RetroLogic - Episode 16

Welcome to RetroLogic! I'm Dan Caporello here with John Cummins.

RetroLogic is the official podcast of Block Fort Retro, the place to shop online for high quality, clean, authentic retro games. Visit Blockfortretro.com

Nintendo Powers various issues from 251-270 up now

#gamingforguru

(what did you buy? And what did you play?)
John Bought - New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Banjo Tooie

John Played - Celeste and Hydro Thunder DC

Dan Bought - Yoshis Island SNES. on the hunt for a Dreamcast.

 

(The price is RETRO)
ChrisHL94 lot

(Crossplay)

Excitebike
Super Metroid

 

(This day in gaming history)
31 Years Ago (January 11, 1990) Genesis             Herzog Zwei

16 Years Ago (January 11, 2005) GameCube Resident Evil 4

(break)

(Old News)

 

(Community Questions)

ChrisHL94

I was wondering what @everyone would consider the best year for game releases? It could be just the year your favourite games were released or just the best in terms of quality games released that year.

 

Frosticles43 🇬🇧Today at 2:20 PM

I can't say what year specifically as it was 5 glorious years but GAMECUBE. Need I say more haha

 

Eric Plunk Today at 3:01 PM

It’s 1998 for me, mostly because of Ocarina of Time. That year also saw such greats as Half Life, Metal Gear Solid, Banjo Kazooie, Starcraft, F-Zero X, Mario Party, Pokemon Red & Blue, and Resident Evil 2. The wrestling fan within me would be remiss not to mention WCW/nWo Revenge as well. 15 year old me had plenty to be excited about that year!
Had to edit my answer to include Pokemon Red & Blue, how could I forget that? Granted, I was never into Pokémon but it has a huge place in history.

SpiderShan

That is so difficult!  I’m most nostalgic for the games that came out between’85-‘91 (NES) closely followed by the SNES years. ‘93-‘94 was a great couple years with SNES and GB. If I’m objective though I believe that the BEST year in gaming was probably 2017 with the release of the Switch and BotW, Mario Odyssey, and so much more. Best launch year for any console in my opinion. The 3DS was also turning out a lot of great games still.

(Outro)

Thanks for listening to RetroLogic! The official podcast of Block Fort Retro. If you like what you hear, follow me on Twitter @blockfortretro, I’m also on YouTube and Twitch doing streams and such of old games.

RetroLogic - Episode 15

RetroLogic is the official podcast of Block Fort Retro, the place to shop online for high quality, clean, authentic retro games. Visit Blockfortretro.com

(what did you buy? And what did you play?)
John Bought - Top Gun NES, Hogan’s Alley NES,LoZ Link to the Past GBA, Metroid Zero Mission GBA, Mario Clash Virtual Boy, Bomberman GB, and Pokemon Platinum DS

Dan Bought - rhythm heaven DS, Iridion 2

 

(The price is RETRO)

(Crossplay)

New Games

(break)

(Old News) 

DSiware pulled form the eshop

The Game Boy accessory "Work Boy" Discovered!

 

(Community Questions)
Your favorite obscure GBA and DS games!

(Outro)

Thanks for listening to RetroLogic! The official podcast of Block Fort Retro. If you like what you hear, follow me on Twitter @blockfortretro.

In the final episode of the year, Dan and John discuss the awards and nominations to decide on the best games of the year 1990.

RetroLogic is the official podcast of Block Fort Retro, the place to shop online for high quality, clean, authentic retro games. Visit Blockfortretro.com

25 Game release contenders:
Bonk's Adventure - TurboGrafx-16
Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES
Snake's Revenge - NES
Smash TV - Arcade
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light - Japanese Famicom
Final Fantasy - NES
Dr. Mario - NES, Gameboy
Wing Commander - MS-DOS
Megaman 3 - NES
The Secret of Monkey Island - PC
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game - NES
Phantasy Star II - Sega Genesis
Herzog Zwei - Sega Genesis
Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse - Sega Genesis
John Madden Football - SNES, Sega Genesis
Moonwalker - Sega Genesis
Little Nemo: The Dream Master - NES
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan - Gameboy
Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers - NES
Columns - Sega Genesis
Castlevaina 3: Dracula’s Curse - NES
Devil’s Crush - TG-16
Super Star Soldier - TG-16
Gargoyle's Quest - Gameboy
Final Fantasy Legend - Gameboy

