RetroLogic - Episode 68

 

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Housekeeping:

• Odama-rama This thursday, feb 3rd at 9pm CST

• Breath of firebruary

 

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

 

Bruce: Bought: Assassin’s creed : Valhalla

Played: Hyrule warriors definitive edition, Burnout paradise, assassin’s creed Valhalla

 

Sam: Bought: Crusader Kings 3 on Steam.

played: more culdcep revolt, spelunky 2

 

Dan: Micky’s Speedway USA, Aidyn Chronicles, Conker’s Pocket Tales. Pokemon Legends

Played: Skyward Sword

 

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 that lot.

Everyone has a list, and everyone guesses.The “ghost” always guesses $300

 

New Rule! Starting now.The overall winner is NOT determined by how close you are to guessing.The winner is now the person who got the closest the most number of times.And we’ll use closest by dollar amount as a tie breaker.Capiche? 

Dan’s list

Sam’s list

Bruce’s list

 

SkinnyMatt’s list

ChrisHL’s list

Flightsy’s list

 

“Blank-o-pedia”

“I’m going to start reading the description of a game from wikipedia. As soon as you think you know, hit your buzzer, and I’ll let you guess. If you’re wrong I’m giving the other person an opportunity to guess. If you’re both wrong I’ll keep reading until someone else buzzez in.”

 

“Who’s That Pokemon?”“Read the description of a pokemon on Bulbapedia and guess who it is”

 

Trivia Card

 

Check out the Price Is Retro Database at Retrologic.games

Show Topic

(Game Highlight, News Highlight, Discussion topic)

 

Topic: The legacy of the Turbographx-16

 

Fast facts:

• The console has an 8-bit CPU and a dual 16-bit graphics processing unit (GPU)
• It was released in Japan in 1987 and in North America in 1989.
• In Japan, the PC Engine was very successful. It gained strong third-party support and outsold the Famicom at its 1987 debut, eventually becoming the Super Famicom's main rival.

 

• Dan Played:
• Bomberman Panic Bomber
• Super Darius
• Bonks Revenge
• New Adventure Island
• Soldier Blade

Community Comments:

Flightsy — 

Unfortunately, I have no experience with the TurboGrafx-16.  I CAN tell you it's been used on Price is Retro in Season 1 seven times (5 by @Dan - RetroLogic and 2 by @Datfast ).  The add-on TG-CD has been used only once (by @16bitwar-nomad), but it was used 4 episodes before the regular TG-16!

 

OctoRock (Adam) — 

In 3rd and 4th grade I had a friend who had both a TurboGrafx and a Sega Genesis, so playing at his house was my first introduction to both of those systems. He only had a few TurboGrax games, Bonk’s Adventure and a couple others I have no memory of because we almost never played it since the Genesis just seemed better in every conceivable way.

 

oops — 

I remember one kid had it at my school and he would always try and tell us how bonk was better than Mario or sonic. No one believed him. Even in high school we would remind him of his bad taste on the playground.

Community Couch

Retro Rewind

Odama-rama starts Jan 1stPick up your copy (dont forget the mic!) and play along!

 

Community Couch Questions:

 

Flightsy — 

Community Couch question:  on last week’s podcast you were talking about how the Pokémon franchise hasn’t changed much, and that it releasing a game almost every year was decreasing the quality of each game.  I noticed that the Kirby franchise also doesn’t change much, and releases games almost every year.    Yet, it doesn’t get as much derision as the Pokémon franchise.  What do you think the difference is?

 

 

Outro

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