network months earlier. A week later, a playable version of Half-Life 2 was compiled from the source code, revealing how unfinished it was. In 2004, the development team returned after Christmas to long hours, stressful working conditions, and no guarantee that the game, which was costing $1 million a month to develop, would be finished soon.

Eric Plunk — Today at 11:55 AM Like many other PC games of the era, I enjoyed Half Life 1 & 2 vicariously through one of my best friends who always had the latest and greatest video cards. Half Life felt very much like the beginning of in engine cinematic storytelling and Half Life 2 built on that. Unfortunately the home console versions of these games didn’t live up to the original releases so I haven’t played through them on my own to this day. I need to acquire The Orange Box collection for my HL2 fix.

Community Couch

Questions Eric Plunk — 12/10/2021 Before you started collecting, when is the last time you remember playing a NES or other console? For me I remember playing one of the Sharp TV’s with a NES built in at a friend’s apartment around 2002. Punch Out was the main game I remember playing.

Outro

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