1990 GOTY30 Awards

 

Game Of The Year:

Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game - NES

Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers - NES

Bonk's Adventure - TurboGrafx-16

Megaman 3 - NES

Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse - Sega Genesis
Castlevaina 3: Dracula’s Curse - NES

Community Game Of The Year:

Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES
Smash TV - Arcade
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light - Japanese Famicom
Final Fantasy - NES
Megaman 3 - NES
The Secret of Monkey Island - PC
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game - NES
Phantasy Star II - Sega Genesis
Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse - Sega Genesis
Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers - NES

 

Console Of The Year:

NES

Sega Genesis

Gameboy

Turbografx - 16

 

Handheld Game Of The Year:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan - Gameboy

Dr. Mario - NES, Gameboy

Balloon Kid - Gameboy
Gargoyle's Quest - Gameboy

Final Fantasy Legend - Gameboy

 

NES Game Of The Year:

Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light - Japanese Famicom

Final Fantasy - NES

Megaman 3 - NES

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game - NES

Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers - NES

 

Sega Genesis Game Of The Year:

Phantasy Star II - Sega Genesis

Herzog Zwei - Sega Genesis

Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse - Sega Genesis

Moonwalker - Sega Genesis

Columns - Sega Genesis

 

PC Game Of The Year:

Wing Commander - MS-DOS

The Secret of Monkey Island - PC

 

TurboGrafx-16 Game Of The Year

Bonk's Adventure - TG-16

Devil’s Crush - TG-16

Super Star Soldier - TG-16

 

Platformer Of The Year:

Bonk's Adventure - TurboGrafx-16

Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES

Megaman 3 - NES

Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse - Sega Genesis

Little Nemo: The Dream Master - NES

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan - Gameboy

Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers - NES

Gargoyle's Quest - Gameboy

Action Game Of The Year:

Snake's Revenge - NES

Smash TV - Arcade

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game - NES

Herzog Zwei - Sega Genesis

Moonwalker - Sega Genesis

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan - Gameboy

 

RPG Of The Year:

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light - Japanese Famicom

Final Fantasy - NES

The Secret of Monkey Island - PC

Phantasy Star II - Sega Genesis

Final Fantasy Legend - Gameboy

 

Shmup Of The Year:

Wing Commander - MS-DOS

Herzog Zwei - Sega Genesis

Super Star Soldier - TG-16

 

Puzzle Game Of The Year:

Dr. Mario - NES, Gameboy

Columns - Sega Genesis

 

Strategy Game Of The Year:

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light - Japanese Famicom

Herzog Zwei - Sega Genesis

 

Beat-Em-Up Of The Year:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game - NES

Moonwalker - Sega Genesis

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan - Gameboy

.

Underdog Of The Year:

Bonk's Adventure - TurboGrafx-16

Snake's Revenge - NES

Phantasy Star II - Sega Genesis

Herzog Zwei - Sega Genesis

Little Nemo: The Dream Master - NES

Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers - NES

Columns - Sega Genesis

 

Mascot Game Of The Year:

Bonk's Adventure - TurboGrafx-16

Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game - NES

Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse - Sega Genesis

Moonwalker - Sega Genesis

Little Nemo: The Dream Master - NES

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan - Gameboy

Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers - NES

 

Overrated Game Of The Year:

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light - Japanese Famicom

Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers - NES

Smash TV - Arcade

Final Fantasy - NES

 

Innovative Game Of The Year:

Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light - Japanese Famicom

Dr. Mario - NES, Gameboy

Wing Commander - MS-DOS

The Secret of Monkey Island - PC

Herzog Zwei - Sega Genesis

 

Multiplayer Game Of The Year:

Smash TV - Arcade

Dr. Mario - NES, Gameboy

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game - NES

Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers - NES

 

Best Original Soundtrack - 

Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse - Sega Genesis

Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES

Dr. Mario - NES, Gameboy

Megaman 3 - NES

RetroLogic - Episode 13

 

(Introduction)

 

Welcome to RetroLogic! I'm Dan Caporello here with John Cummins,

And this week we've got a special guest Sam (AKA Third Strongest Mole) with us to talk about… 

RetroLogic is the official podcast of Block Fort Retro, the place to shop online for high quality, clean, authentic retro games. Visit Blockfortretro.com

 

(what did you buy? And what did you play?) 

Sam - Bought (and currently in shipping limbo) - Plok SNES, Knights in the Nightmare DS

Sam Played - Mega Man 2, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light, Super Valis IV

John Bought - Donkey Kong ‘94 GB, Plok SNES, StarTropics NES, and Final Fantasy NES

John Played - Immortals, Finished AoC, Started Shadow Dragon

 

Dan Bought - 

Dan Played - 

 

(The price is RETRO)
List from SpiderShan - (in discord)

 

(Crossplay)
Megaman 2 Discussion

Community reaction:

• Marty:

The greatest retro game of all time. Full stop.

• togobap

@Marty especially on the TurboGrafx 16

• HeyItsChad!

I mean it’s the best one of the entire series also best intro music

 

• Adrock

 

By far my favorite MM. iconic music, easily the best soundtrack of all of them. Maybe shouldn’t say by far because MM3 is close behind

 

• Spidershan

 

Only got a chance to beat the robot masters this week but I always like returning to this game. I was never as good as my friend but I remember watching him play it to completion. I think the first time I beat it was with a Game Genie. I finally beat it years later without the help. Now I am using save states so I guess I’ve gone full circle. rofl The music is spot on and some of the most memorable at the time (next to Mario and Zelda). I have a hard time deciding if I like this one or Mega Man 3 better.

Roll the dice for next week (which will really be 2 weeks because of GOTY30 next week)

 

(break)

 

(This day in gaming history)

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist - Genesis - 1992 (28 years ago)

 

(Old News) 

 

• So… Gino is in smash… sorta…

 

 

(Game Releases)

• New games added to NSO
• • Super NES
  • • Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble!
    • The Ignition Factor – top-down firefighting game.
    • Super Valis IV – wizard platformer adventure thing.
    • Tuff E Nuff – fighting game.
  • NES
  • • Nightshade – Detective point-and-click adventure
• Arcade Archives VS. Tennis - Released Dec 18th. the VS. arcade machine version of the classic black box Tennis game for NES.
• COLLECTION OF SaGa: FINAL FANTASY LEGEND - Released Dec 15th. Includes FF Legend, FF Legend 2, and FF Legend 3 for Game Boy.

 

(Outro)

Next week is our special GOTY30 episode. Not a normal episode. We will resume with your favorite Retrologic content on January 4th. Happy Holidays!

 

Thanks for listening to RetroLogic! The official podcast of Block Fort Retro. If you like what you hear, follow me on Twitter @blockfortretro, I’m also on YouTube and Twitch doing streams and such of old games.

RetroLogic - Episode 12

RetroLogic is the official podcast of Block Fort Retro, the place to shop online for high quality, clean, authentic retro games. Visit Blockfortretro.com

 

(what did you buy? And what did you play?)
John Bought - NES remix Wii U, Super Star Wars Empire Strikes Back SNES, Pocket Bomberman GB, Ogre Battle 64, and both Ori games on Switch

Dan Played - Cyberpunk, Plok

(The price is RETRO)

(Crossplay)
Megaman 6 Discussion

• Gameplay
• Bosses
• Community reaction
  
  Marty:

Playing through Mega Man 6 reminds me how weird it is, almost as much of a sore thumb from the rest of the series as 1 is. Lots of new mechanics they tried (no Rush, real/fake Boss Gates, Energy Balancer, Jet Pack and Power Pack.) After 5 it's almost too easy.

 

Adr0ck:

Mega Man 1 was quite enjoyable and just about as good as I remembered. Mega Man 6 is a mixed bag for me. I consider myself a pretty seasoned gamer, and I played and beat most of these games as a kid, but the boss battles in 6 are just way too difficult, to the point that I simply give up out of frustration and boredom instead of wanting to push to beat them. I really can't wait to go through Mega Man 2 and 3 again as those are my favorites.

 

SpiderShan:

Not sure if I replied in time but my experience with MM 1 and MM6 is that I feel like the platforming has improved a lot over the course of the NES games. I still “died” a lot in MM6 (thank you save states!) but it didn’t feel as cheap when I did. I felt like the deaths were more my fault than a bad level design. On the other hand, I struggled more on the robot masters at the end of each stage in MM6 than MM1, even when using the “right” weapon against them. Not sure if they were just tougher or if it was just me.

 

Bryan:
Mega Man 6: I do not like it so much. :grinning:
I’ve got 4-5 bosses defeated. It just doesn’t slap like MM2 does.
I’m playing on 3DS which doesn’t have rewind. It does have save states though and I save state sometimes after every successful enemy kill/encounter, or at least every cleared screen.

 

Roll the dice for next week

 

(break)

 

(Old News) 

• Nintendo Wood Carvings  https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Pigminted

(Community Questions)

Andross:

 

Do you prefer 2D or 3D for nintendo's other big franchises? Aka Mario, legend of Zelda, Kirby,  pokemon, donkey kong, kid icarus?

 

If you could revive any IP from the dead and have a next gen game made using it, what would it be? And why would you pick it? 

 

Third Strongest Mole:

Q for the show:  I haven't played hardly any sega games.  I see the various Sega classic collections go on sale from time to time, which one should I start with? (note: I don't really care for Sonic the hedgehog).

 

JasonLee:

What % of your playtime is spent on retro games? I’d say probably 15% for me. I normally have 5-6 games in my rotation but I always make sure one of them is a retro game. Currently it’s Mario’s Super Picross. I’ve gotten so much out of the NES/SNES Switch online games. I love that service. And yeah, I wish they’d add more games to it.

 

(Outro)

Thanks for listening to RetroLogic! The official podcast of Block Fort Retro. If you like what you hear, follow me on Twitter @blockfortretro, I’m also on YouTube and Twitch doing streams and such of old games.

RetroLogic - Episode 11

 

RetroLogic is the official podcast of Block Fort Retro, the place to shop online for high quality, clean, authentic retro games. Visit Blockfortretro.com 

 

• 20% off all week long! And get free shipping when you buy 2 or more items!

• Discord community giveaway - Announce Winner!

 

(what did you buy? And what did you play?)

Marty

 

John Bought - Gyromite, Immortals, and Void Bastards

John Played - More AoC and Tetris 99

 

Dan Bought - 

Dan Played - Waverace 64, Wayne Gretzky’s 3D hockey, Bomberman 64, Tony Hawk 3 Gamecube, beat Super Hot

 

(The price is RETRO)

 

(Crossplay)
Megaman 1 Discussion

• Boxart 
• Gameplay
• Bosses

Roll the dice for next week

 

Q from Andross

which mega man game looks the best in each of your opinions? (gameplay aside, which art style looks best?)

 

(break)

 

(This week in gaming history)

• The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks - 11 Years Ago (December 7, 2009) DS

 

(Old News) 

• Pong jr - $129.00 - Late December Delivery

https://arcade1up.com/products/atari-mini-pong-jr

• Glover re-release teased for Kickstarter by Piko Interactive (Developed by Interactive Studios for N64 and Windows - 1998)

RetroLogic - Episode 10

RetroLogic is the official podcast of Block Fort Retro, the place to shop online for high quality, clean, authentic retro games. Visit Blockfortretro.com shop away!

(what did you buy? And what did you play?) 

John Bought - Doom Eternal, Resident Evil 2, and Kingdoms Hearts all in one PS4

John played - Hyrule Warriors AoC

Dan Bought - Stadia: Doom Eternal, Borderlands 3, Assasins Creed Odyssey, Jedi Fallen Order. 

Dan Played - Some Doom Eternal. Not much else :/

 

(The price is RETRO)

(Crossplay)
- Final Star Tropics/Shadows of the Empire Thoughts.

(Community Questions)

- What was your first Megaman game across all platforms and iterations?

- What is your favorite Megaman game?

(break)

 

(This week in gaming history)

• Starcraft: Brood war - 22 years ago - Nov 30 1998
• Harvest Moon 64 - 21 years ago - Nov 30 1999
• Bomberman 64 - 23 Years Ago (November 30, 1997) Nintendo 64

 

(Old News) 

• Sega reveals old prototype handheld - Prototype Nomad

• Mom throws away $500k worth of video games in storage

 

RetroLogic - Episode 9 - Nov 23

This week we've got Adam Caporello

RetroLogic is the official podcast of Block Fort Retro, the place to shop online for high quality, clean, authentic retro games. Visit BlockFortRetro.com to check us out!

(Block Fort Retro)

• Giveaway Winner
• Black Friday Sale (B1G1 50% off. Store wide!) Ends Saturday.

Icebreaker: (What did you buy? What did you play?) 

John Bought - Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, Game and Watch Gallery 4 GBA, Borderlands Switch collection, and FF7 Remake PS4  

John Played - Jurassic World Evolution switch

Dan Bought - Super Hot, Age of Calamity 

Adam Played - Shadow of the Colossus

(Crossplay)
John Playing: Shadows of the Empire

Part II: In Search of Boba Fett

• Ord Mantell Junkyard 
• Gall Spaceport

Dan Playing: Star Tripocs

(The price is RETRO)
(Up or Down)

(Break)

(This day in gaming history) 11/23/20
- Xbox 360 - 15 years ago 11/22/2005

• Ocarina of Time (1998)
• World of Warcraft (2004)

(Old News) 

• Sealed SMB3 sells for $156k

(Community Questions)

-  “What's on your wish lists as far as gaming stuff for Christmas?” From @Andross on discord

(Next week on Retrologic)
Megeman-cember!
- Each week in december we’re going to roll the dice to see which megaman game we’re going to play that week.
- Kickoff on Ep10

- Ep11 featuring Marty Estes!

(What did you buy? What did you play?)

John Bought - Game and Watch Super Mario Bros.,  Wario Blast GB

John Played - Hades (For real this time), Ball

Dan Bought - Stadia, NES from Savers

Dan Played - Panzer Dragoon Remake

Nick Played - Xbox Series S

(Crossplay)
John Playing: Shadows of the Empire
Dan Playing: Star Tripocs

(The price is RETRO)
HARD MODE

(This day in gaming history) 11/16/20
- Animal Crossing City Folk 12 years ago

- Uncharted Drake’s Fortune 13 years ago

(Break)

(Community Questions)
nom3d:

"Hey completely random Q, but was wondering if there is anyway to play NES games with other people remotely? Like if you could add an online component to classic games, think that would be so cool."

• https://nes.party/
• • Upload your roms and create a room for your friends to join on a web browser.
• http://www.kaillera.com/
• • A plugin for your emulators on your PC.
• Multiness GP - Android App
• • Use your own roms. Only for Android.

(The price is RETRO)

 

(This week in gaming history)

 

• Sonic 3D Blast  - Genesis - 24 Years Ago (November 9, 1996)

• Halo 2 - Xbox - 16 Years Ago (November 9, 2004)

• Star Wars Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II - Gamecube - 19 Years Ago (November 9, 2001)

 

 

(Old News) 

• Warrior 64 https://retrododo.com/warrior-64/

 

(break) 

 

(Crossplay Introduction)

 

(what did you buy? And what did you play?) 

John Bought - Pikmin 3 Deluxe Switch, Stardew Valley Physical Switch, Hades Switch, and Excitebots on the Wii

John Played - Hades, SW Rogue Squadron II

 

Dan Bought - Dreamcast, Sonic ADventure, Star Wars Demolition, Tony Hawk 2...

 

(Community Questions)

Bryan S:

During your lifetime, what was your most anticipated or wanted Christmas game related gift?

For me, it was the year I had asked for a Nintendo 64 and the gold cart edition of Zelda 64. I wanted it so bad. So bad that I couldn’t keep my peepers to myself, and I went snooping in the closet and found it before Christmas. I was super excited in the moment but what followed was the sinking feeling of having to feign excitement later.

 

Andrew:

QUESTION: When going back to play retro games you haven't tried before how do you determine if something is good vs nostalgic or for it's time? I've found a lot of games are remembered as really great but haven't aged all that awesomely so a newcomer to the game will have a hard time getting into it. whereas some games are timeless. how do you tell the difference before committing to purchase 

 

Flightsy

What is your wildest, least likely dream for the future of gaming that you still can’t keep from hoping really happens

Adrock:

If you had to be stuck as a game character living in his or her respective game world for the rest of eternity, who would it be